Why does this always take forever?

[Kiwi]

Kiwi cautiously walked into the government lobby and quickly looked around to see if any of the officers started yelling and pointing at her. But no one did, so she continued on her way to the front desk. After having walked across the huge lobby she arrived at the desk to find no one sitting there (which was usual whenever she seemed to come here). She sighed and turned around and leaned on the desk. She had come here to see her sister, she needed to talk to her and see if she could get any good information out of her. Dusty was never good at keeping secrets. But first she had to wait here to have a secretary or someone bring her up there or call Dusty down here. Though as usual it always took forever.

[Anthong]

Anthong entered the building with his empty poker face on. Hovering over each glove, various holographic screens flashed information before changing to something else; fingers flicked into space in rhythm was the changing screens. He glanced up to make sure his path was clear when he saw Kiwi.

“Excuse me, but you look lost. My name is Anthong Sin and I work here. May I help you?” Snapping his wrists sharply, the holographs disappeared. He quickly closed the gap between them, politely extending his hand.

[Kiwi]

She pushed away from the desk and shook this Anthong Sin's hand. "Hello, my name is Kiwi McCleary and I don't know if you know her but I am Major Dusty's sister. I have something that I would like to talk to her about but I don't really have a way to get up to the floor she is on without getting in some kind of trouble." She pointed towards the desk, "I can just wait here until the secretary comes back if you are too busy with...um...government stuff."

She shrugged, who knew what this guy did maybe he was just a private and couldn't even bring her up there or maybe he was the secretary. She shook her head and laughed, no way was this guy a secretary.

[Anthong]

Anthong tilted his head a little as Kiwi laughed to herself. “Welcome to Eastern Gate Ms. McCleary. I am familiar with your sister, Major McCleary, and would not have any problems taking you to her office. As long as you can prove blood relation and she is there to greet you. If I could just see your ID please, I will page her for you.”

Silently, Anthong had flicked one of his gloves back on. A card shaped hologram floated above his palm. “Please just swipe it across my sensors. I guarantee that I am not a data thief.” With his free hand Anthong pulled his own ID out and across his glove. The black card with green scrolling data was a government card and the action brought up a matching set of data hovering above the card swipe hologram. Most of the data was too small to read from any distance, but there were many parts purposefully blurred out.

[Kiwi]

"Oh of course....just let me find it..." She dug through her crowded pocket and eventually pulled out her card. "Finally...geez I guess I have to clean that out sometime soon." She swiped the card and glanced at his data, it seemed like his office was on the same floor that Dusty's was. Then he must be some big shot here as well. Great I met another arrogant official.

[Anthong]

Kiwi’s data suddenly appeared above Anthong’s hand. With practiced movements, Anthong sifted through pages of official documentation and data. It would be obvious to anyone, that Anthong had access to much more information than most people thought the government had on them. He carefully kept the holograph out of Kiwi’s sight as read. “Of course. Thank you for your patience Ms. McCleary. Yes, I will page your sister for you immediately. If she is available, I will take you to her office myself.”

Anthong walked behind the common secretary desk after shutting down his gloves. A couple keystrokes of the main frame later Anthong nodded. “And now we’ll see if she answers her headset.”

[Kiwi]

She grinned at him as he turned to away from to read the data. "Nothing too bad about me on there I hope." She put her card back into her pocket and watched Anthong walk around the desk, "So I noticed that you are on the same floor as Dusty and you are an attractive man, which means Dusty has a crush on you. So are you two going out yet or has she made any moves?" She grinned again this would be perfect for a start to the gossip she wanted to hear.

[Anthong]

Anthong looked up at Kiwi and blinked. “Thank you for the compliment,” and returned his attention to behind the desk.

“Ah, your sister is in her office and expecting us. Please follow me.” He stepped out from the desk and toward the elevator bank. He paused at a random elevator and slid his ID across the panel. Your sister and I have neighboring offices on Y level. And you are no trouble to lead since I was heading to meet with the Major anyways.” The elevator opened and Anthong waited for Kiwi to enter. “Please.”

[Kiwi]

She giggled and jumped into the elevator "Oh you are going out on a date? This is so cute!" She played with her sleeve pullling on the loose strings."Just so you know, Dusty and I really don't like each other that much. Thought I might tell you if she gets all crabby, though I don't want to ruin your date with her. She really needs to get out more, I mean she is only 21." She watched the numbers fly by as the elevator rose, "You must be pretty important to have an office on level Y, only the big shots are up there."

[Anthong]

“Well, my first office imploded so I was reassigned to my current one.” Anthong hinted at. “The Major just gave me an available office.”

He refused to indulge Kiwi or even react to her first comment. The elevator slowed and finally stopped on Y level. “Please stay close to me. As you have so eloquently pointed out, this is a high security level and the defenses may mistake you for an intruder if you wander too far from me. This way.” Anthong stepped briskly out of the elevator and down the hall, checking that Kiwi was following his only once.

[Kiwi]

She stepped out over the elevator and picked up her pave to catch up with Anthong, Geez, he is being a grump. Maybe he doesn't want anyone to know that they are actually going out. She smiled and looked up to him That was it. He didn't want anyone to know. "Your office imploded? Wow, guess Eastern Gate really is falling apart." She looked along the walls to see if she could find any of these security devices. "So what kind of defenses are up here? Like laser guns?"

[Anthong]

“Lasers would be a poor defense on a space station Ms. McCleary. Imagine the structural damage that would quickly accumulate if every shot pierced through the station. Eastern Gate was built before laser tempered alloys were required you understand. This place is indeed out-dated.” Anthong halted before Major McCleary’s door.

He swiped his ID across the outer panel and activated the com. “Major McCleary? Anthong Sin and Kiwi GloryRoad McCleary here.”

[Dusty]

Dusty looked up from her desk as her com announced Anthong...along with her sister's presence. She put her green hair behind her ear which had fallen in her face from leaning over the desk and stood up. "Please come in." She said replying. She sighed, she was tired from having stayed up all night trying to finish most of her work and now she really did not want to have to deal with her sister. She knew that Kiwi was just here to annoy her or try to get some information. What made it worse was she had to try to act some what civil now that Anthong was coming in as well.

[Kiwi]

She heard Dusty reply and waited for the doors to open "So are we going to be moving to a new Gate? And if we are which Gate are we going to be moving to? I always heard that Northern Gate was very up to date." She watched the doors open and saw her younger sister standing behind her huge desk, she noted that Dusty seemed tired and angry with her being there in the first place. She smirked, Dusty being tired would just make it easier to get information.

[Anthong]

“Good day Major McCleary.” Anthong bowed formally before entering the office. “I was hoping to follow up on the Zanshatama case from yesterday, but if you wish to visit with your family first I can wait in my office.”

“As for Eastern Gate Ms. McCleary, the proposed closure is public knowledge and there are no plans to replace this gate that have been announced either. If closure is finalized, residents would be contacted and reimbursed, but would have to find new housing themselves. Perhaps the government would provide support agencies, but I do not know and I can only guess. I may work for the Interstellar Government but I do not know the future.” Anthong waited for the sisters’ dismissal, but stood stock still in the center of the office in the mean time.