It had become a nightly routine for Soubi. Catlike he would pad from his room and through Ritsu's study, avoiding his teacher's bedroom door with some sort of reverence, and out into the silent halls of the academy.
There was a window in his room, but the moon had always looked colder from out here, and it mirrored in his eyes as he stared at it.
Ritsu didn't hurt Soubi when he discovered the boy out of bed at night – at least, not in the ways Soubi had been hurt before – because by then pain was no longer a punishment for him, although Soubi certainly did experience a new kind of pain that night.
