Beth also looked briefly at the night sky before sitting down on a chair across the small table from Mira. “Apparently she’s the eldest daughter of the household, and it’s her ‘sweet sixteen.’ Though the big deal is she’s a ‘débutante’—I guess that means she’s going to start dating other spoiled brats, or modeling, or who knows what.” She shook her head. “I suppose I might be putting a bit of a dent in the romantic atmosphere, but this place just doesn’t seem defensible from an ethical standpoint—all the resources and labor that go into this lifestyle could probably be used a lot more productively, to help people.”