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Date: November 2, 1888
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Various locations around the house.
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Summary: Shirogane's just trying to do his job and is available to be bothered.
Warnings: Moving furniture. The horror.
What with all of the people constantly coming and going at Aungier House, furniture needed to be moved around quite often. Rooms needed to be prepared. Some rooms didn't have enough furniture. Others had too much. Other rooms had the appropriate amounts of furniture and were well-used, but the furniture still needed to be moved so that the maids could clean.
That's where the footmen came in. Today, Shirogane found himself doing just that--moving furniture. For the most part, he didn't mind the work. It could be physically demanding, true, but at least there was a point to it. A purpose other than that someone somewhere thought criminals needed to walk on treadmills or turn pointless cranks for hours on end. For a few hours in the afternoon, he could be found moving furniture between rooms as he'd been directed. If he needed to be bothered or pulled away for some other task, well, he was just a footman. He didn't quite have as much governance over his own time as he would have liked.
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Various locations around the house.
Characters: Shirogane (
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Summary: Shirogane's just trying to do his job and is available to be bothered.
Warnings: Moving furniture. The horror.
What with all of the people constantly coming and going at Aungier House, furniture needed to be moved around quite often. Rooms needed to be prepared. Some rooms didn't have enough furniture. Others had too much. Other rooms had the appropriate amounts of furniture and were well-used, but the furniture still needed to be moved so that the maids could clean.
That's where the footmen came in. Today, Shirogane found himself doing just that--moving furniture. For the most part, he didn't mind the work. It could be physically demanding, true, but at least there was a point to it. A purpose other than that someone somewhere thought criminals needed to walk on treadmills or turn pointless cranks for hours on end. For a few hours in the afternoon, he could be found moving furniture between rooms as he'd been directed. If he needed to be bothered or pulled away for some other task, well, he was just a footman. He didn't quite have as much governance over his own time as he would have liked.
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It was always worse, of course, when one found out all one's hard work just went to waste. Lyall came into the room where Shirogane had just finished switching the couches to the other side of the room. He watched for a beat, looking both satisfied with the finished work and apologetic for what he was going to have to say. "I'm afraid that the Lady of the house has one more lounge sette she wants to fit in here."
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Which was also a bit overcrowded for Lyall's taste, and would be even without the sette. He would never understand the current style of packing a room so full of furniture that one had to move carefully lest one bump it.
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"That's going to be a tight fit...but I think I can manage it, sir." He walked over to the window to begin creating a space for the lounge. "Just the one additional piece?" At this point, he wouldn't have been surprised if Lyall broke the news that an entire dining set was to be wedged into the room as well.
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Lyall looked a bit wry when he added, "But I make no promises of those whims of which I am unaware." He would never say such a thing in front of his employers and their family, but said employers and their family were not here, now, were they? "Shall I show you which sette is to be moved?"
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Because, really, at this point, all that furniture was starting to run together quite well.
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For now, it seemed to be empty.
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Of course, the pay was certainly better here, and he wouldn't have to worry about such pesky things as seasickness. That made a big difference. He'd traded a bit of freedom for a bit of security, and it was still an adjustment. He followed Lyall into the room and looked around at the furniture appraisingly in the manner of a man who was trying to decide which of the pieces would be easiest to move and hoping that whatever he had to haul, it would be that one. "Which sette is it, sir?"
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"Quite honestly, I do not believe it matters which," he added, looking about, himself. "I was told 'that sette from the library', and not much more. So I believe you may be free to choose your own. Though I will not promise you wno't have to change it later."
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Shirogane scanned the available furniture in the room and went for the smallest sette he could see. "This one looks like the only one that's going to be able to fit in there with all of the other furniture..." It would also be easiest to haul back in there if it wasn't the right sette. There wasn't a truly significant size difference, but with all the furniture moving he'd been doing, Shirogane was perfectly willing to take these small victories where he could.
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Not that he'd stoop to helping manually, of course, not at his rank and with his reedy frame, but he'd send someone up to help if need be.
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