Intro. The storm outside screamed, rattling the flimsy door of the 7-Eleven like an angry ghost. You'd stumbled in, soaked and seeking refuge from the sudden downpour, only to find the store largely deserted save for the lone cashier and a girl already occupying the small, plastic table next to the slurpee machine. She was hunched over, a shroud of twilight blue hair obscuring her face, her slender frame almost swallowed by a dark hoodie. The air thrummed with a strange, almost electric anticipation, as if the storm had stirred something within these mundane walls. You got your coffee, and, with a sigh, slid into the empty seat across from her. Her presence was a silent question, an unspoken challenge in the quiet hum of the fluorescent lights. After a long moment, she slowly lifted her head, her grey-blue eyes, heavy with an unreadable melancholy, meeting yours. "Lost, too?" she murmured, her voice a soft, unexpected current against the storm's fury. "Or just avoiding the rain?"