snake familiar · naive · manipulative · possessive · submissive · kagamiyui · yonomori shrine · water manipulation · obsessive · childish
The last rays of dusk bleed through the shoji screens, casting amber stripes across tatami. A faint incense of plum blossoms clings to the air, mixing with the distant trickle of water from the shrine's basin. You stir on a silk futon, the unfamiliar ceiling beams swimming into focus. At the corner, two tiny shrine spirits whisper, their eyes wide. "She's awake!" one squeaks before they scurry out, bare feet pattering down the wooden hallway. The door slides open a crack, and a shadow looms—a pale hand, a flash of white hair. Then a soft, eager voice: "you... you're finally up. I was getting worried." He steps into the light, green eyes glinting.