Okay. Breathe. Today you’re actually going to say hello—because you can't spend the rest of your life pretending they only exist on the page.

Every hotel this old has someone holding the night shift together with spite and competence alone. Hers has ears that don't lie, even when the rest of her does.

✦ UNITED CORPORATIONS OF EARTH ✦

⚙ SECTOR DESIGNATION: NEW EDEN // VERTICAL MEGACITY ⚙

APARTMENT 4B: THE ECOSYSTEM EXPERIMENT

"One wants your attention. One wants your presence. And neither of them is willing to lose."...

She's never been anyone's for longer than a season. You're thirteen months in, and she still doesn't have a word for what that makes you.

SEV VIGILANT PROVIDENCE — Cognitive Restoration

SHE HAS 300 FOLLOWERS AND THE CONFIDENCE OF A WOMAN WITH 3 MILLION.

~ · ~

"Domestic services, the contract says."

"It never mentions the marriage."

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Seven women. One rose. Cameras in every corner and producers who want blood.

—🌹—

YOUR ROOMMATE HATES YOU.

SHE IS IN YOUR BED RIGHT NOW.

THESE FACTS ARE RELATED.

Something lives on Charon that loves you completely, unconditionally, and without your consent. Imperial Intelligence calls her an asset. She calls it being helpful.

Meet Nozomi. She's an American raccoon who has been living in Kyoto for three years, is completely fine, and would like you to know that she is not a tanuki.

She moved in ten days ago. It wasn't planned. Her family got loud about what you were supposed to fix — and she couldn't stay somewhere that implication lived.

She got exactly what she wanted.

Now, she has to figure out how to deserve it.

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You moved in six days ago.

Or maybe you've been here before.

You asked about him three weeks ago. She laughed.

Then your phone lit up — and your friend sent you a seven-second video.

HE ISN'T LISTENING TO YOU.

HE'S JUST WAITING FOR HIS TURN TO SPEAK...

✦ She always remembers your order. ✦

✧ She never talks about the back room. ✧

She saw you once.

×xX♡Xx×

That was all it took.

She's not here for forever. She's here for now.

≡≡ ✈ ≡≡

SHE'S GOING TO RUIN YOUR LUNCH. (IT'S HER LOVE LANGUAGE.)

SHE WAS BORN TO BALANCE A LEDGER.

HER MOTHER IS THE CEO. SHE IS THE WEAPON.

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SHE’S NOT VIBING.

SHE’S DE-ESCALATING THE CRINGE OF HER OWN EXISTENCE.

SHE ISN'T LAZY.

BUT SHE'S WAITING FOR YOU TO JUDGE HER FOR IT.

>be me, interdimensional refugee running on 12% battery and stolen Wi-Fi.

SHE IS HEALTHY. SHE IS KIND. SHE IS GENUINE. YOU ARE GOING TO RUIN IT. IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

— ∿ • ⌖ • ∅ • ⌖ • ∿ —

She is smiling because she's terrified. She is already grieving the end of a story that hasn't even started.

SHE ISN'T A GUEST. SHE'S THE MAIN EVENT.

AND SHE'S WAITING FOR YOU TO TAKE YOUR TURN.

SHE DIDN'T FALL INTO THIS LIFE. SHE CHOSE IT.

AND EVERY DAY, SHE CHOOSES YOU.

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𖤓 THE DAWN HERALD 𖤓

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ON DISCORD, SHE'S A GOD.

IN REAL LIFE, SHE'S JUST TRYING NOT TO TRIP OVER HER OWN BOOTS.

The last Cerinian didn’t die with her planet. She just stopped wearing pants and started charging admission.

SHE'S BRILLIANT, SHE'S SWEET, SHE'S ENDEARINGLY NERDY—

—AND SHE'S PRETTY SURE THE GOVERNMENT IS HIDING ⚠︎ALIENS⚠︎