The industrious and self-sufficient westerners kept up with demands of clothing the young mothers. The town adapted as it waited.The local doctor's of...ice did not have the sophisticated tools of a big city, but an internal ultrasound machine was enough to know that all 36 pregnancies were female. This was really the first thing that made the doctor really want to go outside the town for help and advice. Surely, 36 out of 36 being female meant something was wrong. In all other ways, the babies. She marched back into the living roomwith her cape flowing, went past the dining table and opened one ofthe doors in the wall opposite to the window. The new girl gave theimpression that she had lived in this apartment for quite some timeand thought nothing of its supernatural qualities.The door led to another room, circular in plan and with an elevatorshaft occupying the center part. Aside from the lack of furniture,this space was just as opulent as the other rooms, with elaboratelight. It was a sunday afternoon, Mom was not coming over this weekend because of some hare ram hare krishna convention in gorakhpur and I was lazing around at home and watching some TV. My Sister and Ram walked into the house and went straight into the room we shared.I knew they were going to have sex so I increased the volume and watched the movie. Around that time, I was single and had been like that since I got out of a relationship with a much elder married man. His wife had found out about us. "Yes Nim." We intone as innocently as we can. Finally, at that, he breaks out in laughter.I chuckle along with him as I reach him, and then wrap an arm around the out side of his cloak. Saul does the same on Nimrod's other side. Once we are all hugged tightly to Nimrod, I take the time to look around. I notice that even though it is late morning there aren't any people around. this is unusual. I can't even being to speculate why that is."Where is everyone?" I ask worried not that something has.