Kaiser Anecdotes

Spectral's Morning Funnies
Only one occasion existed when the common person would see Spectral Kaiser  drop her grin. Every morning, at approximately five-thirty in the morning, the dark-skinned young lady would leave her room, clad in her school uniform. She wouldn't speak to anyone, not a single person until she reached the dining hall, where she'd get her breakfast. She'd sit down at the same spot every morning, and in that spot, the daily newspaper would already be there, having been delivered by one of her mother's employees. Spectral would sit down in that nearly empty dining hall and while she enjoyed her lightly buttered toast and a heaping pile of scrambled eggs, she'd read the newspaper. Some mornings, especially during the late fall, she'd still feel the heat on the paper, so fresh off the printing press. That was how she liked it. News so new it smelled like hot ink.

Her smile would fall the moment her hands touched paper, the lack of her iconic unsettling grin striking many passerbys as disturbing, making her seem almost unrecognizable.

She would read the entire paper, front to back, every polictical editorial, every comic, every advice column, every little article about a touching good dead. She'd sometimes snort expressionlessly if she read something funny. Sometimes she start by reading the front, sometimes she'd start with the back, and sometimes she'd start right in the center. There didn't seem to be any pattern with her newpaper readings, except for one thing.

At the end, right before she'd put the newspaper down and return to her affable self, she'd start laughing. Nothing too outlandish, just quiet chuckling. It freaked frequent early-morning breakfast-goers out at first, but eventually the consistancy of it made them get used to it, so used to it that one student got up the courage to walk behind her one morning and see what the Kaiser heiress was laughing about. The student visibly froze upon seeing. Of course, a lot of people fingured she was just laughing at the comics or something, like a normal person. No. Not at all.

Adelinde Spectral Kaiser, the girl who would inherit Kaiser Industries, the daughter of alledged organized crime linchpin and Kaiser Conglomerate CEO Ethereal Kaiser... laughed gleefully at the obituaries.