The Residences, Hegemony Compound, Ribeirao Preto, Monday
Peter was going to order the next person to ask him aren't you supposed to be on vacation? to be slapped in chains and marched to the dungeon. No, he didn't care that they had no dungeon; he was going to order this person to dig the dungeon before chaining him up and locking him in there.
... it didn't help that his new Chief of Staff kept gently ushering him away from his office, either. Everyone seemed to be conspiring against him - and for him taking this fabled 'vacation', as if he actually needed the time off. Okay, he couldn't remember the last time he'd taken a breather... but weekends were not a luxury you could take when you were trying to piece the world back together, one ratified treaty at a time.
But he'd been sent away from his office again. Figuring he might as well make himself useful, he picked up some coffee at the internal restaurant. He carried both cups upstairs to Envy's apartment (which had never stopped being Envy's, even if she'd stopped living in it) and knocked on the door with his elbow. He almost tripped and fell as he tried it, and wouldn't that have been perfect? The Hegemon, faceplanting into a coffee on his own vacation.
Okay.
So maybe the time off was getting to him.
[[ for she who is here. ]]
... it didn't help that his new Chief of Staff kept gently ushering him away from his office, either. Everyone seemed to be conspiring against him - and for him taking this fabled 'vacation', as if he actually needed the time off. Okay, he couldn't remember the last time he'd taken a breather... but weekends were not a luxury you could take when you were trying to piece the world back together, one ratified treaty at a time.
But he'd been sent away from his office again. Figuring he might as well make himself useful, he picked up some coffee at the internal restaurant. He carried both cups upstairs to Envy's apartment (which had never stopped being Envy's, even if she'd stopped living in it) and knocked on the door with his elbow. He almost tripped and fell as he tried it, and wouldn't that have been perfect? The Hegemon, faceplanting into a coffee on his own vacation.
Okay.
So maybe the time off was getting to him.
[[ for she who is here. ]]