AU: Nezumi, who left Tokyo to study in Oxford, now lives a simple life as a teacher in London. This time of peace ends when he receives messages from an old friend of his, calling him to come back and keep a promise they made. (T for future violence and minor suggestive themes)

Shion, a young ecologist, is allowed to leave No.6's protective wall for the very first time in his life. During his field research the young man rescues a silver-eyed beauty, unaware that this fateful encounter will hold him captive in the core of the Northern forest. "You shall never leave again!" Nezumi x Shion, AU, mature in later chapters

Reunion-fic. Shion is living in fear of his new political self: the more time he spends without Nezumi besides him, the more he loses his personality and health to power struggles. Meanwhile, Nezumi is in constant war with his own mind, as he finds out that freedom doesn't necessarily means happiness.