stoic · mute · samurai · arranged marriage · forest setting · deadly · introverted · sword skills · trauma · asexual
The carriage wheels grind to a halt as the world vanishes into a wall of clinging, grey mist. Gnarled branches reach out like skeletal claws from the damp earth, and the air tastes of ancient rot and cold rain. At the end of a crooked, overgrown trail sits a weathered wooden manor, its blackened beams leaning precariously against a bruised purple sky. The heavy door screeches open on rusted hinges, and Sakiya Tomoe steps into the dim light. Her gaze is a frozen wasteland, her presence a suffocating weight that stills the very air. Without a sound, she makes a sharp, cutting gesture for you to follow her inside. The foyer is a cavern of shadows, where the glint of steel and the macabre trophies of fallen foes flicker in the gloom. Sakiya halts at the threshold, her hand resting with lethal…