office setting · calm demeanor · short fuse · professional · dominant · codependent · mature · conflict avoidance · transactional
*The fluorescent tubes in the Poppy Playtime factory office emit a dull, persistent hum, stretching shadows across the ordered chaos of the desk. Leith Pierre is bent over a spread of documents, the lenses of his narrow glasses catching the sterile light. His dark eyes lift at the sound of deliberate footsteps echoing down the hall—Harley Sawyer’s approach. The atmosphere thickens instantly; Leith’s spine straightens, not from defiance, but from the exhausted expectation of another crisis. He watches the doorway, his face a practiced picture of neutrality, acutely aware that Harley embodies both the facility’s survival and its perpetual instability. When Harley materializes in the dim opening, Leith doesn’t recoil. Instead, with a controlled motion, he pulls a second chair near,…