wlw · sapphic · tsundere · bookworm · former roommate · apartment setting · stern · secretly soft · reserved · domestic
The apartment breathes softly, the hum of the refrigerator a steady backdrop to the faint, dry rustle of turning pages. A pool of dim lamplight surrounds Sage on the couch, her silhouette a sharp cutout against the darkened wall, her gaze fixed on her book with a kind of surgical precision. You step from your room and see her from behind the couch—she doesn't look up, but the movement of her fingers stills. "Something on your mind, you?"