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You hear a voice from inside one of the guest bedrooms that takes you a few moments to recognize.
"Thanks for being so totally accommodating!"
"Not like I'd let you stay in a hotel," comes Dad's sonorous voice through the wall. "Especially right now."
"Uh huh!" There's some knocking-around of stuff and then the sound of suitcase zippers coming undone. Then a brief pause before the voice continues. "Hey... this is the perfect time, you know... to consider that thing we've been talking about."
"...You really want to do it?" Dad says. "Your career--"
"My career can go to heck. Those people never liked us anyway." The voice drops a little lower. You have to strain to hear. "We're ready, Ally... and we want you to do it for us... the way you did for little Wessy." When this draws no response, she adds: "The clock's ticking, you know! Bio-logically. But I can get us some fertility pills right away."
"Us?" Dad says.
"May as well try on us both, right? Two birds are better than one, as they say!"
"Is this what you want too, Makoto?"
Her thickly accented voice speaks up now. "Yes. Alabaster... I would be deeply happy to help you spread your genes a little farther..."
