I am a guy. Bet you didn't expect that, did you? I am a guy, and a gay one to boot. But hey, it's not important really, it's just the way I was born, ...nd I don't think of it too much. Do you think about how you are straight every day? No? Well, that's how it is for me too, only I am gay."Nice to meet you, Noah! I haven't seen you here before. How is that?" "Uhm, well.. I just moved here, and it's my first night out..hrm." It's a wonder he didn't turn around and walk away, I must have sounded. Then he had reacted by hitting the woman to get heraway from him, so she couldn?t shoot him again. He also stated thatErin was an unstable woman who had had numerous problems during highschool where she had gotten the nickname ?Crazy Erin.? Erin had nevergraduated from high school. She had prostituted herself numeroustimes while she and Rex had been together, and he had finally thrownher out in disgust. She had never taken good care of her and Rex?schild but was now pregnant by another man.. "Oh, no. They were polite as could be. Besides, I know who you people are. I guess everyone in Winter Park does," she added with a chuckle. "Come in. That wind has a bite to it today. And please call me Meg. Mrs. Kimbrel sounds too much like my mother."As Jeff held the storm door open for the women, his glance took in his surroundings. A hundred feet or so to the right of the house, his excellent vision picked up a set of footprints in the snow under the shade of the evergreen trees. Even as he. Eighty six Families were in attendance."We lost twelve before the last count," someone to Qi's right said. "We are slowly being hacked away." Many of us have a young generation that is much larger," another said. "We may be fewer Families, but our families are larger." After that initial burst of freedom, fertility rates have dropped," an older woman with a scar down her right cheek said. "Birth defects are up and weakened male fertility is up. The Temperdis follows us."The comment peaked Qi's.