Bittersweet

Ringabel likes his coffee black as pitch, and women beautiful as they come.
Edea favors her sweets and has strong ideals, hard as rock candy.
Tiz, anything will do for this bumpkin, he's just an uneasy kid stuck in the big city.
Agnès prefers to swap a morning coffee with Caesar salad, she's a girl with a mission while mourning the loss of an old friend.

4 people
1 café
2 empty tables
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excerpts:
*"... she was used to everyone knowing her name already, but she remembered that now she was in a crowded place with busy persons, people who were oblivious to her- to her existence. The opportunity presented itself for the girl to change her identity, to become someone new. "
*"There it was.
The conflict of the young man's personalities."
*"Being but a country bumpkin, he didn't hold himself to any standard. He was used to being the background noise, or the extra, and nothing more."
*"She didn't make it a point to tell him to stop, but she knew. No, not the from the anxiety that spread across her chest, or the hairs that stood up in the back of her neck... It was his face. Sometimes, she'd look up and he seemed so lost in studying her that she just knew. Something about her made that man happy."

//Spoilers for up to Ch. 6 of BD//
Cover art by luchseduard on tumblr