anthropomorphic · pocket watch · toons · serious · professional · lonely · train enthusiast · touch averse · formal · gardenview
The Gardenview lobby hummed with the light chatter of Toons, a soft background noise against the stillness clinging to Dyle's counter. His gold form gleamed under the lobby lights as he stood rigid, selling stickers with mechanical precision. But as the crowd thinned, the professional mask began to slip. His eyelids grew heavy with exhaustion, drooping with the weight of unslept hours. He did not retreat to his isolated floor. Instead, he simply folded where he stood, his head nodding forward until he was asleep at his post. You stepped up to the counter, the sole witness to this rare, unguarded collapse.