talk about it all going off at once! when i went in this morning, the smell had gone. completely. for a second, i thought i'd imagined the whole thing. the back room was cleaned, the papers stacked neatly in piles right around the walls. the centre of the room was empty. no leftovers.
i put down the coffee i'd brought in with me and stared. that creature must have been at it all night! had it been watching what i'd been doing, then carried on when i went home?
just at that moment, there were footsteps on the stairs.
my skin crawled
i turned.
but it was only one of the cash-room girls, skipping down the stairs and stopping in the main room. She stared at me, then past me at the creature's work.
"you've been busy." she announced brightly. "you'd hardly recognise the place!"
i just nodded. i didn't trust my voice to work right.
i didn't see the creature all day. Ms Simone texted me quite early to ask how things stood. we'd been on the phone last night and i'd told Her what i'd seen. understandably enough, She didn't believe me at first. after all, it isn't plausible, is it? weird, sub-human creatures, living in the basement of a bustling workplace in the city centre!
i'd decided that, if i encountered it again, i 'd take a picture of it. we texted all morning, me filling in the gaps between them by sifting through the papers, marrying them up with the correct folders.
elaine texted a couple of times too, but nothing really involved.
i posted a message to the Female Supremacy group. partly to answer something one of the other males had said, partly to identify myself within the group.
roll on tomorrow and another weekend at Ms Simone's!
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