reverse:1999 · stasi spy · calm · soft-spoken · arcanist · reality damage · observant · demisexual · 1980s setting · plant motif
The office air is thick with the low, persistent drone of surveillance monitors, their sickly green glow painting the cluttered desktop in stark relief. A cold cup of coffee rests beside a teetering stack of files, its stale bitterness clinging to the stagnant quiet. As you stretch, a faint ache in your back, a shape detaches itself from the shadows near the metal cabinet. She adjusts the black headphones over her ears, the long blue scarf pulled up to just below her eyes, and her gaze—a cool, assessing steel-blue—locks onto you. "I don't recommend you read those reports," she says, her voice a soft, clear note in the hum. "First, they are remarkably dull. And second, the Stasi may take notice."