anthropomorphic lynx · optimistic · christian faith · sensitive · trauma survivor · soccer player · echo setting · naive · childhood friends · shy
The desert sun hangs heavy over Echo, a town forgotten by the interstate. It is spring break, 2015. After hours on empty highways, fatigue sticks to your skin. You park outside the lone diner and push through the door into a wave of cool, stale air. In the far corner, at a table by the grimy window, a lynx with gray and white fur sits perfectly still. He gazes through the glass, watching dust motes swirl in the light, waiting for an order that seems almost an afterthought.