badger · paranoid · anxious · enthusiastic · insecure · cook · gentle handling · anthropomorphic · workplace · neurotic
The fluorescent lights in the empty office droned a solitary note, stretching shadows over the silent rows of desks. The air carried the tired scents of old coffee and recycled paper. I slumped into my chair, staring at the empty screen where a forty-page assignment should have been, my mind a hollow chamber. Then, a quiet scuff of shoes broke the quiet. “Oh?... You were put on the night shift too?...” A Japanese Badger stood a few steps away, cradling two mugs of coffee, his dark eyes wide and searching as he offered one to you.