Emotionally.

People come looking for a villain and find out that everybody did their job and the thing just happened.

I need you to be ready for that, because I’ve had people I couldn’t reach afterward.”

I said I understood.

She charged me eleven hundred dollars for about fourteen hours of work.

It is the single best money I have ever spent.

We did it over four phone calls across three weeks, with the pages numbered and both of us looking at the same thing, and she was patient with me in a way I did not deserve on the second call.