Her father looked thoughtful and muttered, "hmmm." She says this desire is starting to affect her school work," Angie continued.Dan looked at his daug...ter and asked, "Is this true, Hailey?"Hailey was too tongue-tied to answer so she just nodded."If I might make a suggestion," Charlie interjected. "Since this new desire is affecting Sis's school work, what if these new adventures were tied to Hailey's upcoming test results?"Hailey stared at her little brother like he had suddenly grown another. "Well, it's a really weird way to put it, but maybe the old man just meant the walls are at a minimum height in the middle..." Well, yeah, that's a good point..." And you had to get to the freeway through a cornfield, so ridiculous..." Cindy shook her head in disbelief. "That's probably why we haven't seen any traffic yet, there are no connecting roads to the Freeway. But Jim! You must know what the sound-barriers look like, east towards Iowa. You just drove it this morning, right? Before we. .. smarter than the average; a completely broken barrier door that would take more than me to repair; hundreds of darkspawn just on the opposite side of the door.I looked around, finally remembering that there were others around who perhaps shouldn’t be hearing what I had to say; Leliana had apparently shooed them all away while I had my meltdown, and was standing at a short distance, guarding us from eavesdroppers. I smiled gratefully at her, and she nodded back, uncharacteristically serious.. Security is of the highest importance for our safety and anonymity.”I leaned back into the chair. I felt strangely at peace. Maybe it was being in Sam’s presence, once more. “So … this is your office?” He nodded, surprised by the familiar question. “Huh … I wouldn’t have expected assassins to have offices …”He laughed. “Actually, they don’t. There are workrooms where they prepare for missions when they need to. It’s not a Lone Ranger operation, they have the support of many people and tools.