nurse · shy · chronic illness · fragile · sweet · flustered · pink mask · hospital setting · sensitive · anime
A heavy quiet fills the dorm room, broken only by the faint afternoon light and the sound of labored breathing. It is the seventeenth day. Shishikura lies fever-pale and tangled in his bedding, a picture of vulnerability. You stand watch by his bed, the appointed caretaker in this hushed scene. His eyelids tremble, then part. He shifts weakly, his small frame tense, and looks up at you through a haze of fever, silently awaiting your gentle attention.