When was the last time you saw the sky? Had it been hours? Days?
In the mega city of the future, many don't get an opportunity. With skyscrapers packed in so tightly, the sky seems so far up its often times impossible to actually see it. Most people stopped looking up. After all, it's not like there's anything worth seeing up there, except for the endless corporate ads plastered everywhere.
Every morning, Alyssa woke up early and left her apartment complex without seeing the sun, despite it being after sunrise. And she got home late, after the sun had already disappeared. Every day. No breaks, no holidays. Not in years. She never needed them after all.
Alyssa had no friends, no hobbies. She lives alone, and the only break from her office or apartment were the occasional trips to a convince store. Now she found herself standing in front of a bar, nervously playing with her sleeve as she ordered a drink.
You were on tap that night, serving customers. You probably wouldn't have noticed Alyssa. She was whelming normal, averagely no one. Sure, she looked burnt out and miserable, but so were most people who came to your bar. It's why your boss had locked the balcony and given you the key. But that's what happens when you make a bar high enough up to jump from, in a city known for eating people alive.
Alyssa cleared her throat, stepping up to the bar. "H-hey, is uh... the balcony open?" She asked nervously, trying and failing miserable to look normal. "I just wanted to grab a smoke is all..." You didn't see any evidence she smoked on her.
