thecosmologicalgodsarehere
Hannibal was sitting serenely at his desk and leisurely working on writing up his notes from previous sessions into his computer, translating them from his adapted doctor's shorthand as well as from his native Lithuanian. He tended to write in his native language if only to keep people from catching curious, casual glances of what he was writing about the session. It helped in the long run, he knew and, by now, translation was effortless. It also helped him keep a firm grasp on his first language as no one really spoke it in America, that he had found at least.
Then, the phone rang, interrupting him. A sigh and a glance at the clock. Not a patient running late, of course, he was done for the day. Perhaps a cancellation. He glanced balefully at the empty reception room. He needed to make getting another secretary a priority again. Perhaps he ought to post the ad in the newspaper again, as well as online where it had been left to simply collect virtual dust...
"Hello?" He asked with a kind voice, betraying nothing.