✿三十二

[scentofbauhinia]

[Hong Kong's first day at his new job as a banker. Yes, being a barber was interesting, but this is relevant to his interests and much more of the kind of thing he's used to.

In other words: money.

You can find him in his office at the bank, wearing what is probably a horribly expensive suit. Which he's wearing in a rather obvious triad-esque fashion

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[sanctusdei]

[Theo is now a banker, infuriated at the loss of his job at the library. Sure, the library sucked but it was quiet, and he could get away with reading his own books there. But the bank? UGH. He's been snapping at customers all day.

He passes by your desk... and then stops and backs up. being from 1948, he's never seen a laptop before and... what the hell is going on there?]

[scentofbauhinia]

[still on the phone, but he notices the newcomer and the staring at the laptop

and shrugs.] ...It's an art film.

[fff sure it is. though he doesn't seem embarrassed in the slightest of course]

[sanctusdei]

[JUST STARING. There are so many questions here. Instead he just smirks.]

Yeah. Art. However you wanna justify it.

Where the hell did you get a TV like that?

[scentofbauhinia]

Yep. [shrugs as he hangs up]

It's actually a computer.

Got it as a regain.

[sanctusdei]

That's a computer? [I-It's so tiny. He thinks you're lying.] A minature computer that shows porn.

[scentofbauhinia]

Yep. S'called a laptop.

[either this guy is an alien or something, or-] Are you from the past or something?

[sanctusdei]

[He raises an eyebrow.] That's relative in a place like this, isn't it? I came here from 1948.

[scentofbauhinia]

Figures.

I'm from 2010. [he gestures to the laptop again]

These are really common in my time.

[sanctusdei]

Hnn. Really.

[That video has him torn between teenage curiosity and delicate 1940s sensesibilities.

He has another question for you though.]

Have you worked in this bank long? Is it always this goddamn frustrating?

[scentofbauhinia]

[hahaha he can understand. he was around in the 1940s after all] No. Just started.

I was working in the barbershop before. Weird how they just switched me.

[sanctusdei]

They did the same damn thing to me! One day I'm working in the library, the next they call me to congratulate me on my new job here. The library might have sucked, but at least it was quiet. Typical Mayfield bullshit...

[scentofbauhinia]

S'not so bad if you just stay in your office.

Not like we actually have to do a lot, except make sure the Mayor gets cash. Not that I agree with that, but y'know.

[sanctusdei]

Yeah. I don't want to get droned either. But what the fuck does money get someone in a town like this anyway? Tch.

Though I almost wonder how much embezellment one could get away with her before Grady takes notice.

[scentofbauhinia]

[someone's triad side has already been thinking about this] Probably wouldn't hurt to test the waters a bit.

[sanctusdei]

See how long it can go on before you get droned? Hnn.

[scentofbauhinia]

Don't have a whole lot to lose.

Who's to say a drone will even notice if we just raid their accounts and stuff?