First words
Who: George and NPC What: Meeting When: Friday afternoon Where: Editor's office Rating: G Status: Complete
"You seem to have shifted the original focus of the article," the editor said, his fingers laced and resting on the round of his belly. "I thought it was supposed to be focused on the affects of the bombing on the survivors and their families," he continued, a finger pointing at the printed pages in front of him. "This is leaning more toward the idea that the bombers' identity is a little less clear cut."
George looked at him and remained silent as the editor studied her for a long moment, his express impenetrible. She'd learnt a long while ago that in dealing with him one needed patience. Too often writers had had their stories rejected because they tried to sell it with their speech, instead of letting the story do the talking. So rather than falling for the silent bait he was dangling she waited, legs crossed, hands restng in her lap and elbows resting on the arms of the chair she sat in across the other side of his large desk.
"You going to do a follow-up piece?" he finally asked, his gruff question clear sign that he'd accepted the article and was actually looking for another.
"I've put some things down, need to do some more research," she said without directly answering the question.
He noded, sat up and leaned his elbows on the table, looking over at her.
"Good."
A half hour later and George was striding down the footpath, eyes bright and smile wide. The weather was unusually wet but nothing could put a damper on her spirit at that point. Even though the words hadn't been said an agreement had been reached that anything she wrote on the bombing, the victims and more importantly, on the potential perpetrators and the reason behind it was to cross his desk for first refusal.
She waas looking forward to getting her teeth into the direction she was planning on taking and had already started making a mental list of people she needed to talk to. First thing was, figuring out how to make some sort of contact with the House of Spades and gain their trust.