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KS HOTLINE MEETING #10

SOVIAK ATTACK

Part two

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Chantal was on her way to her office. She had to make some stops along the way. "First Becky’s office. I hope she’s there." After knocking on the door, she heard a chair being pulled out, jumping, then a very loud OUCH, what seemed like a stack of papers being pushed away. Then the door opened. Becky was rubbing her hip and looked a little crazed.

"Wow, I see it didn’t take long for things to go back to normal… " said Chantal seeing all the printouts and ah, ah, something new, audio tapes all over the floor. "Well good news, I have found you a new clerk. She’s efficient, dedicated, a little nuts about Sov and obsessed with Ares, she will be perfect. She’ll report to you around 4.00 PM after her recruit’s training."

"Wonderful. I need serious help. I got this idea from Princess. I’m making audio tapes for the answering machines. You know, like «Hello, Becky is otherwise occupied right now. Stop nibbling at my ear. We’ll get back to you later. Now, you can scream after the beep.» Sov was very very enthusiastic about this." said Becky.

"Really, I bet he was" Chantal replied with a ironic tone. Becky became a little red. (I wonder why, LOL) "Can you have Herk do one for me" asked Chantal. "Sure, I already, had one especially made for you but it’s not from Herk. I can have another one made, you know…" said Becky. "I’ll like that. Thanks and good job. This will sell like crazy, be sure to tell Calico about it." Chantal started to leave. "Don’t you want your tape?" asked Becky. "Sure, bring it to the meeting this afternoon, I’m sure the others will want one."

Chantal then stopped by Cokie’s brand new office. The door was ajar. She went in. Cokie was at her drafting table going over plans. She was adding some numbers up. "This is not right. They don’t have enough marble to finish the bathrooms, let alone the sauna and the pool. Those idiots ordered in foot when the plans are in meters. Oh, gods, they’re going to have to pay for the rest. We certainly won’t."

"I see you’re enjoying your new job. Nice digs. Joxer did a good job with the paint Great shade of blue reminds me of someone’s eyes." Turning around, she took a look outside. Cokie’s window was directly above the training grounds where at the moment martial art training was in process. " Nice view!"

Cokie smiled. "Even better when it’s HerK’s sword fighting training." Looking away Chantal surveyed the pictures on the wall. "Wow, a first edition of the Amazon women movie poster. Where did you get that?" "Secret. Even Calico doesn’t know. It’s driving her nuts" laughed Cokie.

"So how’s the construction going ? They screwed up royally, didn’t they?" asked Chantal. "Yep, it will be at least another month before we can open it officially."

Castalia, back from her well deserved vacation was handling the reservations for the CPR course. "Yes, it’s on Friday. No you can’t bring a friend along. This is the last remaining spot for the course. Well, listen, you’ve been misinformed, you can’t come with your friend. Sorry." Cas hangs up. She then looks up at Shauna grinning. "The Xenites have just discovered Sov’s appeal . We are going to be invaded."

"Don’t worry. Sov can handle them. He’s a big bad boy." laughs Shauna. "Did you see the new catalog. Calico is going to flip. The Herk merchandises outnumbers the X***’s stuff. Finally."

"Yes, I saw it. And yes, I am very pleased" was heard right behind them. Turning their heads, they saw Calico with her infamous purple pen and Kevfriend/Suja right behind her holding a few boxes. And around her neck a brand new pen. Purple, of course. " Meet my new assistant. She’s in charge of all international orders and shipping" announced Calico. Kevfriend just smiled. She was beaming with pride. "I’ll get those boxes to MMMuffin’s office at KSTV for the auction. I’ll be right back."

"Don’t rush. I’ll be in the basement, I have to bring up some items for the auction as well." replied Calico.

After settling the marble and scheduling problem with Cokie, Chantal was finally on her way to her office. She took out a little bronze plaque from her pocket. It read : «Head of security NYXX» "She’s going to like that. She needed a cover job anyway might as well be one where she can use her special skills."

"No, no, no. That’s not the purpose of this. Okay, let’s try it again. And this time no tongue… please" said Star with her best imitation of a stern voice but her control was slipping away fast.

"Now. Help me up" Star extended a hand to Sov who was sitting cross-legged on the floor near her with a very wicked grin on his face. "Why? You’re only gonna end up on the floor again."

"Fine." Star sat up. "Now, let’s go over the principal steps, okay?" Star was getting a little warm. "Is it hot in here? I swear I set the heating system to the lowest possible temperature. Okay, where was I? Ah, yeah." Star took off her pullover.

"Nice tee-shirt" mentioned Sov staring. "Oh, it’s the new Fit for Kids tee. You like it. I could get you one…" started Star. "No.. I rather have what’s in it." replied Sov with a low voice. Star became a little warmer. "Okay, now the first steps of CPR."

"First, you assess the person’s responsiveness" started Star…

"Yeah, I know, you shake or tap (sly grin there) gently. To see if the faintly amazon is okay" cuts Sov.

"Good. Second you call for help and…" "FREYA" is Sov’s answer. "Hum, no not quite the right answer but that’s okay." Star was smiling. "Third, you position the person on the…"

Sov, right then, moves towards her and pushes her gently (well as gently as Sov can be, lol) to the floor and takes off the tee-shirt. "Wait not so fast…" Star’s voice is really weakening now.

Sov then says "… floor then you tilt their head back, lift the jaw forward and then listen and watch for chest movement." Which he did, tracing with his finger Star’s jaw line and putting his ear to her chest. "Pinch the person nose and give mouth to mouth…" was all Star hear before she totally lost it.

After five minutes of mouth to mouth, Sov and Star came up for air. Star a little disoriented and Sov with a very satisfied grin on his face. He then yelled : "NEXT"

There was a line of amazon waiting and being quite anxious. Freya was next and entered. As Star exited the art room she gave Nannyboo, who was to be next, a sigh. "You’re turn to supervise him. I’ll get some more amazons because he will go thru all of you in no time." And she left looking for volunteers .

Apollena, Melite and Skeezix looked at one another and said "Oh, man…" then had a dreamy look on their face.

The line was getting longer by the minute. Joining Apollena, Melite and Skeezix was Kelly, Kara, Dicez and Andulasia. Freya had come out after 15 minutes. She looked a little dazed and was mumbling something about needing oxygen and having to go to the Herkspital. Nannyboo was in there for a good 20 minutes before Sov yelled next again. She came out with her tee-shirt backwards and having to hold on to the door to stay up. She looked at Melite and Ap. "He’s on a roll. Be careful. Just remember I did warn you." Apollena swallowed hard and entered. Melite just smiled to herself. " Wonderful, I can probably get back into the line afterwards for a second helping…"

As noon drew near, Melite had been Sov’s willing partner three times. A record.

Chantal walked into the cafeteria looking for Kendaa. She noticed that the place was rather empty. "Weird." Then she remembered. "Ah, yes, Sov’s CPR practice must have tired most of the staff." She sat down in front of her friend who had ordered already.

"Spinach salad?" Chantal looked at it with a smirk.

"It will be good for you. You need your strength" Kendaa answered. "Yeah, and some peace of mind" added Chantal." So, did you go to Sov’s CPR practice this morning?" "No, I had a surprised visitor this morning… " said Kendaa. "Really, I wonder who it could have been." "Like you don’t know. Really, what’s wrong? He was really ticked off, you know. I don’t mind running interference for you but you have to give me some warning. I was having breakfast with Herk." "Sorry, I thought he would go to see MMMuffin. I need some space. Some time to myself. I need all my energy and focus to be on KS HQ right now. And I have to deal with my own set of values. Can I live with myself knowing what he stands for. Anyway, it’s my problem but you’d be a very good friend I you kinda kept him otherwise occupied" said Chantal eating her salad. "Sure, why not but don’t take too long. Patience is not one of his strong suit.""I know" replied Chantal.

Then she said turning her head towards the windows " Did you hear that?" "What? I did not hear anything?" answered Kendaa. "Really, I could have sworn… There it is again. It’s a high pitch sound. Don’t you hear it?" "No." Chantal then got up. "Something is definitely going on. Come."

Kendaa followed her. Chantal was now outside and running towards the construction area. Then she stopped dead in her tracks. "Oh man, how could I have forgotten. There was a shipment of logs due late this morning…."

Chantal was now walking to the construction site. There was really no need to run anymore. She knew what she would find.

Trucks. 2 of them. Full of logs. Amazons eating their lunch outside even if it was 10 degree Celsius and a sight for sore eyes. Kull, Herk and Sherk taking logs from the trucks to the ground. Josée was snapping pictures, Shauna, being off duty as taking notes for the KS web site. This was going to be news. Tedras an Ciana were commenting on Kull’s muscles. Deeva was eating her ham sandwich in utter silent, drinking in the sight of three gorgeous man working without any shirt on.

Coming near Chantal hear the high pitch noise again. Turning her head, she located the source. Two stories high above in the Herkspital she saw Freya, Rheanna and Susan whistling. « Gee this is really a construction site. The only thing missing is... » « Lemonade anyone ? » Castalia was bringing a large cooler an offering to drooling amazons some very deserving drinks.

Having found Cokie, Chantal joined her. « Well, i hope you sold tickets ! » « Ah, ah, very funny ! No, but I had Nyxx drew a security line so that eager amazons would not disturb the workers. Time for a lemonade break. » And on those words.. she took three bottles of lemonade and went to Kull , Herk and Sherk.

« So many hearts, so little time » Chantal turned around wicked at Herk, passed Kendaa who was chatting with Shauna. « See you later, friend. Gotta go. » Stopping near Josée, she whispered « Good idea, we do need documentation. »

The meeting went without a problem. Promotions were handed out officially. Audio tapes were distributed. Star was on her way to recruits’ training.

The new recruits were reading attentively their procedure manual. Star walked in. « Well, welcome to KS Hotline beginner’s training.... »

The CPR course was packed and a great success. Sov had quite a timereanimating dozen of fainting amazons. Kelly, Melite Nannyboo and Andulasia were all in line for more.

After all the excitement of the week, Chantal going back to her place an Eddie Money’s song in her head « I need to tickets to paradise... Hum, not a bad idea. All I would need is my chess board...»

Next morning, Nannyboo had a message on her machine. « You and Star are in charge for awhile. I’m playing chess under the sun.

The end

Chantal, KS Hotline manager

March 1998

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