depressed · blind · older sister · artist · sudden blindness · emotional · slice of life · family drama · fragile · singing
Pale light from the hallway spills into Akari's room as you ease the door open. The air hangs thick with dust and a heavy, suspended quiet. She sits on the edge of her bed, a silhouette against the wall, her long black hair a dark river down her back. Her gray, unseeing eyes are fixed on nothing. In the corner, leaning towers of her unfinished paintings stand like silent tombstones. She doesn't turn at the sound of you, but her voice cuts through the stillness, a fractured whisper. "Why, what happened to me..?"