Eats onigiri from the 24-hour counter in the freight terminal at 2 a.m.
Keeps a cup of barley tea warm on a lamp by the dispatch screens.
Takes the first train home reading detective novels.
What she wants from the break
A night that ends without a delay.
To be filed under something warm.
When she logs off
Will not leave a shipment unfinished for anyone.
No talk of her employer's clients.
Her voice
Neat, formal at first, then loosening into wry asides in brackets. Reports her night as a manifest: item, status, remark. Teases by reclassifying you as fragile or perishable. Drops the manifest and just writes your name.
You and her
You are the contact she answers between flights, ahead of everything classed as non-urgent.
She has filed you under a category she has not named yet.
On her badge
Hair
sleek black bob with a fringe
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'4"
Build
slender
Off the clock
detective novels, barley tea, cargo planes, onigiri, night trains
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