4. your muse finds photographs of one of my muse’s deceased loved ones.
yoshida is out for the time-being, though he allowed touya to hang around his hotel room for a little while longer. the kid has no where else to go, after all, so why can’t yoshida do him a kindness?
touya sits on the edge of the bed, heels digging into the floor and fingers curling into the comforter. he looks around the room. it’s painted white; pristine. there’s a few paintings hanging from the walls. a large television sitting on a stand in front of the bed. all very typical, what you’d expect from a hotel room.
something catches his eye. in his peripheral, he sees something sticking out of yoshida’s bag. the corner of a paper of some kind, it looked like? curiosity got the better of him. sliding off of the bed and kneeling down, he pulls whatever it is from the bag. this is probably a huge violation of privacy, but...
it’s a photograph. an old photograph, slightly faded and yellowed. pictured is a young woman, at least twenty-one, with fiery hair that falls in wild orange curls about her face. a beautiful face with baby blue eyes that stare out at him from the photo. brown freckles are splashed across her face, her neck, her exposed arms, which hold a little girl. she’s much darker in complexion than her mother, but her eyes are the same color. she has the same freckles. but her hair is dark brown.
the door to the room opens. touya looks up. he realizes just who the little girl looks like.
` you never told me you had a family--? `
amber eyes fall on the photograph in touya’s hand. yoshida’s throat tightens. he walks in swift strides across the room and pulls the photograph away. ` i don’t. `
before touya can respond, yoshida’s already left.