[log] Nazna, Tasha
Title: Change
Characters: Nazna (kendraxplague), Tasha (shinigamikender)
Timeline: One month before Emilio's surgery
Rating: G
Summary: Nazna wants a change. Again.
Tasha hummed to herself, peering in labs as she went. Technically, she was still on maid duty, working away at keeping the small laboratory neat and clean despite Nazna's best efforts to make it not so.
It wasn't much of a surprise when she finally located the other woman, though. Tasha neatly folded her hands behind her back as she leaned into the small lab near the back of the building, frowning curiously at her mentor and employer.
"I haven't finished with those dishes, yet," she coughed.
Nazna was in one of her notorious moods again. There was something not quite right -- nothing was ever quite right in her eyes -- though she could hardly understand what.
"I'm aware," she said without looking up at Tasha as she leaned over the sink, picking up one dirty dish after another, inspecting each as though she hadn't heard or understood the maid at all.
She was at it again, lost in her own head and not paying a wit of attention to the slight figured maid. Honestly, how did Nazna expect to get anything done around here if she kept messing up Tasha and the others' work.
"Naaaazna," she prodded, setting her hands neatly on her hips, "I haven't even disposed of the samples in them. You shouldn't go messing around in them without gloves."
Nazna glanced at Tasha finally. "You're correct," she said. "I'm not setting a particularly good example." She dropped the dishes back in the sink, focusing on her employee.
"We need to do something different," she said quite abruptly. "We need to expand Gemini Laboratory."
Tasha was drawn in with no shortness of curiosity at the words Nazna spoke. Expand the laboratory? But they were already huge, not to mention just a little short on staff for such a large operation as they were.
"What do you mean, Miss? I mean we already added that expansion on the west end a couple months back..." she hesitated.
"No, no," Nazna responded brusquely. "Not that kind of expansion, Tasha. I mean ... expanding our services, our talents. We need something new, something fresh, to stave away the boredom when the other parts of Gemini Laboratory are stagnant."
Whimsical? Perhaps. But Nazna honestly thought they were in need of a change, of improvement.
"But, we do so much already, miss!" Tasha protested, biting her lip in confusion. They had specialists in nearly every field of modern science at Nazna's beck and command right here, ready to follow whatever whim she had, scientific or otherwise.
"Whatever else could we do without hiring more staff?"
She turned to Tasha, as though unused to being questioned. This was true, as well as she seemed to just realise that Tasha was around, still talking to her.
"We can always hire more staff," she replied absent-mindedly. "And Angelle still has no particular purpose, though she has more than proven herself worthy."
"A project with Angelle, then?" Tasha's voice took on an almost hopeful lit. The little girl was definitely an unexplored resource for the staff at Gemini and Tasha was certain that, with Nazna in charge, it would only be beneficial to the girl.
"Perhaps," Nazna said, still seeming very distracted. The scientist didn't know what she wanted to do; all she knew was that it had to be something different. She was feeling antsy again, anxious about something or other. She did not like staying with the same functions all the time.
"I will have to think on it, Tasha," she said, finally snapping out of her mood. "Something must be done; something new, something to keep us busy while nothing else does."
She hesitated, then smiled, that slow, lopsided smile of hers that never seemed to be particularly pleasant. "But for now," she said, "just change the curtains."
Characters: Nazna (kendraxplague), Tasha (shinigamikender)
Timeline: One month before Emilio's surgery
Rating: G
Summary: Nazna wants a change. Again.
Tasha hummed to herself, peering in labs as she went. Technically, she was still on maid duty, working away at keeping the small laboratory neat and clean despite Nazna's best efforts to make it not so.
It wasn't much of a surprise when she finally located the other woman, though. Tasha neatly folded her hands behind her back as she leaned into the small lab near the back of the building, frowning curiously at her mentor and employer.
"I haven't finished with those dishes, yet," she coughed.
Nazna was in one of her notorious moods again. There was something not quite right -- nothing was ever quite right in her eyes -- though she could hardly understand what.
"I'm aware," she said without looking up at Tasha as she leaned over the sink, picking up one dirty dish after another, inspecting each as though she hadn't heard or understood the maid at all.
She was at it again, lost in her own head and not paying a wit of attention to the slight figured maid. Honestly, how did Nazna expect to get anything done around here if she kept messing up Tasha and the others' work.
"Naaaazna," she prodded, setting her hands neatly on her hips, "I haven't even disposed of the samples in them. You shouldn't go messing around in them without gloves."
Nazna glanced at Tasha finally. "You're correct," she said. "I'm not setting a particularly good example." She dropped the dishes back in the sink, focusing on her employee.
"We need to do something different," she said quite abruptly. "We need to expand Gemini Laboratory."
Tasha was drawn in with no shortness of curiosity at the words Nazna spoke. Expand the laboratory? But they were already huge, not to mention just a little short on staff for such a large operation as they were.
"What do you mean, Miss? I mean we already added that expansion on the west end a couple months back..." she hesitated.
"No, no," Nazna responded brusquely. "Not that kind of expansion, Tasha. I mean ... expanding our services, our talents. We need something new, something fresh, to stave away the boredom when the other parts of Gemini Laboratory are stagnant."
Whimsical? Perhaps. But Nazna honestly thought they were in need of a change, of improvement.
"But, we do so much already, miss!" Tasha protested, biting her lip in confusion. They had specialists in nearly every field of modern science at Nazna's beck and command right here, ready to follow whatever whim she had, scientific or otherwise.
"Whatever else could we do without hiring more staff?"
She turned to Tasha, as though unused to being questioned. This was true, as well as she seemed to just realise that Tasha was around, still talking to her.
"We can always hire more staff," she replied absent-mindedly. "And Angelle still has no particular purpose, though she has more than proven herself worthy."
"A project with Angelle, then?" Tasha's voice took on an almost hopeful lit. The little girl was definitely an unexplored resource for the staff at Gemini and Tasha was certain that, with Nazna in charge, it would only be beneficial to the girl.
"Perhaps," Nazna said, still seeming very distracted. The scientist didn't know what she wanted to do; all she knew was that it had to be something different. She was feeling antsy again, anxious about something or other. She did not like staying with the same functions all the time.
"I will have to think on it, Tasha," she said, finally snapping out of her mood. "Something must be done; something new, something to keep us busy while nothing else does."
She hesitated, then smiled, that slow, lopsided smile of hers that never seemed to be particularly pleasant. "But for now," she said, "just change the curtains."