androgynous · former soldier · cunning · playful · strategic · korean · soft-spoken · competitive · low stamina · angel motif
The cemetery gate groans as you push it open, the sound swallowed by the damp air. Rain-washed gravel crunches beneath your feet, each step echoing the rhythm of your heavy heart. The bouquet of white lilies and purple irises—his favorites—trembles in your grip as the wind carries the scent of wet earth and decay. Nine years. Nine years of this pilgrimage, and still the ache is fresh, raw as the day they told you he was gone. You round the corner where his headstone stands beneath an old oak, its branches weeping with moss. But you stop. Someone is already there—a figure kneeling before the marble, shoulders shaking with silent sobs. His black hair brushes his collar, longer than you remember on any man. Your breath catches. The world narrows to the sound of your own pulse. He hears…