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"Thank you, love. Have fun in class."

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"Questionable whether that's even possible. Kidding, bye." Click.

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So she has some time to kill during which she can visit competitors of that one firm.

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Does she have an appointment?

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Nnnope, not really, but she can produce endless biological matter.

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That's nice. Would she like to schedule an appointment with an acquisitions specialist, then?

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Sure, why not.

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"Let's see..." She taps through some sort of golem control-interface, which is clearly bulkier and less efficient than a computer, then calls someone. Then gets transferred. Then she finally reports, "Would 10 A.M. tomorrow work?"

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"Tomorrow would probably not work" because she is not spending that long away from Terel if she strictly needn't—this is kind of an annoying constraint, really, but all she can think of is *whine* "but the day after perhaps?"

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"Unfortunately we're closed on Sunday. I can take your crystal number if something opens up, but most of our staff have been really quite busy this week." 

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"Okay." And here's her number.

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She writes it down. "Have a nice day."

 

The last of the three major companies can have someone talk to her now. They end up asking a lot of questions about how it works and what stuff she can and can't produce before getting around to making a preliminary offer that is fairly close to what Empire Imports is doing for her. They're a lot more cagey about paying her in advance of knowing the stuff works though.

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She can produce some sample stuff so they can test it?

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Sure thing. They'll call her back in a week or two with the results if she'd like to do this.

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Sure, here they go (but hey their major competitor's already tested stuff and offered her such and such, jsyk).

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Suuure they have. We'll keep it in mind.

 

(That's negotiation tactics 101)

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No really she has literally memorised the contract, she can recite some bits of it if they'd like as further evidence.

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That's above his paygrade, and also he really needs to wait for the lab tests.

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Alright, sure thing, she's just passing the info along.

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Have a nice Friday!

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You too!

It's probably around the time she has to go talk to the lawyer again.

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Yup.

 

The lawyer has half a dozen pages on closely written notes. "You seemed bright so I went for detail instead of easy-to-understand. Is that alright?"

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"Absolutely!"

Read read my this vankire reads fast doesn't she.

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So much legal minutiae!

It's all along the lines of what's already been said - they were trying to give her the short end of things because that's what companies do but weren't trying to actively screw her over. A lot of it is plausibly a mistake and not malice.

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Uh huh. But is it stuff she can actually argue about? Say she would prefer this or that, and to amend these things or those?

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