Papa came home after Arvin left I told him all what went on in our home and what mom done but papa instead of telling any thing to mom or me he just s...mply went of to his friends home for this night and there were nobody whom I can even ask anything about what is going on so without any idea I gone to my room and locked me from inside On the said time Arvin had come to my home with a gang of his friends with full drunked and he called mom by her name which I was hearing from my room I was. " That's what she tells me." Do you love her any less because of it?" No." Does she love you any less?" Not that I can tell." Okay ... I love Peggy and Izzy, but I'm in love with you."I had to smile. She said it as if it were so naturally obvious it hardly bore mentioning."Yes dear." I replied dutifully. Her smile turned seductive, enticing and approving.Her fingers wormed between the buttons of my shirt and began toying with my chest hair."That's my good boy." she chuckled. "Now, as I was. I've also got many billions of my minds trotting around doing various things without bodies because it's easier for them that way. And when they finish whatever they're doing, they cancel themselves because the loss of a mind doesn't matter since their memories are retained."Vanessa asked, "Doesn't a person - or 'the mind', if that's a better way of wording it - feel frightened about their imminent cancellation?" They do until they've made the mental adjustment I've talked about. Being canceled. “What have you got in the boxes?” Arthur asked her with interest. He hadn’t read the sign hanging from the counter board.“The usual, Quaz crystals. Boss wants a rotak a bag, or you can have a box of twenty for a nahs. ($90). The limit is three boxes per buyer. You interested?” she grinned at him as she enjoyed the shocked look.She then poured out a bag of crystals into the tray she had in front of her. They sparked as they hit the metal tray. The different lengths and single 1cm cubed crystals.