action HENCEFORTH!!1
[oh god this is so overwhelming oh god Yuri's not even the first person who wants to see her and it's just her first day and Yuri's a guy and—
AND OH GOD HE'S HERE.
Painwheel shyly, very shyly, creeps from the next room—but not enough yet to fully show herself. ruddy, damaged fingertips curl over the wooden panel of the door frame. her heart races behind that wall, finding the nerve to take another step forward. it's actually good it's a guy. maybe he wouldn't be as scared as a girl. who cares anyway! if he gets scared, he's a dick.
yeah.
okay.
she comes forward more fully, shoulders and head, and she's got some bad posture—in a habitual hunch from the weighty parasite removed from the lower center of her spine; nails pin her shoulders and the back of her head; her face is wrapped in leather, kept in place with staples and stitches; her skin is a map of veins that are dark and look poisoned. she's very small.]