They'd talked about that, hadn't they? Doing what you loved. "That probably wouldn't work so well with fire," Coby guessed, although if you asked him, it didn't work well with music either. At some level, the love and need for it came through, and people could hear the difference.

"I mean, there are always people who are only in it for the money, no matter what it is they're doing. But damn, I couldn't live like that."