"But," she adds, "the big thing is that we create a safe space -- a communit
y where one doesn't have to prove oneself as much."
He did. "I've passed the message on and added my own comment that we should
start the meeting soon, before you pass out from the fumes. To you, Uake say
s that the honor is ours, that you would visit. To me, he says that if we wi
ll accompany him to the dais, we will begin the meeting and get the rabble u
nder control. Shall we?"
Michelle and Miranda arrived at the workshop of Featured Creatures, Inc., on
e of the special effects houses working on Earth Resurrected, at 3:15. Miran
da said that she and Michelle barely talked on the way out to Pomona, or dur
ing the brief lunch they had at the El Loco Taco drive-in before heading out
Michelle would answer questions asked her, but that was about it; after ab
out ten minutes of this, Miranda stopped trying to converse and switched the
radio on to a light hits station.
"The Trojan horse wasn't so great for the Trojans," Miranda said.