[The receptionist instinctively moves to shift the papers before realising that it's not going to work so easily.]
Just a minute.
[With a hasty scribble he finishes whatever note he needs to finish, then snatches up the paperwork and turns to spring out of his chair and feed it into a machine across the office. He barely even looks at Yuan; his haste and distraction is, it seems, honest and earnest, and not a matter of malicious intent. He doesn't even pause to wait while the machine processes the paperwork, but returns to make his notes, and subsequently needs prompting to be reminded that he is, in fact, in the middle of another task.
[Regardless, within minutes he slaps a copied version of the paperwork on the counter, along with a card with some hastily scribbled dates on it.]
Follow-up appointments in a month, then six months. Full citizenship pending probation complete. Have a nice day.
[This is said very fast, on automatic, while Kratos murmurs a translation in the background.]
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Just a minute.
[With a hasty scribble he finishes whatever note he needs to finish, then snatches up the paperwork and turns to spring out of his chair and feed it into a machine across the office. He barely even looks at Yuan; his haste and distraction is, it seems, honest and earnest, and not a matter of malicious intent. He doesn't even pause to wait while the machine processes the paperwork, but returns to make his notes, and subsequently needs prompting to be reminded that he is, in fact, in the middle of another task.
[Regardless, within minutes he slaps a copied version of the paperwork on the counter, along with a card with some hastily scribbled dates on it.]
Follow-up appointments in a month, then six months. Full citizenship pending probation complete. Have a nice day.
[This is said very fast, on automatic, while Kratos murmurs a translation in the background.]