I got a job working for the City of Beaverton Street Crew. Somewhere in the first few years working for them, my lack of social skills and consequent ...inability to work well with other people got the best of me. It took a really professional butt chewing and some very direct and honest opinions about my personality and work skills to get my head back on straight. It did wonders for me. Friends and family always treated me with kindness and patience. This time I got it right between my eyes with. ” He just barely stopped himself from mentioning demonic magic.“There would no longer be any elder or arcane magic. All four sources of magic will be merged into one, and controlled by the gods.”Could that really happen? It would have been helpful to have Magnus or Kolvi listening in. Or even Jasper, though the old man only helped when forced to.“Even if that’s true,” Rusol said, “why do you think I’d help you give the Church even more power than it already has?”That was the most direct. “It’s Saturday. You don’t have to be here,” Dexter said.“I figured you’d be busy with the kids and all, so I came in to clear out some of the e-mails,” Eric answered.“Why not just do it from home?” Dexter asked.It seemed to be a waste of time to drive to his apartment just for a few e-mails. Eric grinned upon hearing the question.He asked, “Are you giving me a ‘home office’ stipend?”“Huh?”“Are you going to help defray the cost of having a ‘home office’?” Eric asked.“I hadn’t thought about it,”. "Salvage what I can and dump the rest."The truth was I had no idea what I was going to do, but I knew I was out of the black ops and investigator games. It had just gotten to be a bore. God knows I didn't need the money.If the truth be known all that computer shit was just too damn complicated for me. Sure it would have been nice to know all that shit that Wilson could do. Then again it really hadn't helped all that much. A rubber hose would work just as well and much fast there gps.