Call Cici and Kate [https://img.comicfury.com/comics/211/43704a1614765226b3654f262504444.jpg]

While attempting to mentally get your shit together, you write down your dream in your notepad. Just in case.

Kate wants to handle talking to Marlow, Cici wants to find out what she can from Franklin. That leaves it to you if you want to try and get more information from Maria; otherwise, you have today free to focus on making videos. You need money, you get money for making videos, ergo

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. . .

You should probably at least call them.

Just to be sure.

You call Cici first.

. . .

She doesn't answer,

but that doesn't surprise you. She's probably at work.

You call Kate.

. . .

Eventually, she answers.

"Hey," says Kate. "I'm outside the Back Room now. Marlow's cool with loaning us his gear, but he wants in on whatever the hell it is we're doing. ...Also he's got a picture you need to see."

"How'd last night go?," you ask.

You can hear Kate lighting a cigarette. "It sucked. We are, uh, probably not doing that shit ever again."

"Fuck. It was that bad...?"

"I can give you the deets in person," she says, audibly sucking on the cigarette. "...But yeah, it was pretty fucking bad. We learned a lot of shit, but the key takeaway was do not double accomplice."