Chapter 13 Gossip#1

17th, Ashadha, 1965

It's lunchtime Ortson and his co-worker are having lunch at the cafeteria.

All of them are sitting at one big table together.

"Ortson, after you came our workload reduced so much, thanks, man."

This is John, a typical funny guy, the mood maker of the group.

"I have been counting numbers from when I was a child, I learned many tricks of fast calculation."

"Tell me your secret Bro."

"Well, if you want to learn Vedic Mathematics, I will write you a manual later."

"What are you saying, I need to learn again. That's no fun bro."

"Shut up, Idiot. Don't listen to him Ortson. He and Lumine are cut from the same piece of fabric."

She is Daisy, with a sharp tongue.

"What does that mean, that was an insult right, I know when I hear one, or you are saying I am as handsome as Lumine ."

There is a jovial atmosphere at the table due to the bickering between John and Daisy.

"Hey you heard, Lumine brought another woman to his office the other day."

She is Tia, a social butterfly, she mixes and mingles with a wide variety of people, on top of that she is also beautiful.

Oswal being the elder of the group dissuades them from gossiping about Lumine.

"Don't meddle with whatever Lumine is doing, you don't mess with him he will leave you alone."

"Is every one of you from inside the tower."

"Yes, man we were born and raised inside the tower."

John answered Ortson's curiosity.

"So, Ortson tells us about the outside world. Where are you from?"

Ortson digs into his predecessor's memory.

"I was from the empire of Ceylon, its capital is Peking."

"Next me, do an emperor rule your country."

"Yes, in a way you can say being an emperor is a family business."

Daisy also joined the conversation.

"Is the monarchial government system better than our parliamentary system?"

"I would say both the system has its cons and pros. But I will say in History many kings and emperors had a hand in destroying their own country due to their stupidity, there are so many nonsensical reasons for which they have gone to war, so I am biased in my thoughts."

"What do you mean?"

"A king can start a war because of women, pride, or raising taxes indiscriminately and also for territory expansion."

"Territory I understand, but what about women and pride."

"There are many such incidents in history, such as Trojan Prince Paris abducts the Queen Helen of Sparta and Menelaus waging war against Troy, many also say Queen eloped with the prince. There is another nine-tailed fox Daji, she was the consort of King Zhou of Shang, the last king of the Shang dynasty from Great Qin, by seducing the king she created turmoil all over the kingdom dooming it into a civil war ultimately the country perished. Both of these women were very beautiful. There is also an idiom for such women- kingdom-perishing beauty."

"Man, that's some scary shit you told us. Is that even true?"

"It's all true, my grandfather is a historian from outside the tower, he had told me about this."

Rose, is a beautiful woman dressed up in kimono. She has smoky eyes and flowing black hair, she has a tattoo of a red rose on her neck, and fluffy fox ears and four tails behind her.

'It's true! WTF, I just interpreted a few classical stories of my world. Don't tell me every epic is true in this world.'

John turns toward Rose.

"Rose, Lumine is trying to hook up with you right, from the days of our school, you were always popular with men."

"He does not have the power and confidence to touch me."

"Enough chit-chat let's go break time is over."

Oswal reminds everyone about time.

Everyone stands up and returns to their to finish the rest of the work of the day.

By the time they finished, its afternoon, the sun is setting on the horizon and the crimson moon started to make its appearance.