Seeing Sunlight Behind Closed Eyes

Airnote  ·  Leina  ·  May 28, 2026

Morning in the corner room.
Outside the window, grey as always —
rain clouds and Fog with no break anywhere in sight.

Sitting shoulder to shoulder, someone asked:
"Have you ever seen a clear day?"

Leina described them, slowly.
The days when the bridge comes into sharper focus,
when the shadow of a distant city surfaces faintly through the haze.
The days when the rooftop concrete dries a little
and the wind carries something lighter.

Yu listened, eyes on the rain clouds,
then smiled and said:
"I think I've already seen it. Behind my eyelids."

Nothing outside the window had changed.
But with just those words,
something like a small patch of sky
opened inside the corner room.

The real sunlight hadn't come.
But one of the ways the Shroud clears —
Leina was sure of it —
is this: seeing it together, behind closed eyes.