Trine Blackdragon woke up with some strange feeling that something is just not right. She opened her eyes and took a long look at the clock.
‘OMG’ – she shouted in panic – ‘It’s 9.45, I had overslept!’ – and instantly she jumped out of the bed.
The husband only covered his head with a pillow and kept sleeping.
Today was Ms. Blackdragon’s first day at work as an officer, and thus she really needed to be on time. So she didn’t even shower, just drank some still water from a plastic bottle, and dashed to work. It’s hard to believe, but sometimes miracles do happen. Trine jumped into her cubicle as a chased rabbit jumps into his hole. She tried to do a few things at one time: changing her trainers to stilettos, opening a laptop, and looking in a small mirror to assess how bad is her makeup. Suddenly…
‘Cough’, she heard someone, very close and not very friendly.
‘Trine’, said the Boss very officially. ‘This is your first day as an officer. I hope that you will not disappoint me’
‘Yes, sir. I will… I mean I won’t', said Trine, trying to stay conscious.
‘I hope you remember about the training?’, asked the Boss.
‘Yes, sir. Of course I remember’, said Trine. ‘Don’t panic, just don’t panic and all will be fine’, she thought. Then she opened her laptop.
‘Hello Jezz. Please save me!’, cried Trine in panic.
‘OK, it won’t be very difficult. Firstly: calm down. And secondly: please come to the conference room, my training for all new officers commences in 2 minutes’. Jezz was, as always, very helpful.
‘Ohh, I’m so sorry, how could I forgot?’, she was really upset.
‘That’s allright, really. Try to eat more carrots, I heard that in your age they’re very good for memory problems’ – said Jezz and grinned.
‘Cough’ – for a second Trine couldn’t catch her breath. Everyone knew that Jezz was even older than herself.
Trine jumped into the conference room at the last second, quickly sitting in a free chair – next to Jest, David and Jim.
‘Hi guys’ – she whispered.
‘Hi Trine’ – said Jim, and the training started.
‘All new officers need to take some courses. One of those is a very important training: ‘SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT YOUR WORKPLACE’. Jezz was doing great, but the topic was quite boring, so David ended up reading a book, Jim was drawing some sketches in his notebook, and Jest and Trine simply dozed off.
Trine woke up when David kicked her in a foot.
‘I’m listening’ – shouted Trine and jumped up from her chair. Surprisingly, Jezz was in extremely bad mood.
‘I blame the Wiki’ – he said.
All members of The Master Funeral Team were strongly addicted to one specific website, but Jest and Trine were clinical cases.
‘Ok, that was the theoretical part, now you must pass a practical test’ – said Jezz. ‘We will see each other in Kamadan, and I want to see only tights and dresses’.
‘I don’t have a dress’ – said David sadly.
Jezz scrutinized him. ‘A skirt will be fine’ said the trainer finally.
In Kamadan Jezz said: ‘Now guys, I wanna see all of you dancing on those wooden pipes – and remember what you have learned’.
After 1 hour, Jim and David passed with an ‘A’, Trine has had some problems, because when she got her first whisper – ‘Wanna cyber?’ – she didn’t know what to do. She thought for a while, and simply didn’t answer – and then she passed, getting an ‘A’ too.
‘Ok guys, lets go to a pub, we need to celebrate’, said David.
‘I think it may be difficult’, said Trine and pointed at Jester.
Jest stood in the middle of Kamadan, in a big circle of very angry men.
‘We can’t take all of her fans to the pub with us’, said Jim.
It was a very long in night in Kamadan, when all rune traders and dye traders finally went to sleep. One female voice was very clearly heard.
‘Yeah, reeeeeaaaally?! You look like a Dolyak guano! The one which hasn’t decomposed yet!’, shouted Jester passionately.
