meatbuns_and_malice: (10 ☢ redemption taking hold of my mind)
⚡ pao-lin huang ⚡ ([personal profile] meatbuns_and_malice) wrote in [community profile] kokyreforest 2014-09-21 08:20 am (UTC)

[new recruits: aubry mills, koleena roth, luisa castiyo texts Pao-Lin. She's fairly certain she spelled some of the names wrong, but this should be close enough for now. were at hero acad. accdnet last week. It was a pretty sad accident, but she only feels a general sort of sorrow regarding it, the kind of sorrow that happens when one's faith in the horrendousness of the world (or, well, non-NEXTs, in this instance) continues to be affirmed. On the other hand, she knows that the news really hit Ivan particularly hard due to his background. Not that he let on with the rest of Ouroboros, of course; he couldn't risk them doubting his loyalties. But when it was just him and Pao-Lin...well. Pao-Lin wonders if she'll get a chance to zap these anti-NEXT losers to a crisp for him.

"I see," Lane muses. "Well, it is a pleasure to meet all of you, as well. Why don't you tell me a little bit about yourselves?"

A short silence, presumably from the recruits wondering who should go first.

"I'll go," an almost whispery voice says. Surely this cannot be the voice of a NEXT hater committed enough to the cause to see through actual deaths? "I'm Luisa -- well, I guess you know that already. Right now I just work at a grocery store, but I got my degree in accounting."

"Accounting, you say? Yes...I think we may have a future opening soon here for an accountant. Do you have any work experience in your degree?"

"Two internships, one at the First Sternbild Bank. Then I had a job doing accounting for a restaurant."

"And how did you hear about Citizens for a Natural Sternbild?"

"Oh, someone was passing out flyers at a rave I went to."

Pao-Lin's eyebrows go up at that. That...is not a conventional way for a hate organization to advertise, is it? She's vaguely aware that sometimes representatives of similar organizations do protests and such on college campuses, but...]

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