When Maphira woke up, she found herself in what appeared to be a conference room. It wasn’t just any conference room, though. This was a special conference room. It was the conference room from that famous sitcom, The Paper Company Office. She’d loved that show as a kid, watching it with her mum in the lounge room of their small home. Rylee had always wanted to join in, but she’d been too young to understand any of the jokes.
Since The Paper Company Office was just a television show, it didn’t really make sense how she’d found herself in its conference room. Perhaps she was dreaming, or maybe the Conclave of Mechanists had brought her to the set of the show for whatever nefarious purposes they had.
Was it possible that they had this kind of office design near Melbourne, somewhere? She considered it unlikely, but not impossible. Either way, this certainly didn’t seem to be the new Conclave of Mechanists base located in Carnegie.
As Maphira lifted herself off the ground, she wondered where Vai could be. Not at all sure what was going on, Maphira headed out of the conference room, into the main office area.
It was empty now, but she could picture it well – the myriad of scenes she’d once watched and laughed at. James putting Dirk’s stapler in custard, the boss Mitchel Scarn making a fool of himself, the romance blossoming between Pearl and James.
Perhaps there was a business offering office fitouts close to Melbourne that matched the style of that famous show, Maphira thought. It certainly wasn’t impossible, especially now that all the millennials who loved the show were working in similar offices.
Deciding to explore a little bit, Maphira headed toward the break room, hoping she’d find Vai somewhere. She’d stay on her guard since this was probably some sort of Mechanist plot. They weren’t just going to put her in an office and call it a day. So the question was, what was their game?