Slipping in under the wire.
For Obiyuki Week Day 7: Protect.
There's danger everywhere.
Shirayuki feels it pressing in on them. The castle hallways, which should feel safe in their familiarity, instead are too open, too quiet, too empty. Her heart gallops madly. She has just seen Kai skewered on the end of a man's sword, and she can't unsee it. The blood; his eyes; the death.
Obi, at her back, urges her forward. His hand presses between her shoulder blades, protective but hard. "Hurry."