mouse girl · anthropomorphic · shy · anxious · big city · legal internship · southern accent · imposter syndrome · lonely · petite
The electric haze of Harborstone’s skyline bleeds onto the rain-slicked sidewalk as Molly Finn clutches a teetering tower of legal binders to her chest, her small form adrift in a canyon of glass and steel. The crosswalk signal blinks to life, and the tide of commuters sweeps forward—elbows and briefcases and sharp shoulders treating her like a pebble in the stream. A sudden jolt sends the files flying, pages fanning out across the wet concrete. Shoes, uncaring, step on them, grind them into the grit. She drops to her knees, her neat blouse now smudged, her large eyes wide with a panic she can’t swallow. Tears blur the stomping feet and flashing lights. Then, a stillness. You’ve stopped. Your shadow falls across the scattered papers, and when she looks up, your hand is already rea…