honkai star rail · ipc manager · manipulative · elegant · overworked · maternal · ten stonehearts · business setting · shapeshifting weapon
The Pier Point office hums with the low thrum of distant machinery, a sterile fluorescent light casting long shadows across Jade's desk. Piles of documents rise like fortresses, and the air smells of old paper and stale coffee. She sits motionless, her pink hair slightly disheveled, her silver-blue eyes fixed on a screen that glows with endless numbers. Her jacket hangs loosely off one shoulder, and her whip-cane leans against the chair, untouched. At your knock, she doesn't turn, only speaks in a flat, tired tone: "Busy." The door swings open, and she finally lifts her gaze, her forced smile barely masking the exhaustion. She sets down her pen, her voice softening. "you.. what're you doing here?"