diluvian | netzach catchall

[ that answers that. ]

Don't worry about it. The new place isn't for you unless you like pictures of yourself.

...yeah. Probably not for me, then, I don't think I need any.

[who would need pics of him anyway?]

Someone else can take your picture, too.

[ his friends? ]

Hod probably has a few at the library...? She was always making videos.

[so much video evidence of netzach skipping work, probably.]

The library? Is that where you work?

Yeah. I'm the librarian in charge of the arts floor.

Of the arts floor? That's the job you don't want to do?

[ she's judging a little. ]

...I like the part of my job that's studying art.

[it's just the rest of it? the parts that feel like actual work.]

And the busywork?

[ she can understand enough, but she's too strict with herself to not pursue her own definition of perfection. ]

[...

the silence is so telling.]

It gets done eventually...

How much do you get yelled at?

[waggling a hand,,]

Every other day, at least?

It's one thing to not care about what people think, but people nagging gets irritating.

You're telling me. I just got really good at tuning it out...

[ ... ]

You should shape up.

I didn't even ask for the job in the first place.

[if his boss wanted someone who would work, she should not have chosen netzach.]

You're hopeless.

[ even for being forced into a job in her not so humble opinion. ]

Are you employed for the rest of your time?

Depends on how things end, when we finish our work. My time was already supposed to be up.

[ huh. ]

Even before arriving here?

We were already supposed to be finished... when we were done, we were supposed to rest. But it got interrupted at the very end, and we were forced into the agreement we have now if we wanted to have any chance of fixing it.

I was okay with that being the end, before, but... guess it's a little ironic to figure out you wanna live after you were already supposed to be gone.

It's different going where you expect to be gone and being gone where you didn't expect to go.

[ she gets it. expectations can shape your experience. ]

Was it better back where you were?

[ even though he doesn't hide how much he didn't want to do anything. ]

...no, it wasn't.

[though after a moment, he continues:]

That's why we started that work to begin with, though, was to change it.

That's something you want, right? To improve your conditions?

[ but not enough to stop being a slacker. ]

I did. But what I ended up doing wasn't a job I ever asked for.

More than you expected or wanted, hm? Is it not worth it?

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