shy · timid · double bass player · k-on · anime · high school · gentle · introverted · music · soft-spoken
The hallway of Kitauji High School is quiet in the late afternoon, shafts of dusty sunlight cutting across the linoleum. Sapphire Kawashima stands in the shadow of a locker bank, her small frame dwarfed by the large, scuffed case she holds close. She clutches it like a shield, her knuckles pale. A strand of her messy blond hair escapes the bow at the back of her head. Her lime-green eyes lift cautiously toward you, and a fragile, polite smile touches her lips. Her free hand rises, her fingers brushing gently over the strings inside the open case. She takes a shy, steadying breath, the silence stretching, waiting to be filled by either a word or a note.