[ Annie knows it too. And she does, for what it's worth, think he's an idiot, if one trying to be that way for better reasons than most.

Still, she's not going to bring that up. She's made her thoughts clear. Beating a dead horse has never accomplished anything in the long or short term. ]

Yes. I was asked... given the relationship it has with where I work in Nonah, it made more sense to go along with it. Besides, what they paid as an incentive is what I can turn around to use here.

[ That's... exactly what she's doing, actually. Welcome to how Annie spends money: she had to do one act for a corporation to pay her for compliance, and she'll dump those funds back into charity, letting it funnel through here because this whole thing was a PR set-up in the first place. Image is, undoubtedly, key. ]