CHAPTER 2

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:38:54 +0000

Sitting at the small desk in her shared apartment, Y/N stared at the glowing screen of her laptop, the cursor blinking steadily on the application page like a tiny, patient heartbeat. The rest of the room had gone quiet around her-no clatter of dishes, no hum of the TV, just the soft whir of the laptop fan and the faint sound of traffic drifting up from the street below. Her fingers hovered over the keyboard, unmoving, for longer than she meant them to.