[Graded]Nocturnal
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:13 pm
Nocturnal
The village of Kumogakure was made of buildings that were like towers, each layer of the tower belonging to houses, shops, and businesses. This made the floor level of the village a place that felt more like an alleyway than a village street. It was a maze of paths and now in the middle of the night stars peaked through the gaps between the towers and hit the street. A beam of moonlight fell upon the village from the gentle smile in the sky and provided what light there was this night. Hanako who was a studious girl with an odd schedule, had felt the appeal of the cool night air and the stars in the skies glittering like electric sparks. She climbed up the residential tower that she had her own room in, the room that belonged to her grandmother before it fell to her. The building belonged to a friend of her grandmother’s and she had been allowed to stay even when her grandmother no longer was returning home.
Tonight she sat atop the building, atop the tower, looking down at the other towers and looking up into the night sky. It was a privilege that was almost reserved for Shinobi - for their acrobatics and gravity defying method of travel frequently brought them to such heights. Hanako sat upon the roof of the tower with a medical text in her lap and moon light spilling upon the pages giving her belongings a silvery glow. She turned the page as she read through the subject, which was a journal about some illness a person had gotten and the diagnosis and treatment recorded by the patient’s doctor.
Even Shinobi went to bed at such hours, at least typically. Hanako was someone who maintained an unusual sleep schedule. It wasn’t that she wanted to, it was just that sleeping was so boring that she only did it when she was tired, and the hours that she was seemed to change on a daily basis. So instead of sleeping tonight, she read through the text book. Then she paused as she looked down the height of the tower. She could feel the call of the void as the street. She stood up and balanced on the edge as teh street returned her gaze. A Morbid sense of Curiosity filled Hanako as she dangled her medical textbook over the edge. She wondered what would happen if she dropped it.
Then she let go, and watched with a passive expression of the book’s pages flailed in the air.
The village of Kumogakure was made of buildings that were like towers, each layer of the tower belonging to houses, shops, and businesses. This made the floor level of the village a place that felt more like an alleyway than a village street. It was a maze of paths and now in the middle of the night stars peaked through the gaps between the towers and hit the street. A beam of moonlight fell upon the village from the gentle smile in the sky and provided what light there was this night. Hanako who was a studious girl with an odd schedule, had felt the appeal of the cool night air and the stars in the skies glittering like electric sparks. She climbed up the residential tower that she had her own room in, the room that belonged to her grandmother before it fell to her. The building belonged to a friend of her grandmother’s and she had been allowed to stay even when her grandmother no longer was returning home.
Tonight she sat atop the building, atop the tower, looking down at the other towers and looking up into the night sky. It was a privilege that was almost reserved for Shinobi - for their acrobatics and gravity defying method of travel frequently brought them to such heights. Hanako sat upon the roof of the tower with a medical text in her lap and moon light spilling upon the pages giving her belongings a silvery glow. She turned the page as she read through the subject, which was a journal about some illness a person had gotten and the diagnosis and treatment recorded by the patient’s doctor.
Even Shinobi went to bed at such hours, at least typically. Hanako was someone who maintained an unusual sleep schedule. It wasn’t that she wanted to, it was just that sleeping was so boring that she only did it when she was tired, and the hours that she was seemed to change on a daily basis. So instead of sleeping tonight, she read through the text book. Then she paused as she looked down the height of the tower. She could feel the call of the void as the street. She stood up and balanced on the edge as teh street returned her gaze. A Morbid sense of Curiosity filled Hanako as she dangled her medical textbook over the edge. She wondered what would happen if she dropped it.
Then she let go, and watched with a passive expression of the book’s pages flailed in the air.