Welcome back! Your latest installment made it BTW. 

	"Twenty-Thirty.  Surgery is an amazing thing."
	An idea began to take shape in Tachi's mind.  "It's also expensive."

I heard it isn't. Besides, its probably going to get even cheaper in the next 20 years anyway. However, the glasses and clapper must cost quite a sum.

	Tachi set Mousse's glasses on the stool behind her.  "To make 

that kind of money, someone would have to do something very dangerous, 
or possibly illegal."<<

I'll bet Nabiki had something to do with it, right? Not that it matters.