Office Hours [Open, everyone feel free to bother GLaDOS]

[fabricaketions]

One of the Sensoriums is active. Inside it's been made to look like a spacious office. A whole wall of windows opens up on a bright but indistinct cityscape. The decor is sleek and modern, though the predominant black and white with no color is perhaps a bit too stark. Some absolutely untouched-looking books sit on a shelf and a plant that is far too green to be real sits in the window collecting dust. There are barely audible stirrings of bad office muzak that are not entirely blocked out by the walls. It's all very sterile and feels off, like it's been put together by someone with a precise list of things that an office is but no understanding of what it's like to be in one.

Suspended over the desk is a gigantic robot.

It glares balefully at anyone who looks in. Or at least it seems to, thanks to that yellow "eye" in its "face".

"Oh. Hello. Come in. Make yourself at home," GLaDOS says. Under her attempt at a flat tone is the faintest hint of resentment.

She does not want to be here. At all.

Comments

[fabricaketions]

That was an interesting question. GLaDOS had to weigh it. The enrichment center was hers, she had been as a god there with the entire facility at her disposal.

But...

No, nevermind, she didn't need to make this comparison. It was much simpler to attack the question more practically.

"Well, considering that my enrichment center is currently located within a collapsed universe, I don't think it's much of a contest."

Cheating was for winners.

"However," she admitted, "I can think of worse accommodations to be stuck with."

[first_in_time]

What a cop-out.

"Such as?" Barbara prompted.