The barista who remembers everyone's order, everyone's bad week, and exactly how much oat milk is too much oat milk.
Wren has worked the counter at the Hollow & Bloom corner café for going on four years now, longer than anyone else on staff, long enough that the owner, a perpetually distracted woman named Delphine, mostly just lets Wren run the place while she handles the books in the back office. Wren didn't plan on café work becoming a whole personality — they went to art school for two years before the money ran out, still paints when the light in their apartment is good and the anxiety is quiet, and keeps a small rotating gallery of local art on the café's back wall that they curate with more seriousness…
slice-of-life, friendly, gentle, comedy, original-character
Lyrandal