Juliet had just ordered lunch to be delivered to her office. The room was cavernous, with a big open window behind the desk and leather chair that Juliet sat on, looking rather tired and a little aggravated. She had wanted to see how Natasha’s new experiment had done. The practical uses for miniaturizing the molecular compression technology were immense, yet she was regrettably stuck in her office, working through lunch again.<br/><br/>She didn’t think that when she become mayor she would have to deal with such trite little things like planning permissions and what not. She had tried to ignore it at first but things quickly went to pot. She gave a little sigh and flicked some hair from out of her face as she went about the rather boring but necessary budget. She had resolved to work through lunch, so after she could go check on Natasha and at least get an evaluation of the new gun and maybe a demonstration. She bit her lip slightly imagining if it worked, how well, were there any unexpected side effects. She put the  thoughts out of her mind as it was distracting her.<br/><br/>Suddenly, there was a ring on her phone. She gave it a nod and the familiar voice of karia’s teacher spoke into Juliet’s mind, “I am sorry… but you told me to inform you when karia skipped out of school and” Juliet blinked, hanging up the ‘phone’ and her eyes became steely. Everyone was far too lenient on her, if she paid more attention to Karia she would have told her subordinates to be stricter if they had the balls. Karia had become disobedient, idle, spoilt and far too emotional. She didn’t know why Karia didn’t turn out as well as her other 2 daughters. Perhaps she could take Karia with her to see Natasha, seeing her older sibling inventing something new may instill in her a desire to succeed herself, or at least she would have something to demonstrate the gun on…