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Natch!18work. You just can%u2019t put working wings on a body that size. Thebone structure alone was massive. And the unicorn. Don%u2019t evenget me started on that damn unicorn. What was with that horn?It just added more weight. Whimsy liked the look of it, the way itparted the bangs and balanced the tail visually. But everyone elsethought it superfluous. Finally, Betty just threw up her hands.Nate ended up scrapping the whole thing and sticking that bigtusk on a porpoise for spite. Called it a Narwhal.%u201cOk, everyone. Everyone?%u201d Nate set his agenda on the stumpand, sitting down, called the meeting to order. %u201cWe have a lot tocover today, so we%u2019re going to dispense with the usual oldbusiness updates. You can see Betty or me privately after thismeeting with anything that needs our sign-off. With all that%u2019sgoing on, I want,%u201d he paused and glanced briefly at Betty, %u201cWEwant to get straight to the point. You%u2019ve all been speculating formonths that this day was coming. Well, it%u2019s officially here. Bettyand I met with the Folks Upstairs early this morning. They want ateam to start immediately on the new Far South design. As youknow, this is a big job. It%u2019s been some time since anyone in thisroom has had to tackle anything of this scale and complexity. Iknow you%u2019re all still dealing with the rising temperatures and sealevels, lingering droughts, wildfires, and other calamitous crap inyour existing ecosystems. Frankly, you%u2019re going to have todelegate much of those %u2018mucking up%u2019 responsibilities to yourunderlings if we%u2019re going to get this thing into Production withinthe time allotted. I%u2019ve asked Amity to put together a preliminaryschedule of milestones.%u201d He gestured to a pink sheet in thepackets set on the stump in front of everyone%u2019s chairs. Amity wasbig on color-coding. Schedules were always pink. Except whenthere was a big deadline looming. Then they turned to red. Thisone was already hot pink, which meant that they were alreadybehind schedule.