Most of HQ had gone to bed hours ago. Alone in his office, sipping coffee as he worked into the night, Lucere could sense the quiet of the floors below him.

He could hear Cobalt's heavy breathing on the plush rug beside his desk. The vigilant houndoom had nodded off. He eyed the pokemon a moment, then turned a page of the documents he'd been pouring over for the last four hours. The distant tick of a brass clock whispered across the still of the room. Peaceful.

A minute of reading and the boss picked up a glossy silver pen to mark a note. He turned another page. Moments passed, then he lifted his eyes to some unseen presence sharing the room. "No." he said, voice quiet but firm. "You don't have to go to work on Sunday."

Another moment spent watching the invisible occupant, then his eyes dipped back to his paperwork, where he made another note.