Before long.
Xie You steadily held a tray in one hand and lightly knocked on the glass door.
Knock! Knock!
The sound was neither too loud nor too soft. It would not seem disruptive, yet it was enough to alert the Director inside. It was perfectly judged.
This technique alone required years of service experience to perform so skillfully.
"Come in!"
The Director's voice drifted over.
The Enchantress understood propriety very well. As a new face, she had to receive permission before entering.
If they became more familiar, she could go straight in after knocking. And if they became familiar to an indescribable degree, she could enter no matter what the Director was doing.
Xie You had even heard that certain officials had rather perverse tastes. When fooling around with their female secretaries, they liked summoning maids inside to watch.
Creak!
The frosted glass door was slowly pushed open.
The sight that greeted her left Xie You momentarily stunned.
A misty drizzle was actually floating in midair above the broad desk before the Director. The droplets fell onto the desktop and vanished for no apparent reason.
Meanwhile, countless ripples appeared out of thin air across the pond beyond the transparent glass wall, as though rain were falling onto its surface.
Most astonishingly, every raindrop seemed to have eyes. Not one drifted beyond the desk.
The scene was far beyond the Enchantress's understanding.
The Director seemed to be explaining, yet also speaking to himself. "Everything in the world possesses deep connections. The so-called extraordinary is the ability to perceive the root of those connections."
Xie You instinctively looked up at the curtain of rain beyond the sky.
Knock! Knock!
Torrential rain was falling outside, but with double-paned glass separating the office from it, the sound of rain was much quieter than