"The gender test I saw in your desk," she replied calmly. "It came out female." I said, waiting for her to explode like always"When dad leaves, I'd li...e to take a look at it," she said coldly. "Maybe take it over again with you. Get you over your problems once and for all." Her not yelling or even raising her voice made me feel better than I had in a long time. Maybe she was finally coming around to understanding how I felt. It made me warm inside that maybe she could care for me as much as a. He lifted his eyes, his eyes gliding over the murals that depicted the beautiful green fields of the Inonni vision of the afterlife, and then the faces of the young men whose voices sung in uplifting harmony.Jollis lowered his eyes, and made pains not to look directly ahead of him. Instead, he glanced to either side, where tall statues depicting each of the six gods of the Inonni pantheon stood as silent guardians, three on each side. Each represented a different facet of the human experience.. “Where is your laptop?” I smiled, making up alie. “Randy had to use it today, for school. Maybe next Wednesday.” “Ihave mine out in the car. I’ll get it. I get really wet looking at thosepictures.” My husband called as I just got home. He was going out of townuntil Friday. The company had a meeting at the home office. A part of mefelt glad because I would be home alone with Randy. Another part of was notsure I wanted to be. Randy came home from. He talked for a few minutes before putting it away, then climbed into an old beat up Chevy at the end of the row where I was hiding. I quickly memorized the plate as he backed out and put it in my field of vision. When he pulled out of the lot headed for town, I came from behind the building and walked to my truck. I climbed in and sat reviewing what just happened for a few minutes, wondering what it was all about. I wrote the tag number down in the little book I always carried. Then I called.