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Helena Torvald had been running the Li'l Tykes Montessori Day Care School for the last twelve years. Right now there were forty children, ages 3-9, enrolled, though on any given day or time there were usually only fifteen present.

When she got into the business, she'd been hoping that it would make up for Alan and her's inability to have children. It had been successful, since she now had utterly no desire to spawn, let alone care for, any of the tots.

But business was business, and Li'l Tykes was quite a successful li'l enterprise. All she had to do was stock some interesting educational toys, keep the kids from destroying the place, and feed them cookies and "pea-bah" until it was time for the mothers, fathers, or nannies to show up to take them home again.

That, and cash checks, a percentage of which she set aside to pay off any Department of Education snoopers who actually wanted to see lesson plans, pedagogical mumbo-jumbo, and, in short, any evidence that she was actually running a school, as opposed to a less-complex-but-less-capable-of-charging-a fortune day care.

There came, as the saying goes, a knock on the door.