Nyra:
I arrived ten minutes early and still felt late. Arcadia Global Solutions rose out of the city like it didn’t belong to it. Glass, steel, sharp edges, and clean lines.
It reflected the sky so perfectly it almost disappeared, like it didn’t want to be touched by the mess below it.
Cars honked somewhere behind me, people rushed past with their heads down, but the building stood there untouched, quiet in a way that made my chest tighten.
I stopped at the bottom of the steps and adjusted my jacket for the third time.
“Don’t trip,” I muttered to myself.
“Just… don’t trip.”
That felt like a reasonable goal. The mirrored doors showed me a version of myself I barely recognized. I took my sweet time to see if I looked bearable enough. I had tried my best to make a neat ponytail….and
