Quote Originally Posted by Grim Portent View Post
It could be a romance story, a clerk stuck in one of the more repetitive boring administrative roles, marred by aesthetically unpleasant augmetics for their job, finally gets a chance to go to a festival with the other workers because one of their colleagues offered to finish up some paperwork for them as a thank you for some favour. While there they bump into someone cute and have to relearn how to interact with non-clerks and try to juggle their heavy workload with their desire to spend more time with their new love interest and eke out their own little spot of brightness among the drudgery.

Something short, simple but sweet. It's quite a common story at the core.
Only to find out their love interest is actually a cultist of some kind, because happy endings are forbidden.