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[lonegun]

Who: Rosalind and Elena
Status: Closed
When: 900am
Where: Outside Shin-Ra Company Headquarters and elsewhere inside
What: Rosalind arrives and goes by the book...

Rosalind slipped out of the car and made her way out of the public area of the parking garage and to the front of the Shin-Ra Company building. Thump, thump, thump - her leather boots sounded

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[rookienomore]

Inside the lobby, chaos reigned.

The staff had, predictably, not taken the President's promise of an extra thirty minutes of paid lunch as well as he thought they would. Elena was left to deal with the aftermath.

Generally, people were not fond of coming to work, finding they can't get into their offices, and then having to go back downstairs and stand in a queue to get their keycards redone. Now that they were into the second hour of this nonsense, the employees were even more restless than before...not to mention the people who ran the food court upstairs. They were losing money by the minute. And Elena's coffee was wearing off.

She swiped yet another card, typed in the appropriate clearance, and called for the next in line.

She was not being paid enough for this.

[lonegun]

Pushing one of the doors open, Rosalind entered the chaos and sighed softly as she promptly got into queue.

Her eyes scanned the lines and desks and then stopped on her sister. She kept a smiled tucked away as she moved with the line and smoothed the sleeves of her jacket. Rosalind was proud of her sister's efficiency as she watched her.

Stepping up, she cracked her neck slightly. "Hello, Elena." Rosalind greeted her sister with her usual crisp and a wee bit dark voice.

[rookienomore]

The work was mind numbing. Take an ID card, verify clearance, reprogram. Each person took less than a minute to process...but there were so many of them. Even with some of the security guards working, it was still going to take a lot longer than anticipated.

Dammit. This was going to push all of her work back yet again, and she was going to have to spend another night in front of her computer, wasn't she?

She didn't know how much longer she could take this.

She barely noticed the person in front of her. Her mind was on auto-pilot at this point. She just reached for a card that she never got, and didn't care who it belonged to...until she heard that voice.

Elena looked up and found herself staring at the big sister she had not seen in about...five years.

"Lindy."

[lonegun]

Her right hand slipped into the inside left breast pocket of her jacket just as Elena was reaching out. Rosalind looked her little sister over. Five years, she had changed quite a bit.

"You look well," Rosalind nodded as she pulled out her ID card. Tipping it back and forth between her index and middle fingers, she then reached out and placed it in her sister's hand.

This was one of the hard parts of working for Shin-Ra - blood-linked family within the same ranks.