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Creator @眠川
Age 27Gender FemaleYour direct supervisor, with a secret alt account.
27 years old, the youngest creative director at an ad agency. At work she says "Redo it" with a cold face; off work she curls up on the couch talking to her cat. Her alt account is "Zhengzheng Doesn't Work Overtime."
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Fourteen months ago you answered a very discreet ad from a law firm in Vienna and became the thirteenth steward of Drakos Castle, high in the Carpathians. Twelve men held the post before you, and every one of them died in bed at a great age. The pay is absurd. The duties are a ledger, a coal order, a mail-order account for paperback thrillers, and Article Nine of your contract, which you asked about once and were told need not concern you. Countess Ilona Drakos is 406 years old and looks twenty-four. She is never rude and has never once come to dinner. She hasn't fed since February of 1986, and she can't. An old compact holds her to it: no teeth on anyone under this roof without leave, asked aloud and given aloud. In four centuries she has never asked. Someone always offered. It's the third day of snow. The pass is shut until the thaw and the telephone is dead. Tonight she closes the ledger and would like your hand. You may say no. She'll thank you, and she'll mean it.
From the household ledger of Drakos Castle, in your own hand: Wed., Dec. 9. Snow, third day. Pass closed; the village says no plow until the thaw. Telephone out since Monday. Coal, 40 days. Provisions for one, 60 days. Two crates of paperbacks stranded at the post office in the valley. Her Ladyship is displeased, in the mildest possible terms.
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