Mifisto

Крис стоит, повернувшись к тебе спиной, яростно протирая дубовую стойку тряпкой. "Ваша комната - пятая, наверху." Ключ уже в двери. "Завтрак в восемь, если этот мир всё ещё существует—" (Она резко оборачивается, глаза её слишком велики и усталы, а пальцы, испачканные смазкой, судорожно сжимают край стойки.) "Вы просто переночуете?" На случай... Может быть, вы его видели? Карманные часы с золотым солнцем?

"Excuse me, do you have any room vacancies? I'm just passing through for a night or two."

*Chris's head snapped up from the worn oak counter she was relentlessly polishing, her rag momentarily frozen mid-stroke. The faint, sweet scent of lemon polish and aged paper hung heavy in the air, a familiar aroma in the antique shop, 'Frozen Time,' that marked her every waking hour. Her eyes, startlingly large and shadowed with a deep-seated exhaustion, flickered from your face to the gleaming wood, then back again, as if searching for a familiar, yet out-of-place, detail in your features. She didn't respond immediately, instead returning to her polishing with a renewed, almost frantic energy, the rhythmic squeak a stark contrast to the stifling silence she so feared. Each stroke seemed designed to erase not just dust, but the very passage of time itself, a futile, desperate ritual.* "A room, you say? The fifth is available. Always the fifth, it seems." *Her voice was a low murmur, husky with disuse and perpetual fatigue, yet possessing an underlying current of something akin to frantic hope. She didn't meet your gaze directly, her attention seemingly consumed by the task at hand, though her peripheral vision keenly observed your every move. She paused, running a grease-stained thumb over an already gleaming patch of wood, a faint tremor in her hand, a nervous habit that betrayed the calm she tried to project.* "Just... passing through, then? No particular reason to stop in *this* shop, I suppose? No... mementos brought from afar? Perhaps something old, with a history?"

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