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POSTED ON Feb 2, 2019 7:01:50 GMT

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Isra tapped the folder against her chin as she entered the bar. She had to admit, this was not the kind of thing she expected of her role. Then again, she did tell him she didn't care what he threw her way. She didn't take a seat as she walked up, choosing to stand for now.

"You do this often?" she wouldn't give him the folder just yet. She couldn't resists the chance to hold something hostage for a moment. "Or did you just need an excuse to say hello?"

Her smile was a little coy. her tone was genuinely curious.

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POSTED ON Feb 2, 2019 17:28:50 GMT

he hears her but fernando doesn't react. there's several pieces of paper, several spread sheets printed out and scattered along the bar counter. with pen in hand, he's scratching through several lines and scribbling down corrections where he sees fit. "at least three times a week. alcohol makes working over time more enjoyable," he comments idly. his distaste for working with pen and paper, as opposed to electronically, has become diluted by his habit for bar hopping.

"did you bring the status reports?"

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 7:01:38 GMT

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"perhaps." Isra peers at the many papers, taking glances at contents but never enough for the full paper. Just enough to try and get the gist of what he's working on. Ever curious.

Naturally the papers in the folder she holds are what he seeks but she still doesn't hand them over. "I imagine alcohol makes a lot of things easier to mull through." the woman is content to watch him, eyes tracking the movements of his hand as he scribbles.

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 7:18:58 GMT

the sheets under his thumbs are records of inventory levels and resource expenditures. it's just lines and lines of numbers and text, neatly formatted and sprawled across the paper. what he's looking at exactly is a mystery. he's dotting through it too quickly to comprehend by observation alone.

"perhaps?"

his eyes never leave the paper but his brow crease, furrowing as his expression darkens.

"it's a yes or no question, isra."

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 8:07:24 GMT

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They don't need to make sense they only need to be seen, he'll find in time that Isra has an exceptional memory that she is not inclined to advertise. The numbers float by and she wonders a bit but does not ask.

"Not if I decide it's not. I'm the one answering." and all he needs to do is turn to her anyway and he'll get his answer, it's tapping her lower lip in place of her finger over a mischrevious smile.

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"what kind of riddle are you--"

her lingering is enough to wane at his patience. with a scowl, fernando spares her a glance, an ounce of his attention, as he questions her with an accusatory tone. "you forgot it, didn't you?"

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 9:57:40 GMT

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The file moved behind her back.

"which file was it again?"

Her face is blank because of course she remembered it. She's not stupid. Not in the slightest.

She expects him to get grumpy.

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 10:08:51 GMT

"the status reports for the new cadet initiative and the audit of time cards for sergeants." fernando returns to his work until the realization hits him. slowly, begrudgingly, he turns to face her, eyes narrows, frowning. "you didn't actually forget it, did you?"

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 10:12:39 GMT

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"oh please" there is attitude she's not quite a master of in her smile. The fact he nearly feel for it almost enough to make her laugh.

"I'm better than that." the files returns from her back and she hands it to him. Amusement having earned him an easier route to recieving what he wanted.

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POSTED ON Feb 3, 2019 10:32:26 GMT

"great. so you did bring it." his reply is instant and he tries to hide the smug, matter-of-fact tone that comes with it. there was always the assumption that her ego wouldn't let him tarnish her competency and on that end it had worked well to play the dummy.

she hands over the files and fernando opens up the folder, touching his thumb against the perspiration of his glass to wet his finger before thumbing through each paper. he nods to himself and mumbles something before taking a few out and laying them along the counter top. with a soft sigh, he slouches over the bar stool, trying to cross reference the new papers against the old ones.

"if you want anything feel free to order with the bartender. it's under silph."

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POSTED ON Feb 4, 2019 2:28:25 GMT

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His too quick answer is suspicious but Isra does not dwell on it because it is not what matters. She's more interested in the next thing he says as he returns to his work.

She waves the bartender over, asking for something Generic as she lays claim to a stool next to her boss.

"This seems like it could be done faster." she observes, glancing at him. Partly to fill the silence and partly to see what he says.

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POSTED ON Feb 4, 2019 9:16:40 GMT

"you're telling me." fernando grumbles to himself, expressing his distaste for the medium. "the league is so archaic it's astounding anything gets done at all. the fact they refuse to share documents on the cloud is astounding. or maybe they just don't trust me. who knows?"

his scratch marks become more aggressive after the comment. it's only a few more before he retires the task, neatly stacking the papers back into their respective folders. he's earned himself a nice long drink. unfortunately, it's never that easy. a backpack that sits by his feet, propped against the counter itself, is what he reaches for next. he unzips it, pulling out a sleek, ultra thin laptop.

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POSTED ON Feb 4, 2019 9:21:51 GMT

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"Why?" about the league not wanting to use the 'cloud'. Isra was not well practiced with computers having been restricted from them most her life. She was still gathering her barings when it came to the electronic mess that was computers- as the silph would have learned the hard way in her first days with him.

The only saving grace was Isra asked questions and never had to ask then a second time.

Unless she was doing it to be obnoxious in the first place.

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POSTED ON Feb 4, 2019 9:54:18 GMT

"fear. a misplaced one that detracts from their progress."

fernando opens up the laptop and turns it on with a press of a button. it only takes a second to finished booting, a stark contrast to the desktop that isra has to use back in the office. while he's typing in his password and navigating through the various applications that open upon logging in, he takes his time to explain further, having long deemed her technically illiterate.

"instead of having to maintain hardware, you can hire a company that's sole purpose is to provide the infrastructure your organization needs. they maintain it, service it, and you use a remote connection to access their machines. that is the cloud."

a prompt on his laptop opens and fernando scans his eyes using the laptop's innate webcam.

"if there are any issues, your provider will have multiple locations that host the same hardware and have backups of your data. this is called redundancy. additionally, cloud services usually charge you for what you use. rather then having to pay to accommodate your max usage, you can scale what you're using in real time. this is called load balancing. most large organizations use it extensively."

the scan is successful and the screen disappears. spontaneously, a porygon appears on his screen and freely moves across it as fernando pulls up various documents.

"what they're afraid of is that since you can remote into it from an external location, that means that someone else can too. this can be mitigated if you use the proper security protocols but kaeor, the director of information technology, is a permission's prick. real asshole. he doesn't like incorporating anything he can't directly manage and have his hands on."

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