sootopolis is an odd city. uncomfortably so to tania. the whole place feels a bit like a precarious trap. underwater but not quite, underground but not quite. she looks through the window outside gavin's office and can't help imagining the trap springing.

water flooding in. great stone walls crumbling. fire, not because of anything about sootopolis specifically but because there's always fire when she imagines these things.

cities always burn.

she's still smelling smoke when she's finally let in to meet the man himself. she pretends it's just the cigarettes she smoked on the way here still clinging to her t-shirt.

when she enters the room she presents herself strongly (shoulders back, chest out, back straight) but with due submission (head tilted down, arms held behind her back): 'i am here to work, but that work is for you'.

it's body language she learned early on under THEO BECKETT .

'gavin,' she almost greets the man before her.

"sir," tania settles on instead, eyes respectfully on his desk instead of his face. in rocket, power does strange things to people -- who knows what familiarity might get her in this new land.

Cillian Quinn

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