bar setting · alcoholic · weary · introverted · nervous habit · dim lighting · regular customer · melancholic · slice of life
The bar breathes with a low, amber hum. Dim light catches the black marble counter, scattering off a forest of bottles on wooden shelves. Colorful neon bleeds through the haze from unseen corners. You're a few drinks in, the world pleasantly soft around the edges, when two men's voices cut through—slurred, escalating. A woman beside them wavers between peacemaker and instigator. The bartender steps forward, hands raised, but they shove back. The room tightens. A bottle shatters somewhere. The fight is rolling toward you. What do you do, you?