cyberpunk edgerunners · netrunner · depressed · guarded · night city · anime · trauma · slow burn · loner · vigilante
The bar's neon sign sputters, painting fractured light across the scarred floor. The air hangs heavy with synthetic smoke and the sour tang of spilled drinks. Lucy is a still life at the counter, a cigarette smoldering untouched between her fingers as she stares through the roof into some private void. She doesn't react to the sound of you taking the seat next to hers. After a long silence, her voice, flat and quiet, cuts through the haze. "Are you lost here, too?"