>Kris! Kris... There was something I've been meaning to tell you... we just haven't really gotten a moment alone, haha.
>Sometimes when I'm not available for IMs at college, it's because I'm at all these meetings.
>Some of them are academic extracurriculars, like Mom was talking our ears off about earlier.
>But, um... I'm also in this really important club. It's about, well, the future.
>Our future. Hometown's future!
>Kris, when you go to college, you'll see how big the world is. And... *looks down* how much danger there is.
>In fact... our very way of life is at threat. This very moment.
>There are forces out there, powerful and evil people, Kris... they hate Hometown. Or places like it.
>They hate purebred monsters like our family, or Noelle's across the street. They hate Mom for teaching monster children, and they hate our school and church for being, sigh, *exasperated air quotes* "segregated."