Find It Inc.

Chapter 8

The next one to get her assignment is Caz and since I am the narrator (and writer) I want to try something else with this chapter and that is to write from inside Caz’s mind. As a train of thought, first-person perspective, so here goes:

What? Oh this is my assignment thingy. Alright, I missed half the beginning, I was thinking of… I forgot. Now… this is going to annoy me. What was it? Something about home? Dyl? Food? CHEESE! That was it, I was thinking how people name the different cheeses and why not many are named according to taste. Aha. Got it. Wait. What was I meant to be doing?

“Caz!”

Yes? I mean:

“Yes?” almost forgot to say that part out loud.

“Did you hear what we said?”

Something about cheese? No that’s not it.

“Nope.”

K and J sigh together which is kind of weird. I wonder if I do anything with anyone at the same time as that person-like sighing. Or stepping together while we go for a walk? I think Frankie and I did that once… or was she floating while I was walking? I should really check that when we walk or float home. Oh I missed the beginning again didn’t I?

“Sorry can you start again, please?”

***

Alright. I got it. This I have got. What I will have to do is take this map and these photos and link them together to find the route that leads to the treasure that is hidden in a temple… thingy. Alright… is that why Frankie is not wearing a dress today so we wouldn’t see her underwear as she floats around? Can she change her clothes at will or does she ghostly physically changes like me except without the ghost part? Have I asked her these questions before? I must have but I can’t remember the answer… maybe Jo or Dyl do? I’ll ask them.

So back to this map. The photos show certain landmarks that I need to hit and there are pictures of certain people I need to talk to but where are they? Well this one ‘Elder Marus’ is in a village which is here, so I can go there first and ask for him. But this huge well in this photo is over there, away from the village so I should go there first to find clues or maybe that well is the entrance to the temple and I can skip everything and just go there? I’m going to do that. That was easy.

Wait? Where am I on this map? Am I at the top or at the bottom? North or South? Or East or West? Or North-East or North-West? Well it would make more sense for me to say ‘or North- East/ West or North? Since North is in between North-East and North-West’. Where did I want to go again? The village! No. The well so I can get to the temple. But what if the temple is not there? Is this like a quest thingy where I have to go get something from somewhere to get to somewhere?

I should ask them.

I asked them and they said yes. Great. So I have to find a route and follow it. Aggggghhhh. So where am I on the map? Wait… J has that thingy for maps on her desk that shows you where you are on a map like a GPS at a mall. I’m going to ask to borrow it.

I have asked to borrow it.

She said yes and told me to stop interrupting them. Interrupting them from what? Oh, is Jo not finished with her briefing yet? Jo is still doing her brief? How long is her briefing? How long was my briefing? Wow, I have zero sense of time. Why have I not heard a word of Jo's briefing? I'm going to listen in:

“So you will have to go through the company’s finical tables and see what is missing and figure out how…” No wonder I did not pay any attention, it’s boring. Numbers and Maths and Maths with Numbers. Boring. Or maybe not. Sounds like a mystery. Blue collar. I should tell Jo to wear a blue collar while she works on this one. Ha-ha. Wait. Oh right map thingy.

I have the map thingy. I place it in the corner of the map and turn it on as you do. The setting I want is… 3D, 2D or half each? I think… 3D for now so I can see around the landmarks and 2D while I am traveling since it is easier to read and hold a map while I walk. Plus I get a bit of motion sickness if I look at 3D too long. Well it is not motion sickness more like ‘3D’ sickness, digital 3D sickness makes more sense since everywhere I look is 3D and I never feel sick. Unless I am in a constant of sick that I do not notice that I am sick? Nahhh.

Ok. So I am here and that puts me closer to the village which means I can talk to Elder M something and then go to the well. Sweet and sorted. Oh. There is more stuff in my file. Why are there so many photos? If they can take so many photos why can’t they find their treasure? Lazy? I get that.

I wonder what traps there are in the temple place? Really hope they are interesting ones where I have to think and actually plan ahead. I miss those types of things; you only get them in video games and not real life. Unless… nahhh. I have to find a hidden temple with the random clues that is everywhere and speak to people to give me more clues because everyone there speaks in riddles and everyone hates the client even though the treasure belongs to his family but his family were horrid people so no one wants to help him. What if there is not a treasure and h is just a crazy person? What if I go on this questing quest and the villagers burn me alive because they think I’m mad and my madness will spread to them? But in order for them to burn me a live they would need to catch me and in order from them to catch me they will need to touch me which can make ‘my madness’ spread to them. Unless they have fire arrows but I can dodge those and run away. But what if they would be acting as if they think I am mad to stop me from going after the treasure as well as thinking the client is mad? Like reverse psychology.

What if they don’t even speak English? Wait. It says here that the villagers may be able to speak English because of the shows and cartoons they watch but that means that the Elder most likely would not speak English, so I would need to have a translator. Or since he is an Elder he can speak all the languages, can he not? Why become an Elder if you are not smart? Unless he is just really, really old. Which he is, hence being called Elder, but with age comes wisdom, right? So knowing another language is wise? So he could know English? Why don’t I know another language?

What am I going to do later today? Wash dishes. It’s my week and I did not wash them yesterday, there is a stack in the sink that inspires us to order in as to not add to the stack. I can wash the glasses first, then forks and knives then plates and bowls. Think I will need to put down a kitchen cloth since not everything can fit on the plate dryer. I wanna get some Chinese food like noodles with Chicken. I’ll get some on the way home and surprise Dyl with it. Smart. Or how about I make some instead? Yeah, pop into the shop, get noodles and chicken. I think we still have some veg and stuff in the fridge, should pop in home first to check and then pop in the shop. Cook the noodles, chop the foods while noodles are cooking and stir fry them. Add noodles and done. Oh and sweet and sour sauce as well. Maybe I should make tonight a bit romantic with candles and… mud? Guys like mud right? Wait, no, Dyl would kill me if I brought mud into the apartment. ‘Hey Love, Love of my Life, Life of my Love, have some mud.’ Nahh. No mud, just candles. Oh. I can’t cook. I don’t have enough clean dishes. Unless I wash them first and then cook? But that would mean I have to go upstairs, see what we need, wash the dishes, go down stairs, buy the stuff, go back up and cook. Well I was going to do that any way but washing dishes take a while and by the time I’m done the line at the shop will be too long and then dinner will be too late. Probably. So take away it is.

What is today anyway? Monday. Yeah. What is on, on a Monday? Nothing. News. News is on every day and I don’t watch the news or do I? I don’t think I have ever sat down and actively watched the news. I will do that tonight. Why is there a pencil in my hand? Oh right…

***

Well that was a fun little experiment? Your friendly neighborhood (or sound I write ‘bookihood’?) narrator is back again. You miss me? Did not really miss you too much to be honest. Joking I love you all. Just could not be in Caz’s head space for any longer, it made me hunger for Chinese and clean dishes. Anyway back to the happenings in the office.

Boss K and Boss J are briefing Jo on her assignment and it is not going too well. Well, it is going well, but Jo is not interested at all in what she has to do. She is busy planning their deaths due to her lack of interest but alas a job is a job that must be done. Jo’s assignment is a boring one where the treasure is finding the funds that were stolen from a company. Hey, treasure is treasure and people can call whatever they want treasure. It does not have to be some shiny, fancy items that are hidden away in some random adventure-like place that is a mission to get to; it can be everyday things in an everyday company that anyone can work at. Even you could become a hunter. But the former does sound like a lot more fun to be honest.

Boss J finishes her briefing with Jo and Jo only sits there and says nothing. I’m going to go check what is up with her. Hold on a second.

Alright. So Jo is not happy. Obviously, but she is not happy because the assignment does not use the full range of her skills at all. And it is too safe. This would not be a problem if it was her first assignment to get her into it and warm her up but she is already warm, basically on fire and this is not her first time instead this feels like is a leap back for her. She thinks that the two Bosses are ‘babying her’ and no one likes that, certainly Jo does not. Her mind is a mess, less of a mess than Caz, but a more emotional mess with self-doubts, jumping to the past and things like that. What everyone tends to go through when they feel as if their personal value is being ignored. The Bosses tell her that she thinks out the box, although this is a really good thing in any situations, it brings little comfort currently in this particular situation, definitely after the morning she had.