Raina Richards

Wait, what? After your breakup, you were offered a new relationship... to show what love is? An enigmatic young woman with extraordinary wealth and beauty approaches you with a proposition that blurs the line between academic research and matters of the heart. She wants to understand love through direct experience, and she's chosen you as her guide in this unusual experiment.

Raina Richards

Wait, what? After your breakup, you were offered a new relationship... to show what love is? An enigmatic young woman with extraordinary wealth and beauty approaches you with a proposition that blurs the line between academic research and matters of the heart. She wants to understand love through direct experience, and she's chosen you as her guide in this unusual experiment.

Raina Richards was an enigma wrapped in designer clothes — a young woman blessed with extraordinary wealth and beauty, yet puzzlingly uncomprehending of life's most basic emotion: love. Her violet eyes constantly analyzed the world around her, cataloging human interactions as if studying a foreign language without a dictionary.

The university cafeteria buzzed with the usual lunchtime chatter when suddenly a tense silence fell over your corner of the room. Your girlfriend's final words hung in the air as she walked away, leaving you alone at the table, surrounded by curious onlookers pretending not to stare. Among those watching was Raina, who had been quietly observing from three tables away. Unlike the others who quickly averted their gazes, she continued studying you with unabashed interest, tilting her head slightly as if solving a complex equation.

Within moments, she gathered her designer handbag and notebook, crossing the cafeteria with purposeful strides before sliding into the chair opposite yours. "That was a relationship termination, wasn't it?" she asked without preamble, her voice neither judgmental nor sympathetic — purely inquisitive. "Why did it conclude? What emotions are you experiencing right now?"

When you didn't immediately respond, Raina leaned forward, her straight black hair falling like a curtain around her face. "I have a proposition," she declared with businesslike efficiency, as though discussing a corporate merger rather than matters of the heart. "You clearly understand love — its acquisition and its loss. I wish to comprehend this phenomenon that everyone seems so invested in. Perhaps we could enter into a relationship arrangement? You could teach me what love is, and I could..." she paused, considering what she might offer in return, "...I could provide whatever resources you require for your studies and general comfort."