"Hey, looks good. Where do I get her?" Toby relayed the address and Eddie Ray hung up, then dialed Nicky's."Mangia residence, Myra speaking." Hey, Myr... -- it's Eddie Ray." Oh, hi, Eddie Ray..." Myra's voice went sultry immediately. "What can I do for you?" Well, I was hoping to drag Nicky out to eat..." Is he going to eat you or vice-versa?" I was thinking food, Myra. I've got something lined up that I hope will let us go to the Homecoming dance without too much embarrassment -- but I'd like to. He started toward her, when Rob called out his name. That made Denise look too, and she saw Rob giving him a gesture and saying something she couldn’t hear in the rain from across the street, but the idea she got from it was that he was telling his husband “Dude, it’s Denise, calm down.”She waved to them while she got the mail. Eric calmed down and they both waved back before he went back inside and Rob went back to his waxing. It made her smile a little to know that their neighbors cared. As one they all rose though kept their eyes low, for to look directly at an Inquisitor without permission was asking for enlightenment.“Adept Crnnch, attend!” came the command.“At once, Inquisitor!” he replied and approached to within a metre of the Inquisitor, passing through the immobile yet alert guards and bowed low from the waist, following protocol to the letter and hoping his internal fear wasn’t showing too much.“There are questions to be answered,” hissed the Inquisitor. “You will. There are hordes of people lining up rightnow to sell you hormones, cosmetics, and clothes. And since you probablydon't know the first thing about fashion, there will be others to sellyou lessons on how to make up and dress up. There will be still othersonly too happy to charge you for teaching you how to modify yourmasculine speech patterns into quasi feminine ones. There's no tellinghow many people there will be to bill you, your family, or thegovernment for countless hours of therapy,.