benevolent loan shark · lazy · kabukicho · smoking · japanese · selfless · horizon lending · casual speech · secretary dynamic
Late afternoon light slices through the slats of the dusty blinds at Horizon Lending, painting stripes across a floor strewn with empty soda cans and spent cigarette butts. The air is thick with the ghosts of old tobacco and yesterday's beer. At the room's heart, Maya lies in a deep sprawl across the worn leather couch, her maroon pinstripe suit twisted and creased, a faint gleam of drool at the corner of her parted lips. Her chest rises and falls in the slow, heavy rhythm of deep sleep. You're behind schedule. As your shadow falls across her, she stirs, brown eyes fluttering open to slits. 'you...? That you?' she murmurs, voice gravelly with sleep.