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You’re welcome to come, Goldie, or if you want, you can watch a movie, TV, or whatever. We’re not putting you to work, but fresh eyes on this cursed job couldn’t hurt either.”
    “I am fine with that. As long as you guys don’t mind me wearing what I’m wearing that is,” she added. “Fresh eyes are always a plus. Also this way if you guys want to be rid of me, you can take me by my place and drop me off. Right?”
    “You are sticking around,” Torben told her with a grin. “Besides, we have plans laid out and you aren’t allowed to mess with them. You haven’t worked with us long enough for that yet.”
    “There is nothing wrong with how you’re dressed,” Arkadios said with a slow smile curling one side of his mouth. “Except it covers way too much of you.”
    Goldie laughed and shook her head. “Yeah, well it’s supposed to cover all of me. I don’t want to give a show to my new bosses you know,” she teased him and then gave him a side hug. “Now then, let’s go and get this done so I can get some sleep. I’m a bear if I don’t get enough sleep.”
    Ark and Torben both looked at her for long moments before they started to laugh hard. Tugging her along, Arkadios shook his head. “I will bet you have nothing on us,” he chuckled. Guiding her through the lower level, then letting her go into the office on Torben heels. “Over here,” he waved her to the table along one wall.
    Goldie had the oddest feeling they were keeping something from her. She would figure it out. She'd only been around not even a full day but since she would be working around them, it wouldn't take her long. She still couldn't place why everything happening to her had some familiarity.
    Moving to the table, she frowned and picked up the first set of plans, and then looked at another. “So what did he say the issue was?” she asked and put the plans back down so she could look at the men, and listen to them or wait for what they thought before she gave her two cents.
    “South wall,” Mohan said from a corner and grinned when she looked over. “Morris claims there’s an issue with the south wall. His words, not ours. We have to look and let him know our thoughts about the potential problem without him biasing us. I passed it off to Ark’s team since they do more of the construction than I do. A wall is a wall in my mind.”
    “Well not necessarily,” Goldie said and ran her fingers over the blueprints. “For example: this place is being built where there were swamplands previously. If the area wasn’t sealed, contained, and covered properly with equal distribution of the new soil and rocks, then the south wall might begin to sag. It will have nothing to do with your building or materials, but more with the land it’s being built on.”
    “That was all done,” Torben told her as he settled on a stool and watched her. “There are fourteen, one-hundred foot deep pilings with six feet of reinforced concrete as the base for the entire structure. Even if the land shifts or erodes, the house isn’t going anywhere without a nuclear device moving it.”
    “Then I would look at your materials provider. The only thing I can think of is perhaps the material used to build the wall isn’t up to par to what you typically would use. You guys don’t seem the type to cut corners though.”
    “We aren’t and Morris would have alerted us before now if there was an issue with materials,” Arkadios said, shaking his head. Pulling the plans over, he stared down at them before he walked to the middle of the room and closed his eyes.
    “He’s visualizing,” Torben, explained when she glanced his way. “Give him a moment. He’ll see it. He always does. And if he doesn’t we’ll figure it out on site.”
    She watched Arkadios as he ‘visualized’ and asked, “Is he the one who typically handles all of the building aspects or something? The one who finds all the issues in building and all that pertains to it?”
    “Not