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Natch!15Folks Upstairs, at least Fate did. Fate had all the power. Theycould bring some serious wrath if crossed, so folks tended not tocross them. Destiny was Fate%u2019s more fashionable and, somewould say, flakey cousin. She was also known to be a bit ditzy,prone to the latest fads and notoriously superstitious. She lovedromance novels, and she was fond of reciting passages from herlatest finds to Fate, trying to convince them of the hiddenmeaning. Fate put up with her for the clothes, but they had littlepatience for reading between the lines of Destiny%u2019s %u201cheavingbreast novels%u201d.Amity was there to keep the peace and to help reign in Fate%u2019sdark side. She came on board after the great dinosaur fiasco. Orwas it the flood? I sometimes get the two mixed up. No, it musthave been the dinosaur fiasco, because the mammals were still inprototyping. Gad was beside himself. He%u2019d been X%u2019ing and Y%u2019ingfor ages, subtly tweaking, nudging, switching a few itty bits hereand there, introducing new variables, and everything seemed tobe humming along swimmingly until Fate took an interest inmeteors. Before we knew what hit us, the whole place wasscrambling, trying to save anything we could. Rumor has it thatthere%u2019s a whole floor, somewhere either way up in the clouds ordown below with the subterranean artists, where they still keep abunch of Extinctosaurs, but I%u2019ve never been there.Amity and Lucky started right after that. Everyone liked Amityimmediately. She invented birthday parties, happy hour, and, inher youthful rebellious years, TGIF. Folks went to her rather thanHap to complain or seek counsel. Truth is some folks thought shewould have been a better personnel manager than Hap, but forall her good points, Amity didn%u2019t have the stomach for lettingfolks go, no matter how outmoded, unproductive, or slipshod.%u201cAs long as they%u2019re trying,%u201d Amity was likely to be in their corner.And %u201ctrying%u201d was really a very broadly defined term in Amity%u2019sdictionary.