January, Age 773

  (West City)

  “Wow, this city is amazing.” Zangya said looking around, taking in her surroundings.

  Gohan and Ginnie had shown her some beautiful areas near their home yesterday but today they were showing her one of the more famous cities after asking to see it, they agreed saying that they could use the opportunity to introduce her to one of their close friends.

  Which is why she found herself in West City, mildly impressed by what she saw, they had flying vehicles, big buildings, and lots of the people walking around, who looked happy. When she saw the pnet from space, she didn’t know what to expect but it wasn’t this, and the people in the city didn’t seem too surprised by her appearance.

  Some of them did look at her a little longer or more than once but they would just shrug their shoulders and go about their way. This surprised her at first but then she noticed some humanoid looking creatures walking amongst them, Gohan expined what he knew about them, and why they weren’t too surprised by her.

  “Yeah, it’s one of the more popur cities.” Gohan said walking alongside Zangya and Ginnie.

  “Yeah, mom likes to come here to buy a lot of her clothes.” Ginnie said. “They have a lot of nice shops here.”

  “They do?” Zangya asked, turning to look at her, a smile appearing on her face.

  “Yeah, we should all come one day and go shopping.” Ginnie replied with a smile.

  “That sounds like a great idea.” Zangya said smiling back.

  “Here we are.” Gohan said stopping in front of a rge yellow dome shaped building with the words Capsule Corp written on it.

  “Wow, this pce is big.” Zangya said, “What do they do?”

  “They make a lot of technology to help the world, making them the leading technological company in the world.” Gohan expined, as they walked in, waving at someone who waved back.

  “Wow, that’s impressive.” Zangya said nodding her head in appreciation.

  “Thank you but, it’s been a group effort.” A man with grey hair, a grey mustache, with a small bck creature on his shoulder said walking towards them.

  “Hello, Dr. Briefs, how have you been?” Gohan asked smiling at the man.

  “I’m doing quite well, except I’ve found myself with too much time on my hands since I left the company in Bulma’s capable hands.” Dr. Briefs said chuckling.

  “Oh, well if you want, I have a couple of ideas that I would love to get a second opinion on if you want, I can bring them by ter.” Gohan said holding his hand out for the bck creature who climbed into it as he started petting it.

  “That sounds wonderful, can you tell me a little about them?” Dr. Briefs asked.

  “Yeah, sure.” Gohan said as he started expining things that she couldn’t quite understand.

  “Gohan is a scientist?” Zangya stopped to ask Ginnie.

  “Oh, yeah, he’s very smart.” Ginnie said stopping with a smile on her face, “He invented the Capsule Phone.”

  “…That device I saw a lot of people using in the city?” Zangya asked.

  “Yeah, this one.” Ginnie said pulling one out of her pocket.

  “What is it exactly?” Zangya asked.

  “It’s a device that allows you to communicate, with others at a distance, you can also send messages, py games, take pictures, and a lot more.” Ginnie said, showing her.

  “…Wow and Gohan invented it?” Zangya asked impressed.

  “Yup, he really smart.” Ginnie said smiling brightly.

  Zangya could see that Ginnie looked up to Gohan a lot, “He’s kind, strong, good looking, and now I find out he’s smart too, he’s checking off more and more boxes.” She thought, gncing at Gohan who had walked ahead of them as he continued talking to Dr. Briefs.

  “There you guys are!” a voice called out to them, Zangya turned around and saw a gorgeous woman with short blue hair and blue eyes, she was wearing a white shirt, blue pants, white shoes, and b coat.

  “Oh, hey Bulma.” Ginnie said, waving at her.

  “Hey, Ginnie, did you guys get lost or something?” Bulma asked, walking towards them.

  “No, we ran into your dad and then Gohan started talking with him about some ideas he had, and you know the rest.” Ginnie expined, gesturing towards Gohan and Dr. Briefs, who were still talking.

  “Oh, I should have guessed.” Bulma said sighing, “…can you guys wait for me upstairs, I’ll head up soon, Trunks is up there with my mom.”

  “Ok, good luck.” Ginnie said waving at Bulma.

  “Thanks.” Bulma said shaking her head, walking towards Gohan and Dr. Briefs.

  “Come on Zangya.” Ginnie said, leading her away.

  “Alright.” Zangya said seeing Bulma talking with Gohan.

  --

  Zangya was now sitting with Bulma and Gohan eating some snacks that Bulma’s mother had brought them after getting a quick tour of the building and Zangya was impressed by what she saw, the pnet was more developed than she first thought. Now she was answering questions that Bulma had for her, “So Zangya, what are you pns now that you are staying here?” Bulma asked.

  “… I want to explore the pnet a some more and see if there’s anything Cooler can do to help you guys develop some more.” Zangya said, thinking over her answer.

  “Develop how?” Bulma asked, gncing at her.

  “… I don’t know, usually he offers some pnets advance technology or medicines but from what I’ve seen so far you guys are doing well. So, I don’t know how he can help you guys I’ll hopefully have a better idea after seeing the pnet some more.” Zangya expined.

  “I see… that’s not a bad idea. Although, I wouldn’t mind picking some of his scientists’ brains, they must know a lot and I’m sure they could give me some great ideas on some of the projects we’ve been working on.” Bulma said nodding her head.

  “I can ask if Cooler will allow that.” Zangya said, thinking that it would be a good idea.

  “You would do that!?” Bulma asked.

  “Yeah, I’m sure Cooler wouldn’t mind, well at least his scientists wouldn’t mind, I know they look forward to comparing ideas with other races, whenever they get a chance.” Zangya said nodding her head. “I can ask when I send in my report tonight.”

  “That will be great! Thank you.” Bulma said smiling.

  “No problem.” Zangya said shrugging her shoulders, since it wasn’t too much trouble to ask.

  “Maybe we can even get a list of things they have and what they do to see if we can use some of it ourselves.” Gohan said looking at Bulma.

  “That’s a great idea Gohan!” Bulma said smiling at him.

  “Yeah, it is I’ll ask if they can send it, although it might take a while for them to bring it over, since Cooler’s capital pnet is far away.” Zangya said.

  “You guys don’t have a method of sending that information over long distances?” Bulma asked.

  “We do but, only through our ships.” Zangya expined.

  “What about your communicator?” Gohan asked.

  “It can only send small reports.” Zangya said shaking her head.

  “Oh, that’s too bad.” Bulma said.

  “Yeah.” Gohan agreed, “…maybe we could come up with a better method once we get in contact with their scientists.”

  “Yeah, that’s another good idea Gohan.” Bulma said nodding her head.

  After talking with Bulma for a little longer they left, but not before Bulma gave her a Capsule Phone for herself which Ginnie said she would teach her how to use.

  --

  Zangya had known that Gohan had been holding back in his fight against her, but she never knew by how much until today, after arriving at a rge empty field that looked like a war was taking pce. After oversleeping again, she found out that Gohan had left to spar with another Saiyan named Vegeta who had been off world training according to Ginnie who was leading her to where they were, after her scouter exploded from the energy being released from them.

  “How do you know where they are?” Zangya asked, gncing at Ginnie.

  “I can sense where they are.” Ginnie answered.

  “Gohan mentioned that the other day, what do you mean by sensing them?” Zangya asked.

  “… I don’t know how to expin it right…Gohan can could expin it better, but I guess you can say I feel their power levels.” Ginnie expined.

  “…you guys can feel power levels?” Zangya asked.

  “Yup.” Ginnie said, nodding.

  “Can anyone learn?” Zangya asked, intrigued especially since she didn’t have her scouter anymore.

  “I think so, well at least those who know how to use Ki.” Ginnie said, nodding, “Why?”

  “…nothing I was just wondering if someone can teach me.” Zangya answered.

  “Yeah, I think Gohan won’t mind teaching you, if you ask.” Ginnie said, nodding.

  “Thank you, I might do that.” Zangya said nodding.

  “We’re almost there.” Ginnie said, pointing to where the sky was dark with thunder and where a rge yellow glow was lighting up the darkness ahead.

  “…Wow!” Zangya whispered, stopping to admire the view.

  “…Yeah, Gohan’s amazing.” Ginnie said smiling, eyes bright with awe.

  “…that’s Gohan!?” Zangya asked, shocked.

  “Yup, well most of it is him, the rest is Vegeta.” Ginnie said nodding her head.

  “…how can you tell?” Zangya asked.

  “…I know what Gohan’s energy feels like.” Ginnie answered after a short while.

  “…is that something I’ll be able to tell after learning how to sense energies?” Zangya asked.

  “Yeah, well I need to head back now, but my dad and Piccolo are over in that direction if you want to watch with them.” Ginnie said, pointing.

  When a rge boom was heard in the distance, followed by the dark sky clearing, which was proceeded by more loud booms, “…that sounds like a good idea.” She chuckled nervously.

  “…ok, bye Zangya.” Ginnie said, waving before turning away after looking like she was struggling with a decision.

  “Bye.” Zangya said, watching her fly away before flying towards where Ginnie pointed.

  Zangya eventually found Raditz and Piccolo standing on a rge mountain overlooking, the area where the booms were coming from, “What are you doing here?” Piccolo asked gncing at her as she nded.

  “…I wanted to ask Gohan a few questions and see if he wanted to spar with me, but I see he’s busy.” Zangya answered, noticing that Piccolo didn’t seem to trust her yet.

  “…you wanted to see if he can help you get a better handle on your…Super Hera form.” Piccolo stated.

  “I…how did you know that?” Zangya asked.

  “A guess, that you just confirmed.” Piccolo answered.

  “…I see.” Zangya chuckled. “you don’t like me, do you?”

  “…I don’t know you.” Piccolo stated turning to look at her, “…and until I know you aren’t a threat to this pnet, or the people on it, I’ll be keeping my eyes on you.”

  “…I understand.” Zangya said nodding her head, slightly unnerved by the look Piccolo was giving her.

  Piccolo didn’t say anything else, walking forward to watch the battle, she tried to watch the fight but by following the booms, pieces of debris flying into the air from their attacks, and small fshes of light followed by explosions. However, by the time she looked at where she thought they were, they had already moved somewhere else making her py catch up.

  “You’re going about it the wrong way.” Raditz said, startling her.

  “What!?” Zangya asked, turning to look at him, she saw that his eyes were darting around seemingly following the fight with ease. “You can see them?” she asked, noticing that Piccolo was doing the same.

  “Of course, we can.” Raditz answered, turning to look at her, “it’s one of the few tricks you can pick up while staying here. If you try to learn.”

  “Can you teach me?” Zangya asked, struggling to follow the fight.

  “…don’t just use your eyes, use all of your senses to follow the movement of their Ki.” Raditz said.

  “…use all my senses to follow the movement of their Ki?” Zangya repeated, closing her eyes to focus on her other senses.

  The only thing she could hear at first was the rushing wind but the more she concentrated she could hear the distinct sounds of fighting, making her open her eyes where she could barely make out two blurs rushing towards each other. She then focused on those two blurs as they rushed around the field, they slowly came into focus she could make out who she believed was Gohan based on the purple color of one of the blurs.

  “You see them?” Raditz asked.

  “…Yeah, barely, I can at least make out who’s who.” Zangya answered her eyes following what little she could make out.

  “That’s good, you’ll get better with practice.” Raditz said his attention going back to the battle.

  Zangya did her best to follow the battle, but she was still struggling, “Don’t worry if you still can’t fully see the fight. Super Saiyan 2 increases our power and speed even further than normal, so it makes sense for you to still have some trouble. Being able to see anything at all is an achievement especially since you can’t sense Ki yet.” Raditz said to her.

  “Will Gohan teach me if I ask him?” Zangya asked.

  “…yeah, I don’t think he will have a problem, I know he pns on teaching his brother soon maybe he can teach you at the same time.” Raditz said.

  “Great!” Zangya replied with a smile on her face as she focused on the fight again, seeing nothing but two blurs cshing.

  The fight went on for a little longer before the blue and yellow blur was sent crashing into the ground below revealing a defeated and unconscious man who she figured was Vegeta lying in a rge crater, his armor was cracked in various pces, and he was bleeding from a few cuts. Gohan appeared nding at the edge of the crater in slightly better shape than Vegeta, half of his shirt was torn as were his pants legs, he then powered down and then kneeled next to Vegeta.

  “…I’m gd Cooler decided to give up because if he didn’t…” Zangya said leaving the rest unsaid.

  “Yeah, you’re lucky that we decided to just spar.” Piccolo said smirking. “Something to tell Cooler incase he gets any ideas.”

  “…he won’t, try anything, in the little time I’ve spent working with him he’s always kept his word.” Zangya said looking at Piccolo, “If he said he won’t try anything than he won’t unless you guys try something first.”

  “…That’s good to know.” Raditz said.

  “…He can heal!?” Zangya excimed watching Gohan, pcing his hands over Vegeta as they glowed green for a while before Vegeta slowly got back up. They looked like they were talking for a while before the one called Vegeta turned to look in their direction before flying off.

  “Yeah, my nephew is full of surprises.” Raditz said smiling before, flying after Piccolo, who had left seconds earlier.

  --

  Zangya found herself on her back staring at the sky after another intense sparring session with Piccolo which resulted in another loss, even in her Super Hera form she still lost. Gohan was supposed to train with her a few days after his fight with Vegeta but then he had said that something had come up, and that he wouldn’t be able to.

  When she asked him why, he didn’t say much, just that he received the opportunity to train with a special Master and that he would be gone for a while but that he had asked Piccolo and Raditz to train with her until he got back. So, she spent the next few days learning what she could about the pnet and about Gohan’s friends and family, thinking that he was going to be gone for a few days but then the days turned into weeks with no sign of him.

  Zangya started to worry after a month had passed with no sign of him coming back and whenever she asked his family or friends about him, they would say that he’s fine and nothing else. When she learned how to sense power levels, she tried to find Gohan’s, but she couldn’t find it anywhere on the pnet and when she asked all that they told her was that he was off world training.

  “…Let’s take a break.” Piccolo said, staring down at her.

  “…That’s…a…great…idea.” she panted, slowly sitting up, to see him pick up one of the water bottles nearby and drink from it.

  “Drink some water.” Piccolo said sitting down on one of the rocks nearby.

  Zangya nodded her head standing up, grabbing a bottle, and sitting down across from him as she slowly got her breathing back under control, “When is Gohan coming back?” she asked, taking a sip from her water.

  “…What tired of me training you?” Piccolo asked, staring at her. “If it wasn’t for Gohan asking me to train you, I wouldn’t have bothered. If you have a problem with my methods, then you can wait until he gets back, but don’t expect him to be any different his fighting style is mostly based on what I taught him.”

  “What!? NO!” Zangya said shaking her head quickly, “Sorry” she added quickly at his look, “…it’s just…I…”

  “Just What?” Piccolo asked, eyes narrowing.

  “Man, he’s intense. How is he friends with everyone else.” She thought, a shiver going down her spine, at his gaze. “Screw it, he seems like a no-nonsense type of guy so I should just be straight with him.”

  “…You know Cooler left me here with a mission in mind, right?” she asked.

  “Yeah, all of us suspected that.” Piccolo answered.

  “…he wants me to gain your groups trust especially Gohan’s.” Zangya replied after a pause.

  “Why!?” Piccolo asked, his posture slightly changing and his power level slowly rising.

  Zangya swallowed nervously getting the feeling that if her answer didn’t satisfy him, he would have no trouble killing her, “…he didn’t say why, just that he’s interested in Gohan and his potential and is looking forward to his growth.”

  “…and you don’t know why?” Piccolo asked, eyes narrowing.

  “NO! Honestly, I haven’t been working with Cooler that long, it’s part of the reason he picked me to stay behind, because the others have been with him since he first picked his squadron years ago. I’ve been with them for a few months and the only reason I went with him was because it was the only way I could leave the pnet I was on.” Zangya expined.

  “…why did you want to leave?” Piccolo asked.

  “…I…I can’t talk about it right now…” Zangya said grabbing her neckce so tightly that it cut into her palms, “Please don’t make me talk about it.”

  “…fine, we’re done for today.” Piccolo said standing up, “Raditz will start training you starting tomorrow.”

  “…I can still go on.” Zangya said, standing up quickly.

  “…No, take the rest of the day to rest, I think Raditz has pns for you to spar with Ginnie.” Piccolo said shaking his head. “…it’s obvious that something bad happened to you and you’re not ready to talk about it, and when you are ready, I suggest talking with...”

  “What you think I should talk with you.” Zangya interrupted.

  “…Kami No.” Piccolo snorted, “I’m the st person you should talk to.”

  “…Then who should I talk to?” Zangya asked looking up at him, confused.

  “Gohan.” Piccolo said simply.

  “…How am I supposed to talk with him if he’s not even here.” Zangya stated.

  “…Look, Gohan wanted to be here to train with you but…” Piccolo started trailing off, looking like he was thinking about what to tell her.

  “But what?” Zangya asked.

  “Look…there are special circumstances surrounding the person training Gohan, they had to pull a lot of strings for Gohan to go train with them. They also had some conditions attached to agreeing to train Gohan, and one of them was that we can only talk about it with certain people, and you aren’t one of them. Look, before he left Gohan told me that was really looking forward to fighting you again, but since he can’t right now, he asked Raditz and me to train you.” Piccolo expined.

  “…Really?” Zangya asked.

  “…Yeah, he told me that he’s looking forward to seeing how much stronger you’ll become while he’s away. So, train hard so you give him a good fight when he comes back.” Piccolo said, before frowning a little.

  “…What’s wrong?” Zangya asked, looking at him.

  “…nothing.” Piccolo said nodding slightly, “He also said that if you show promise that he’ll take you to a special pce to train.”

  “…a special pce?” Zangya asked, interested.

  “It’s called The Gravity Chamber.” Piccolo answered.

  “…What does it do?” Zangya asked.

  “It allows you to train by multiplying the gravity around you by a certain number.” Piccolo answered.

  “…That sounds good, why can’t we use it now?” Zangya asked.

  “There are only two currently on Earth one you need Gohan to be with you to use, and the other belongs to Vegeta, and I doubt he would allow you to use it.” Piccolo said.

  “Oh!... yeah, I guess I’ll wait until Gohan comes back.” Zangya said nodding, not wanting to deal with Vegeta after hearing about him from the others and the brief encounter she had with him, when she ran into him while in West City one day.

  “Get some rest.” Piccolo said before flying away.

  “…I will.” Zangya said watching him fly away, before flying to Gohan’s house.

  --

  Zangya ducked under Ginnie’s punch, countering with her own punch to her stomach, but Ginnie managed to block it with an open palm using the momentum to flip over her where she struck with an axe kick. Zangya barely managed to lift her arm to block the kick but that left her open for Ginnie to hit her with her tail knocking her off bance, as Ginnie nded on the ground in a crouch sweeping her leg knocking her off her feet completely.

  “Shit!” Zangya thought before being bsted by an energy attack from Ginnie, that sent her flying across the field and crashing into a nearby boulder.

  Zangya slowly got back to her feet, shaking her head, she sensed Ginnie before seeing her charging towards her, she waited until Ginnie was closer before attacking, “Spark Laser!” she shouted as a ser was shot from her forehead.

  Ginnie was so surprised by the attack that she didn’t have enough time to dodge, resulting in an explosion, Zangya decided to put some distance between them realizing that while Ginnie wasn’t as strong as Gohan or Piccolo, she did know more about fighting than her. Zangya decided to fly towards the nearby woods to put her pn into action, she saw Ginnie had started chasing after her again.

  “That was a good attack, but it wasn’t enough!” Ginnie shouted, firing energy bsts at her.

  Zangya turned around flying backwards and threw her hands out fingers spread, Ginnie seeing that quickly came to a stop thinking that it was another attack but when nothing came, she looked at her curiously before taking a cautious course of action, “Saturday Crush!”

  Zangya dodged the attack and continued flying towards the woods, releasing inviable threads as she weaved through the trees with Ginnie following behind her, soon she turned around stopping in the middle of a clearing. Zangya turned around and smiled as Ginnie flew towards her before she suddenly came to a stop in front of Zangya suspended in the air a punch inches away from her.

  “…What did you do?” Ginnie asked as she struggled to escape from what was holding her.

  “Psycho Threads.” Zangya answered, a smile on her face.

  “What?” Ginnie asked, still struggling, but slowly getting tired.

  “It’s an attack that my race can use, we release thin strings of energy that capture you and drains your power the more you struggle.” Zangya expined.

  “What!?” Ginnie asked, stopping in her struggle, to look around to see if she could see the strings.

  “They’re nearly invisible.” Zangya said with a smile, “Looks like I win.”

  “Yeah, you do now will you please release my daughter.” Raditz said having watch everything from a distance.

  “Yeah, no problem.” Zangya said closing her hands before Ginnie fell to the ground, “Good fight.” Zangya said holding her hand out for Ginnie.

  “Yeah, that was fun, I can’t wait to fight you again.” Ginnie said, taking the offered hand and standing up. “Only if you want to.” She said quickly.

  “Yeah, I would like that.” Zangya said nodding her head, “Man everyone here is strong, even the children. Cooler asking me to stay here may be the best decision he made, I’ll be able to get stronger by training with everyone here.” She thought, smiling at Ginnie.

  “Well now that I have a base line of how strong you are without your transformation, we can see how strong you are with it tomorrow when me and you spar.” Raditz said nodding at her.

  “I can still go on.” Zangya said looking at him.

  “No, we’re done for today, I have dinner pns with my wife, and I know better than to be te.” Raditz said chuckling.

  “Oh, that sounds nice.” Zangya said smiling.

  “It is, I like to take her out every once in a while.” Raditz said smiling, “Ginnie, remember that you’re sleeping at your aunts house tonight.”

  “I remember dad.” Ginnie said nodding her head.

  “Ok, well, I’ll head back home now, see you tomorrow.” Raditz said hugging Ginnie and nodding at Zangya before flying away.

  “What do you want to do now?” Ginnie asked, turning to look at her.

  “…I don’t know, do you have any ideas?” Zangya asked, shrugging her shoulders.

  “…not really but we can come up with something ter.” Ginnie said shaking her head.

  “That sounds fine want to head back?” Zangya asked.

  “…sure.” Ginnie said nodding her head as she flew into the air, with Zangya following seconds ter.

  --

  ‘I’ve gotten closer to his family they seem like nice people.’ – Zangya.

  ‘That’s good any news about Gohan?’ – Cooler.

  ‘No, he’s still training wherever he is.’ – Zangya.

  ‘I see, and have you learned anything new about where he is?’ – Cooler.

  ‘Not really but, I’ve noticed that some day’s his mother and brother are gone for an entire day.’ – Zangya.

  ‘Do you know where they go?’- Cooler.

  ‘No, but wherever they go I can’t sense any of their energies on Earth.’- Zangya.

  ‘Which means, they may be visiting him.’- Cooler.

  ‘That was my thought as well.’ – Zangya.

  ‘Have you heard anything else?’ – Cooler.

  ‘No, that is all.’ – Zangya.

  ‘Ok, keep me updated then.’ – Cooler.

  ‘Wait, I heard a name that I didn’t recognize the other day.’ – Zangya.

  ‘What was the name?’ – Cooler.

  ‘I think it was…King Kai, or something like that.’ – Zangya.

  ‘King Kai!? are you sure that’s the name you heard?’- Cooler.

  ‘Yes, I’m sure, his mother corrected the youngest when he mispronounced it. Do you recognize it?’- Zangya.

  ‘I think so, and if Gohan is receiving training from who I think it is, he’s even more interesting than I originally thought.’ – Cooler.

  ‘What do you want me to do?’ - Zangya.

  ‘Just keep doing what you are doing, no rush, just let me know when he gets back.’ - Cooler.

  ‘Of course, anything else?’ - Zangya.

  ‘No, that’s all. Until next time.’ – Cooler.

  ‘Of, course.’ – Zangya.

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  (AN: I was close to finishing this chapter and posting it around the first week of March but then I found out about Akira Toriyama, and I just felt like taking a break. Once I felt like writing again, I decided to write the st few chapters of this Volume and release them over the course of the next few weeks, that way I’ll have some time to jot down some of my ideas for Gohan’s Multiversal Travels.

  Don’t worry I haven’t dropped Warrior of The Future, I’m just currently stuck on how to continue from the st chapter, I have a few ideas written down but I’m not 100% on them yet so I’ve put it aside for now. Once I get an idea that I’m happy with I’ll start working on it but that may take a while.

  For this chapter I was originally going to write about Gohan’s training with King Kai, but I decided to have that happen off screen while following Zangya. This way I can have a few surprises in store for you guys.

  The st section of the chapter is a collection of her reports to Cooler over time, I thought it would be good to have it all at the end. Gohan comes back in the next chapter and with that we go back to his perspective.

  I pnned to end this section talking about my fond memories of watching Dragonball Z every week with my brother, and more things along that line, but I decided to just end by saying this, ‘Thank You for everything Akria Toriyama, you meant a lot to so many people.’)