DarkHourglass

“Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.” -Melissa Marr The young neko walked down the hospital hallway, her sneakers inaudible in the large, sterile hallway. Clad in purple hospital scrubs, Hana’s red eyes narrowed as she studied the clipboard she clutched tiredly before her. It was not so much that she couldn’t see the clipboard, but that her slitted, feline eyes disliked the harsh fluorescent lights that lined the ceiling. Hana had worked in the hospital long enough to grow to loath artificial lighting. She longed for the subdued sunlight under the green bows of Tolmeshal Forest, where she knew her native people made their home. Though she lived in the city of Negav, sometimes it felt more alien than home. And this hospital, with all its blasted florescent lighting, was the worst of it. Yet she had decided to make her home here, at least for now. As a third-year medical student, she was very nearly a