Nature was calling him quite loudly and he was sure she was hearing the same thing."Be right back," said a similarly naked Tammy as she took Karl's ha...d. They both headed outside to relieve themselves from their nightly bladder buildup. As usual, she took the low road and slipped into the out-house while he took out his liquid wrath on one of the nearby trees."How come you water a different tree all the time," she casually asked on their trip back to the house."Ammonia build up," he replied.. He was not a real good driver and he knew it -- mostly lack of practice -- so doing it alone seemed to be a major challenge.It really seemed like too long since he'd been in the office. Though he'd been busy right through, he'd done very little editing -- just a little bit of Dithyran's Probe right after he first got to Bradford, and then messing with Swordsman of Atlantis without really getting into it. Everything else had been in the endless mound of slush. Though, he'd found a couple good. I situp and my entire world shifts, I feel my body move but in a foreign way,I shake in places I've shaken and I fold in places I've never folded. Ifeel very familiar with every part of me but not all at once like thisall around me, wrapped around me, on me. My eyes go wide, I'm her. Ipanic and look around, no one is there, "bu.." I gasp "wher.." my voice,her voice, "where am... I" I realize I'm alone, where is my body. Mybody, her mind, "where are you?!" ... silence without closure, I mustbe... Jibran turned to me with glassy eyes. "The child monasteries!" he whispered. "How long..."I nodded. Jibran saw the core dilemma facing our society. In a population of twenty-five million, there are over nine million children, and almost seven million of them were girls. The children represented 36% of the human population, and their care and training consumed a huge portion of the world's resources. How long could they last without supplies? And if we evacuated the child monasteries, where.