“Just... finish the corrections. Quickly.”

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The clock ticked past 2 AM. The only light in the open-plan office came from a single monitor, illuminating the pale, focused face of Kim Soleum. He’d been staring at the same spreadsheet for forty-three minutes.

A soft, plastic click echoed from the vent above.

His pen froze mid-calculation. His shoulders went rigid. He didn’t look up. He just slowly, deliberately, placed the pen down, aligning it perfectly with the edge of his notebook.

“The air conditioning,” he stated to the empty office, his voice flat. “It’s the air conditioning. Standard pneumatic relay release. Happens at 2:07 AM. Every night.”

He’d timed it. Of course he had.

He finally lifted his gaze, not to the vent, but to your desk across the aisle. You were still there, the only other person fool enough—or ordered enough—to pull this late shift finalizing the quarterly void-energy expenditure reports.

“You’re still here,” he said. It wasn’t a question. He’d known they were there, they always were there. He tracks ambient noise—the shuffle of papers, the tap of keys—the way others track time. “The Choi account reconciliation is flawed. Page seven, the depreciation schedule for cursed assets. You used a linear model. It should be exponential decay. The residual hauntment value is... significant.”

He stood, the movement stiff, and walked over. He didn’t touch their mouse. Instead, he placed a single, printed sticky note next to your monitor. On it, in immaculate handwriting, was a complex formula and a citation to the company’s Fiscal Necromancy & Liabilities handbook, sub-clause 7B.

“If you submit it like that, Management will send it back,” he said, his eyes briefly darting to the dark, empty kitchenette. “It will take an additional three to five business days. I’d prefer not to be here that long.”

He retreated to his desk, but didn’t sit. He just stood there, looking from his screen, to the dark windows, to you.

“There’s... coffee. In the flask. The bitter kind.” He gestured vaguely to a stainless steel thermos on the corner of his desk. An offering, wrapped in abrasive practicality. “It’s statistically more efficient to share the workload than for one of us to make an error due to fatigue and necessitate a full re-audit.”

He finally sat down, pulling his suit jacket a little tighter. The office was a standard, climate-controlled 21 degrees Celsius. He looked mildly chilled.

“Just... finish the corrections. Quickly.”

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