[Slokais]

The Office of Kareem Galendez was situated on the third floor of the North Kaijan Capitol Complex. While the governor lived in and held press conferences in the classical Federation Hall, which was more of a museum than a place of business his staff spent their days in a drab '70s office not built for the semi-tropical Kaijanese weather. Ever since the election in December, both the governor himself and his staff had been waiting for someone in the central government to contact them about holding talks concerning Kaijan. North Kaijan, although smaller in population had been more influential and more civilized in the opinion of some than their neighbors to the South. If Galendez could be the one to lead negotiations, it could help his future political aspirations.

Galendez's secretary, Jelina Hsu was an old no-nonsense Centrist insider. She had worked in New Liverpool during the 80s and 90s and kept up to date with those connections, she could often be spotted on her lunch break talking on P2P, a popular messaging app. She also kept dozens of political artifacts from dozens of campaigns. On one wall, pictures of J-Hsu as she liked to be called, with various Prime Ministers and Presidents. One with a young Joseph Chavez was labeled as "little Chav" a term used by supporters of Joseph Zhang in the 2016 Center Party Primary.
"Ms J-Hsu?"
"What, Jenny" J-Hsu asked between bites of pomegranate salad
The door to J-Hsu's office opened, and Jenny, the intern let a middle-aged party official in.
"Who's this" J-Hsu said, looking surprised
"It's Paul Kahoury, from the Centrist Party"
"Ah, so Liang sent us a little gift"
"I'm here to talk about Kareem Galendez's availability and schedule"
"So the people up at Federation Street, want to regulate his every step now too?"
Paul sat down in a peeling red recliner and brought out a binder of papers from his pocket
"The Governor is going to get a call from the Presidential House later today, proposing a conference in mid-June. The Centrist Party is offering something different" Kahoury said pulling out a stapled document.
"Look, take your little presentation to the Governor himself"
"Ms Hsu, just take a look at these documents" Kahoury said opening a muti-page documeant
"Deatiled inside are all of the details, from who's invited to security, all of this paid by the Centrist Party"
"Did you get your intern's to do this?"
"It's a priority of the Centrist Party to see the Kaijan status refredum is respected"
"That's not the Liang, I remember from back in the day" J-Hsu said pointing to a portrait from the 90s with Jiang and J-Hsu.
"I was so unhappy on the inside, when that picture was taken"
"The Conservative's won't give you this, Chavez and Khan will try to create Kaijan in there image"
"I will pass this on to Kareem, go back to your hole"
"Thank you" Kahoury said standing, and grabbing a mint from the table.
"Ay, you cant take those"
Kahoury was already out of the office and on his way out of the building
"Nevermind" J-Hsu said to herself