by Ryn » Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:48 pm
Ryn is abysmal at apologizing. She knows this and that's why thinking about doing so makes her angry. At herself, at the world. It makes a snarl rise in her throat and her teeth itch. It makes her want to go and find something more deserving of her wrath than a sweaty man in a house of mating dances. But she also knows that she wants to be seen by Katarina and for that she has to figure this out. Drag this fish-hooked snarl of words from her throat. She did go and find something 'luxurious' in the hopes that maybe if she finds something good enough it can take the place of the words, but she does not have a lot of faith in what she found and she (carefully) curls her fingers over the small package wrapped in colorful paper sitting in her palm.
For once she is sitting at her desk and is about to stash the gift in one of the drawers when someone enters the room with an intent Ryn can feel search for her even before the man's attention fully settle son her. On instinct she shoves the present into her pocket and waits for the man to approach with a manila folder of paper-words in hand. He has a name, but Ryn cannot be bothered to memorize the face of every identically dressed drone in this hive of concrete and paper. He drops the folder on her desk but she catches it before it hits the surface and has a chance to meld into the scattered papers and files on her desk. She briefly wishes she'd paid more attention to it, not for the sake of staying on top of this, it's fairly obvious she will not, but to be able to tell if Katarina has stopped helping her keep it in check or not.
"Mission brief. Already dropped one off with your partner. No imminent danger, but it got flagged as urgent by the Analytics and Artifacts departments, so ch--" The 'chop-chop' dies on his lips at Ryn looking up at him from the file.
"I will go." she simply says. Maybe if there is something to tear apart she'll feel good enough afterwards to apologize. Flipping through the file on her way to the briefing room to wait for Katarina her hopefulness turns back to grumbling annoyance. No disappearances or sightings of 'cryptids', just reports of inexplicable items showing up in some town. The few pictures don't tell Ryn anything, just more human-wrought things she can't immediately discern the purpose of.