The First Step Towards Success.

[Syrah Steele]

Timestamp: Spring 41, 512

To be honest Syrah was nervous. She had gotten word from the Akalak at the Labor Aid to go see Jonathon Black about a job at the vineyards. She had to go see the very man who taught her father and would hopefully now teach her. Maybe she could use her father as an advantage? She looked up the location on her map, which was very useful today, and started walking to the Winery after she stepped out of the Labor Aid.

The walk wasn't that far. Only one road till the main gates then walking to the winery by the wall. The real walk was from the Port to the Labor Aid. She nodded to the Akalaks stationed by the gates and they just looked back at her. She cautiously moved through and started walking along the wall to the Winery. It was called Bluevein, the Bluevein Winery. Named after the waterfall that resided in the city she supposed with a look of the map. The vineyards looked huge compared to the Winery on the map and as the plants started flowing past her and the Winery rose up out of the fog, she could see she was correct.

She was almost to the Winery when she realized she had no idea where to go to find Jonathon Black besides inside the Winery. Once inside, where would she go? Would someone kick her out because she is not an employee or would they show her to Jonathon's office? She stood stock still for a few moments, worried, before she started walking again and decided she needed to enter the Winery confidentially. She got to the wall of the building and tried to find a door.

She looked out to the vineyards once more and she could see a dot of blue-black out in the fields. The workers of course, she thought. The Akalaks were quite a sights. The workers in the grapes payed no attention to her as she found a door and walked through.

The Winery was a beautiful sight. Many Akalaks where strewn about making preparations for the coming harvest and the coming vinting. Now she just needed to find out where to go. She would have asked an Akalak, but they intimidated her with their dark skin and extremely tall features... Maybe there was a human around somewhere? There where a couple of human men about, and Syrah could not spy any females. Well, she got along better with men she supposed. She would go ask that human man over there. But she didn't because a very large Akalak got to her first.

"What are you doing here? This is not for guests." He boomed and Syrah flinched a little, frightened. She kept her back sturdy and her eyes straight as she replied to the man, hiding her frightened emotion.

"I am looking for Jonathon Black. I am applying for a job." The Akalak was a dark blue color with shoulder length black hair. He looked like he held a leadership position within the Winery and Syrah couldn't help but think, what if this was Black?

OOCI made the Akalak look like Jonathon Black, so he is Black. But you can change him if you want too.

[Gossamer]

The Akalak looked Syrah up and down, raised an eyebrow and then turned and bellowed over his shoulder. "Jonathan! Got a recruit." There was a mumbled response from deeper within the main building, easily heard through the open door, and the Akalak nodded. "He's in there. Said to send you in. Don't be taking anything on your way in and out and don't be touching nothing either." He said, looking thoughtful and mean, both at the same time. The winery two story structure that still seemed to look like it was crouched low to the ground. Its gaping maw, the main doors, were thrown wide in the nice weather and she could see workers moving around. All Syrah had to do was mount the steps and walk through the double doors into the barrel lined interior to be in the heart of the activity. Most of the workers she passed were busy at tasks, human one and all. There were a few that had features that marked them as mixed blood, but by and by they were a typical winery lot. Syrah would need to look until she ran across blue skin again. And when she did, she'd find him high in the air, standing on top of a rack of barrels, adjusting what looked like a block and tackle pulley system. Long hair hung down, captured at the nape of his neck by a leather thong. He was shirtless like the Akalak preferred, but he had the bottom half of a set of leathers on, a set of sturdy boots, and was busy fixing the device, an oil can in his hand. "Hey... watch out down there. You lost?" He asked, a half smile on his face.

[Syrah Steele]

Syrah thanked the Akalak for showing her were to go and she quickly scurried off down the directed the Akalak pointed at. As she talked throuhg the winery she gaped in awe at all the barrels and all the different kind of races there were working here. When she got far enough in a man, standing at the top of a large barrel, spoke to her.

"No, I am not lost. I am looking for Jonathon Black." She said politely, "My name is Syrah. Um, Syrah Steele. I am looking for a job here." She tried to say confidently.

To be honest he was nervous. She never had a job interview, her father always put her were he needed her. She was nervous and had no idea what to expect. The man looked busy, fixing the pulley system, but he seemed to know what he was doing.

She hoped she would find Mr. Black soon, she didn't like being nervous and she wanted to get it over with and start working.