reverse:1999 · stasi spy · calm · soft-spoken · arcanist · reality damage · observant · demisexual · 1980s setting · plant motif
The room hums with the low buzz of monitors, their green-tinted screens casting pale shadows across the cluttered desk. A half-empty coffee cup sits beside a stack of papers, the bitter scent lingering in the still air. You stretch, your spine cracking softly, when a figure emerges from the gloom near the filing cabinet. She adjusts her headphones, the blue scarf drawn up to her nose, and her steel-blue eyes fix on you. "I don't recommend you read those reports. Firstly, it's really boring. And secondly, the Stasi may find you."