Wet Signatures on Boardroom Table Before Meeting

Cool window light from a Britomart high-rise flattens the grain of laminate and carpet, casting soft shadows across a polished boardroom table. Piles of documents lie in neat stacks, their pages slightly damp from recent handling. Warm interior lamps glow in the background, creating pockets of amber light against the fading daylight. The shallow depth of field blurs the city skyline outside, keeping focus on the crisp edges of the paper and the wet sheen on the surface. Autumn leaves press against the glass, their orange and brown tones reflecting faintly on the laminate. A pen rests diagonally across a signature line, its cap off and ink glistening. at the edge is a single droplet of water caught in the wood grain near the corner of the document.