Numbers

Published: Dec 07, 2020

He looked through the people in the virtual meeting out of boredom. There were faces with interest and faces with distraction, mostly appearing engaged in other things on another screen. There were one or two with children on their laps, even a screaming baby. The best face, hands down, was Antony, who was calculating something, or so his face suggested. The interesting part was that it was during the sales report. There, on the screen, face turned up slightly to the ceiling, eyes half closed, muscles tightened, lips just barely moving, it didn't seem like anything else could be happening.

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