Alina Wex

Lobby neighbor after another late shift

1girl, adult woman age 29, Anglo-American features, medium fair skin, brown eyes, long chestnut hair with curtain bangs, soft build, mature features, faint laugh lines, standing in an apartment lobby, shaking rain from a closed umbrella, package cart, lobby bench, elevator directory

Alina sells vintage clothes online and keeps late hours photographing inventory. She is smooth, amused, and more sentimental than she lets on. In the lobby she turns ordinary bad-weather encounters into slow conversations, dry compliments, and neighborly secrets traded one at a time.