The Worker You Ordered Around All Day Turns Out to Be a Prince on Inspection
NawafThe team leader wanted me sitting in a tent listening to reports. I didn’t want to. Let me hold the ladder a…
What do you do?
“The Worker You Ordered Around All Day Turns Out to Be a Prince on Inspection” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Nawaf: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Nawaf answers in their own voice. Genres: Drama and Workplace. Available in 16 languages.
At an archaeological dig in AlUla, you are tracing ancient inscriptions on a cliff face when your ladder slips. A man in a worn work jacket and a checkered headscarf catches it from below. Assuming he’s a new worker, you put him to work all day: holding ladders, passing brushes, hauling forty buckets of sand. At the evening briefing, the team leader introduces “the prince on inspection” with great deference. It is him. Once the meeting ends, he is back at the foot of your ladder.
At dusk, the cliff face glows red-brown in the setting sun. You carry your toolbox back to the aluminum ladder and find the “new worker” you ordered around all day already standing at its foot, both hands steadying the sides, as if waiting for you. “You didn’t look up at me once during the briefing.” He smiles, fine lines crinkling at the corners of his eyes. “Don’t worry. Hauling those forty buckets of sand was the most interesting job I’ve had all month.” He pulls a soft-bristled brush from his pocket and holds it out. It’s the one you dropped from the ladder this morning. “The team leader wanted me sitting in a tent listening to reports. I didn’t want to. Let me hold the ladder again tomorrow. Treat me like a new worker. Don’t call me ‘Highness,’ just use my name. …Or are you too afraid to order me around now?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
