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Chapter Eight

"Lovebirds?! What the hell have you been drinking?!" Holly's face was turning a very nice shade of red. Sort of like the luminous red that you get on traffic lights. Foaly just grinned. He watched Julius's reflection in his monitor. If looks could kill. Stiffling his smile, he turned round.

"Well seeing as the two of you have been standing here, flirting, for the last, " he glanced at his watch, "10 minutes is it? I assumed you were going out." Holly glared at him indignantly, muttering something about idiots. Root didn't say a word. Just looked at him. Silently. The doors gave a peumanic hiss as they slid open, and an angry looking Vinyaya stormed in. She sat down on the sofa glaring at Root. He attempted an innocent smile, and failed rather miserably.

"Why are you in work?" She sounded incredibly calm, but the annoyance on her face was somewhat obvious.

"Short didn't end up going home, so I thought I should give her a lift, seeing as she was kind enough to baby-sit me," slight annoyance crossed Root's face but he continued. "And seeing as the stack of paperwork in my office is currently bigger than that Mud Mountain, Butler is it? I thought I should at least attempt to finish it."

Vinyaya continued to glare at him.

"I see."

She looked incredibly disapproving, reminding Holly of what her mother looked like when she found out Kit was seeing Trouble. She'd soon eased up though, right after she'd met Mrs Kelp. Carmen Short liked Mrs Kelp. They were *very* alike. Fiery personalities and a slap you didn't want to be on the recieving end of. Vinyaya's long dark hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and her dark eyes were softening. She had a slight latino look about her, usually intimidating to the trainees she was forced to teach to fly the pods. "I suppose you didn't have much choice really, but you're taking the rest of the week off. Clarke and Read can deal with any paperwork you have, they don't pull their weight enough around here anyway. Spend all their time attempting to chat up Frond. I suppose I should at least be grateful she's smart enough to avoid them; when possible, anyway. And Foaly, while I'm here, Lope asked me to find out your name."

Foaly looked at her. "My name's Foaly."

"No, your real name, not a nickname."

Foaly rose an eye brow. "Adam Oaks. If he decides to call me it, I won't answer though. No one called me Adam. Why?"

"He bet me a tenner you wouldn't tell me." She grinned before heading out.

Foaly shook his head. He really was the only normal one around here. He adjusted his hat. Holly and Julius flirting, while pretending not too; Vinyaya and Lope were virtually never apart at the moment; and then there was that weird little pixie muttering about testing his match-making spells.