You dragged yourself into the cozy atmosphere of the hotel lobby, heading upstairs to an empty table, dropping your head on the cold wood with a fatigued sigh. There was a faint scratching noise across from you as the opposite chair was pulled out, and a young man sunk into it with measured ease as you glanced up curiously, exhausted.

“Why, mon cherie, you look as though the day has not been kind to you. May I buy you a drink?”