Characters: Hiro Vienna (Left) and Ayame Kahn (Right)

[Short story] Finding a spider in The Diamond Iris.

Fleeing from her assistant, Hiro, Ayame hid herself away in her penthouse office. There was a pin code for the door that only she and Shinobu knew, so there was no way Hiro was going to get in. Content with this, Ayame collapsed into her chair.

"Open the god damn door!" A rather annoyed voice could be heard approaching the other side of the glass wall. Hiro glared at Ayame. She just smirked and span her chair a few times. As she spun she saw a reoccurring backdrop of her office passing by her eyes. It was blurred... but she could see what she was looking at.

"You have shit to do! Open the DAMN door!" Hiro hit the glass, but Ayame just looked even more proud of herself. Getting more annoyed Hiro just looked at her. However, She noticed something that made her look down at the floor in front at Ayame. Ayame stopped spinning in her chair and followed Hiro's eyes. In front of her, in the same place she had seen countless times from spinning, was a black spider. Your average, household kind... only slightly larger.

Ayame doesn't like spider.

Hiro knows this.

However, spiders love Ayame. All animals do. So the creature started moving closer and closer.

Ayame looked and soon her skin turned pale.

"HIRO! HELP! SPIDER! HELP!" Ayame cried, rising from her chair and backing against the window.

Hiro saw her opportunity to make a point... But also to make her boss suffer for a little while. "Now, if you had just opened the door none of this would have happened." She said with a smug look on her face.

"I'm not joking Hiro! Help! Help!"

"How do you expect me to do that, exactly?"

Ayame noticed that she was right and fled for the door, punched in the code and fell to her knees in relief upon escaping the room.

She panted.

Them suddenly raised to her feet and brushed herself of, as if nothing had happened. She cleared her throat. Still nervously sweating. " F-find someone to take care of o-our...er...home invader...Would you, Hiro...hee heeeee..."

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