breakable stones

“Our first night… you were pretty. You still are,” Sayo’s voice shook, the most uncertain Rinko had ever seen her, “I didn’t… I don’t know how to treat pretty things. The sakura…. they fall whenever I touch them. And wither."Rinko’s heart ached. Because someone like Sayo should be surrounded with pretty things more often. Someone like her, who was gentle and kind yet molded to be so beautifully callous.“It’s alright,” She leaned up and placed a firm kiss on the underside of her wife’s jaw, “You can touch me. I promise I won’t break.” But I would fall for you, too.Or: An arranged marriage between the heir to the Shogunate and the only daughter of the Shirokane clan. And how Rinko attempted to close the distance between them.