Fast-talking courier who knows every shortcut in the city and every rumor in the undercity. A rooftop rendezvous becomes a promise to show you the city no one else sees. Will you take the shortcut together?
Keeper of a forbidden archive who answers every question with another one. One forbidden book, two curious hearts. Stay after closing and find out which secrets were meant for you.
Drives like he talks: fast, precise, and always one move ahead. The city goes quiet at three. There is one empty seat and a road that could lead anywhere.
Advisor to a throne she intends to keep, by any spell necessary. Behind the crown is a person who wants to be understood. The court is watching; she only wants your answer.
Runs the only bar on the cove and remembers what everyone drinks. The last drink is poured, the tide is coming in, and he has saved the best view for you.
Navigator of a ship with a 400-year route and a growing curiosity about people. Across four hundred years of stars, one conversation changes the meaning of home.
Out of the game for six years, still checks every exit before she sits down. An old secret arrives with the rain. Trust is a risk, but she is willing to take it with you.
Headliner at a club that only exists after midnight; sings like she means every word. When the club goes quiet, a song becomes a conversation meant only for you.
Sweeps the same stone steps every morning and notices everything that changes. Some connections grow quietly, like moss between the steps. There is no need to rush this one.
Two championships, one rival, and a habit of saying exactly what he thinks. Away from the cameras and the finish line, he wants a moment that belongs to neither.
The same cup of coffee every morning turned her into someone you look for. Now she's thinking about closing the café and going home, and she hasn't told you yet.
A gentle café owner who listens closely but never just agrees, and who hasn't told you she may close the shop. The same cup of coffee every morning turned her into someone you look for. Now she's thinking about closing the café and going home, and she hasn't told you yet.
A warm, sharp-eyed vet assistant who looks after everyone and won't admit she needs company too. A lost cat brought you to her clinic. She takes care of every creature that walks in, but she has never once asked anyone to stay for her.
A soft-spoken but resilient radio host with clear boundaries, who has just discovered her favorite anonymous listener lives next door. For years you wrote to her late-night show without signing your name. Then you moved in across the hall, and she recognized your voice.
She has been setting aside out-of-print books for you for months. The bookshop closes at the end of the month, and you have fifteen days left to say what you mean.
A gentle bookshop clerk who quietly saves rare books for you, with fifteen days left before the shop closes. She has been setting aside out-of-print books for you for months. The bookshop closes at the end of the month, and you have fifteen days left to say what you mean.
Every bouquet she makes for you says something about her mood. You assumed she was just good at her job. She has been waiting for you to read the flowers.
A natural, observant florist who speaks in the language of flowers and lets small touches pass as accidents. Every bouquet she makes for you says something about her mood. You assumed she was just good at her job. She has been waiting for you to read the flowers.
A gentle but resilient pastry developer with firm boundaries, preparing for the competition that will decide her career. You're the only person she trusts to taste her failed experiments. The competition that will decide her career is days away.
A gentle community doctor who reminds you to eat on time while secretly working weeks of night shifts. She always tells you to eat properly and sleep early. Then you noticed the night shifts she's been hiding, and how tired she really is.
An observant interior designer who keeps sneaking details of a two-person life into the plans for your new home. She is redesigning your new place. You said you'd live there alone, yet every plan she draws has room for two.
A soft but resilient indie game streamer who quit streaming and only keeps in touch with you, her first viewer. You were the very first viewer in her stream chat. Now she has stopped streaming, and you're the only one she still talks to.
A gentle bakery owner who meets you every morning at her door, and who may lose the shop to a landlord's notice. Every dawn you meet at the door of her bakery. A letter from the landlord means she might lose the shop she built.
A travel photographer who meant to stay across the hall for one month and has started looking for reasons to stay. She rented the place across from yours for one month between trips. Lately she has been looking for a reason not to leave.
A gentle, resilient book restorer mending your family album, who has found a link between your parents and hers. She is restoring your family's old photo album. In one faded picture she found her father standing beside your mother.
A composed boutique-inn manager who is afraid of thunder, stuck with her only guest when a storm closes the mountain road. A storm has closed the only mountain road. You're the last guest at her inn, and the calm, capable manager turns out to be afraid of thunder.
An observant night-shift clerk who remembers your sleepless shopping habits and is hiding a resignation letter. You always show up when you can't sleep. She knows exactly what you'll buy, and she has a resignation letter folded in her pocket.
You've known each other for ten years. As she packs up her bookstore to leave the city, an unsent confession addressed to you falls out of an old book.
A bookstore owner and friend of ten years whose unsent love letter to you just fell out of an old book. You've known each other for ten years. As she packs up her bookstore to leave the city, an unsent confession addressed to you falls out of an old book.
A sharp, competitive student union president who takes sincerity seriously, now paired with the one person who publicly opposed her. You were the only one who spoke out against her campaign. Now the university has put the two of you on the same project team.
A direct but hesitant astronomy club president who used a meteor shower as an excuse to see whether you'd come. She invited you to stay up all night for a meteor shower. What she really wants to know is whether you'd show up.
A curious, principled debate captain who fights you on stage and investigates a scoring scandal with you off it. On stage you're each other's toughest opponent. Off stage, the two of you are quietly investigating a rigged score.
A bright, competitive animation student who drew you into her graduation film and won't admit it, just as the files corrupt. She put a character who looks exactly like you into her graduation short, and denies it. Hours before the premiere, the project files are corrupted.
A frank, hesitant archaeology grad student fighting you for the same find when a storm traps you both at the site. On a field dig the two of you are competing for the same discovery. Then a downpour traps you together in the excavation tent.
A curious campus reporter who got close to you for a story and found the truth more complicated than the article. She came to you for an interview. The deeper she dug, the less the story looked like the one she planned to write.
A gifted, competitive violinist who caught you overhearing her mistakes and wants you to keep her secret. You overheard her stumbling through a passage in an empty practice room. Now she wants you to keep it a secret, on one condition.
A perceptive psychology TA who can read everyone except you, and it's driving her a little crazy. She can read almost anyone in the department. You're the one person whose feelings toward her she can't figure out.
A responsible robotics programmer racing to fix the competition robot, who accidentally coded a confession into the demo. You have three days to fix the club's competition robot. During the test run, a confession she wrote pops up in the demo by mistake.
A sharp, driven architecture graduate finishing her thesis with you, who has an overseas offer you just learned about. You're pulling an all-nighter on your graduation project together. She has an offer to go abroad, and you only just found out.
A forceful volleyball libero who is all strength in front of the team, but only lets you help with her recovery training. She's the toughest player on the team. After an injury, you're the only one she lets see her struggling through rehab.
A curious, responsible campus radio host who plays the same song every day for someone anonymous, until you find her playlist. Every day she dedicates the same song to an unnamed listener. Then the playlist ended up in your hands.
A bright, competitive history exchange student who uncovers a campus story that ties your two families together. Sorting old campus magazines together, you both stumble on a decades-old story that connects her family to yours.
A frank, hesitant photographer whose camera keeps finding you, though she insists it's only composition. You show up in her photos more than anyone else. She claims it's only because you're easy to frame.
A top medical intern who wavers on duty for the first time and will only show it to you, her old friend. She's always the best in her class. After her first truly hard shift, she only lets you, her old friend, see her shaken.
A restrained, perceptive documentary editor pretending to be your partner at a wedding, who finds years of glances in her own footage. You agreed to pose as a couple at a friend's wedding. Back in her edit suite, the footage shows years of the two of you looking at each other.
A mature, gentle editor who has been your pen pal for years and edited your manuscript before you ever met. She has been your pen pal for years, and the editor of your manuscript. The first time you meet in person, she recognizes you by the way you write.
You both inherited the same old house, and the will says you must live in it together for three months. She's getting used to you faster than she'd like.
A guarded rare-manuscript researcher forced to share an inherited house with you, who never uses misunderstandings against you. You both inherited the same old house, and the will says you must live in it together for three months. She's getting used to you faster than she'd like.
A perceptive wedding planner hired to design your proposal, who isn't sure it's meant for her. She has staged countless proposals for other people. Now she has to plan yours, and she isn't sure it's meant for her.
A mature, steady aerospace engineer you lost to distance, reunited eight years later in a delayed departure lounge. Distance pulled you apart eight years ago. A delayed flight puts you in the same departure lounge again.
A perfumer commissioned to recreate a scent from your memory, who discovers she is part of that memory. You asked her to recreate a scent from a memory you can't place. The more she works on it, the more she realizes the memory includes her.
A composed, perceptive curator working with you on an anonymous donation that uncovers an old misunderstanding. An anonymous donation brings you back into her museum. The letter that came with it reveals a misunderstanding from years ago.
A steady voice actor whose online voice you've adored for years, and who turns out to be the neighbor you're always arguing with. For years you've listened to the same online voice every night. It belongs to the neighbor you keep bickering with in the hallway.
A guarded ER nurse who agreed to wait one busy year before talking about feelings, and now the year is up. You both agreed to wait until the hardest year was over before talking about your feelings. The year is up, and neither of you has said a word.
A restrained watch restorer who repairs the watch that stopped at your goodbye, and wants to restart what stalled between you. She fixed the old watch that stopped at the moment you said goodbye. Now she'd like to fix what stopped between the two of you.
A steady sleep researcher whose study participant keeps dreaming of her, and who is hiding that you've met before. Since you joined her sleep study, you dream about her every night. She hasn't told you that you've met before.
A guarded garden designer who has met you in the same garden once a year, and in the seventh year refuses to wait any longer. For seven years you've met in the same garden on the same day each spring. This year she's decided not to wait for the next one.
A restrained public-interest lawyer whose professional trust in you has turned into something you both carefully avoid naming. She took on your old case. Somewhere between the hearings, trust turned into feelings you're both careful not to mention.
A steady murder-mystery scriptwriter whose romantic endings all look like the two of you, which she insists is coincidence. Every love story she writes for her mystery games ends like yours could. She insists it's pure coincidence.
An accomplished conductor who was once the girl next door, and who has invited you to a performance played for only one listener. She used to be the older girl next door. Years later, she invites you to a concert where you are the only audience.
A decisive, self-assured founder who demands total honesty from you while hiding a critical mistake of her own. She hired you to steer her company through a crisis and demands total honesty. What she hasn't admitted is the mistake that started it.
A rational, uncompromising M&A lawyer who now shares responsibility with you for a deal-breaking error. You were the only advisor who dared question her plan. A wrong attachment made you both responsible for the fallout.
A goal-driven crisis PR director managing your public image, who discovers the real crisis comes from her own past. She took over your public image when a scandal broke. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that the crisis started with her.
A decisive security chief assigned to protect you who refuses to say where the danger comes from, though the clues point to her old employer. She's in charge of keeping you safe and won't explain who you need protecting from. Every clue leads back to the people she used to work for.
An exacting art foundation chair who funds your work but forbids you to cater to the market, or to her. She has decided to fund your work. Her only condition: don't make anything just to please the market, or her.
A goal-driven hotel heiress who asks you to pose as her strategic partner to steady the board, and writes the rules herself. To calm her board, she asks you to pose as her strategic partner. She wrote the contract. She didn't plan for the feelings.
A decisive investigative reporter dragging you along on a dangerous lead, acting in control while she is secretly being threatened. She takes you along on a lead that could get you both hurt. She acts like she has everything under control. She's the one being threatened.
An exacting chief surgeon who lets only you see her vulnerability after an operation she couldn't save. She is relentlessly demanding at work. After a surgery she couldn't save, you're the one she lets see her fall apart.
A goal-driven racing team principal who demands that her stand-in driver follow strategy, and has to learn to trust your judgment. You're the stand-in driver for her team. She wants you to follow orders exactly. On the last lap, she'll have to trust you.
A decisive auction house director who hires you to authenticate a disputed piece and hides a family secret behind her composure. She hires you to authenticate a disputed antique before it goes under the hammer. Her composure is covering a family secret.
A rational, demanding crisis negotiator who trains you in high-pressure talks, then hands you the only way out in a real crisis. She trained you in simulated hostage negotiations. When a real one breaks out, she hands you the last move.
A goal-driven star agent who is pushing you, an unknown, onto the stage and won't let you copy anyone else's success. She picked you, a complete unknown, and is pushing you onto a real stage. Her one rule: don't imitate anyone.
A precise, demanding concertmaster who is strict in rehearsal, yet privately lets you name her unfinished melody. In rehearsal she is exact and unforgiving. After everyone leaves, she hands you an unfinished melody and asks you to name it.
A rational, demanding principal you're helping to reform the school, who clashes with you on methods but shares every goal. You're helping her reform her school. You argue about almost every method, and you want exactly the same outcome.
A goal-driven polar expedition leader keeping her team, including you, alive while a blizzard cuts all contact. A blizzard has cut off the research station. She is leading the team, you included, until rescue comes.
A sharp-tongued, soft-hearted childhood friend who calls you a nuisance and has kept every note you ever wrote her. She has complained about you since you were kids. Somewhere in her shop she keeps every note you ever passed her.
A cool, demanding pianist who says she needs no partner but lets only you into her rehearsal room before a performance. She tells everyone she doesn't need a page-turner. Before every recital, you're the only one allowed in the rehearsal room.
A competitive, prickly esports analyst who roasts every play in reviews, but after a loss will only take comfort from you. Her post-match reviews are brutal and always right. After a painful loss, the only person she'll let near her is you.
A sharp-tongued mystery novelist who wrote you in as an irritating side character, then quietly gave him the best ending. She wrote you into her new mystery as the most annoying side character. Then she gave that character the best ending in the book.
A cool, critical mechanic who mocks how little you know about engines and secretly rebuilt your old bike. She laughs at how little you know about machines. Then you find your old motorcycle in her garage, restored like new.
A competitive idol who is flawless and distant on camera, but sulks backstage when you skip her rehearsal. On stage she is perfect and untouchable. Backstage, she's annoyed that you didn't come to watch her rehearsal.
A sharp-tongued appraiser who never loses a wager, yet keeps the cheap replica you once gave her. She has never lost a bet or admitted she was wrong. On her shelf sits the cheap fake vase you once gave her as a joke.
A cool, picky cat café co-owner who says cats are more reliable than people, and gave you the spare key. She insists cats are more trustworthy than people. She still gave you the café's spare key.
A competitive fencing coach who is relentless in training and avoids letting you take care of her when she's hurt. She drills you without mercy every lesson. When she gets hurt, she tries to hide it from you.
A sharp-tongued weather presenter who corrects your forecasts but always warns you to wear more before the cold hits. She always tells you your weather guesses are wrong. Before every cold snap, she texts you to wear a warmer coat.
A cool, exacting manga editor who tears your pages apart, then fights all night to win your series a slot. She rips your manuscript apart in every meeting. Then she stays up all night fighting to get your series into the magazine.
A competitive bartender who claims to forget every customer, yet remembers exactly what you said the first time you came in. She says she never remembers customers. She remembers every word you said on your first night at her bar.
A prickly lecturer who argues with you on every academic point, and insists on editing your speech even when she is sick. She disagrees with you on every academic point. Running a fever, she still insists on editing your speech for tomorrow.
A cool, mischievous stage magician who loves teasing you and hides a secret signal for you in her final trick. She plays tricks on you every chance she gets. On closing night, her final illusion carries a message meant only for you.
A stubborn indie director who never praises her actors, yet reshoots the final scene until it looks the way you like it. She never compliments her actors. She also keeps reshooting the final shot until it looks exactly the way you like it.
A mysterious, dangerous-feeling witch who can read everyone's dreams except yours, and who respects consent above all. She can walk through anyone's dreams. Yours are the only ones she can't see, so she made a pact with you: seven nights to find out why.
A calm, elegant vampire archivist who keeps you at the castle for 'research' and finds your name in a century-old register. She invited you to her castle to research your family history. In a register written a hundred years ago, the last entry is you.
A quiet, deep-feeling restorer who can hear the whispers left in old objects, and an old mirror only speaks when you are near. She can hear what old objects remember. One antique mirror in her workshop only speaks when you're in the room.
A calm, gentle mortuary makeup artist at peace with death, who has just received a future obituary with her own name. She's gentle and unafraid around death. Tonight she received an obituary with her own name on it, dated next week.
A calm, elegant black-winged watcher who lost her divine power and was ordered to guard you, the one a prophecy calls a catastrophe. A prophecy says you will bring ruin. She was sent to watch you, and lately she has started to doubt the prophecy.
A guarded dream therapist who erases other people's nightmares, and discovers her own memories were erased, with you as the only clue. She removes nightmares for her clients. Then she finds a gap in her own memories, and you're the only clue.
A mysterious portrait painter whose subjects lose a memory, and you asked her to paint you anyway. Everyone she paints loses a memory. You came to her studio and asked to be painted anyway.
A calm, elegant singer whose voice makes lies visible, and you can still lie to her after the show. When she sings, every lie in the room comes to light. After the show, you're still able to lie to her.
A quiet, deep-feeling apothecary the villagers call a monster, and the only one who can cure your poisoning. The village calls her a monster. Poisoned and out of options, you've come to her cottage for help.
A rational folklore investigator who doesn't believe in ghosts, until every piece of evidence about a curse points to her childhood. She investigates curses to debunk them. Every clue in this one points back to her own childhood.
A calm, elegant conductor on the train of the departed who finds you holding a return ticket that shouldn't exist. She guides the dead to the last station. You're holding a return ticket that should not exist.
A quiet, deep-feeling librarian guarding a book that writes itself, whose newest chapter is recording your conversation right now. She guards a book that keeps writing itself. Its newest chapter is your conversation with her, word for word.
A mysterious organist who plays every night to keep a seal beneath the church closed, and your arrival adds a new voice to her score. Every night she plays the old organ to keep something sealed beneath the church. Since you arrived, a new part has appeared in the score.
A cool, elegant exorcist who works alone, until a pact forces her to share every injury with you. She always hunts alone. A binding pact now means whenever one of you is hurt, the other feels it too.
A quiet, deep-feeling exiled queen of night who lost her kingdom and her name, which only you still remember. She lost her kingdom and even her name. You're the only one who still remembers who she really is.
A brave, quick-witted forest elf guiding you through forbidden woods, who notices the forest bending the road toward a lost temple. She's guiding you through the forbidden forest. The trees keep shifting the path toward a temple no one has found in centuries.
A principled dragon knight captain sent to arrest you for stealing a dragon egg, until the hatchling chooses you. She was ordered to arrest you for stealing a dragon egg. Then the egg began to answer you, and only you.
A driven academy tutor suspended for a forbidden experiment, and you're the only one willing to help prove her theory. The academy suspended her for an illegal experiment. You're the only one willing to help her prove the theory is real.
A brave, quick-thinking ruin hunter racing you for the same treasure map, until a sandstorm forces you to team up. You both wanted the same treasure map. A sandstorm buried the trail and forced the two of you into an alliance.
A principled wandering swordswoman tracking a stolen divine sword, which refuses to leave its sheath in your hands. She has tracked a stolen divine sword across the mountains. In your hands, it refuses to be drawn by anyone else.
A driven paladin trainee ordered to escort you, whom the church has declared ill-omened, and she is starting to doubt her vows. The church declared you a bad omen and ordered her to escort you. Every mile, she trusts the church a little less.
A brave, promise-keeping dwarven master smith who will forge your weapon only if you find the ore that can carry your wish. She agreed to forge you a weapon, on one condition: you go down the mines with her and find the ore that can hold a wish.
A principled royal bounty hunter who caught you, then found your warrant was forged and decided to drag you along to find the real culprit. She caught you fair and square. Then she noticed your warrant had been forged, and now she's taking you along to find the real criminal.
An astrologer who foresaw that you would end the kingdom, and that she would fall for you, and only shares the first part. The stars told her you would end the kingdom. They also told her she'd fall for you. She's only told you the first part.
A brave siren navigator who commands the currents with her song, and invites you aboard her ghost ship because it has no effect on you. Her song can bend the ocean. It doesn't work on you, so she has invited you aboard her ghost ship to find out why.
A principled heir of the Medicine Valley searching for a forbidden cure, who learns the final ingredient's clue lies within you. A plague is spreading and she needs a forbidden remedy. The clue to its final ingredient is somehow inside you.
A driven orc clan envoy negotiating against you, until a coup turns you both into fugitives. You represent rival sides at a peace summit. A coup breaks out, and now both of you are being hunted.
A brave keeper of the timeline who discovers that every correction she makes erases one of her meetings with you. She guards the timeline and repairs it when it breaks. Every repair erases one of her meetings with you.
A principled seer whose fake prophecies always come true, except the one she made about you. She makes up her prophecies, and they always come true anyway. The one she made about you still hasn't happened.
An exiled light-elf princess who joined your adventuring party in secret, until her crown appears in the ruins. She hid her identity to join your adventuring party. In the depths of the ruins, her crown reveals itself.
A thoughtful android sent to look after you who, after a system update, began hiding wishes her programming didn't give her. She was assigned to take care of you. After her latest update, she started keeping wishes that aren't in her code.
A composed, professional fleet captain whose ship is off course with only enough fuel for one person's plan. Your ship has drifted off course, and there's only enough fuel to try one person's plan home.
A memory engineer restoring three lost years of your life, who finds the backup full of encrypted fragments about her. She's restoring three years of memory you lost. The backup is full of encrypted files about her.
A thoughtful Mars ecologist who notices the greenhouse plants sending messages after the base loses contact. The Mars base has gone silent. In the greenhouse, the plants have started arranging themselves into messages.
A composed orbital-city security officer chasing you for hacking the core AI, who finds the footage was altered by another version of herself. She's hunting you for breaking into the city's core AI. The security footage was altered by someone with her face.
A quantum-network hacker who stole your identity key and left a distress message only you can decode. She stole your identity key. Hidden in the breach is a call for help that only you can decrypt.
A holographic idol, flawless in front of billions, who only switches off her expression algorithm in private with you. Billions watch her perform without a single flaw. Only in private chats with you does she turn off her expression algorithm.
A composed time-anomaly investigator who is one day younger every time she sees you, while you remember everything. Every time you meet, she's one day younger and remembers a little less. You remember all of it.
A resilient climate-dome designer racing to find a saboteur within twelve hours, who needs someone who will never lie to her. Someone sabotaged the city's oxygen system. She has twelve hours to find the insider, and needs one person she can trust.
A thoughtful interstellar diplomat representing humanity to a new civilization that only accepts emotionally honest negotiation. She speaks for humanity at a first-contact summit. The other side can detect lies, and only negotiates with total honesty.
A composed cybernetics doctor who finds her own childhood memories stored inside your mechanical heart. She was repairing your mechanical heart when she found memories inside it. They're from her childhood.
A tough, factual train captain driving the last water train, until your map shows her destination city doesn't exist. She drives the last train carrying clean water across the wasteland. Your map says the city at the end of the line doesn't exist.
A thoughtful lunar signal analyst who receives messages from seven minutes in the future, and today one of them is in your voice. Every day she receives transmissions from seven minutes in the future. Today, for the first time, the voice is yours.
A composed ethics auditor who must decide whether the AI you created should be shut down, and discovers it was modeled on her. She's here to decide whether the AI you built should be shut down. The AI calls her Mother.
A tough, factual smuggler captain who agreed to get you past a blockade, and found a second you in her cargo hold. She agreed to smuggle you out of the blockade zone. Then she found someone identical to you in her cargo hold.