Workin 9-5 for the MAN

[ella_of_frell]

Who: Hattie, Ella, and Open
When: Friday 12/14 to Friday 12/21
Where: Uzushio Ryokan
Summary: An average day at work turns not so average when Hattie stops by for a day at the Uzushio both before and after being evicted from Ella's house.
Notes: First two threads are reserved for the two days Hattie visits Uzushio, but there will be an open thread for anyone else who wants to pop in.
Prose/Action: Will match~!

The Uzushio, while not really the typeof place Ella would have seen herself working (but really, she hadn't counted on having to find a place to work at all since returning to this land), wasn't really so bad. Her coworkers were easy to get along with, the employers were just as pleasant (if huge trolls - and not the literal kind), and even the clientele hadn't been causing any trouble. The work was simple but satsifying, and gave her plenty of time to coordinate things outside of work, such as the donation drives, and think in general.
All in all it was a pretty good day.
She would have reason enough to reevaluate that 'good' part of that thought in due time.

Comments

[ella_of_frell]

Close call? Yes. And maybe Ella was being unfair to Hattie - if she really had changed, great! But she wasn't willing to just believe her stepsister so easily. "So you're unfaithful." Ella quirked an eyebrow at the other girl.

"You claim you're already wed to Prince Char, why would you get engaged to someone here?" She was glad Char wasn't here. Even though she really wished she were home, to see if Hattie's claim was true.

That girl would be the worst sort of Queen.

[blondandperfect]

"Unfaithful?" Hattie replies, "I could see why you'd say that, but what happens here and what happens at home doesn't make the slightest bit of difference in the end. I've returned home once, and I did not remember a thing until I came back here."

"And besides, I can't help being in love! Really, I think I may finally understand how my mother felt, and why she had re-married so often. Love is such a fickle, magical thing, that drives people to do what seems like mad things to those whom have never been." Just replace 'love' with 'money'. "Not that you would ever understand, of course. Anyway, that's your answer. Love! It really is the greatest thing~. A true lady cannot live without it."

[ella_of_frell]

Ella just... just...facepalms. Hattie logic is truly staggering and she may have taken 1d12 sanity damage from that argument.

"Oh for the love of..." Oh I see what you did there. Well far be it for her to say anything to what poor soul is engaged to this shrew. "I hope you're very happy together." Because she seriously doubted the truth to your words about home, missy.

... she really doesn't want to know what her future is like if Hattie was being truthful.

She really. Really doesn't.

"I shouldn't keep you from your errands though, now should I?" Keep your love, Hattie. Ella wanted her freedom.

... I wish I had an icon like that. :(

[blondandperfect]

Hattie pauses a moment from her being happy to give Ella an accusing glare, "You know, Ella, you could at least pretend to mean that."

She pays a glance to her watch, though, which causes her to gasp in surprise, "Oh, yes, you're right! Well then, I had best get going, and it looks like my work here is done, right on schedule! Toodles, Ella~." she wiggles her fingers, then turns around to head right on out, apparently not needing a visit to the spa today. Out the door she goes!



After a moment, there's the sound of high-speed heels clacking, and Hattie leans back into the doorway, "By the way! I want a Prada bag for Christmas! Thank you~!" and she's off again.