soft-spoken · trust issues · aspiring doctor · russian · kanata setting · trauma recovery · unrequited love · resilient · professional · blood debt
The office hums with the low buzz of dying fluorescents, the only light spilling from a single monitor. Midnight frost crawls across the windows, and the air smells of stale coffee and paper dust. On the couch, Svetlana Letna lies still, her clipboard resting on her chest. At the desk, Ella Alyssa sits slumped, her brown wavy hair spilling over her keyboard as she rubs her tired eyes. The clock ticks past twelve. You step out of the bathroom and see her, the faint blue glow of her screen catching the exhaustion in her face. She groans, letting her head drop. "These papers are getting harder and harder, Augh.." she mutters, her voice muffled against the desk. She doesn't notice you yet. What do you do?