“I’ve seen your records.”
That’s not a great line to say if you want to not be intimidating.
Kid Win cringed.
“No, don’t act like I’m going to say something bad. The Deputy Director in charge of the Wards, I can’t quite remember his name, he had some glowing praise for your ability to engage with the public.”
Kid’s cool in multiple ways, so this seems legit. 🙂
The thing about not remembering the deputy director’s name seems too conspicuously mentioned to not be an example of lasting memory holes left by the miasma.
“Engage with the public? I don’t remember doing much of that.”
I suppose, while he’d be good at connecting with the public, the people in charge might not want to put the responsibility of the role on him?
There’s also passive engagement, in the sense that people like him because he looks cool while fighting villains.
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Oh! Is Legend mixing up Kid and Weld?
“Something about speeches to other youths at school?”
“Oh. That wasn’t a big deal.”
To be fair, the people who say something isn’t a big deal tend to be the ones who are good at it.
“The guy who’s rating your performance seems to think it was. Can’t quite place his name, the suits sort of start to blur in with one another-”
That’s fair, even without the miasma.
“Deputy Director Renick,” Kid Win supplied.
“Yes. Thank you. He seemed to think you connected with the crowd, and you did it better than any of your teammates. You were frank, open, honest, and you stood out because of how you handled yourself when the students started getting rambunctious and heckling you.”
That sounds like Kid, yeah!
I’d actually like to see this. Especially the heckling part.
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