"Could we?" Call Green B Studios and tell whoever answers I want you to take a screen test." She smiled at the anxious woman, "If anybody gives you an... static, tell that person I will do my next one with Hans, if you aren't treated nicely." The clerk nodded without speaking, unable to answer."Give me your phone, Amanda," Mark told her in an abrupt voice.She stopped and stared at him in surprise as he held his hand out. As soon as he had hold of it he dialed the house. "Sam? We are at the. They were free citizens, and with freedom also came responsibilities and protocol. They would be a serious couple determined to be strict and upright in their behavior, and exercise "proper values" at all times.Precisely because Kim and Sergekt had suffered so many humiliations and indignities as criminals, they were fixated with achieving respectability from the people around them, which was a common obsession among recently released offenders in Upper Danubia. Ex-criminals tended to. Not in The Princess Bride sense, where love transcended and triumphed over all, but in a deeper-than-puppy-love way. More than the mutual crushes of early high school. Or my high school girlfriend. While we'd used the 'L' word, I don't think either my high school sweetheart or I had expected it to last, given how young we were. With Alicia, I had. We'd been together long enough by the time I'd graduated with my bachelor's that I was sure we'd make it.And now, instead of sitting across the table. Jeff had taken the loss of his mother surprisingly well. Lissa had adopted a mature attitude about it, Brit had cried several times, but Jeff seemed to just shrug it off. He rarely spoke about it, but then, he rarely spoke about anything. The boy liked to read, play computer games, and watch TV. He wasn't much of a social person.Still, there was nothing unusual about that. He just seemed particularly quiet this morning.Lissa joined them a few minutes later, then Brit, with a cheerful smile on.