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[Leila Gold]

Of course the campaign poster was just a prototype. Leila had every hope that the real thing would look better. Especially since it would be professionally done. But for today...this would do.

The point today was not really to promote a poster, it was to promote the person. Leila hoped to get her name out there a bit more and to interact with more of the career people around Pilot Ridge. And, you know. To maybe find an intern to replace her at the firm, though that would be a lot harder than it sounded.

The table was pretty sparse, aside from her poster. She'd pulled out a few pencils, but they were just plain old number two pencils. There wasn't much about the legal profession that she was able to promote. This was more about selling herself, and she'd have to learn to do it sooner than later.

"Welcome!" Leila said to just about every passing person. She stood next to her table wearing her hair up and a nice sharp skirt suit. Professional. But it didn't seem to be interesting many people.

Sighing, Leila spun her finger in the air and watched some of the various flags and streamers around flap around.

"This has got to be the most boring thing I have ever signed myself up for," she moaned. "I could be back at the office now, or preparing speeches...is anyone here even interested in becoming a lawyer or going into government?" She called this last part out to the crowd, hoping for some kind of response.

[Scarlett Granger]

Scarlett was walking amongst the large groups of people. No one looked happy about being there and in fact, they all seemed to want to be doing something else with their week end. Noticing that one of the stalls was unoccupied, Scarlett walked over to find a well dressed woman looking forlorn as ever.

"I'm interested in becoming a lawyer," Scarlett smiled, lying slightly but making the woman feel a little better, "Please could you tell me a little bit about it?"

(OOC: Sorry for the short post!)

[Leila Gold]

Leila's head snapped around to see the newcomer, a grin already in place.

"Really?" she asked, perhaps a bit too earnestly. "Well, if you're interested..." She eyed the girl up and down. Still a little young, of course, but who at this fair would be ready to jump into an internship, really? You kind of needed to go to law school for that.

"Would you like a seat? Or a pencil? Or, um, a poster? I'm afraid I don't have many goodies or anything to give away. I'm Leila, by the way. Leila Gold." She held out her hand to shake.

"Becoming a lawyer is hard work, as you probably would have guessed. First you have to learn how to read giant, dusty books and study legal codes and cases throughout the years. Not to mention all the Latin you have to know, plus all the paperwork. Only a very, very small amount of what I do is in the courtroom. So if you were interested in just going to court and arguing in front of people like they show on TV, well, go be an actor on Law and Order. Because even lawyers who do get more court cases have to do a lot of behind-the-scenes work. And my job is mostly in civil disputes, which rarely go all the way to court. But if you want to help people, well, that's where this job can be more rewarding."

Leila rambled for a while before coming to an abrupt halt. She crossed her arms and cocked an eyebrow. "Let me guess. You have no interest in being a lawyer and you're just kind of bored of this whole thing. Is that more accurate?" She grinned. "That's all right. Instead of me blabbing on about everything I do, let me get into something that will probably help you more. What can I do to help you? Is there anything in your life where you feel like you need help with something?"

It was a valid question. Were metas being treated unfairly outside of the school? Was it too hard to make friends, within or outside of Hammel? What did students these days need--better access to computers, maybe? What sort of things were her (hopeful) future constituents going to be wanting?

[Scarlett Granger]

Scarlett now regretted asking this woman any questions about the thing she was obviously interested in, or maybe she wasn't interested in it at all. That was probably a better assumption for Scarlett to make. The woman was probably only doing this job because she earn lots of money for it. As she explained, being a lawyer meant that you had to read lots of dusty old books and get bored all day long. That was not Scarlett's idea of a fun day.

"No," she sighed to the woman, "I'm sorry. I saw that you had no one to talk so so I thought it would be nice for me to, you know, come and talk to you."

When the woman asked whether she could help Scarlett with something else, she furrowed her brow and started to think about what she could possibly help her with. "Well," she smiled, "You were a teen once and you must have had a crush. I have this Valentine's Dance coming up and I'm not sure what type of thing to wear. I have a blind date too, so, do you have any ideas?"

[Leila Gold]

"Well that was very thoughtful, thank you," Leila said with a kind smile. A nice person. That was a bonus. Leila was always up to talk to someone nice. Or someone mean, come to think of it, but that was beside the point.

"Oh, well, that wasn't exactly what I was thinking of..." She scratched the back of her head for a moment, her upper lip wrinkling. "I was more wondering if you've been feeling left out because of being meta or anything like that. But this works, too."

She stepped back and looked the girl up and down. "Well," she said, "you have a very thin body. Dress to extend that--try maybe a long slinky-looking dress, or something that really accents the length of your torso. Is what I would suggest. But are you trying to impress your blind date, or are you looking to impress someone else at the school? Because then you can choose colors based on what you think they're going to wear, or their favorite colors. Or maybe you don't want to impress anyone? Shorter dresses with nice straps that stay on are more comfortable and will allow you to do more dancing. What were you thinking?"

[Scarlett Granger]

Scarlett looked down at her feet and then giggled, looking back at the woman. She was happy that she had been given such good advice and the woman seemed really happy to be giving it to her.

"I..." she started and then giggled again, "I wanted to impress someone other than my date. He is really nice but he has a different date to me...."

(OOC: Sorry for such a short post!)

[Leila Gold]

"So..." Leila began. "You want to impress the guy, but he's already taken? Is that right? In that case I guess you have to ask yourself first if it's really worth it. But let's face it, we probably already know the answer."

Grinning evilly, Leila leaned over to whisper conspiratorially, "I say go for the gold. You may as well give it a shot, you know?"

She stood up straight again and put her hands on her hips. "In that case, I think you should try a red dress. It should really make you stand out. Oh, wait...is this for a Valentine's Day dance? Oh, well, then everyone will be wearing red. Maybe violet? Well, whatever you go with, find something that will really make you pop. Colors are good, and try to find something that will match your skin tone. And do something fun with your hair, and don't be afraid of a little fun make-up."

Walking over to the booth and pulling out the chair, Leila sat down and rested her head on her propped up fist. "If you don't mind me asking, what kind of situation are we talking here? Best friend forever that you want to impress, cute guy that you've never worked up the courage to talk to? Though don't tell me if you don't want. I'm not here to pry."

But Leila could never resist a bit of gossip, or just hearing about other people.

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