10 Oix 4385: Fine, Fine, I'll Investigate

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I'm starting to see the appeal of time magic that makes time pass faster instead of slower because I really wouldn't mind skipping all of this month. Not that I'm not still Delight-in-Surprise but I think I'll be Even-More-Delight-in-Second-Fall.

The ice-dance performance had already started AND was sold out so I gave up and went investigating like the gods and Glory-worry and all my extra-dimensional friends obviously want me to.

I started at the furstyling guild. The clerk on duty didn't want to help me but I bribed him with a cup of frozen honey-hosh mash. That's not much of a bribe but I think it's only TOO HOT that was making him useless.

After a few bites, he said, "Mmmm-mmmm let me get your file." He came back with it a ninth of an hour later and I held out my hands for it. He held it to his chest. "I'm not supposed to let you see it."

"... will you if I get you another frozen mash?"

"... No, I'm really not allowed to. Sorry. I can tell you why they sent you the testing invitation, though." The clerk stopped hugging the file so he could leaf through it, although he still held it so I couldn't see.

"Oh all right why did they?"

"It says your work was recommended by a member of cabinet. Two masters investigated and deemed you worthy of testing."

"A member of cabinet who?"

"Lady Kroove."

"... but I don't even know her I'm pretty sure I've never done furstyling for her why would she recommend me?"

"Maybe she liked a style you did for someone else?"

"... is this the way you normally get an invitation to test?"

"No."

"Oh."

He added hastily, "I don't know that there is a usual way. Only a couple of people get invited to test each year, if that."

"... this is not really making me feel like my invitation is a perfectly normal thing that I shouldn't be at all surprised about."


"You should be surprised! And honored! It's the highest compliment the guild can pay. Other than the part where they make you an actual master, that is."

"So who were the masters who investigated and said I qualified for the test?" I asked.

He consulted the folder. "Master Angelic-Falls and Mistress Scarletbloom."

I don't know Angelic-Falls but I've met Scarletbloom. She's co-proprietor of Lush, Luxurious, and Lovely.

... I guess I should have gone there when she was on shift?