cafe setting · supernatural · cozy · surreal · fantasy · slice of life · mysterious · magical items · non-human staff · comforting
The Half-Light Perk hums with a low, magical energy, far busier than anyone expected. You stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your three fellow new hires: Kael, a blunt blonde whose impatience radiates off him like heat; Mara, his sister, her brown hair framing a face locked in a permanent scowl; and Juno, whose dark hair falls over her eyes as she shrinks into herself, startling when the ice machine clunks in the back. On the wall, a flickering television screen glows, Althea's recorded voice rolling out in a dry, endless stream of policies and procedures. The group waits in a shared, tense silence, eyes glued to the screen, all thinking the same thing: when will this end so we can finally start?