." Lin positioned her body into a deep squat, balancing her weight far forward on the balls of her feet. She thought rapidly, preprogramming her moves... so that her body would respond correctly and rapidly to any of the several possibilities she thought might soon occur. Stacey let out a soft gasp, amazed at what Lin was doing, struck by how Lin's naked body reminded her of some incredible cat, one set to spring with inhuman balance and coordination."I want it, Randy! I want it high up in my. He reached forwards, out of habit, and grabbed the coffee cup, drinking as he looked out the window to the traffic outside. He looked over at the figure, content and relaxed."You said everything comes here right? What about you, whatever you are?" All will pass through here in time. Eventually, there will come a day when I am the last. I will make the last journey, and then there will be nothing left."He set his coffee down, smiling."So will you have your own "Death" to escort you?"He could. There was a story in the newspaper recently where someone was shot nine times and survived. And DeMarcus was a big man. But I trusted in fate. Stupid, right? It wasnt long before there was the sound of a siren followed by pounding at the front door of my house, but not for much longer. Good riddance! Nothing but trouble! I answered the door and was confronted by two of New Yorks Finest standing on the door step. Theres a gun on a chair in the living room I told them as I put my hands in the. The light disappeared with aclick, and Steve blinked to clear the spot away.~She? Has it happened already? Did I turn out all right? Am I a mutant, afreak?~Steve raised her head and looked down, and saw the blurry outline of what hadto be breasts below her gown. ~So it has happened.~ She lay back, stunned anddrained.A woman in a blue headscarf came into focus. "Doctor?" Steve croaked,startled at the change in her voice: she sounded like a seductress withlaryngitis. She tried to lift her arm,.