Chapter 24: Development
Sonnet finished the book just after Mizuki went to sleep. For the rest of the night, she ran through some of the details of her revenge plan, as well as the design she had in mind for the new Chronos hyper-zoanoid. At 08:30, she woke Mizuki up and informed her that she would be leaving for work soon. She also told Mizuki that she could make use of her apartment, if Ran didn't let her stay there, until she heard from Sho or Agito.
"Do you think your plan will be possible today?" Mizuki asked.
"No," Sonnet replied, "Wait three days, I think it'll be possible by then."
"OK. What do you plan on doing today?"
"Finishing the design and specifications for the new zoanoid I've been employed to design, and then show Balcus. After that, I suspect I'll have some role in its development."
Sonnet then left a note for Ran, to inform her of what was going on, and then she left the apartment and returned to her own. She grabbed a towel from her airing cupboard, removed the clothes she had been wearing during the night and took a quick shower, before putting her work suit on, and heading for the Chronos Japan building.
When she arrived at the building she signed in, like the day before, and used the lift to reach her office. When she arrived at her office, she sat down at her desk and logged into her computer account to check her email. While the computer processed her login details, she adjusted her eyes to allow her to see infrared and looked around the office. The three cameras were still there and, as far as she could see, there were no recent heat traces in the room, she turned her eyes back to normal, and looked at her computer screen. She only had an email from Dr Balcus, informing her that time was of the essence. After reading that, Sonnet retrieved her design sketches, and continued from where she had left off the day before.
Around 12:30, she left her office and headed down to the canteen in the building. She might have been unable to eat, but she felt like a brief change of scenery. She sat in the canteen for about an hour, facing a window, watching other Chronos employees buy meals and drinks. Anyone who notices her would have simply seen a young woman staring out of a window. After approximately 57 minutes, she returned to her office, and started drawing her final design. Two hours later, she had finished the final sketch. Two and a-half hours after that, she had a computer model developed as well. She contacted Balcus to inform him of her progress, and was ordered to come to his office immediately.
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AN: Sorry this is so short. It's only intended as a brief fill in, before Sonnet's zoanoid design enters production.
Also, for those of you who are unclear, an airing cupboard is the same thing as a linen closet.
