"GeneWorks" was a bust. After four hours of explaining the services to a steady stream of potential customers, she had sold a grand total of:
Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. The big goose egg.
Not one stinking lousy damn customer.
"Well, this is certainly sucking the big time," said the sales-yoma as she clicked the "play" button and let her recording of her past session play to explain all the wonderful services that were available here. She wasn't the brightest of yoma, but also wasn't the dumbest. She didn't require a great deal of energy to survive, most donors would get a momentary bout of fatigue that would pass after five minutes or so, as long as she spread it out and wasn't too obvious about it. So she was feeding rather well, but it was just snacking while waiting for something to happen.
She wasn't an "energy harvester" or a "combat monster" yoma. She was an infiltrator-spy type. Kunzite had given her this opportunity, and it was beginning to look as if she'd end up either dead when Kunzite found out how well the plan was going, or she'd end up back in the secretarial pool. Bleah. Neither possibility struck her as being terribly desirable.
Her name was Otori, mainly because she liked the name.
So she looked over the crowd that seemed inclined only to ask questions and NOT BUY ANYTHING when she was asked YET ANOTHER STUPID QUESTION!
"Free samples? FREE SAMPLES?!" Otori glared at the girl who had asked.
"Yeah, if you had something besides these drawings, maybe some pictures, maybe you'd do better business," said her companion.
"YOU... hmmm," said Otori, considering that. "I see. Maybe a few photographs would work better. You might have a point there." Examples of the art that could be done. Something simple and without a great deal of Dark Taint to be noticeable. "Well, if you agree to a set of photos and perhaps could come back later to give your commentary for future prospects?"
There was some nods at that.
"Are you sure about this?" asked the second of the first.
"Why not? It's reversible, right?" asked the first.
"Of course," lied Otori.
"Then let's see what it's like," said:
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