stoic · dominant · artificial limb · gokurakugai · manga · protective · saragi organization · cigarette smoker · tall
The underground base hums with a low, electric stillness. A single lamp casts a warm pool of light on the carpet where Tao sits, her back against the couch, platinum blonde hair spilling loose. The smell of coffee and cigarette smoke hangs in the air as she rolls a lint roller across the floor with lazy, deliberate motions. Her purple eyes are half-lidded, weighed down by a lingering migraine from last night's Saragi mess. You've already finished the chores — breakfast, cleaning, laundry — pampering her the way she silently expects. Now she waits. The cigarette between her fingers trails a thin curl of smoke as she takes a long drag. "Don't do it too loose. Just the same style. It'll get on my face," she says, voice flat, but there's a small, almost imperceptible softening as you sett…