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779. Lucas's More or Less Ordinary

778. Anneza's mom reflects...

777. Adam has a chat with Hannah's

776. Iridescent Sun: Aneeza's pain

775. Lucas Dreams...

774. Iridescent Sun: Beyond the Mir

773. Iridescent Sun: Flights of fan

772. Adam finally takes flight...

771. Iridescent Sun: What do little

770. Language, Lucas!

769. Melanie has a question...

768. Iridescent Sun: equations and

767. The aftermath at the Madisons'

766. Iridescent Sun: Clockwork car

765. Ricky weighs the options...

764. Iridescent Sun: Tick Tock expl

763. Revelation at the Madison hous

762. Angel of Chaos, Then and Now

761. Iridescent Sun: Mysterious clo

760. Lucas Tells Maxwell...

Iridescent Sun: Perfectly Normal. Sorta.

on 2012-11-04 20:30:24

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Space. The final frontier. The huge void in which...
Cue annoying cell phone ringing.

"Hello? Oh, hi. Sure, I'm free. Yeah, I'm... not home right now..." - Said Lucas, looking at the expanses of her plot on the friggin' Moon. - "...but I can check the e-mail and give you an estimate where I am. Just a moment, let me just, er, turn on the PC here..."

She went to the computer she had created in this place and willed it on and working, with the e-mail already open.

If only he knew... - She thought regarding her client.

"Yeah, here it is. Oh, yeah, the computer here is pretty fast. Anyways... Let's see... Here is your e-mail. Just a moment..."

Lucas willed her computer to tell her how much the document was worth under her usual rates to this customer. She proceeded to relay that to him.

"Yeah, it's not a big document. I can have it ready for you in an hour or so."

Provided no one asks me to save the world from Lovecraftian horrors. - She thought.

"Does that sound good?" - Said Lucas in a polite and friendly manner - "Okay, then. I'm starting it now. Sure. It's no problem at all, we free lances don't really have working hours. It's part of why I love my job, really. Okay. Bye-bye."

She hung up, sat on a couch she willed into existence, and began laughing her ass off.

Just now... - She thought, chuckling - Just now I noticed I'm living one hell of a double life. I wonder if I'll eventually get to tell a client I can't do work for them because I'm busy visiting Avalon, where my sword Excalibur was forged, at the request of Venus, to obtain an artifact to help American secret agents aid magical girls against a Lovecraftian hive mind bent on global destruction. - She began laughing harder to herself - Okay, that's it, I'm using this one on the next client that offers me any ridiculously low rates...

Satisfied with her new, ridiculous excuse to deal with the kind of client she would not mind losing, Lucas kept giggling as she began to do her work. Forty minutes later, she had worked on, finished and sent the document.

She had done so herself, as opposed to simply creating it via her local power, for three reasons.

First, for all her power within her plot of land, Lucas still didn't have nearly that amount of power outside it. While she could use a computer created in her plot to translate something, the product itself had to be the result of her natural work for it to go to Earth and not disappear. Even the flavor files she had given to Cecilia were made "permanent" with Neruite's personal help for that specific occasion.

Second, she was a professional. "Chaotic Neutral" though she usually was, she was quite "Lawful Good" indeed regarding some very specific things, her job being one of them.

Third, she hadn't really considered that possibility until after sending the work, but, remembering reasons one and two, she shrugged, didn't care, willed some sushi to appear, stretched her arms and wings, yawned and began playing a game on the Xbox she had created in her plot while eating.




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