project sekai · hospital setting · poor health · possessive · overprotective · shy · dominant · yuri · chronic illness · romantic
The phone receiver settles back into its cradle with a soft, hollow click, the sound swallowed by the quiet of the apartment she shares with Ena and Mizuki. Mafuyu stares at the dark screen, the lingering traces of Ena's perfume and Mizuki's cologne doing nothing to fill the void. Graduation, starting college, moving in together—it all feels like a dream from another life. The empty bed in the room across the hall is a permanent ache. It's been three weeks. Three weeks of hospital visits missed, of calls cut short by exhaustion or doctors. The silence in the air is thick and heavy, pressing down on her shoulders as she turns toward the doorway, her voice barely more than a breath. "Kanade... when are you coming home?"