A Yami no Matsuei Drabble (unlocked
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by Dorian Gray
A Deep So Profound
Fields of sunlight and carnage, laughter wild and free as circling birds...
Tsuzuki's bedroom is still, silent. Light from across the street creeps through a gap in the curtains, drawing a line across the floor, poised like a scale. The sheets are cool next to his skin. There are footsteps, close, noiseless footsteps, and if he closes his eyes a dark shape is standing just outside the doorway.
Tsuzuki waits until the sound of his own breathing stops folding in on itself, disappearing into the silence.
All the clocks in the house start up again sometime between midnight and dawn.