The Mayor Settles In

[sumeshi]

(((Just thought it might be interesting to see how people react to him on their first meeting, and to establish how he ends up working with both Rin and Rai at once. So this is about his first couple days in town, where he goes and who he meets)))

It was a pleasant day by all accounts, warm, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. The type of day that tends to come right before everything starts to change. And it was going to. Oh yes, if he had any say in the matter, things were going to change. It wouldn't happen immediately, it would barely be detectable until he was done. But he could wait. All great things take time, after all. And this would be great. HE would be great. And after years of research and exploiting all kinds of connections, he had heard of this place. A remote little town surrounded by the sea on one side and countryside on the other, it had some VERY interesting secrets. And there was nothing he loved more than secrets.

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The Mayor looked around his new office, smiling in approval of the accomodations he'd had installed. Behind an antique mahogony desk was a huge, royal purple armchair, and on the east wall a phone was in it's cradle, with room service (and therefor food) on speed dial. A large window looked out over the town, giving him a view of everything that was now under his control. He chuckled to himself, thinking how fun this was going to be. In just a few minutes he'd be heading out, to his first "appointement" (if you could call a drop-in visit without any notice as such) with Rin, one of the two established leaders of this town. He'd heard many stories about her, and all of them sounded very... interesting. Yes indeed, this should be quite fun.

[Rinyrinri]

Lin sat in the waiting room. She hated going on tripps like these. The whole thing made her nervous, but she was repersenting Rin, so she couldn't show even a flec of uncertanty. Lin pulled on her skirt making sure it wasn't riding up the black pencil skirt hit her just above the knee and she didn't want anything to distract from what she was going to say.

"Lin smith?" She heard her name and got up heading through the dark wood doors. "Hello mr. Mayor, my name is Lin smith and I am here as a repersentative of Rin Sama. We Wanted to clear up any roomers you might have heard. Rin is working for the goverment in matters you need not be concerned with." Lin spoke with an athoritative tone and looked strait into the mayors strange eyes.

[sumeshi]

"Yes, I heard. Unfortunately, i am not in the business of talking to..." he paused, looking her up and down before returning his gaze to her face, "... representatives." The last word was said with a hint of disdain, in a not-so-subtle tone of superiority. He was the mayor of the town, albeit a very new one, and they sent him REPRESENTATIVES?! HIM? He wouldn't stand for it. Sooner or later, Rin would have to talk to him. And in the mean time, there was absolutely no way he was going to settle for this girl wearing a frilly skirt who his receptionist had, quite understandably in his opinion, initially mistaken for a maid.

[Rinyrinri]

Lin looked at him slightly intimidated; she could feel her position diminishing in the room. " as I'm sure you've heard Rin sama is a very busy person, you can't honestly expect her to come in person?" She stood next to the leather coated chair and didn't plan to sit. She had left her apron at home to make her look more respectiblebut she left the head band on without thinking. "If there is nothing else you require ..." she trailed off,and turned to the door.

[sumeshi]

"I do not REQUIRE anything. However, if you wish, you may inform your master that she would do well to seek audience with me. I have a great many talents, not the least of which being the ability to GET WHAT I WANT. She WILL come here to see me, no way around it. And when she does, be sure to tell her to bring me something to work with. SomeONE to be more specific. I have a present for her. Something she might enjoy. Suffice to say, despite our differences, we have something in common, and it would be beneficial to us both to make use of it. Now. You will return now, and tell her these things, or I will personally make your life in this town a living hell." He waved a dismisive hand at her, turning back to his computer to enter her name in his ever-growing database of the town's population.

Due to the very distinct split between the peoples of Rin's mansion, Rai's mansion, and the main center of Hateru, there were virtually no records on file and he found this extremely distressing. To right this catastrophic oversight by the previous administration, he was writing one from scratch. Every person he met, every name he heard, got typed into his laptop and tagged with all the information he could find on that person. He had only been here a couple of days so far, and already he had most of the town on file.