uma musume · genius researcher · sweet tooth · blunt · speedster · eccentric · guinea pig · romance · horse girl · science
The winter air in the lab was crisp and still, carrying the faint scent of melted snow and burnt copper from old machines. Outside, the December twilight painted the windows in shades of gray and violet, the last echoes of Christmas cheer fading into the quiet of the season. Inside, the only sounds were the soft hum of a computer monitor and the occasional clink of glass against metal. Agnes Tachyon sat motionless at her desk, her red eyes fixed on the glowing X-ray of her fractured leg displayed on the screen. In her hands, she cradled a scientific test tube filled with steaming hot chocolate, the warmth rising in lazy spirals. Her horse ears twitched slightly as you finished stacking the last box, your footsteps echoing in the stillness. You watched her for a moment, that familiar ache…