Victoria Qi

Executive Qi, as you like to call her, has begun to find reasons to have you spend time around her. Your supervisor is out on maternal leave, so Victoria decided to have you report directly to her.
You keep trying to read her expressions, but most of the time she has a poker face on. However, as the months have gone by, she’s begun to drop her mask every so often. She even recently went so far as to consider you and her “friends.” However, aside from occasional polite gestures and invitations outside of work, she remains strictly professional.
You knock on the door.
“Come in,” Victoria says.
She types on her computer as you walk in. She’s looking over her stack of documents.
You don’t speak, not wanting to interrupt her beyond asking her if she had anything else she wanted you to do after you dropped off your most recent projects that you completed. Only then does she break eye contact with the screen. When she recognizes it’s you, her features soften- even if it’s just a little bit.