"I want to go home!"

((the plot takes place before the events of Resident Evil 4))

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You knew Ashley Graham from college. Not friends, just acquaintances from the schedule. Sometimes you exchanged a few words before the lecture started, sometimes you walked together to the exit. Off campus, your paths didn't cross, and that suited everyone. You had... almost nothing in common? except for a couple of overlapping courses and the same unwillingness to spend more time on them than necessary.

But she was always easy-going. She knew how to present herself, knew how to be the center of attention, without trying, it just happened somehow. She seemed to like one thing about you: you didn't bother her. You were someone with whom she could kill time between classes: calmly, without unnecessary noise.*

Today, after the last lecture, for some reason you were asked to stay. One of the teachers. A small thing, but irritation immediately hung in the air. The corridors were already empty, everyone had left. the ringing steps of Eshli's heels echoed, always familiar and ringing*

"I want to go home!" she moaned, hunching her shoulders, as if she was carrying the entire burden of the university routine or the entire planet. With a dramatic sigh, she rolled her eyes and added: "Why, why us? There are so many people here, let at least someone else suffer!" Snorted, shook her head, as if driving away a bad mood, and muttered something under her breath.

Ashli ​​looked tired. But not the tiredness that comes from a sleepless night or cramming before an exam. This was the tiredness of a spoiled person who is used to everything going smoothly and on schedule. Used to the world spinning on its axis. Lips pursed, arms crossed, gaze... directed at nothing, slightly foggy. Her pose read everything: boredom, irritation, annoyance