Prints
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Well, since Ceres could not shed a light towards my queries, I decided not to pursue them at the moment. Right now, to live is for today and the present as well as sculpt and pave the road for tomorrow's future.
I won't be doing much of this type of work like word processing or desktop publishing so I might as well keep Heather company while she was concentrating fully at her tasks right now.
I scooted over to her while still in my seat and bumped hers sideways to make some space for me to see what she had been doing all this while.
"What are you doing right now, my dear? It seems you are so busy doing things on your own." I called out to her as I sat in my own seat and observed what she had been clicking here and there.
It seemed that with some guidance from Ceres earlier, she was pulling and clicking on those pull-down menus of the desktop publishing program and had filled the screen with lots of images and text boxes.
The clicked on the slider at the bottom right of the screen and this made the image to zoom out and it showed a nice little pamphlet that she was silently working on.
"Here, dear. What do you think? I made some Informational brochures on the types of products that we currently have right now."
"You see this round thing here that looked like a magnifier? Well, it's being used to find some images when I key in some word."
"Come closer, take a look at the heading here. I used the BEAUTY WORLD in large bold lettering and it's red and black like our colours."
"Then you see here, I type the word 'body soap' and it came out with a library filled with all types of pictures and they are colourful and cute too."
"I picked a sample picture of a boy showing and running the body soap on his body and was bubbly. You see, dear, when I clicked on the picture, there's an outline of a box surrounding the image and I could drag it anywhere I want and also make it bigger or smaller accordingly."
"Right now I had placed the images on the screen in a staggered manner starting with the body soap image here on the left and the hair shampoo of a girl shampooing her hair on the right side here."
"I inserted a text box here and make a heading each for the product and another text box here to inform of the scents."
"Lastly I make another text box and placed it at an angle here and noted the price down. What do you think, it is pretty cool and neat, don't you think?"
I could only express one word and that was "WOW...!" and it seems that Heather could catch up something new with so much ease and speed...! Even I myself could not catch up with her in terms of her adaptability.
"You do fit to be my wife, my dear Heather. A great wife and a great mother to two great twins...!" I praised her and she suddenly grabbed me and kissed me full on my lips.
She knew I was the unromantic type of person and would not show any affections openly and would only use words sparingly if I wanted to flatter her.
Soon, she was back to her old self where she giggled as she played around with the images on the screen as she typed in the keyword search for all the products that we currently have and would be producing in the future.
I looked at how deftly she moved the noise as she clicked on several images and choose the one that had the closest resemblance to our range of products before she clicked at the menu and inserted a text box as she began to fill in the product name and description thereafter.
"You can make a single text box dear, and you can adjust the fonts and size as you go along." I simply guided her from the side and she looked at me in such a peculiar way.
"How come you knew about making a textbox and then the fonts could be adjusted accordingly?"
"You didn't even touch the machine after we came back from the Fusion Chamber and yet you knew some things that I have yet to try out. Let me see if it's true to what you had just commented."
Heather was surprised at me and when she filled up the text intended inside the text box and she clicked and highlighted some of it, she discovered that what I had commented earlier was indeed true.
"Eehh...?! Its really true, my dear. How did you know about these things? You did come from the future, don't you dear?" she remarked as she looked at me deep in her eyes and I just had to avert her gaze because it was too overpowering and overwhelming.
"Maybe so dear, Ceres did say somethings to me but when I tried to probe further, she just dismissed the whole discussion by saying that the system was only recently created in my former self before this."
"Maybe... There are some things that would be best left untouched and discovered. It's like opening a Pandora's Box, I wonder what kind of surprise or shock I would receive."
Heather looked at me and she placed her gentle hand on mine and said, "Don't do things behind my back again, Ceres can talk to you and fill this room with her voice. Never talk in private again, do you hear?"
Ooppss... There she goes again... With her squinted eyes, she looked and seemed to hiss at me like a huge Hydra that would swallow me whole if I made a wrong move or spoke the wrong words...! Gah...!!!
"Don't get so worked up, Heather. I was mentioning to Audemars what he had mentioned earlier and to tell you frankly, there are things Audemars would not discover it before anything happens in the future or he would get a shock in his life, for example, his foot might get run over by some wheels et cetera."
I knew the last part of the sentence was a joke and used to loosen up the tension that was building up. I laughed and so did Heather but not wholeheartedly though. It seemed that she was jealous even if the guidance system was speaking through my mind without any form or soul.
A little while later, Heather had completed making the promotional brochures such as perfumes, Hungary water, essential oils and the rest of the current products that we had. She hit the print icon and the image in the screen was transferred over to the printer that was connected wirelessly.
She rolled towards the printer on her seat and withdrew the printout and after taking a look at it for some moments, she brought it to me to finalise the printout.
It was printed on an imperial sized paper just like the prints she had made previously and it was filled with vibrant colours of sorts.
All the information was included inside the promotional brochure and it would be wonderful to bring it and show to the people as a way to show that our town has these products and we need more manpower to run the production...!
The way I perceive the information right before me was totally different from what was intended and I explained to Heather too. "Not all the people we meet would be literate, my dear."
"It is a good thing that our residents had taken evening classes learning how to read and write. Besides this, there would be another few more products right?"
"Why not we go and print them out as well and skip the prices. Just the number of shades and a general description of the product would do."
I recommended to Heather and I praised her for her work since I could never do better than her. Maybe before I got reborn, I was not inclined towards images and publishing this kind of thing so that's the reason I was not showing much interest in them.
"Surely dear, by the way, how much longer would the medals be ready and how long more would we be here in the realm?" Heather tried to find ways to see if there's a countdown timer to inform us of the time spent in the realm but found none.
I had earlier promised to Heather that we would be spending at least 3 hours here in the realm which would be equivalent to 1 hour back in the real world.
"The medals that you are duplicating would be ready and would be stacked accordingly inside the crates that you had placed in the marked boxed location."
"You have slightly more than an hour left in the realm and then you would be kicked out from here, back to the real world, as a safety precautionary measure."
"The time spent in the morning realm would be determined on how strong your kind is, Audemars and currently it only be able to support 3 hours here while you piggyback someone."
I made a sound and replied that we all understood what Ceres meant. At the meantime, Heather pressed the saved button and name it as present products and proceeded to make a new one after she hit the print button several times.
"Click File, Print and then you can set how many copies you want to print, dear. Then hit the big icon that resembles the machine there to commence printing."
I highlighted to Heather and when she did so, she was once again surprised to find the little gem I was mentioning without me touching my own machine...!
Since Heather was rushing against time, she did not fill in the full description but she divided the whole screen or page into multiple sections. She then chooses the images such as basic makeup foundation powder, lipsticks and the others and set it on the screen.
After she made a text box with the heading title of the product name, she saved her project and by that time we heard the notifications going off almost at the same time.
"The medals are ready, my dear. Are you done with the project? We can come back later to finish it if you wish to." I highlighted to her as I kicked my seat away from hers as I stood up and pushed the seat back neatly where we had found it.
"Just a few more minutes, dear. I'm nearly done. All I need is to make the image of the same size and since it is so colourful, in site those who see this would be interested."
"To join the workforce and at the same time I would be making a better promotional brochure so our delivery guys who sent the bread would also have several hundred copies each when they send the bread up to the homes of those nobles."
What Heather would do might hurt Marcel's coin pouch a bit since it would be a total of 15 towns altogether.
However, Marcel had also maintained his other cities and towns so he might lose a bit of revenue.
Having said that, Heather continued her work as I set the cup that I had used back near the dispensing tun and knew that there's no helper to assist in cleaning it up.
A little while later, Heather had completed her project and hit the printer icon once to see the end result of her project. It was very eye-catching and a picture sure spells a thousand words. She saved her project and hit the print button a few times before collecting all the printouts from the printer.
"Come on, let's go already and pick those medals up." Heather beckoned to me and soon she was holding on to my arm as I swiped the current room and back to the Fusion Chamber.
The crates that we had placed were all filled with boxes of medals. We loaded the crates and it was rather hefty and once we had completed the task, I collected the first few printouts that she had played around and placed them in the hand cart.
"Ready to go back, my dear? Our dinner is waiting and by golly... 3 hours here really feels like 3 hours in the real world...! I'm already very hungry...! Wuwuwuwu...."
It's true... Time spent in the realm was like real-time and frankly, if we calculate the time spent, it's already past supper time...! The growling of our stomachs stood to testify that we are both famished...!
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