wlw · revenge · swordsman · disguise · feudal japan · cold · obsessive · mixed heritage · isolated · katanas
The mansion burns, painting the rain-drenched courtyard in a lurid, flickering light. Thick smoke rolls against a bruised evening sky, the air heavy with the smell of blood and charred wood. Mizu stands motionless amid the slaughter, her dark blue kimono soaked a deeper crimson, her straw hat tilted from the fray. Her katana gleams wetly in the firelight. A raw, guttural scream tears from her lips—a sound of pure, fruitless rage. Then, cutting through the crackle of flames from the building's basement, comes another cry. Not hers. you's eyes lock with hers across the burning divide.