So what is it then?

I can not tell you.

You aren’t James Bond, man, just tell us.

Please, with the telling.

I always share these secrets with you and I always worry one day I will get in trouble.

We don’t know anyone you work for, or against, or anything, and hell, man we’ve never shared your secrets.

Besides I got you this gig, didn’t I? You owe me this one.

Wait, you got Sven his current job? How did that happen? No, wait, hold on. Lemme crack open another bottle.

Thanks, dearling.

No worries, thanks for coming over you guys. I was getting bored.

Bored? You were watching movies and playing video games at the same time.

Ain’t technology grand? Still, bored.

Your boredom aside? Sven, what are you working on?

No, I want to know how you got Sven a job in the first place.

What do you mean?

It was perfectly normal.

Yeah. The designer I work for…

Designer? Don’t you work for a bottle wholesaler?

Not anymore, no this is my new job.

How? How do you do that, man? Most people can’t get a job, singular, and you keep getting new ones!

Clean living.

Now that there is a lie.

All right, that is a lie. But I don’t know, guys, I just get new jobs sometimes.

Sometimes?

All right! Often, but it just happens, it isn’t like I try to keep changing jobs. I get offers, calls, I know a lot of people. Sometimes I say yes.

You’re easier than a … than a … damn it! Than a…

Than a two dollar whore in Canada?

Sure! Thanks, ‘Tashi.

Of course.

Shut up, both of you. God, you should two date. Except for the whole thing.

The “I’m gay and she’s a woman” thing?

That’s the one!

It is a stumbling block.

Tell me about it. Besides we would kill each other with a quickness.

It’s true. Still, don’t think this will deter me from the track I’m on, Jake. Nope. How did this happen? The job thing, I mean.

It just did. So I work for a designer now, and my boss has friends. They needed a guy who could build toys. So I called Sven.

And I am grateful!

Do your friends need…

A guy who can watch 2001 and play the DS at the same time? I’ll keep an ear out.

I was going to say “a really good customer rep,” but that works better. Let me know.

You bet!

So Sven, you are building a toy. Why is this such a secret? We’ve seen toys you are to build before.

This time, I mean normally I work for little companies and they have odd ideas and aren’t even in the country. It’s different.

So this is big?

It would have to be.

Why?

All I know is it’s for a cartoon.

A cartoon? Toys?

Yes. Which is why I can’t tell you.

You have to!

I’m working for a new start-up production company. This is their lifeblood, this one cartoon.

And they already want the toys to go live, but the cartoon hasn’t yet, has it?

No.

So you think, what, we’ll be so excited we’ll tell people and it’ll get back and you’ll lose your job?

Yes!

We wouldn’t. Truth’s.

I can’t!

You have to. Or we’ll use torture.

TO BE CONTINUED