Around Town, Wednesday

[filleauloup]

She'd already done an early run for packages today, and there'd likely be another one later for whichever parcels had gotten delayed in transit between dimensions, but for now Éponine just had her mail bag over her shoulder and was making her way around town with bundles of envelopes and magazines.

And nibbling on a leftover cream horn from yesterday, because she'd seriously hoarded a bunch of those things.

[OOC: Expecting one, but open!]

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[faithseesred]

Faith didn't have anything to do but explore today, so she was spending her day moving through town on the rooftops, getting the lay of the land.

She paused when she noticed Éponine and watched her for a moment, just getting a sense of what she was doing - deliveries of some kind, it seemed like.

Acting on impulse, Faith jumped neatly down to street level in a convenient alley and quickly walked around to the side of the building where she'd spotted Éponine.

"Hi," she said. And then, feeling a little awkward, "Sorry, are you working?"

[filleauloup]

"I am," replied Éponine, in the nonchalant way of someone who'd been slightly startled but wasn't about to let on that she was. "So much mail all these people get, 'specially now the squirrels are off somewhere and sending back picture cards."

She hitched the strap of her bag a little higher on her shoulder and added with a touch of pride, "Someone's got to see it gets to them, after all."

[faithseesred]

Squirrels sending mail. That was a new one. Faith was just going to hope that was a slang term she didn't know yet and not actual squirrels.

"Yeah, I guess even here, someone has to deliver all the packages," she said, nodding. "I didn't realize. So do you work for, like, the post office...?"

She was starting to get an idea that Noah would think was really funny.

[filleauloup]

Yeah, sorry about that, Faith. They really were squirrels.

Éponine let out a brief, raspy chuckle. "'s right, that I do. The things people send through the mail sometimes! It's funny."

[faithseesred]

"I guess it is," Faith agreed. "I guess people here have folks at home they have to write back to, right?" Not her, but, you know. People.

She bit her lip. "I don't suppose you'd know if they're hiring? At the post office, I mean. I used to be sort of a delivery person."

[filleauloup]

"S'pose most people do at that," Éponine said, nodding. Not her either, though.

ANYWAY.

"We've room for a couple new people, sure enough," she continued. "D'you want to carry mail, and all? I can't say I wouldn't mind another day or two off from doing it myself."

Because the stairs. So many stairs.

[faithseesred]

Faith broke into a grin. "Yeah!" She needed money and she liked delivering packages. Plus, Éponine seemed like a chill boss from this brief interaction. What could be bad about this? "I know I'm just, like, a random person you met on the street, but I'll be really good at it, I promise. Are there any rules I should know?"

She was excited, okay.

[filleauloup]

"Not that many, and there's papers you'll have to sign anyway so you'll have them there, but here," Éponine said, and rattled off a quick handwavey summary. "There aren't half so many as there are for actually mailing things. Good lord! Now >that's a tangle of dos and don'ts."

She waved a hand. "Anyhow, it isn't as if I knew any of the other kids before they started here. They only walked in off the street and asked, too. Now, you're sure you don't mind all the going up and down just to get about this place?"

[faithseesred]

"Definitely," Faith agreed quickly. "I'm used to inconvenient routes. Plus it's good exercise. I can make it into a game. Does it matter if I change up the route a little as long as I get everywhere on time?"

Her gaze flicked up towards the rooftop. Faith, no.

[filleauloup]

"So long's I don't have people coming in to complain that their mail never arrived at all, I don't care how you go about it," said Éponine, laughing, because Miss Bad Life Choices was hardly going to be the one to discourage any ideas of rooftop running.

[faithseesred]

"Cool." She smiled. She probably would have done it anyway, but it was nice to have the boss's permission and not be on thin ice from day one. "That's awesome. Thanks. So, um, I'll come back to the office and do the paperwork? Can I start soon? Like next week?"

[filleauloup]

"Soon's you like," agreed Éponine. "Now, let's see, I've Wednesdays and Fridays open, and the weekend, except there's no mail on Sundays of course."

Well, mostly.

[ahaha I never hit post whoops. -_-]

[faithseesred]

"Wednesday?" Faith said hopefully, picking the soonest date available, yup yup. "You're really cool for this, by the way. Are you sure I don't need to, like, interview or something?"