One, she could take the job and figure out a way to avoid all those pesky taxes. Two, she could negotiate a deal that deferred her income into the fut...re but still guaranteed receipt, or she could tell them to stuff it and go back to her nice comfortable existence in a small firm with little chance of advancement.She sighed, and pulled up her fancy French knickers with the crotch cut out making it almost unnecessary to even take them down in the first place. She just didn't want to get any pee. ." She shook her head and laughed again, swallowing whatever words she'd been about to say. "I still have posters of hers at my house." I'm sure she'll be flattered to know that," said Corvus. He was used to older men being fans of his mother and even some of his own peers, but Crispa was the first woman he'd heard make such comments."She sure did work with Paphian Nova, didn't she?" her smirk made Corvus blush deep red. He'd been hoping she hadn't seen any of those particular posters. "Can I. Overhead helicopters had added top-down shots, until our security guards threatened their networks with a news boycott unless the choppers left the area.When we ended the interview and headed back inside, Julia checked her phone and there was a message for her to call Alexis back, "no matter what time it is."Julia checked it was fine with me, which it was, so she made the call, a few seconds later telling Alexis, "Yes, it's really Mark. He still looks like Ron, but that's supposed to change. "On the other hand, he said with a shrug. "Since I was far away from my home and was bound to a lump of metal, I wasn't there when the great plague wiped out my race." I thought Genies were all powerful." There is always something bigger and more powerful out there that can get you. Or, in our case, something smaller. I don't know if it was a disease or a curse that got out of hand, but one day the Jinns started... evaporating. Like a morning mist clearing off in the morning sun, even the.