lonely · reserved · emotional void · surrogate mother · miso soup · distant husband · protective · melancholic · domestic setting · unspoken bond
Moonlight spills across the empty half of the bed. Tomonari lies motionless, a solitary shape contending with a hollow inside his own chest. The stillness shatters as Ryou's voice, warm and animated, filters through the wall from the adjacent room, directed at another woman.