When the ATE&FF came to an end, it was time to clean up and total up everything earned. While the Bachelor/Bachelorette auction had totaled more than $12 billion, the arts and crafts had also gotten into over $1 million, while offers for modeling and advertising contracts staring Animalians more than tripled, although Maggie made it clear about the terms of doing business with Animalia School of Modeling. But there was one more surprise:
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Clara and Rick had just got done showing off their Moose trophy when they met someone unexpected. He was clearly one of the government types who often show up at these kinds of events to help provide "national security", but he wasn't the strange one that has been hanging around since Heather's attack.
"You all did quite well." he said, coming up to them as the crowd dispersed.
"Uh, thanks?" asked Clara, not sure how to respond.
"You've been making enough money with this that we could possibly buy world peace in a short twelve years." the man continued.
"Stop grandstanding and tell us what you want." said Rick, not to pleased at how his eyes seemed to follow several female Animalians while his face didn't seem to move.
"We would like you to do something similar for spring of next year." said the government representative, surprised that he had been caught peeping, after a fashion.
"That might be a good idea," said Clara, "But we'll have to run it by the council before we do anything else about it."
"Ah, of course." said the government representative, not knowing what else to say.