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8:01 am At the office..

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The digital notice board attracted quite the congregation of workers. Which probably had a lot more to do with the unexpected fan-fare of depicted red and yellow ribbons and the bannered text 'Employee of the Week' than the photo posted below it.

An image of a young woman whose face was in quite the mess was well framed and posted between the banner and ribbons. The culprit of the act wasn't far away, a cup of cappuccino in his hand as he entertained all the staff that stopped to check out the abnormally decorated noticeboard.

"You leave that girl alone for one day and she's wrestling 'gators and eating gazelle... raw! She's really taken to this like a natural." Felix Castor explained to one of the staff, with a light chuckle at the end, who'd asked about the picture.

"So since when did we have a staff of the week thing going on?"

"Uh, Since yesterday actually." Felix smirked, every one knew he was up to no good at this stage.

"Hey, isn't that the girl who is personally handling the physical rehab of the Barghest we caught last year?" one of them queried after finding the unkempt face to be quite familiar.

"Yeah, that's her." Felix took a drink of his coffee to hide his grin when he thought about how upset she would be if she was here.

"Hmmm, what's her name again?"

"Uhhh... hmmm." Felix placed a finger on chin to stroke his non-existent beard as he thought "You know, I actually don't know?"

"So... you're paying her, right? You know you can't pay incognitos? I'm pretty sure that's illegal."

"Poop..." he grumbled before reaching into the mass of people and single-handedly ripping the paper 'off' the notice board. The digital system recognized his finger prints as the posters and animated the entire affair, even leaving four edges of paper where the digital tacks had held the image firm to the board then seconds later fading them away and replacing the space with a more bland but plausibly an infinitely more important notice.

The man rushed off from the scene of leaving the majority of the staff there pondering what exactly was going on. They quickly fanned out however, the rest of the normal stuff they could check on their time pieces or from their desks.

Felix burst into his office and started shuffling through the stacks of paper. Minutes of frustration later he sat at his table, examining the last few months of pay and much to his surprise all of them had empty fields where her name should have been.

He tapped the phone key at his desk and leaned back into his chair as he thought of who in HR to call to sort this whole matter out. When the phone was finally answered he found himself being bounced all over the office until he was ultimately passed on to the boss himself.

"I've read through two Chapters of this stuff so far and nobody seems to know her name." Felix explained.

"Yeah... well no. She's worked here for a while though but I guess no-one figured to ask." the boss shrugged at the statement as though it was remotely acceptable.

"I kind of need it to fix the pay."

"Really? Well... good luck!" an audible disconnect sound rang out leaving the prankster a bit shocked.

"He writes and signs off on everything. How could he not know?" Felix sighed heavily but just then he had the brilliant idea to check his phone's address book for the details.

Felix rested the small digital memo on the desk and as the number popped up he cursed his luck at the row of question marks occupying the name field "Oh come on! You can't even enter a number without a name on these stupid things."