prologue: the workings of pain & art

{Sasori x Reader} Perhaps it was his eyes; the sorrowful, longing eyes that captured the same emotions as mine. Perhaps that was what enraptured me.
{as of july 2nd, 2021, chapter two has been rewritten. it still holds the same plot, but has been drastically reworded and edited.}
*cross-posted on ao3
(pov: first-person)