She was clearly still angry. I sat in the passenger seat with the bag of wooden utensils from the department store in my lap. The slotted spoon she h...d already used on me was tucked into her purse, but there were three more items still in the packaging. I wasn't sure what she was planning, but I knew that I was in trouble and there was no getting out of it without a fight. I was fully aware that I was in the wrong and rather than prolong a useless argument, I knew my best course would be to. We can talk about intellectual property rights; increased royalties. Honestly, with what we have, we could stage a fight to the death for all label executives and they would have to show up if they wanted to stay in business. The streaming sites are the same way. They make their money from advertising and from membership fees. We can push for an oversight committee, made up of artists and accountants and lawyers and ... whatever. They cannot take the risk of this information becoming public. ”Stunned at Mary’s retort, Su Lin replied, “I don’t understand.”Grant answered, “In this time, a girl is expected to marry shortly after she’s fourteen, and if she hasn’t married by the time she’s eighteen she’s considered an old maid.”“So in addition to warning me, you’re also telling us that we’ve got as much to learn as do the downtimers.”“Exactly. We’re not going to superimpose our culture on them, but we’re all going to learn to adapt and throw out a lot of things considered right by. ..eh..." His demanding question was cut off as hebeheld a strange and disturbing transformation in the innoculation baybelow.It was good that the lanky, goateed-hispanic man in his mid-twenties wasnot fully conscious; for the shock as his hips cracked and widened, andhis arms thinned would have been a blow to body and mind. Every strandof body hair shriveled and vanished, as muscles blended and faded intosofter, suppler curves."You bastards! You think you've gotta create MORE nymphoids?!".