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“No.”
“You’re not even going to consider it?” To think she’d picked up this girl as an easy job to fill out her schedule after team Ruckus had retired, leaving her with only one big ticket magical girl to manage. Gabrielle was low profile and preferred to stay that way, but few turned down the opportunity for a little extra income. Set her up with the odd endorsement, appear in some ads, maybe a couple merch items. Easy.
If only she’d known how difficult a client Ms Karski would be. Even getting her to contemplate possibly lending her image to Kreatone, what should’ve been a shoe in, had been a struggle. She’d learned a bit about which buttons to press in the doing, though.
It was time to pull out the big guns.
“You don’t want little girls inspired to grow up to be as buff as you?”
“You’re reaching for straws.”
“Well… Yes.” Founder help her, much as she hated to admit it, it was easier getting Heartful Punch to listen to her. “Is it working?”
“I am tempted.”
There, progress!
“I am still not going to do an interview, though.”
That was expected, televised interviews were the hard line she bumped up against most often with Gabrielle. Even printed ones were difficult to get her to agree to. Forgoing one would make getting this deal through much more difficult, but it was still doable. She hadn’t had any success passing that line yet, but she had a new method to try and she loosed it, “not even to show off your, uhm, ‘sick gains’?”
She knew instantly that she’d flubbed the execution, the awkwardness was that palpable, and Gabrielle let it hang for a solid twenty seconds.
“No.”
“I’ll take it, no interview. I’d still like you to consider…”