“Hey Mom.”

“Hey baby Nate, you are so lucky to catch me on my coffee break. Not that this should qualify as coffee. It’s more like dissolved coal or… I don’t know. I can’t believe that they pay actors millions and can’t even afford a proper coffee machine!”

“How is the movie coming along?”

“Oh great! Today I taught this man to look like a proper smith, I wanted to be on the movie but they said a woman smith would break immersion. If only they knew! Particularly in parts of Eastern Europe in the late middle…”

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“Ok ok I got it.”

“Aaaanyway. I showed him how it’s done. His name is Harold and he has those HUGE bulging muscles!”

“MOM!”

“Aw Nathan you are just so easy to tease. Anyway, what’s going on with you.”

“Ah, uh, nothing. Nothing, just wanted to call you is all.”

“Naaaaaaaate? Don’t play that game with your mother and tell me what’s wrong. Is it work related?”

“What? No.”

“So there IS something!!!”

“Mom please it’s nothing I just wanted to check up on you before…”

“Before what? Nate? NATE!”

“I’m sorry mom I have to go.”