[Rita doesn't react, other than letting the bitterness fade from her expression. But... well, Lambert just showed exactly why she's willing to try trusting him. So long as he keeps that up and doesn't let the authority go to his head, they should be fine.]

Fine. That's just what I wanted, anyway. [Rita doesn't care much for her backstage work, but being in engineering means getting to tinker with technology alien to her world. It's worth the cost of having to provide effects for a few shows every other week.]

So I guess that settles it. [Her voice is starting to get raspy again from all this talking. She'd like to wrap this up, but first...] Anything you need from me before work starts again?