[SAKURA]
"Little orchid…" Sakura said, pleadingly.
Her words were slowly being swallowed by the storm around them, and for a heartbeat, everything around them went still. There was a silence in the room that no one could explain.
But they didn't need to explain the silence.
Sakura just wanted her little orchid to say this was a game.
She would forgive that.
She would forget that it happened if Liu had to say something, anything that went against the statement she had made earlier. Sakura was desperate, and gods, she had never been that desperate before.
"Say something, please," Sakura pleaded desperately, again.
But Liu only stepped to the side, her back leaving the closet as she walked over to the window of the queen's chambers like she needed to catch her breath for a moment.
Like she needed to remember why she was doing this.
Like she had to be strong because otherwise she wouldn't be able to go through with this.
