the boss in the base
continued from here with @shiftingcrust
Relax? When her boss was here, unexpected? And her base looking as un-Magma clean as it normally was? Well at least the mess and classic clutter stuff was in the decoy secret base, and not the inner areas that she used for her Team Magma duties, but still...
“Yes sir.” Breath in, hold it. let it out. she could do this. she could do this. oh stars oh stars this was pretty bad.
But there were no warning pangs in her chest, so she continued as if she was not panicking. Or at least she squashed it firmly down and wrnt on to a slightly more formal attitude.
“Come in sir, I can show you what I have, myself. Please excuse the mess. Having a secret base that my contacts believe is just a normal trainer base seems to require some... clutter.” Indeed, the area Maxie would have to step into, that space that pretended to be a normal rock cliff base, was quite the norm as far as such went. Collectable plushes, figures and the normal furniture, and the ever classic warlord beanbag that could easily fit 3 people laying on the soft rugs she had organized her space with.
“I dont believe any reports have been made on the base itself since I had it authorized.. aside from the authorized requests to expand the interior areas that are off limits to those not of the team. As you can see, the front, seen as a normal secret base, is rather convincing. Only the team knows it is not what it seems, and I have gotten a good deal of the local geologists and other specialists to come to chat over meals. I can get quite a lot fo info that way, and due to my grandmother’s connections in the geology field, they usually have reports on new findings they want me to pass along. I’d say.. 70 percent of my information gathering that I have sent in comes from these.” Her report was far more formal, as she stood to the side, small gestures at the mentioned things as she waited for her boss’s verdict.
All in all, the base looked deceptively inviting. It was easy to feel like sitting down and talking for hours, with the way she had set it up. After all, being a Magma who’s main job was information gathering, she had long ago figured anyone would talk to a friendly someone who seemed interested in what they had to say.
“I can show you the back areas that are the Team’s alone, when you are ready?”