By then it was the next day, and Meredith had gone to work. Boredom looked around for a likely person to possess, and finally chose a man who worked nearby. So he jumped into his body, and walked into Meredith's cubicle. In an attempt to become further distracted from her work, Meredith was extremely willing to talk. And they did. Boredom was ecstatic, he had finally found someone with whom he could have a real conversation, her topic of discussion jumped around as much as his. Every day at work he would meet her and they would talk. But after a while he didn't feel that just talking with her was enough. He wanted her to admire him, and he decided to use his powers.
"Guess what? I'm really the fiend of Boredom." Being a curse and all he didn't have a lot of practice with breaking information gently, and boredom is never subtle.
"Uh huh." Just being perpetually uninterested did not make her stupid, or insane, and their former conversations hadn't gotten beyond weather and food preferences. He had certainly never mentioned being crazy. She calmly reached for the phone to call security.
"No honestly!" Boredom said, sensing skepticism. "Here watch!" He walked into the hallway, beckoning for her to follow. She decided to see what he was going to do, he didn't seem dangerous, and it might be funny.
Boredom led the way into a huge room that was divided into different sections for meetings. All the separators were made of glass so that you could see into the conference rooms. Through the glass Boredom and Meredith saw lots of people, all talking and taking notes furiously fast. Boredom's absence had affected the business world as well, all of the employers were completely attentive. Boredom floated out of the man he was possessing, and quickly flew through the room. In his trail people began to stop listening or taking notes and began to fidget. People presenting forgot what they were talking about and didn't care. One entire table of people collectively fell asleep. Boredom returned to the man he was possessing, who was currently staring listlessly into space, and Meredith who had a slightly perplexed look. He quickly re-possessed the man, and turned to her. "I told you so!"
"Oh." She said absently. "That's cool." Apparently ennui is a dampener on shock.
"I'm a fiend." He explained as they walked to Meredith's home. "One of the curses that Pandora unleashed onto the world. It's my job to bore everybody."
"How does it pay?" She interrupted quickly.
"Pretty bad on an hourly rate, considering it's a 24/7. I do it more for job satisfaction. Any ways so I've been perfectly happy doing to for a few million years. But then I met you, and it all changed. You are the most beautifully bored person in the world. I will do anything you want, just please stay with me forever!"
"Anything?" Meredith asked. Now Boredom knew that promising to do anything wasn't a smart thing to do, history not to mention mythology is full of cases where saying that went bad. But he didn't care.
"Yes, anything!"
"Well then." She thought for a few minutes, as they went up the stairs to her apartment. "I know what I want. I wish to be fascinated by something. It seems like everyone has something that they are interested in, why not me?"
And of course this is one thing that Boredom can't do. He is Boredom in itself, and she was the most incredibly uninterested person in the world. But he didn't care, he'd promised and if he did it he could live with her forever.
