***Several Hours Later***
Back inside her office, the evening lighting of the Spire had kicked in and casted a fading amber glow over its exterior, shining through the crystal clear windows. Zhali hummed quietly as she flicked through the freshly printed pages of Ink's results, the paper still warm from the heat press. Her team of HR goblins all stood in a row, heels tapping together as they awaited her thoughts eagerly. All of the team, bar one, seemed incredibly excited.
"Jeez. She's... quite well equipped isn't she? Very strong mental arithmetic, good customer service knowledge... Decent at maintenance and tech too. Fuck! Look at those physical results!" Zhali gawped at the graphs and numbers on the page.
The tallest goblin of the pack nodded excitedly, her figure more muscular than the others.
"She actually broke some of our testing machines! Those tentacles have incredible PSI! She capped out our machine at two thousand PSI, so we don't actually know her upper limit but... she's a walking hydraulic press!"
"That's insane!" Zhali shook her head in disbelief.
"We also don't know her upper strength limit for her body either. She lifted the heaviest weights we had, made some of the boys down there mighty jealous. Donnavon was absolutely miffed, his record demolished by a newcomer! We opted not to keep adding weights on, point was proved before then, ya know? She's strong. Strong enough."
"Noted. Loomer sized folks are often weaker than people think, square cubed law and all that, but not for this czarite, apparently!" Zhali continued onto the next page. "Her endurance is good too, no energy problems or anything of the sort. Excellent. We've had some heart problems with the few other loomers on file but she's clear of that... Wait. You detected two heartbeats?!"
The tallest goblin spoke up again. "Indeed! We're not sure what that means, czarites as a species have a mono vascular system, like most of us. Could have been an implant maybe? Maybe the DA did something to her? Either way, her vitals are strong. Beefy. Real thick... erm... vitals." The goblin seemed to lose focus towards the end of her rambling.
"That's... odd. What kind of infection causes the need for a second heart..? What about her psyke report?"
The eyes of the room turned to view the most nervous looking of the bunch, who cleared her throat before stepping forward.
"I-I have concerns."
"Please, Ira, speak." Zhali smiled warmly.
"E-Everyone seems to be quite the fan of our new colleague, but I have some reservations..." Ira cleared her throat again before flapping her copy of the report out in front of her. "My report initially showed mostly positive signs and a balanced personality profile, leaning towards dominance, but her answers show signs of active manipulation."
"She was amending her answers to give you what she thought you wanted?" Zhali asked, raising an eyebrow and leaning back in her chair.
"Yes. I conducted a couple of other tests without telling her what they were for and cross-referenced the results with her earlier answers. I believe there is a potential we could be dealing with a manipulative narcissist. It wasn't conclusive but there were flags."
A tense silence filled the office as Ira stepped back and lowered her report, staring up at Zhali intently, nothing but the sound of her shoes quietly tapping on the shiny black tiles of tigress's office in their ears.
"Could be troubling, but understandable. If she's telling the truth about her condition and her past, it might explain why those results were flagged up. If I was her, I'd be saying almost anything to get the job here too."
"I-I would state, ma'am, these personality tests aren't able to confirm whether or not someone is lying or if an event actually happened. But yes, she might be lying - sorry, embellishing to impress us because she wants the job."
"Mivnie, what were her tox-screen results?"
A punky looking goblin with a pair of goggles fixed to her forehead stepped forward.
"Partially clean, Zhali. I ran a full suite of tests on samples she provided. No drugs, no toxins, nothing that matched anything on our database. But we did find multiple things we didn't understand. Her genetic structure isn't like that of a typical czarite. In all honesty, our in-house team didn't really understand what they were looking at."
"Recommendations?"
"Well, I've referred it onto the Universal Council and asked them to review, but they haven't responded yet. You know the UC, probs won't hear back until next week. I don't know what to think if I'm honest." Mivnie seemed to stumble at the end of her sentence, catching the CEO's attention immediately.
"You can speak your mind, Mivnie. Please, I'd like to hear it."
"If she's telling the truth, Zhali.... I'm just guessing here, but I think she might have been a super soldier experiment. Lines up with her enhanced vitals and size, but I've got zero proof of that. We should just keep her away from other czarites, of course, just in case. She said she can transmit whatever she has to them, although that might not even be a bad thing. I... uh... I went to see what this gal looked like before her accident, and... well, the difference is night and day."
"We're agreed on that. Although I would note her eyes are very distinctive and are very similar, pre and post change. Right now, I'm still inclined to believe her."
"Mhm. I could see erm... old her getting abducted by the DA for sure, limping on that cane and all? New her? Not so much. Anyways, I suppose what matters is her future, not her past." The goblin concluded, shrugging and rejoining her team.
"True! I'm confident Darkpaw is the right place for her to be. But that's not really the question..."
"The boss is gonna get laid!" Mivnie called out, causing a round of laughs from all but one of the HR crew. Zhali blushed furiously, attempting to hide her face.
"Shut up you lot! Honestly! I don't even know if... I don't -"
"Oh shush your mouth, boss. Honestly. The girl has the hots for you, she can barely take her eyes off you!"
