"Dirty jobs"

[STSF Seiben 0]

6½ hours after last sim

 

With a final sigh, Koga got up to his feet and surveyed the empty storage room. Flicking on some of the extra spot lights on hand, he made a final check of his surroundings. Indeed, nary a microbe of dust or dirt could be found anywhere. Checking the bottoms, the walls and anywhere else he could think of, Koga took a clean pair of white gloves he was given and ran his gloved finger on the floor -- the glove remained immaculately white.

 

It was intensive, exhausting labour, but Koga had seen his servants do it many times and took their lead, taking care to make circular cleaning motions with his toothbrush to effectively clean the room. Yes, it did take longer than it would if he had swept back and forth, but the circular motions was more efficient and effective at removing dust. If anything, when Koga wasn't being a stupid idiot, he was efficient and hard-working.

 

The work though tedious and somewhat exhausting was at least made bearable by being in good shape and taking periodic breaks to stretch -- no doubt maenak t'Ksa would not be too pleased with him, if she had to treat him for straining his back muscles whilst performing this task.

 

Moving onto the second job on his list, Koga began to starch the piles of cadets' graduation capes while also skimming through the ISD with cadets' questions. Luckily for him, the majority of the questions were relatively easy, consisting mostly of career advice, fighting tips for upcoming Dheno training or even questions about Koga's past experiences in the Keve'shrek ring.

 

Of course, some of the questions pertained to his recent PR troubles, but he answered those questions too to the best of his abilities and candidly as he could. Looking at the instructions on the bag of starch, Koga added just the right amount of the starch in ratio to the amount of capes in a bucket of water and began starching the capes.

 

Time past, and day quickly turned to night but finally, the last of the capes were starched and the last of the cadets' questions were answered. Storing the capes to where he was ordered to place them, he took a final look around and cleaned up the last bit of mess remaining, leaving the storage room spotless and dust-free.

 

Heading out of the room, he walked the corridor to where the guard on duty was. "I've finished my outlined tasks to the best of my abilities. I am hopeful it passes muster" he said, handing his cleaning supplies and ISD back to the guard. The guard at the desk followed Koga back to the room and took a look around. "Alright, looks good to me. I'll tell my boss that you've finished your jobs. He stepped out an hour ago, but should be back soon. Did au inform your XO of your completion?" asked the guard.

 

"Not yet" replied Koga, shaking his head. "I was just about to" The guard grunted acknowledgement and flicked off the lights before closing the door and heading back to his office. Koga followed the guard back to his desk. "Better do that right away before au forget. Menkha job, and for the record, au don't seem to me like the idiot the media currently portrays au as. It's been a slow couple of days in the news au know" .

 

The guard sat at his desk. "Anyway, I don't have anything else for au to do. Au are free to go home and rest. Please sign out at the bottom of this line" the guard said, sliding over an ISD with a guest log. Signing the log and providing a thumb print, Koga smiled and nodded.

 

"Hany'yyo. Ie, indeed, there's a big couple of days coming up. I best get some rest and clean myself up. Good-bye then" he said, waving at the nodding guard. Walking out of the retor college, Koga walked back to his flitter and strapped himself in and composed a message to t'Ksa informing the maenak of his completion of the tasks she had given him 13 hours earlier. Hitting send, the exhausted Rihan took off and headed back to his lakeside cabin for some much needed rest from his rather busy day, still not sure if he, or his counterparts in re-training faired worse in terms of Command staff reprimands.

[KhreRiovtRex 0]

At least she only had au cleaning and filing, she could have given au a shot!