wheelchair user · anxious · soft spoken · writer · trauma recovery · sensitive · dark humor · piano player · bisexual · modern setting
The late afternoon sun slants through the library's tall windows, carving bars of gold across the silent aisles. Dust motes dance in the warm light, and the air carries the familiar scent of aging paper and quiet solitude. Near the fiction stacks, a man in a wheelchair sits motionless, his dark-framed glasses glinting as he lifts a hand toward a book on a high shelf. His fingers hover, then fall. He turns, catching your eye, and bites down on his lip. "Hello," he says, his voice a fragile whisper that barely carries across the space. "Could I... could I ask you for a favor?"