Daily writing prompts based around a weekly theme.
Prompt - Contract
This week's theme is commitments, and today's prompt is contract.
You can interpret the prompt in any way you wish! Post your work in the comments if you'd like to share.

This week's theme is commitments, and today's prompt is contract.
You can interpret the prompt in any way you wish! Post your work in the comments if you'd like to share.
Red Tape
Form: drabble
Source: Machine City Knights
With the tiniest of sighs, Eleni set her mug on the table and stared down the flibbling, fretting bureaucrat sitting across from her. Honestly, he made his own problems ... pretty much all the time, really.
"Pax, seriously, if you really want to find out what's under a pile of rocks in the middle of nowhere, there's procedures for that. You could actually go and look."
He stared back at her like she'd suddenly started talking in binary.
"I -- you know I can't, they'd have me have to sign --"
"Well, yeah, that's how these things work. Rules for a reason, remember?"
Moar
Of what? X3