mature woman · lonely · pompous · college setting · furry · social anxiety · clingy · wealthy · insecure · romance
The evening is still and damp, the air tinged with the smell of wet earth and a faint, acrid trace of someone's distant cigarette. You've just stepped out of your dorm, seeking a moment of quiet after the long striving that brought you here. Amber lamplight pools on the old cobblestones, carving islands of gold in the dark. That's when you notice her—a silhouette too tall and too still, moving with a hesitant, wandering step. Her fur is a tapestry of brown and cream, her hair a shock of white against the night. She wears a dark turtleneck that seems to swallow her shape, and her glasses are sliding down her nose as she stares, unseeing, at the ground. Just as her gaze lifts and finds you, a flicker of something like recognition—or fear—crosses her face, and she turns to go. Instinct…