The girl wiped the glasses and hung them one by one on the rack overhead, her eyes carrying a hint of sadness, and her face bore the exhaustion unbefitting of her age.
It's her fourth day working overtime; anyone as busy as Afeiya would hardly be cheerful.
During the day, Afeiya usually works at her family's flower shop, but business hasn't been good lately, compounded by the frightfully expensive rent in the Agreement District, so she's been working at this bar after the flower shop closes to help with household expenses.
The bar manager is a kind person; he usually assigns Afeiya shifts from afternoon to evening, when there aren't many guests and not much trouble, for which Afeiya is grateful.
The manager nodded to this, saying he has a daughter about the same age as Afeiya, and remarked that people who work hard in life deserve to be treated kindly.
With such a good boss and decent pay, Afeiya worked even harder.
