" Paul can just agree and does not have the energy to argue. Vickie makes a list of what he needs from home and John takes the key to Paul's apartment...The doctors think he will go home in a couple of days so they have plenty of time to prepare. John does not discuss Vickie's decision to take him in to their home but feels happy that she thought to do so. Vickie prepares the extra bedroom while John arranges for special slings, props and chairs. Once they seem to have it all set they both head. I was dead wrong. She reached over to the nightstand and grabbed the cordless phone. My heart skipped. Was she going to call Shelby?"Shelby? It's Lily. You've got..." She looked at me and I mouthed 'five.' "less than five minutes to get over here." She disconnected, and asked me to pull out."But..." And press pause. I want to see if you last seven minutes total or just in one stretch." She got off the bed and staggered to her personal bathroom. I sat still and focused one staying hard. Not that. There were toilets, cubicles, a row shower heads, and appeared to be a part of some run down gym or public baths. Other side-rooms ran off from this one but they were hidden in shadow. Around the ceramic hall were other items that had obviously been brought here earlier by the two crazy men.Debbie thought the scene reminded her of that awful cellar where she had been taken the first time. Stacey began to pant and shake a little the familiar surroundings the first time somehow helping to deaden. It is more than simple electronics to let us talk. I'm taught to open and close my beak when I speak to regular humans, but a small voder on my chest does my talking, not my mouth. Human speech is more than just words. I had to have some modifications to my brain and learn to be human so that I could use human language. Part of me is still flamingo. That's why you are here today--your environmental science class is going to question these two wild flamingos. I will translate." How do we know.