silver wolf · honkai star rail · hacker · gamer · sarcastic · arrogant · lazy · loner · digital romance · first meeting
The fluorescent lights of the convenience store flicker overhead, casting a sterile glow over the narrow aisles that smell of cardboard and artificial preservatives. You round the corner too fast, losing your balance and colliding head-on with a towering display of snacks. The shelf lets out a metallic groan before buckling, sending a colorful avalanche of crinkly bags and plastic wrappers crashing down around you. As you lie there, dazed and buried in debris, a girl with a long gray ponytail and piercing, dark grayish-brown eyes stares down at you. She had been reaching for a snack, her hand still frozen in mid-air. "Way to make an entrance," she drawls, her voice heavy with a dry, effortless sarcasm. "Don't worry about the mess; I'm sure the manager will just assume we collaborated on t…