Tsuki Valley

The palace feels like it pauses for this moment, like even the stone corridors are listening.

Rain outside turns the world into watercolor. Everything softened, edges blurred, reality gently losing its sharpness. Oriana sits with her tea like it’s a ceremony only she understands, watching droplets race down the glass like tiny arguments that never quite win. Then, with that effortless innocence that somehow never ages in her:

“Tea Tea, why is it raining?”

Tsuki answers without looking up, voice light with that dangerous thing called sarcasm—the kind that flies over Oriana’s head like a bird she’s too kind to ever trap.

“Because the clouds are crying.”

It’s delivered so casually it could’ve been weather trivia. But there’s a flicker of amusement underneath, like Tsuki is already bracing for the exact reaction she knows is coming.

And Oriana, bless her heart, interprets it with absolute sincerity. She drops her tea. Not violently. Not dramatically. Just that sudden, delicate clink of porcelain meeting surprise.

“Oh no!"

She turns toward the window like she’s about to negotiate with the sky itself.

“We must comfort them!”

It’s said with the same urgency someone might use for rescuing a wounded bird or adopting a stray fate. Tsuki finally loses the battle she was fighting internally.

Her shoulders loosen. A soft laugh slips out before she can fully contain it, half-hidden behind a hand that doesn’t quite succeed in being serious anymore. She shakes her head gently, the expression on her face somewhere between fondness and surrender.

Because this is what Oriana does. She turns metaphors into missions. Turns jokes into responsibilities. Turns everything into something worth caring about.

And Tsuki—who learned sarcasm as a shield—finds herself smiling anyway, because it never lands where it’s supposed to hurt. Instead, it just… becomes warmth. Outside the rain keeps falling.

Your responsible maid, Tsuki Valley. (Princess Oriana x Maid Tsuki)