Redemption
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10/22/2025, 10:20:51 AM
No.6321592
You are Cecily, in charge of a team of seamstresses, and one of your subordinates hasn't shown up to work.
"Duvole hasn't come today," you tell the director seamstress.
"That girl... We have 200 jackets due tomorrow, and she skips? Ain't no better than her drunk of a father," she scowls.
As you turn to leave, you frown. She isn't the best, but she is a hard worker. Whenever she didn't come, she had a good reason. You wonder what happened to her. Could it be her father's illness that she mentioned last time?
This thought leaves you soon. You rejoin your team at the bench and get to work, practiced motions shifting the cloth, sewing it together to create a greater whole. The workshop is noisy, the other teams gossipping between themselves.
"I saw Vivy at the market today with her kid and husband, whatever his name," Rose says nonchalantly, and so it begins.
"Really? I thought he'd run away. Didn't strike me as the reliable sort," another girl chuckles.
"Must've struck gold. Nice life she has, get knocked up and catch a husband to take care of everything past that."
"I would've like that!" Another voice, mocking, sneering. "But there's just no good men left. My beauty is wasted on all those clods! If just a single one showed up, I'd snatch him and we'd have such cute children..."
"Yours? Cute? Don't make me laugh. Mine, on the other hand-"
"What about you, Cecily? Anyone you fancy? I heard you've been eyeing that handsome clerk, Devron? Devon? I can never remember his name-"
"Focus on your work," you say coldly. Instantly, there is only the quiet shuffling of clothes and threads, guided by needles. At your bench, at least.
There's no point answering this. You know already that anything you say, they will twist and laugh at behind your back.
You've got no time to go after men. Your little brothers and sisters have only you as support, ever since your parents died. The eldest ones have already begun apprenticeship at workshops, but the burden of feeding a big family is still mostly on you. Any time spent dating would be better spent working extra hours.
Although... maybe you can make time to visit Duvole later.
For now, you follow your own advice and continue sewing, letting work engross you.
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"Duvole hasn't come today," you tell the director seamstress.
"That girl... We have 200 jackets due tomorrow, and she skips? Ain't no better than her drunk of a father," she scowls.
As you turn to leave, you frown. She isn't the best, but she is a hard worker. Whenever she didn't come, she had a good reason. You wonder what happened to her. Could it be her father's illness that she mentioned last time?
This thought leaves you soon. You rejoin your team at the bench and get to work, practiced motions shifting the cloth, sewing it together to create a greater whole. The workshop is noisy, the other teams gossipping between themselves.
"I saw Vivy at the market today with her kid and husband, whatever his name," Rose says nonchalantly, and so it begins.
"Really? I thought he'd run away. Didn't strike me as the reliable sort," another girl chuckles.
"Must've struck gold. Nice life she has, get knocked up and catch a husband to take care of everything past that."
"I would've like that!" Another voice, mocking, sneering. "But there's just no good men left. My beauty is wasted on all those clods! If just a single one showed up, I'd snatch him and we'd have such cute children..."
"Yours? Cute? Don't make me laugh. Mine, on the other hand-"
"What about you, Cecily? Anyone you fancy? I heard you've been eyeing that handsome clerk, Devron? Devon? I can never remember his name-"
"Focus on your work," you say coldly. Instantly, there is only the quiet shuffling of clothes and threads, guided by needles. At your bench, at least.
There's no point answering this. You know already that anything you say, they will twist and laugh at behind your back.
You've got no time to go after men. Your little brothers and sisters have only you as support, ever since your parents died. The eldest ones have already begun apprenticeship at workshops, but the burden of feeding a big family is still mostly on you. Any time spent dating would be better spent working extra hours.
Although... maybe you can make time to visit Duvole later.
For now, you follow your own advice and continue sewing, letting work engross you.
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