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“No problem, we’re always excited to have new blood fresh off the field around here Half the ti but fossils who don’t remember what it was like to play”

“I practically still have grass stains burned into my knees”

He guffawed, swiping his badge to call the elevator “Hunter didn’t say you were funny Most of the guys barely talk and seeht” The elevator doors closed behind us

For four hours, I bounced from office to office, studio to studio After thirty uncomfortable reen screens, LED screens covering an entire wall, and sat me doith a few recent additions to the channel for a mock play-by-play

Talking with guys who’d run the pro gauntlet, I should've felt right at ho to who their craft services caterer was and how Zara would love to pick apart the green roon The table blocked everyone’s access to the room and the food And more than one person had run their shin into it

I checked my phone Two hours until my train Plenty of time

I sent off a quick e

Me: How ht?

Zara: All the work, but there will be a reward at the end of our long grueling night

Me: Tease

Zara: That’s only if I don’t upholdit

“Leo” Charles calling h my mind of the torture Zara had in store for me I couldn’t wait

“Sorry”

“Did you have somewhere to be?”

“No, checking the scores”