She led the men through house to the spacious living room. "This is the room that needs the carpet the most. We want this room carpeted and the stairs...over there as well." she said, stepping aside as they moved past her to go into the room. "Oh yeah, I can see why you want this carpet replaced - it has definitely seen better days!" the older man said. "Yeah we have been meaning to get it replaced, but it seemed like every time we were ready to something would come up!" Christy said. "Well, it. He would sometimes stare at them for several minutes, trying to recognize shapes in the strange coloured volutes, like in this game where you see elephants in the clouds. A sculpture made of twisted metal slats particularly intrigued him, reminding him of a distant geometry course on the Möbius ribbon.That day his curiosity pushed him to enter Clementine's room. He suspected that the couple were not sleeping in the same bed and that, as a result, she enjoyed the exclusivity of the room. He. Thanks." Okay. See you then." I hung up the phone.Shit shit shit shit shit. All I wanted to do was go home and take it easy. Now I had to go out of my way to stop at the neighbor's and pick up my wife's fucking purse. God, I hate being a good husband sometimes.Anyway, fortunately the time it took to talk to my wife used up those last few minutes of the day. I powered down the computer, said bye to the people who mattered and got on the road.While sitting at a stop light, I got to thinking about. It wasn't too elaborate, just purelyfunctional. From any passersby above, they would just think it were sometwigs that had become lodged in rocks.April, as she had been referring to herself since that was the month shehad been transformed, sat and looked out over her new domain. Shereluctantly began to scoot herself down from the cave top, until shecould gain better footing.Carefully she picked her way back to the mouth of her cave, picking upbroken branches and any burnable item as she walked..