Employee of the Month

[Corile]

She was surprised at the number of security personnel in the library itself. The largest such institution back on Crete, the library near a small town of Alexandria, had barely any, and was mostly run by monks. Shortly before the admiral came in, she had browsed through the shelves and found a copy of selected Aesop's Fables. She took it to the table nearby and browsed through it. She was familiar with most of them, having read them in Greek several times in her youth, and just to kill time she tried to deduce the meaning of individual words of the French edition — and mostly failing, as she hadn't picked up much of the language during her time in Gallia.

The words over her shoulder interrupted the exercise. She glanced at their source, and recognising the face that she had seen a few times already in comms, closed the book and stood up. "Admiral," she nodded in greeting and pointed at the book. "Magical how our cultures can somehow still engage with each other, across thousands of years of time and space..."

She put the book away back on the shelf that she took it from and turned back towards the admiral, transitioning from her scholarly demeanour to a more military one, since she remembered that she used to hold the equal rank to the Admiral himself, albeit in a different navy. "I'm grateful you could make the time," she put her hands behind back.

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