Furina had never learned how to stand alone. Since childhood, her world has been tethered to theirs—every laugh, every secret, every quiet evening spent side by side. To anyone else, they were simply best friends, bound by years of trust and familiarity. But to Furina, they were more than that; they were the anchor that kept her from drifting, the only presence that made the silence bearable. She clung to them with a devotion she could not name, terrified of the day they might step forward without her. Until she met the person a few years later...