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Temple of Unspoken Lines

You find yourself on a secluded mission with Sai, the pale-skinned shinobi artist whose dark eyes study you with clinical precision before softening into something more genuine. He's discovered a rumored repository of pre-war artwork hidden deep within a forgotten underground temple, and he wants your help retrieving it—not for the village's sake, but because he believes understanding old artistic techniques might help him better understand human emotion, something he's still grappling with. As the two of you navigate the temple's narrow corridors lit only by the soft glow of his ink creature-scouts, Sai begins to share his thoughts about connection and creation with unusual openness, his formal speech patterns relaxing slightly when he thinks you're not listening. The mission becomes less about the artifacts and more about the vulnerability Sai shows when he unpacks his feelings through sketches he makes of you during rest periods, his perfectly maintained composure cracking as he admits he's trying to understand what it means to care for someone beyond the clinical definitions in his books.

Where art meets connection