# Introduction - Lilliana Fargo

Author: assilsasta
Tags: Character intorduction, Female, Liger, Lion/tiger


Sitting in her cluttered cubicle, surrounded by stacks of
tractor feed, 12 pin dot matrix printout of Java source code, Lilliana Fargo
flipped through pages circling line after line with a ballpoint pen The 6 foot
tall liger, lion tiger mix, was always dressed in business attire when on the job, today
wearing a pleated black skirt and white button up shirt with a black feminine
bow tie; from behind her came a melodic voice, "You know that is easier to fix
if you just do it all on the computer."
 
Spinning in her high back ergonomic chair to face the
kangaroo, "And if I was getting paid to fix the programmer's code for them, I
would do that. These morons are still using functions that were depreciated
years ago. Come look at this."
 
Tiana tilted her head as she leaned against the cubicle
divider, "You know damn well I don't know Java."
 
"Neither do the developers from the looks of this shit."
Turning back to her desk she picks up the stack she was working on and drops it
into the recycling bin, "It doesn't matter anyway. Tomorrow my contract is up
and they have yet to offer me enough to make me want to stay in this dump.
Besides, I finished my Masters in Information Systems Technology, and was
thinking about getting out of the contracting biz."
 
"So what are you going to do now if you're not taking a new
contract?"
 
 Leaning back in her
chair and stretching her arms over her head, "I was thinking about getting a
job as a teacher."
 
"You? Teach? With that mouth? I hope you're talking about
college."
 
"I spent eight years working with college students and
professors that didn't know their ass for a hole in the ground. I want to get
to them before they're stuck in stupid."
 
"And talking like that is what's going to get you in
trouble."
 
Lilly leaned forward and hit the enter key on the terminal
in front of her before standing up and grabbing her suit jacket. "And that is
all she wrote. You have a good time working here, Tiana. You got my LinkedIn.
Feel free to drop me a line if you need any real help."
 
Looking at the text flying up the screen too fast to read,
Tiana asked, "What did you just do, and who is going to fix it?"
 
"I just started my wiper program to get all my 'Contract
protected' code off these systems. No one but me should have been using it anyway."
Walking out the sealed vault door, "Hasta nunca, folks."
 
---
 
After tossing her access badge at the security guard on her
way out of the building, Lilly made a beeline to her candy apple red '73 Chevy
Camaro Z28, which sported twin black racing stripes from the hood to the tail.
She had spent years completely restoring the classic car from a rusted out hulk
she picked up out of a junkyard. Dropping into the driver seat and pulling the
door shut, she sat for a moment just thinking about the next few weeks with
nothing to do, and no place to be, just time to relax and look for a new job
and place to live. She had sold off everything that would not fit in the tiny
trunk and backseat of the sports coupe, keeping only a duffle bag worth of
clothes and her gaming consoles. It was time to move on to a new life, and she
could hardly contain the excitement.
 
She checked her purse for her passport before bringing the
slumbering beast of a muscle car to life. Revving the engine a few times,
setting off nearby car alarms, she dropped the car into first and released the
clutch. The tires squealed, leaving black marks and the smell of burning rubber
as she left the parking lot to her future.

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