“Payment.” Collin simply stated. “I usually request full payment before I take an assignment but that was not exactly possible given the urgency of the situation in Texas. I hope that I can confirm you will transfer the agreed upon funds now?” he asked and gestured towards the open Apple computer situated on his rustic wooden dinning-table. He stood from the table in front of the lounge set and moved over to the computer. He began to type a long password to unlock it. “Right.” I said no longer afraid. “Payment. Of course.” That was fair I suppose. I sat in front of the computer and noticed the background was actually Michelangelo’s sculpture The Pieta. A piece that I always thought was both extremely somber and morbid. The figure of the Madonna so perfectly and extravagantly

