“I have an annelidous nature,” Roger explained. “I like to burrow down into the dark muck, to find what’s hidden. Sure you get dirty, and you go places that no one else wants to. But that’s the point, you see? You become privy to a trove of secrets that nobody else had the time or the nerve find. I work hard at what I do. I like what I do. And every so often I turn up a gem among the waste.” Tammy didn’t care for what Roger’s analogy said about her surroundings but she liked being called a “gem.”