MOXIE & MANA

PERSONAL FILING SYSTEM
NOT FOR PUBLIC SERVICE USE
OWNER-ALTERED / WARRANTY VOID

PRIVATE NO DRACO
NO BOSSES
NO EXCEPTIONS*

FILED WHERE NOBODY IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK

ASH'S Private Notes

if you found this by accident, close it by accident.

OWNER'S NOTE: These files are not part of the regular Charm & Service Ledger, are not available for shift review, and are absolutely not to be used in performance evaluations, criminal proceedings, diplomatic negotiations, family interventions, or conversations beginning with “so I found something interesting in your room.” *Grandma is an exception. maybe. depending on the page. also if this is Draco: you can be neutered.

Novel File

romantic fiction • drafts • scenes • dialogue I am NOT thinking about

VERY
FICTIONAL

♥OPEN THE NOVELFULL PRIVATE PAGE →

an unpublished work by somebody who is definitely not Ash

A Fire Between Orders

longing • bad decisions • uniforms • cigarettes • women saying “ma'am” under emotionally compromising circumstances

cover needs a woman looking emotionally unavailable in a doorway.

Current Draft

Abigail MacEntire has every intention of behaving sensibly. Lieutenant Sonya Thompson is making that increasingly difficult.

“sensibly” is carrying the entire genre on its back. Abigail is NOT me. Abigail has much better impulse control.

Things to Fix Later

Make Sonya less obviously based on anyone real.
More tension before the kitchen scene.
Stop using “ma'am” as a weapon.

absolutely do NOT stop using “ma'am” as a weapon. Sonya saying “ma'am” when nervous is important to the literary structure.do not let Frankie see this page. actually do not let ANYONE see this page.

THIS SECTION MAY CONTAIN ROMANTIC PROJECTION, IMPLAUSIBLE EMOTIONAL HONESTY, AND MULTIPLE WOMEN WHO ARE FAR TOO GOOD AT ROLLING UP THEIR SLEEVES.

Ephemera

receipts • matchbooks • notes • tickets • wrappers • proof a place existed

KEEP
EVERYTHING

✦OPEN EPHEMERA FILEFULL PRIVATE PAGE →

Green Lady matchbook

Smoke damage on one corner.

Still smells faintly like the bar if I don't think about it too hard.

do not throw away. I can still smell smoke on this. maybe that's in my head.

Squinge's order slip

Black coffee + cottage cheese, mixed.

Technically evidence of a crime against breakfast.

Tpusa. WHY. evidence that I provide excellent service under impossible conditions.

Unknown cocktail napkin

Phone number. No name.

Handwriting is pretty.

this tells me NOTHING useful. I should call this number. absolutely not. maybe.

Transit stub

Newarkcity. Late night.

Kept because I remember being happy for approximately eleven minutes.

counts. eleven minutes is still eleven minutes.

Draco Training Notes

familiar education • manners • prejudice reduction • basic workplace conduct

ONGOING
EMERGENCY

★OPEN DRACO TRAINING FILEFULL PRIVATE PAGE →

Training Objective

Draco is clever, loyal, useful, and capable of relaying information. He is also perfectly capable of learning when an opinion should remain inside his tiny little head.

this is optimism. let me have it. he understands tone. this is how I know he understands when he is being awful.

Exercise	Goal	Status	Ash's Notes
“Leave it”	Do not comment on strangers.	FAILED	Apparently opinions count as objects now.
Ambassador exposure	No international incidents.	PARTIAL	Has not insulted a head of state this week.
Queer venue manners	Simply be normal.	REMEDIAL	“Girl Lesbians” remains in his vocabulary.
Children	Allow braiding without complaint.	PASSED	Pretended to hate it. Was visibly pleased.

reward schedule: cheese works. praise works if nobody is watching.next lesson: “you do not have to announce every demographic you notice.” there is no Familiar Resources department so apparently I AM Familiar Resources.

Fire Brigade

contacts • old work • current threats • things I know better than to put in the public ledger

BURN
BEFORE USE

♨OPEN FIRE BRIGADE FILEFULL PRIVATE PAGE →

THIS FILE CONTAINS PERSONAL HISTORY, POLITICAL MATERIAL, UNVERIFIED CONNECTIONS, AND INFORMATION THAT BECOMES MORE DANGEROUS THE MORE PEOPLE KNOW ASH HAS IT.

PERSONAL / ACTIVE

Róise

Prior connection to Ash. Fire Brigade-associated. Kansourrsas. Gas-based / fire-adjacent lifeform.

Current relationship: hostile, unresolved, emotionally compromised.

Do not treat prior affection, attraction, or shared politics as evidence of present trust.

I KNOW. do not mistake familiarity for safety. write it BIGGER.

POLITICAL / WATCH

Development / Sacred Territory

Fire Brigade activity overlaps anti-development resistance, sacred territory disputes, Saxon expansion, and displacement.

That does not make every Fire Brigade action defensible.

It also does not make the underlying grievance false.

two things can be true. everyone hates this fact. sacred land is not empty land just because Saxons want to build on it.

UNRESOLVED

Questions

Who is actually directing operations?
Which actions were authorized and which were local escalation?
Who benefits financially after each destabilization event?
Which groups are being deliberately conflated for political convenience?
How much does Róise actually know?

and how much is she choosing not to tell me. also ask who gets called terrorist and who gets called investor.

ASH ONLY

Personal Rule

Understanding why someone chose violence is not the same thing as excusing what they did.

Caring about someone does not require becoming harmless to them.

Opposing Saxon violence does not mean pretending every person fighting Saxons is automatically right.

write this again next time she smiles at me. compassion without boundaries is just volunteering to be used.