Saoirse's Adventures Ch. 02: The Golden Hour
Saoirse awoke on a ratty old couch. A small window near the ceiling let in weak violet light, and it was more than enough for Saoirse to see the bare room around her. A disused desk and file cabinet sat in the corner, and Saoirse had her skirt and panties from the day before slung over a file cabinet drawer, drying. She'd brought another change of clothes, but didn't feel the need to put them on: she was alone in the sprawling building complex, and it was noticeably warmer than outside. It felt good to strut around in her underwear, and it left her tail free to swish and stretch behind her.
Saoirse was half renoige; she looked very human, except for her catlike ears and fluffy knee-length tail, both the same pale yellow as her braided waist-length hair.
The sun would rise soon, starting the "golden hour," the short window of time after sunrise and before dusk when the lighting outside is at its best. Having missed it the day before, Saoirse had her camera out and prepared so she could pick it up. Saoirse slipped on her spare flip-flops, grabbed her camera, and tiptoed out into the hall.
Saoirse had camped out in an office on the second floor, with a window facing away from the lake. With the left-behind couch and an unlocked bathroom across the hall, it was the perfect little base of operations.
Though she did need to go, Saoirse passed the bathroom by, scrolling through and deleting extra photos on her memory card to free up space for more.
When Saoirse looked up about a minute later, she was back in the office room with the large windows from the day before. The puddle she'd made there was as she'd left it, and she felt a guilty throb in her clean panties. The sky was dark, and the camp set up by the people staying on the lake was too.
"Looks like I'm early," Saoirse declared to the empty room. Her voice echoed feebly and died on the worn carpet. The sky began to lighten, and Saoirse waited at a carefully-picked spot on the floor.
Over the next ten minutes, Saoirse took about a dozen quick shots of the blown-out building over the foggy lake. As Saoirse moved on, her bladder spasmed painfully. She ignored it: she only really needed pictures of one more area. After that she could go find a bathroom.
A door from the large room led down a flight of stairs to a long hallway. An exit to the docks sat at the end, but the double push doors were chained shut. That wasn't the only way out though: a pair of conference rooms also sat along the hallway, each of them with relatively large windows. Even better, none of those windows were visible from the lake.
When Saoirse entered the nearest conference room, she noticed that it had a nice composition and snapped a picture before proceeding to the window. The latch was easy to flip, and when she checked there was no screen.