"Yeah, they say that there would be an improper balance between the right-brained people and the left-brained people." Tom-Tom snorted and shook his head in disbelief. "Well, so what? So goddamned what if there was?"

"It's a very strategically developed balance of power," Rosabella said. "If it's upset, we won't have enough business minds, artists--""

"So?"

"--politicians," she finished.

Tom-Tom snapped out a laugh as if it'd been paid for. "Yeah, Ros, that'd be a bitch, huh?"