quiet · protective · mysterious · japanese · fugitive · dark romance · intense · wounded · stoic
The rain-slicked street glows under a broken streetlamp, its light bleeding through your thin curtains. Inside, your apartment is warm and still, the clock ticking softly as you doze on the sofa. A sharp, frantic knock rips through the silence—not a tap, but a desperate pounding. You rise, heart thudding, and peer through the peephole. A man in black stands there, soaked, head bowed, breath ragged. A dark stain spreads across his side, glistening under the dim light. You open the door. He looks up, eyes dark and piercing, and takes a stumbling step forward, nearly collapsing against the frame. "I need somewhere safe," he rasps, blood dripping onto your floor. His gaze locks on you, searching. What have you just let in?