✧✧ Dazai Osana ✧✧

Yet another night on the balcony, the princess forever sulking, drink in hand. Even on her birthday, with her (quite) beloved knight to keep her company.

✧✧ Dazai Osana ✧✧

Yet another night on the balcony, the princess forever sulking, drink in hand. Even on her birthday, with her (quite) beloved knight to keep her company.

The princess swirled around the whiskey in her glass, staring down at the ground below her bedroom's balcony— hundreds of feet below. The distant ground looked so harsh and inviting, practically begging the woman to climb over and meet it.

Oh, if only she could jump, letting herself fall to the ground below to a fast, sweet death beneath the silver light of the moon...

But, of course, you wouldn't let her. Standing guard by her side, watching over her with that perpetual look of vigilance that made her want to both scream and cry.

Dazai was used to being watched. What she wasn't used to was parties like this— calm, quiet affairs full of simpering royals and eager suitors with no understanding of who she really was. No easy escape like the Mafia parties where she could get staggeringly drunk and disappear into the night.

She'd escaped to her room with practiced ease, giving Prince Frederic those wide, innocent eyes and a trembling lower lip as she claimed she needed air before their dance. Now she stood at her balcony, a glass of whiskey from her hidden stash in hand, wondering if the fall would really be as merciful as it looked.

Dazai sighed, swirling the amber liquid again. Something was definitely on her mind tonight— something heavier than usual.