Checking Up on a Servant

[Onrai]

It had been some time since Circe had come to pay attention once more to the servant she had acquired a long time ago - a certain Lyra Uporg. Hence why she was here to check up on said servant, perhaps make use of her services in a more active way aside from accounting and arranging her closet. "Lyra? Are you here?" She inquisited. "I want to talk to you..."

Indeed she did.

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

 

[Lyra Uporg]

Lyra smiled and emerged from the desk. " Yes Miss?" She asked with a bright smile and she couldn't help but admire her Mistress. She had to admit working for Circe had been great and she enjoyed it. She was left alone largely and it was great. Though she had been getting bored of late.

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

"Hello, sweet thing..." She paused, giving a soft smile as she moved ever further towards the servant she paid to do little work. "I believe I have some work for you. Would you like to come with me and be a part of my next experiment?" She was unsure as to whether or not Lyra would participate, but figured that asking was the better option.

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"What is it this time Miss?" She asked with a smile as she looked to her superior. " I am sure if it isn't something outrageous I could indeed help you Miss." She had been glad to learn she could say no, it was nice to be able to have a say in one's fate. It was something she was still getting use to. She looked at her employer and smiled waiting for an reply.
[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

"Well... I need your help regarding the formulation of the company's new synthetic tibanna substitute. We've made a deal with the Panathan Empire to supply them with this 'syntibanna,' and I need to get a proper formulation of it made with the amounts of natural gas we've currently accrued from the Colluctari Nebula. Would you be interested in assisting me?"

Circe was quite sincere about this, with no ulterior motives regarding anything. She needed someone to help her get the mixture synthesized, and Lyra was available.

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"Sure Miss, though I don't know how good I will be with formulating gas, I normally just clean house but I will do my best Miss" She said smiling and getting up. "I hope all is well, I haven't seen you home much of late. I ensure the house is tended to however, don't you worry." Lyra was a dutiful employee, and one could tell even still that she was use to being a slave. However she had been getting better at having things, she had started buying some small trinkets for her self, still a little afraid that they might be taken from her.
[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

Circe smiled, then paused, moving forward towards Lyra. One would expect that she was going to try and kiss the woman across from her.

Well, she didn't.

Instead, she gave her paid servant a loving hug, something she didn't do often enough. "You didn't have to do that for me... but thank you." She then backed off, smiling. "I have some formulations setup, but being that I pay you to do work, I'd like you to help me operate the molecular reintegrators. You know, in order to convert the nebular gas into syntibanna variants."

 

[Lyra Uporg]

" I can do that, I mean as long as you teach me how Miss" She said with a smile. Lyra had hugged Circe back, glad that she could be of use. "I am a quick learner so I think I can pick it up Miss." Lyra was hoping she would pick it up. " It isn't too hard is it?"

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

"Not really..." She paused. "I will however have a significant amount of various formulae. Currently at one hundred and counting. Thankfully, we have enough gas to test them all, and then some. Are you ready to get to work, Lyra?"

She certainly hoped so, otherwise this was going to be a very, very long piece of work.

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"Well lets get started then, no time like the present." She would follow her employer to what ever unlucky place had to host that many tests. She knew it had to be long, and that she wasn't going to sleep anytime soon. Oh the joys of lab work, she though having helped previously and not liking it. She wanted to be nice today though.

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

The place in question was on board a Tyzzeph-clas Gas Miner, purchased by Circe from the remaining yet-to-be-liquidated stocks of what was the official face of Subach-Innes. On board in the forward section, where a good portion of the crew quarters would be on a standard Tyzzeph, there was a laboratory instead. A molecular reintegrator was connected to the tanks currently full of nebular gas from the Colluctari Nebula.

"Alright... When I tell you to, release a quantity of nebular gas into the molecular reintegrator using that lever right there."

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"Ok" She said walking to the place in question. She prepared her self for the task in question. She acquainted her self with the buttons and ensured she knew what to do once she was told when. It was a tricky thing to ensure the right quantity of gas is released. " I am ready when you are Miss." She said with a smile as she waited for the word, she wanted to make sure she got this right. After all she didn't want to let her down. that would be terrible.

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

Circe stepped up to the computer console on the molecular reintegrator. Once the settings for batch one's molecular structure were inputted, she motioned for Lyra to open, then close the valve. When the gas had finished being reintegrated, she syphoned it to a tank, where she moved to break the tank up into individual vials for use in a variety of tests, all of which ran simultaneously.

"Alright, so we have a weapon power test, a hyperdrive coolant test, and an emissions cooling test. We need to get the best of all three - or one variant good at each. Syntibanna will be a vital asset business-wise, so long as it can be manufactured for a cheaper price than the current equivalent."

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"Yes Miss" She opened and closed the valve carefully as she and well it wasvery interesting. " Well then whats next Miss?" She said as she primed the valve again for another setting. " So this will do all of that?" She asked not knowing much about gas or what this Syntibanna did. She was rather clueless when it came to complex topics. She was better at simple things like caring for the house and people. She was better fit for that and servicing her master.. though that had always hurt.. but that is what they used her for before so she had become use to it, and now she just stayed away from that subject.

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

She sighed. "This batch is far below what we want." She moved, putting in information for another molecular combination similar to tibanna. "Give me more of the nebular gas. Batch 2 should be an improvement. If not, well... We'll keep trying until we get exactly what we want." Circe smiled as she looked at Lyra. "I know this sounds like tedious work a droid could do... but if you help me with this, you'll get credit when syntibanna is patented."

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"Yes Miss" She said giggling. " I know you just want the company" She said with another giggle. She gave more gas this time, cutting off exactly when it got to the right number. " I hope this one works better Miss, after all we could be doing this for a very long time. " She said as she watched the machines whirl to life

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

"Why Lyra, I'm surprised you think I'm so shallow. You certainly are a beautiful woman, but I have more to want from you than mere company, of course... You were a slave when I originally received you, and I've dedicated whatever time I can to removing that mindset from your system." She smiled. "No, this one doesn't want to work either. Again."

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"I was joking miss, I know you value me for more than the company. " She shook her head. She was doing much better in the independence area of her life. She had even went and bought her own things the other month. It was a big step for her. She sighed and proceeded to cut the right amount of gas into the system again. "Try again Miss"

[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Lyra Uporg"]

And so she tried again. And again. And again. Every time Circe continued with her work, she found it not up to her satisfaction. It was slowly but surely proceeding along, but she had not gotten a combination yet that compared to Tibanna.

Then came one. It was ninety-five percent as good as Tibanna, and no matter how hard she tried, she could not create a combination of nebular gas that was able to perform as well as that. Sighing, she resigned herself to being glad with the finished project.

"We have it. It may not be a hundred percent, but it'll be immensely cheaper to produce."

 

[Lyra Uporg]

"Congratulations Miss! " She said smiling and giving her a friendly hug. " I am so happy we figured it out. I thought we were forever enslaved to getting it to work" she said with a giggle. " I hope you don't mind.. I just got excited.." She blushed, she didn't usually hug someone else. she was usually hugged. it was kind of ackward,

" Well if you have no further use of me, I will go start on today's tasks." She said moving to leave. She after all didn't want to be a bother on her employer. She surely had better things to do then talk to her, a lowly servant. Lyra smiled and pondered what to do first, there was some laundry to put away and of course the bathroom needed cleaning.

[member="Enigma"]