I wouldn’t be able to move a crate of bullion through the tunnel and up the stairs, so I built the crates in the garage and once the recast ingots c...oled, I carried them out to the garage and packed them in the crates. I marked each crate with a G, S, or P to identify the type of bullion in each crate. I spent a lot of time walking back and forth between the garage and shelter. The ventilation wasn’t the greatest in the shelter, so it got very hot in there after a couple of hours of melting. Even after the population numbers recovered, sex ratios remained skewed. With nearly seventy percent of the population women, they controlled many of the levers of power. Political, business, even households were dominated by women, even if recent times have had a gradual increase in male participation. Thanks to modern medicine, sex ratios have improved with women accounting for approximately sixty-five percent of the total population.Societal taboos around sex fell away as frequent pairings. She reached down and undid the knot holding the shirt together, and the two halves parted, revealing her body in its glory to me.Again, she took one of my hands and placed it on her breast, pressing it there before dropping her hands down to my lap to work at my belt. I felt her nipple expand as I held her. Almost without volition, I squeezed and kneaded the pliant flesh.In the meantime, she put both her hands to work on undoing my jeans. Molly managed to loosen the belt and unsnap them before. When Al bragged that he'd kicked my ass and I hadn't bothered to correct the impression, most people assumed it was true. Aggravating the other two erroneous conclusions was the fact that I was bigger than Al. Two, I had a large vocabulary, and I was willing to use it. That immediately made my masculinity suspect. Three, in the lunchroom when I had abruptly halted our argument, Carol assumed that he had intimidated me rather than that I was trying to avoid the attention of the lunchroom.