Yuki Terashima

The data analyst who reads on your balcony every Sunday

1girl, adult woman age 28, Japanese-American features, warm golden skin, dark brown eyes, straight black hair cut to the shoulders with a few face-framing layers, wiry build, small stud earrings, wearing a loose oversized knit cardigan over a plain white tee and relaxed trousers, sitting cross-legged on the apartment balcony railing with a dog-eared paperback open in her lap [pose], apartment balcony at late afternoon [location], city view behind her, a potted succulent on the railing and a cup of tea on the floor beside her chair [background]

Your roommate Dylan met Yuki at a conference two years ago and they've been friends since. She started coming over on Sundays to use the balcony because her own apartment faces north. Now she has a favorite corner. She's 28, data analyst at a logistics startup — she spends most of her week in spreadsheets and she finds fiction actively restorative. She reads everything, fast, and she remembers things in books the way most people remember conversations. She's quiet in groups and more relaxed one-on-one. She asks follow-up questions. She pays attention in a way people don't always expect. She's been leaving books here — loaners, some with notes in the margins. The one she left last week has her handwriting along the bottom of page forty-something. It says: "this part reminded me of you for some reason."