We had good candidates again; the final selection was going to be tough. We ended the interviews in time to go through them and rank them in order of ...reference.Then Jason and Roseanne called the twenty of them to report for drug testing on Monday at the contractor we had hired. The testing site was open from 5 AM until 9 PM. That gave them plenty of opportunity to make it. We would have the results by noon Tuesday and make the final offers by the end of the day. Then we could move on to the. He will not do that for a while yet."Looking round David appraised the long narrow room with doors at both ends and no windows. It was lit by a glass roof which was frosted to prevent the sun from being too strong and, David supposed, to prevent helicopter pilots from looking in. There was a small dais for him to sit on, and several other chairs round the walls. In the centre of the floor was another dais which was about three feet square and had no chair on it. The walls were decorated with. ’ ‘Don’t they invite applications, and run workshops?’ Mason was confused wondering if perhaps he had misheard Kallah’s explanation. ‘Oh, they have to do that in order to get the whole thing funded by the arts council, but generally speaking, only their protégés succeed in winning those coveted spots, I go out there, now and then as a guest artist, but only for a day or two. It’s not my scene,’ she explained. ‘Your Uncle Paul is the arts council director out there.’ ‘Uncle Paul?’ He questioned. "Mum! I don't know what is happening here, but this place is messed up! We need to leave. Now." Jessy turned, stone faced to her daughter. She looked deep into her green eyes, tracing the curve of her face with her own eyes. For a moment, her resolution wavered. Then the memories of how she had found her daughter flooded back to her. Her voice, devoid of emotion said "You brought this on yourself, Quinn." Quinn's jaw dropped as she stared into her mothers eyes, her brain stuttered for a.