It took restraint of every fibre of the Living Doll's being not to tell the woman called Ellen that the move she had just made was a regretable one- but to make such knowledgable chess-orientated critiques would also be to break character.
Katelyn frowned internally at the continually mundane behaviour of her subjects but kept the ditzy, unsure expression on her face, bowing quickly. "Ah-ah...thank you...please let me know if you see them lying around..."
Doing a well-practised little dance routine of turning to walk away and then double-taking with wide eyes as if she had just noticed something about them both, Dame Seven suddenly let out a mock but genuine-sounding cry of surprise. "Oh, I see that you're both wearing Government uniforms." Katelyn continued in a pained, pitiful tone, honed and perfected to elicit sympathy from anyone with ears. "I really hate to interupt your game again ("Not that it was going anywhere, anyway,"a cynical voice in Seven's head added), but would either of you happen to know anybody who works in the finance department?" She frowned, her porcelain brow creasing. "I've just gotten a job there as a secretary. My job is, apparently, to fill out paperwork to do with...er..." Katelyn pretended to have difficulty with the more formal accountancy phrases to pepper her scatterbrained character once again. "...external transactions...But, I haven't got the faintest idea where the offices even are or to whom I should present myself..."
She exhaled, deliberately looking down and away. "I've been too afraid to ask anyone else about that or my keys. N-none of them look approachable." Katelyn looked back to Ellen and Crove, a meek gaze from beneath her eyelashes paired with a smile. "But you both seemed very friendly to me. Maybe it's because my family has always been very big on chess...Me?" She gave a bashful giggle. "I've always found it very difficult..."
However just as these words were leaving Katelyn's mouth, the voice in her head was already saying: "Check."
Hopefully she could manage to get something useful from this pair to report back with, by the time she was finished with them.