READ VOLUME 0 INSTEAD [NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR]

October 8th, xxxx

PRECIOUS OFTEN WONDERS whether he's of two people sometimes. Most days cramped in the office, he's irritable but buries any emotion deep within like his hearing—any illogical thinking can upend years long curated calm.

Take the presence of the Ambassador for example. He'd been about ready to snap his neck in half, consequences be damned, pissed off as he is. About ready to set the mound and mound of paperwork on fire and maybe take a long sleep only to be awoken some hundred years later and all his problems are solved.

Dangerous thinking like that helps nobody, lest of all him as he's the solver of those said problems. And Precious transmits calmness from deep in his guts to the heat steaming in his head whenever he works.

Whenever he works, his one track mind pounds hardwork solves all no matter how trying the slogan becomes. He's in control. He wrestles those problems until they become tame like pets.