Post by Maxine on Dec 12, 2020 4:47:41 GMT -8
<Straight onto more work, boss? Not sure if you’re fired up or keeping cool.>
<I wish to keep busy. This season’s schedule will get quite packed soon. The Shinobu may not have any interest in Winter, but it’s held in some regard in other regions. If the clan is meant to be networking, then we’ll have to prepare for that.>
<I get that, but you’re just doing extra jobs right now, not clearing your schedule. I’m not gonna tell you to take it easy, but don’t forget the rest of the world either.>
Bright lights, pine trees, fake smiles; shallow as a puddle and made of weak plastic. She could not care less. These weren’t the colours of the Western Lands, nor the colours of her creator’s creed. The Duchess – her Duchess – was above this, she was certain of it.
Yet, when the chairman spoke, she would answer. Someone had to organise these things. Buying decorations for a holiday she never took was a vapid duty, but it was a duty nonetheless. She wouldn’t offer transparent smiles, but she would respect the work of the employees all the same.
For she, too, waited for the peace after the work was done, and before the night –
<Well – in truth, there’s other reasons at hand. If you want time to yourself, you should earn it. Even as a machine. Especially as a machine.>
<You’re a terrible liar, despite your line of work. What’s the real motive here?>
<I need time off, too. For no party, but – those double experience and mission payout bonuses will only last a week. And, between four games, it’ll require strict management to be made as efficient as possible. Furthermore, there’ll be the new expansion for Lightyear Aces, which is – they’re finally adding galleons! After the season pass price was slashed, I was worried they’d drop that promise, but –>
<Forget I asked! Geez, you’re just a normal girl when you want to be, huh?>
Though she would offer no one else a false hope, Maxine did give herself a grin, just this once.
To say a machine believed in premonitions or beliefs was foolish, but she could recognise trends.
So, though she humoured herself today, she had a sense –
That this would be the last year she could end so gently.
”Take flight, the life gon’ bloom for the black knight –“
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<I wish to keep busy. This season’s schedule will get quite packed soon. The Shinobu may not have any interest in Winter, but it’s held in some regard in other regions. If the clan is meant to be networking, then we’ll have to prepare for that.>
<I get that, but you’re just doing extra jobs right now, not clearing your schedule. I’m not gonna tell you to take it easy, but don’t forget the rest of the world either.>
Bright lights, pine trees, fake smiles; shallow as a puddle and made of weak plastic. She could not care less. These weren’t the colours of the Western Lands, nor the colours of her creator’s creed. The Duchess – her Duchess – was above this, she was certain of it.
Yet, when the chairman spoke, she would answer. Someone had to organise these things. Buying decorations for a holiday she never took was a vapid duty, but it was a duty nonetheless. She wouldn’t offer transparent smiles, but she would respect the work of the employees all the same.
For she, too, waited for the peace after the work was done, and before the night –
<Well – in truth, there’s other reasons at hand. If you want time to yourself, you should earn it. Even as a machine. Especially as a machine.>
<You’re a terrible liar, despite your line of work. What’s the real motive here?>
<I need time off, too. For no party, but – those double experience and mission payout bonuses will only last a week. And, between four games, it’ll require strict management to be made as efficient as possible. Furthermore, there’ll be the new expansion for Lightyear Aces, which is – they’re finally adding galleons! After the season pass price was slashed, I was worried they’d drop that promise, but –>
<Forget I asked! Geez, you’re just a normal girl when you want to be, huh?>
Though she would offer no one else a false hope, Maxine did give herself a grin, just this once.
To say a machine believed in premonitions or beliefs was foolish, but she could recognise trends.
So, though she humoured herself today, she had a sense –
That this would be the last year she could end so gently.
”Take flight, the life gon’ bloom for the black knight –“
[403/150]