She hates her life. It's spring and she's digging a latrine when she should be home with her baby and if she deserts and is lucky enough not to just be shot for that then in a month she'll abruptly cease to have a baby.
Shovel bites dirt. Dirt goes in pile around the red flag. And repeat, and repeat.
"The other one had both of those and also No Sweeter Flower, which is honestly my favorite."
Blush blush blush. "Well, I think so, but I've never really had a chance to get a second opinion about it...I mean, not that I've never sung it in front of anyone before, but my mother is tone-deaf and my dad doesn't care about music and drunk coworkers don't count, they say I sound good but they also say that about Safi and she sounds like a lemur gargling ice cubes."
"At least being pretty is a better reason for people to overestimate you than them being drunk."
"You're cute too! Especially when you relax, you looked super stressed out before."
"Ahh, yeah, it's been insane at work lately, there's this rumor that one of the senior analysts is transferring to a different location and they're gonna promote someone to take her place and there's this huge project with way too short a deadline and nobody wants to be the one whose fault it is if it collapses horribly."
"Yeah...I don't like my job much, to be honest, this is the first time something like this in particular has happened but it's not the first raw steak they've slapped us upside the head with. I'd quit in a heartbeat if it didn't pay so well."
"Not around here. If it gets to the point where I hate my job more than I hate moving I might quit."
"Not everyone hates it as much as I do, but it's pretty obnoxious. You have to pack up everything you own, and if something goes missing you have to figure out whether you already packed it or if you have to find it and pack it, and then when you get to the new place you have to figure out where everything goes all over again with the new layout, and until you're completely unpacked you can never be sure of finding what you need when you need it, and then for me I have a hard time sleeping in unfamiliar places, and it's not so bad for a week or two on vacation but it takes long enough for me to feel settled in a new place that I'm horribly sleep deprived for several days."
"Nah, another block is no big deal. I should get a storage locker or something outside the district maybe."
"Oh, uh, I don't know a lot about red districts or anything so maybe there's a better one near another exit, if there are other exits, but I do know this one place that's pretty close to where we met."
He beams at her. "I'd like that."
A new pink-violet message pops up in front of her:
A skill has been created by a special action! Wearing absolutely nothing all over the city has created the Bare Body skill.
Info // Skills // Bare Body
Bare Body: Lvl 1, 0/200sp
When one truly has springtime in the soul, it doesn't matter much what the weather is like on the outside. Reduce the negative effects of wearing less clothing than the environment would call for by 0.5*ERO%
Subskill: Foot Fetish Lvl 1, 0/200sp
Reduce any negative effects of not wearing anything on your feet by a further 0.1*ERO%
It's kind of hard to read while she walks and not be conspicuous about it! She covers it with a spontaneous barefoot twirl.
Karaoke place!
He pays for their room and then queues up Bend the Rules, winking at her.
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