”“Believe me,” Meg warned, “it’s not so simple. They can turn on you in a moment. That’s why attitude is so important. You have to grab an... hold on to their attention before you can make the rational arguments. If you lose them anywhere along the way, they’ll never listen to you.”“Don’t get ahead of yourselves,” Phil cautioned. “This is only the first step in a very long journey. We’ve learned a lot in a very short time. As for your new aides, we have so many it helps to offload a few. Even. It rattles and bounces as he follows the road past a cotton field and down a hill toward the house. As he pulls up by the mail box, he winds the handle to roll down the window. Inside the box he finds a few bills, some junk mail, and a shiny gold envelope with his first name neatly printed on the center. It has no postage, no return address--just his name."Weird," he mutters. Then Marcus rolls the window back up and drives toward the little blue house all by itself a little way up the hill.. ”I bit his hand as hard as I could.THE HIPPOWHATEVERSo, while Arthur F – which I was pretty sure stood for fucking asshole – rubbed his hand and simpered about how I was positively delightful and an utter smashing hit and oh how excited he was – I took a glance around and got a sense for the place I was actually in. It wasn’t any white room. The walls were made of a rough gray-black stone, shaded with darker hues of reds and browns in splotchy discolorations, like mold growing on a food. The. " Where has she gone now?" She's outside trying to get a taxi, to get to his house."I ran outside and saw her a few yards down the street, trying to flag down a cab, luckily though at that time of the morning they were busy and empty ones were few and far between.I walked up to her and took her arm."Is this all I deserve mum?" I said angrily. "No goodbye, just a message from Jill to say that you've gone?" Tommy."She had tears in her eyes."Tommy leave it, darling, please, just let me go." No way.