I spent the money to have every room soundproofed for the luxury of its inhabitants.”April asked, “What will happen to this home when you have all...moved out?”“Excellent question, Ms. Nicholas, my initial idea was to offer it to the city for a place for kids who need to be watched over.”“Don’t they call that a halfway house?” my mother asked.“That is an old-fashioned term, Sarah,” he said, “Nowadays they use the term retraining facility.”“That sounds like a lot of PC crap, Mr. Thomas,” I. - Yeah, I am. We've got problems coming up. There are about 14m more males than females in the world at the moment, and 9m of those are in the category from 15-59. How can we have equal rights when we don't have even numbers? We'd lose every vote if it were on purely gender lines.- But what difference does that make; you never have any votes or anything, which are like the whole world.- Okay, bad example, take the US, there are loads more men than women. No wonder we've never had a woman. In her response she actually included Mi and Serah who looked at her perplexed."Wha- Anet ... A fair warning, we will eat up all the snacks. If you don't eat some with us now, don't complain later..." The confused Weysey tried to sway her mind. An ugly expression was on his face. "Anet, Serah, Mi, come!" I don't feel like eating snacks, either", Zushi surprised everyone and completely shocked Weysey. "And my legs are cold. I'm going ahead with the girls on the river's banks"."What?!" Merly was. Grabbing the neck pillow from behind me I bopped Tony over the head with it. "Dang it, you know better than that!" I said, half laughing. Tony ducked covering his head with his arms and grinning at me. "Well it woke you didn't it?" he said then nodding towards the brightly lit little shop in front of us he said, "just thought you might want to stretch your legs a little, maybe have some coffee. I know I could use some."I yawned and reached for the car door. "Sounds like a plan to me." Inside.