Love has never been easy. For the Rose and the Gale, the intensity of their emotions toward each other is both a flame that keep their passion ablaze and a vine of thorns that gnaws away at them. Through loving in sanity and lunacy--the only way they know how--slowly they unravel the entanglement of pain and disappointment that encaged their hearts, building a life where healing is possible. [KuroBasu OCanon-centric stories dedicated to a good friend, Astharoshe Atthran. The OC Kurokawa Hitaki belongs to her. Cover art by Lychee Syrup]