<div class="floatright">(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/jillvader/mw-nmfkmpkarimonero_zps55a1bf27.jpg)</div>”Thanks,” Kari finished with a nod. “You are right, and I did need to hear that. I haven’t even been thinking about myself in all of this, just what the company needs and what I need to do to get there. Since I came up with this insane plan, that’s all that I’ve even thought of. Hell, I probably haven’t been outside this office since this morning.” She gave a small, self-depreciating laugh at the idea, even knowing how painfully true it was. “All right, Emily, you win this round. Let us go get a drink anywhere but this office.”<br/><br/>She ran her hand through her hair, being suddenly acutely aware of how knotty and tangled it was and how bad she must look, and then simply accepted it. Grabbing her jacket, she threw it on and followed Emily out of the office. “mmm, and really, as long as we can get some viable recruits out of whatever process we go through, I’m happy for whatever you have to do to them along the way,” Kari laughed. “If they can’t take what you dish out, then they’re in the wrong line of work anyway”<br/>