01/03. still playing harmless.

[icingkills]

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I feel like I've been initiated now--I've seen my first curse, and I was even affected by it a little. But surely curse is too dramatic a word for something like that? Actually, I enjoyed it. Seeing people adapt to different communications was...enlightening

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[sparkling_by]

Hmmm... so, you're a... secretary? With papers and numbers and death threats?

1/???

[icingkills]

 

2/4

[icingkills]

[It would be entirely irrational to be insulted by that. Really. It would. He's going to find it funny instead.]

[icingkills]

[...Mostly.]

[icingkills]

The death threats are true.

1/4

[sparkling_by]

I can't tell if that's cool or cold-blooded...

[sparkling_by]

Hold on... that sounds familiar...

[sparkling_by]

...like a current of sheer evil, looming horror and low-blood-pressure nightmares...

[sparkling_by]

Ah, for your employment test, would you mind expanding on what the word 'money' means to you? If it ends up as a more than 2,000 word-essay, we'll know they're blood-related for sure.

[icingkills]

I'm kidding, of course. Do you know someone who wouldn't be? I'm sorry to hear it.

Money...let's see. I'd have to say it's nice to have, but nothing more. What sort of employment am I being tested for? I'm not a secretary, by the way; I'm a diplomat.

[Or starting to regret claiming to be. It seemed like faking harmlessness was the rational option in a strange new place, but the City defies all reason.]