"They keep telling me practice, or to take classes, but it doesn't make a difference. The second they invent computers that type whatever I'm thinking, it'll be good." She pauses. "No, scratch that, I wouldn't have a job."

And her editor would kill her.

"But it's more than looking for information and writing stories. It's about getting to the bottom of things and exposing the truth, and that's exactly what I do."

When not writing about stray kitten charity cases, anyway.

But given his accent, she shouldn't have been surprised. "And what's life like being a piper?"