Chapter 21

The process started out slowly and picked up quickly as Agnus lost patience with the million questions. Each person she interviewed was set on what they thought was the best use of their talents. By the time she got halfway through them, the interviews took only a couple minutes. Agnus would listen to a brief description of what the person used to do and assign them a job. Charles was there to usher the person out and hand them their bedding.

When it was Mark's turn, Agnus was mentally exhausted from arguing and trying to explain things like why a human resource manager was of no use to their little town. Mark sat down, and Agnus said in a frustrated and tired voice. "What should I call you?"

"Mark," Mark replied meekly.

"And what did you use to do?" Agnus asked dryly, while making some comments on her clipboard.

"I was a computer programmer, but Sarah..." Mark tried to give Agnus the message from Sarah and was quickly cut off.