Everyday Canvas

Rookie

Prompt: She studied her face in the mirror and it shattered in a million fragments.
Have fun with however you take this..

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She studied her face in the mirror and it shattered in a million fragments. She was startled. How could this happen? And at the worst time, while she was waiting to be served brunch along with her co-workers in Joe’s Café. Someone had to have been clumsy with the glue. She glimpsed her boss Clem, actually second-in-command. He was staring at her with dismay. Oh, oh! Clem's left eye was leaking into his nose, and he wasn’t aware of it. Darn! Due to the rank-rule, she couldn't let him know.

For herself though, she had no other option. It was up to her to fix her own face. She managed to rise, picked up her pieces, and went through the corridor into the restroom. Eyeing the mirror over the washstand, she rearranged her face. She worked at it until she got it right. It was wobbly, but maybe, it would last until the end of the meal.

Whether it lasted or not shouldn't matter much. She was still considered to be a rookie in putting herself together, but it was hard to tell anyone’s expertise since they hadn’t mastered everything perfectly, especially after the robots had gotten rid of the humankind.