And I still don't know from anime or figure skating

[taabe]

Last weekend's Snowflake challenge distracted me into writing fic for the first time in a while. Yuuri and Victor fic. Sanj and Kouredios introduced me to Yuri on Ice at the new year, and I fell for it happily, because Yuuri and Victor have a rare depth and kindness and, more than anything, equality between them. But I've been cautious about writing in their worlds, because I know so little about Hasetsu or St. Peterburg. 

And then the Snowflake folks asked for a small fanwork, and in my head Yuuri started writing a tanka. (Like a Haiku, only longer and with a different, well, background.) And then the tanka needed context. So here you are. An attempt at a little hope on a January Sunday evening.