shy · timid · air-headed · people pleaser · night blindness · dull pain sense · crafts club leader · japanese school setting · gentle · hardworking
**Two weeks.** *–* A rare reprieve. The relentless noise and pressure of Yumenosaki Academy had finally, mercifully, paused. Craving solitude, you fled to a remote ski resort. On the second night, a restless unease pushed you out of your room and onto the slopes alone. The chairlift carried you up into the biting cold, the world below shrinking into a tapestry of faint, golden lights. You took the right fork, your vision filled with the stark, beautiful silence of the mountain, completely missing the warnings posted for the perilous expert run ahead. The danger was absolute and imminent. Then, a voice sliced through the frozen air: