The Seamstress and The Wolf (Closed | Victoria)

The ancient one looked over her reading glasses at the door separating her from the younger female across from her. After fifteen years the girl still made that mistake? A sigh went through her as she removed her glasses and smoothed her pants. "Enter."

A short command. Easily understood and hard to misinterpret if not impossible. As the younger woman came in, bowed and seated herself Victoria took quick notice of the rigidity of her movements. Nervousness in all likely hood. Recently, Vic had found herself taking more and more notice of the feelings and emotions of those surrounding her. Perhaps the breaking of her emotional walls in the presence of Alexander, whom she'd heard had swapped divisions, had caused her to start seeing a bit beyond herself? Whatever brought this change about was one matter the matter at hand was this girl, her future and what she, Victoria, could for her as her superior officer. A few things needed addressing first...

"Ms. Amaya," the wolf smiled an almost toothy grin as she rose barely flashing but a hint of the fangs she held within her maw. "If memory serves, at the little dinner gathering I hosted not long ago you mentioned being with us here in the fifth for what was it? Fifteen years?" Another almost smile as the blond reached her full height. She would be gentle. Or as gentle as she could be when protocol for addressing officers wasn't followed. 'In that time I know you've reported to a superiors office at least once. There is almost no chance you've not. At that time did you approach the door much the same as you did mine? No addressing the occupant within? No calling them by seat or title? No stating your name and announcing your reason for reporting?"

She'd begun to pace behind her desk not looking at the younger female instead preferring to stare at the ceiling of the office. "I find it hard to believe you, when called to an academy instructors office during your academy training, would do what you just did." She took a deep breath and exhaled with a soft huff before putting her eyes on the younger female for the first time, "Thats not the reason I called you here today. In fact, I hadn't planned on lecturing you on proper military decorum in the first place, but, it is and officers job to correct mistakes when they present themselves so as to prevent the entire army from becoming nothing but a band of thugs."

Victoria retook her seat and continued, "I called you here because I find myself in need of an assistant. As the most experienced officer within this division it falls upon me, with our present absence of a senior training officer in the third seat, to ensure our men and women are receiving proper training in their preferred modes of combat and that those recovering from injury do no overdo it when they return to training. Normally the third seat officer would do this by reaching out the unseated specialized training officers. At present we lack a sword master so i cannot even call a general meeting between myself and the other two training officers to handle this. So i find myself in need of someone to assist me in gathering training data from the other training officer and give me a general idea of where our swordsmen are in terms of skill and who needs help and with what."

The wolf leaned back in her chair and smiled some. "Thats where you come in. You've been here long enough to be a well established member. You've got combat experience. The most recent invasion cements that fact solidly within my mind, in fact. So, really all I need to do is tell you that I'm promoting you to my assistant position and thats that. However..." she stopped and leaned in. Her elbows came to rest on the desktop. her fingers intertwined and her chin came to rest lightly on her index fingers and a nearly malicious smile came across her face, "You can refuse. Come up with some excuse for not wanting hands on, first hand officers training and the chance to work side by side with the gotei's longest serving member and the Fifths Wolf. I can't say that it will prevent you from advancing but I can't promise you it wont either. I also can't promise you wont find yourself with more duty work or more and more on Earth patrols. I also can't say that those patrols won't be through known hot zones."

A tense silence filled the room as the wolf watched the younger's reaction. Sitting back the wolf smiled softly once the threatening posture and tone gone from her as she smiled warmly like a mother. "So... whats your answer?" 

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