The Brotherhood sat at the breakfast table, while R.Daneel carefully carried dishes and pitchers to be refilled.
"Good thing you're here this morning, R."said Lance.
"I shall always be here as long as there is work to be done, Master."
"Whatever. The point is, we've decided to do some remodeling."said Lance.
R.Daneel looked at him.
"Remodeling, Master?"
"Yes."
"The place just doesn't really feel like home, yo."
"Anything the Masters desire shall be seen to immediately. I shall go and inform the house robots. It shall be accomplished as quickly as possible."
R.Daneel turned to leave.
"Just a second, R. You see, we're gonna do the supervising ourselves."said Lance. "Not you, not the robots, us. That way, the house will be remodeled just right."
"It shall be done just as you wish, Master."
Several teams of house robots stood in perfect lines, perfectly still, waiting to receive orders.
"These robots shall be in charge of the remodeling, Masters."said R.Daneel.
"Which team is mine, yo?"asked Toad.
"I'll take these!"said Pietro, pointing to the group at the far left.
"Then I'll take these others."said Fred.
"Fine."said Lance. "Then these will work with me. Fred, you're in charge of the first floor, Pietro, you the second floor, Toad, fourth, and me the third. And finally, as soon as we're done with that, we'll start working on the subterranean floors!"
"I don't believe subterranean floors are customary on Solaria."said R.Daneel.
"I don't care what's customary on Solaria!"exclaimed Lance. "I said we're gonna have subterranean floors! And that's that! As soon as we finish with the floors above ground level, we'll move on to the others! Meanwhile, the other team of robots, supervised by yourself will be starting to dig them out! Are we clear!"
"Of course, Master."said R.Daneel.
He left with another team of robots.
"Then let's get started, yo."
"We need more contact patches in each room."said Fred. "It's a pain having to get up to reach the contact patch when you need a robot. So, get to it!"
"Yes, Master."said the robots, as they hurried to install more contact patches.
"One needs to be within reaching distance of every place in this room. That way, no matter where I am, I'll be able to summon a robot."
"You guys are so slow!"exclaimed Pietro. "See, watch!"
He grabbed a paintbrush from a robot's hand, and began painting the wall a bright blue.
"See! Can't you do anything right!"
The robot suddenly became immobile. Other robots came to take it away.
"We are sorry you had to witness such an unpleasant scene, Master."
"You should be! Now all of you! Get to work! I want this place done in less than a quarter of a second!"
"We need to get rid of all the showers, yo."Toad was saying.
The robots began deinstalling all the showers.
"Throw the soap away, too."
They began to line up at the atomic dispenser units to destroy bars of soap, jars of shampoo, and perfumed towels.
"You know, I think we need a view of the rose gardens here."said Lance. "We should redesign the grounds, too. After all, how big is this estate?"
"It is eighteen thousand square kilometers."said the robot. "Along with what is lined on the seafront."
"Seafront? This is a seafront estate?"
"Of course, Master. And there are plenty of copper mines on the mountains close to the seafront. They are mined, of course, by robots, and the copper, what is not needed here on the estate, is traded to yet other estates for things that we do not produce here, such as certain fruits that do not grow on this estate, Master."
"Where's R? How come he never told me this was a seafront estate?"
"I believe that R.Daneel is supervising the other robots that are..."
"All right, all right, all right. Don't just stand there, and go get him! Now!"
The robot went to get R.Daneel.
"And you guys go tell Fred, Pietro, and Toad to meet me in outside!"
"Yes, Master."
"What's up, yo?"
"Yeah."
"We're moving."
"Where?"
"To another place on the estate."said Lance. "I found the perfect place to build the house."
"Yeah?"
"Of course."