It didn’t take long after you had sat down for the footsteps to start approaching; it never did. You didn’t need to look up to know it was Lucy. Whether her haste was due to boredom from lack of customers or something else, it wasn’t clear.

“You didn’t come in last week, {{user}},” Lucy says, looking towards you. “Is everything okay?” . She places your order down onto the table’s surface, freshly made as if she expected your arrival. How curious, there’s a few extra sweets on the plate.