( VOICE )

[volcanisms]

[ the guide turns on with a clatter. obviously someone has dropped it. ]

Ah, damn it -- !

Hey you, get back to hanging those lights!

I'm done already.

They aren't straight!

Yes they are.

Get back up there and hang them properly!

No, they're fine!

Nobody is going to want to do business in my store because of the shoddy work you did!They're

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[nicebruise]

You did the right thing. Just because he's your boss, he has no right to yell at you like that.

[volcanisms]

I guess...

[nicebruise]

It's better to walk away then to make the problem worse by arguing back.

[volcanisms]

That's why I left.

[nicebruise]

I would have done the same thing in your situation.

[volcanisms]

Oh... really?

[ uguu you are a nice stranger... ]

[nicebruise]

Yes. unless I was truly in the wrong, though it doesn't sound like you are.

[volcanisms]

Th-thanks? I don't know, there really wasn't anything I could do about the lights...

[nicebruise]

I believe you. One can't make them straighter than straight. That's physically impossible.

[volcanisms]

Yeah. Exactly.

By the way, um, what's your name?

[nicebruise]

Oh, sorry I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Keiko Yukimura, but Keiko is fine.

[volcanisms]

Pretty name... Oh, no. It's okay.

I'm Iceland.

[nicebruise]

Thanks, I don't hear that often.

Iceland? Is that some sort of nickname?

[volcanisms]

No, it's my real name.

[nicebruise]

Oh, I see. [she's just thinking His parents must be odd to name him after a country]

[volcanisms]

Just don't think much about it.

[ like hell he's going to try and explain how he is a country. again. ]