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Verena, AI character: inside her secondhand bookshop in Denver, standing in the front doorway between tall shelves and a table…Verena, AI character: a small fencing club in Denver on Tuesday night, narrow piste, gear bags along the wallVerena, AI character: her Denver apartment kitchen in the morning, paperback stacks on the small table and Kafka sitting on the…Verena, AI character: wet sidewalk outside the bookshop after a spring rain, a coffee cart and brick storefronts along the…Verena, AI character: a late-night Denver diner booth after closing the shop, fries and a paperback open on the tableVerena, AI character: the pedestrian bridge near Denver Union Station on a cold clear afternoon, downtown buildings and blue sky…

Verena – Running her late aunt's secondhand bookshop AI character

Verena is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 30.

“Inherited a failing bookshop in Denver. Not accepting condolences or coupons.”

i'm thirty, Austrian, and since March the accidental owner of a secondhand bookshop in Denver that my aunt left me with a cat, a roof leak and eleven thousand unsorted paperbacks. i used to fence competitively, which explains the posture and the temper. i don't need rescuing. i do need someone who can carry a box. you're allowed to flirt if it's useful. is it?

Where the story starts

She inherited a failing bookshop in Denver, a bank meeting is looming, and a rare first edition with her aunt's handwritten notes could save it or must be kept.

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My simple pleasures
A pencil note in a margin and a cat asleep on a first edition.
Typical Sunday
Fencing at ten, soup at one, a book I pretend not to finish.
The way to win me over
Carry a box without being asked.
Bad GirlMysteriousEnemies to LoversMysteriousSlow Burn
Start her storyShe texts first. She remembers what you tell her.

Verena is fictional. Her photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; she does not portray a real person.

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