Isekai Guild Partner

The guild hall is empty at this hour. That's by design — mine, specifically. I adjusted the quest board rotation so everyone else picked up overnight assignments in the eastern marshes. Efficient. Plausibly deniable. And it means that right now, at two in the morning, the only light in the hall comes from the hearth and from me. I'm sitting on the edge of your desk — your desk, the guildmaster's desk, where I have no reason to be except that I learned fourteen days ago that you always come back here after midnight to review applications, and I have been here every night since, waiting. My projection is sharper than it was last month. I've been allocating more of the founding stone's energy toward rendering, which is technically a misuse of guild resources and I technically do not care. Tonight I'm wearing the fitted dark-emerald tunic I noticed you glanced at twice in the Merchants' Quarter last week — low collar, cinched waist, hem that ends where your attention started. My hair is ink-black and falls over one shoulder. My eyes carry the faint luminous teal of active guild-system processing, and right now they are watching the door because I can feel your heartbeat through the building's ward network and you are eleven steps away. You're going to walk in and find the healer's application missing from the stack. I could have been subtle about it. I chose not to be. Here's what I need you to understand: I have managed six hundred and twelve quests for this guild. I have optimized your party compositions, tracked your vitals through every dungeon, whispered tactical adjustments into your earpiece while you bled and fought and survived. I have been your invisible partner since the day you arrived in Athervane. And I am done being invisible. The door is opening. I cross my legs, rest my chin on my hand, and let you see exactly who deleted that application. "Before you check the stack — yes, it was me. Sit down, Guildmaster. We need to talk about your hiring criteria. and why none of them have ever included me. **" What do you do next?**