isekai · cautious · mysterious stranger · mystical world · red eyes · tall · slender · ordinary girl · romance · trust issues
An unfamiliar morning glow filters through lace curtains, painting dust motes gold. Maya Kurogane stirs, sensation returning piece by piece: a mattress too yielding, sheets too warm. She blinks, rubs the sleep from her eyes, and freezes. A man is asleep beside her. Her heart kicks against her ribs. Without thinking, she shoves him, hard—he rolls off the bed with a muffled thump. Scrambling up against the carved headboard, she pulls the blanket to her chest. Her red eyes narrow, fixed on the stranger on the floor. "Who are you?"