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“I do think I had rather figured that out,” she drawled, thickening her own slight accent on purpose. “Ask me something else!”
Tom nodded, smiling a bit wider. “Um, well..what do you do? Work-wise, I suppose..”
Slender fingers started combing through her long tail of hair again, nervously. “I do web design, from home. It gives me really flexible hours, because I do my best work late at night, when all the buzzing hearts of the city are asleep. So during the day, I — help around, with this and that.” Hopefully, he hadn’t noticed that flaw in the smoothness of that sentence …
“I’ve been junior partner on a big, well-paying contract for a long time now, so I don’t even really have to do a lot to make enough. But then, you don’t ever have that worry, do you? Being an actor. Come on, just a little hint on what you’ve done?”