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August 11, 2015
12:00 PM
12:00. Finally. "Mister Vogel, I am going on my lunch break now." Klara Wälden said to her boss.
"Okay, see you in an hour." he replied, as Klara removed her apron and set it in the back room. She quickly grabbed her handbag and walked out of the kitchen, taking a bagel and a iced mocha with her. She quietly took a seat at a bench facing 44th street, and began to eat her lunch while watching the cars and pedestrians pass by the window.
As a barista in the 'Die Kaffeetasse' coffee shop in midtown Niederstadt, she had a very busy job, serving hundreds of customers per day. As such, she very much enjoyed any break she could get from her work. It gave her time to think about her life; what she planned to do that weekend, or next month or next year, as well as her past actions that led her to where she was at now. It was not her original intent to be a barista. Klara had wanted for the majority of her childhood to be a computer programmer, and she managed to earn a place in the Niederstadt Technical Institute, leaving behind her dysfunctional family in the process. However, poor life choices on her part resulted in her being kicked out of the university, leaving her to fend for herself in Niederstadt.
This same reflection of her past life rushed through her mind at least once a day. Well, the past is the past. Nothing I can do about that any more, Klara thought. She took a sip of her mocha and continued to watch as the people moved along the bustling roads and sidewalks of Niederstadt.
12:23 PM
Alarik Jaluotsalainen finished the last of his sub sandwich and started to pack his few belongings. Since his expulsion from his former workplace two months ago, Alarik had lived homeless on the streets of Niederstadt, surviving only on the goodwill and charity of the occasional passerby. This did not happen often, however. TImes had passed when he would have to last for days without a single donation of food or money. Alarik was extremely grateful for the old woman who had earlier that day taken the time to buy him one of the most filling meals he had received in weeks.
As miserable of a life it was, he still found it preferable to living in his homeland, the People's Republic of Valtania, for which he harbored deep resentment. After all, his home country was responsible for the death of his father; at least, that was what Alarik sincerely hoped was the fate that befell him. Though he had hoped to see his father return, he eventually realized that it was unlikely to happen. At age 17, he fled the country, settling in Merissai and later in Vonzumier, to escape the lifestyle that he was doomed to: as a Valtanic citizen, he was legally obligated to register for the Valtanic People's Army when he became of age.
Alarik got off the bench and began walking. Alarik hoped to reach the Braumann park, nearly 30 blocks away, by sundown. The park was considered the safest of Vonzumier's various public parks for the impoverished to rest in. He didn't like to always go there, due to the noise level of the area, but he would occasionally tolerate it.
Alarik had only just walked the corner when he found a hiring poster for 'DJ Spinstadt Records', a music label. The company was hiring a few workers, including a janitor. This could be my opportunity for a job. Alarik scrambled in his pocket for a pen and notepad, and scribbled both the address of the company and its phone number. 29th street. That's quite the walk, Alarik thought. Fortunately, it was in roughly the same direction as Braumann park. "Τάσσά μινά μενεν." Alarik said to himself as he began to walk.