Maybe I should stay in Tyrsall while everyone else goes.”“What? Why wouldn’t you come with us?”“I won’t be able to work there at all. Bobo...says they don’t even speak trade tongue; it’ll be like here but worse.”“The others won’t care about that,” Shavala said. “We’ll just pay for our rooms the normal way.”Katrin sighed. “I just feel so useless compared to everyone else. What am I contributing?” It was the first time she’d spoken out about the concerns that had been building up in her mind over. ..” She coughed and had the common courtesy to look somewhat ashamed. “The Small Nosed Idiots...”I crossed my arms over my chest. “Oh. I see how it is.” I muttered.“Well, they lacked Sparks!” Paragon said. “That’s a, uh, percentage of the population that is capable of tapping into quantum effects. According to Spark science at the time, your brains were too small. Not enough room.” She tapped her temple slightly. Neanderthal heads were bigger than ours. I frowned slightly.“Even a super-genius. Ridiculously rich normal people.We didn’t think it would be that much of a problem. The kids liked it at Hougomont, but the girls were too young to care, and Charlie was now at the point where he was getting busy. If we didn’t go away, that meant he could ride his motocross bike in another race, and he was turning out to be a very tough competitor. I’m not sure I was ever going to understand the scoring system, but he had it down pat, and he was routinely placing in the top three on the races. "The dresses are nice in here, aren't they?"Carla looked at the person dressed as if for some sort of party, agreedwith me, then looked back to the rail."What do you think of their makeovers?" I asked.This time Shirley looked at me, looked away, then did a double take."My God!" she screamed.Carla looked at her bemused, not understanding her sister's behaviour."It's Martin!" Shirley screamed again, the few other people in the shopall looked at us. "It's Martin!"Finally Carla looked at me more.