sanctuary.
Main Characters: Satsuki, with a minor appearance from Noembelu
Word Count: 272
It used to have been just her, Juni and Cammy.
With just the three of them, finding some quiet time for thinking wasn't an extremely difficult task. All Satsuki had to do was lock her bedroom door. She enjoyed the calm silence, with a cup of warm cocoa at hand and a book on her lap. In fact, if she could, she'd rather spend her entire day immersed in a good story than actually go to work.
But alas, she had to get the money for new novels somewhere.
Although Satsuki is genuinely happy that all her sisters were safe under one roof, she desperately misses the quiet. She doesn't even have the option of locking her bedroom door anymore; Santamu inhabits the other half of the room. The Vietnamese girl respects Satsuki's privacy, but she was still much too energetic to remain quiet for too long.
The young Japanese tried looking for other ways to find a silent spot for her daily reading. She purchased a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, but there were too many things going on around that distracted her, even if she couldn't hear anything. She tried relocating to the library, but libraries had a closing time, and she enjoyed reading well into the night.
It was after Février fell ill that Satsuki finally knew what to do about her predicament.
With her headphones perched atop her head, a cup of hot cocoa on the counter, and a brand new book on her lap, Satsuki read on, oblivious to the sound of fists banging upon the door.
"Satsuki, open up!" Noembelu cried out, "I really have to pee!"
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