[ She chuckles. Honestly, Julie has known plenty of reckless types who drive like mad men; a cautious blind man actually sounds like an upgrade to some of them. Then again, she is from the kind of place where you're unlikely to ever be around enough cars that you'll hit one. It's just more probably you'll hit a cow that's wandered out onto the road. While she doesn't recommend hitting one with a car, cows rarely cause fatalities. ]

You should give it a whirl in the Horizon. Only place in the universe that you can do what you please without worryin' about dyin'. At least that I know of.

[ Raised in New York, that's something she tucks away. She has perceptions about city folk -- not bad ones, necessarily, but perceptions all the same. A New York City lawyer summons up certain images. Not that she thinks they're all true, but to survive in New York, he'd certainly have to be more talented and successful than he'd have to be in Kansas.

She realizes that this is not information she's supposed to know yet. ]

What'd you do for work in New York? I always heard it's hard to make it there.