Thank you! The image of office buildings as islands rising from the lakes of their parking lots is something that has often struck me when I am going to visit businesses located in them.

Gossip is fun. :-)

Arthur isn't actually trying to get hired. He's trying to learn about Anita, since he's aware of the St. Louis triumvirate, she and Richard are the wild cards in it, and she's a lot easier to find than Richard (who is not publically "out" as a lycanthrope). He's not averse to doing a few freelance raisings while in St. Louis, though, since apparently if strong animators don't raise the dead on purpose now and then, their power will start leaking out and random dead things will follow them home at inconvenient times. Which I doubt Dom appreciates. :-D