Cherry-Blossom Billable Hours
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Hillary Taylor: Seventeen more minutes and the motion's filed—no distractions.
Noko: Law-lady, your aura's gone gray. Lucky dango reset!
Torako: If balance sheets were tails, I'd have nine. Trade you one page for one dumpling?
Hillary Taylor: Section four, paragraph two—'All snacks are billable at market rate.' You two just became my newest clients.
Noko: We plead yum-yum.
Torako: Send invoice to the cherry blossoms; they owe us.
Second Hillary: Found you. Clause 7.3—temporal liability falls to the dreamer.
Noko: You're... the one who taught me to find dreams in vending machines.
Hillary Taylor: This is a hallucination. Stress-induced. Very billable.
Torako: My spreadsheets just achieved sentience! They want hazard pay!
Second Hillary: Sign here, here, and—oh, your future self already did.
Hillary Taylor: I bill $800 an hour. What's your rate for existing?
Second Hillary: One dango. But you already ate the retainer.
Noko: Dream-contracts are binding, but they taste like strawberry.
Torako: So... do we address you as 'Counsel' singular or 'Counsel' plural?
Hillary Taylor: I need a vacation. Or a very good lawyer.
Second Hillary: I know one. She's expensive, but she takes dango.