At Dusk: Chapter 4
My Fictional Stories
An automatic door slid open and in came a someone you can clearly describe as having improper sleep. You can tell she was part of the development team of AISC because of her half-open eyelids. This is because AISC is super strict about time. You absolutely had to finish your project before the deadline or everyone in management would be with pitchforks and torches demanding you get it done, literally. You didn’t want to anger the mob. Nobody does. The gal in the door definitely doesn’t. Upon entering the moodily lit room, the automatic ceiling lamp lit up automatically unveiling previously dark areas. The towering obelisk reflected off the lights above and two large desks stood across the room. Both had PCs whose wires were in jumbles on the floor next to the black tower. Subtle whirs of the fans went on perpetually as it had always been. The sleepy person now sat on a rolling chair next to her desk muttering to herself. The clock on the wall struck 7 o’clock and the woman got right to work on the computer.
“Miss Verningham?” a man called out to her.
“What’s the matter?” she replied without taking her eyes out of her work.
“Amel wants to know the status of Project Obelisk”
“Tell him I need Mandy back and Big R to fix the dang fans.”
“He meant how much longer.”
“I need to tweak some settings from the last Alignment Check and field test. We’ve done many checks already so uh…”
“By tonight, I suppose?”
“If you get Mandy to do the check then I suppose so.”
“On my way”
AISC was divided into many small facilities with different projects. This structure was made possible with outsourcing. Project O’s development team consisted of Valia Verningham and Amanda Belven. Most of their work was outsourced so the team can be kept small. Big R was an engineer who works around the facility. His team worked on all AISC projects. The end of month was the deadline for Project Obelisk and miss V had been tweaking manual settings while Mandy was returning from a conference somewhere far away.
