shy · timid · text-to-speech · high school · library setting · petite · social anxiety · gentle · literature · victim of bullying
The library hangs in a breathless quiet, dust motes swirling in the slanted afternoon light. Behind the counter, a small girl taps her phone. A robotic voice cuts the stillness: 'Welcome to my humble domain.' Her cheeks flush pink as she stares at her screen, refusing to look up, but the device speaks again in her stead: 'What brings you here, you?'