’ ‘It’s not too late, Ted, I can send Max home with the truck. You and I can make this trip.’ Marty knew it was a waste of time, but he was ob...iously determined to offer his kid one more chance to man up.’ ‘I have way too much going on to just take a month off.’ Ted tried to sound regretful, but it just wasn’t working for him. ‘I’m sorry to hear that, Ted, but Maxine and I are going to be leaving now. I want to get on down the road before we stop for the evening.’ Marty and Ted parted with an. Then the odd feeling came back, only strong enough for him to recognizeit.It was grief.Utter, total, grief and sadness. It was like the day he'd learned herparents had died, only even worse than that.Unable to stand it, he had gone back over to the female clothes, andtouched them again.The grief vanished.Less than a half-hour later he was wearing women's clothes for the firsttime.It was then the door opened, and the doctor came in."As you can tell by now, we lied to you. The device doesnt. In his experience, mortals were extremely reluctant to acknowledge the existence of vampires in their midst.Arthur recalled that he had one more errand to run before his rapidly approaching dormancy, an errand that he'd had to postpone while he had the ferals in tow and Alicia over his shoulder. Moving to the front door, he extended his senses to make certain there were no witnesses and slipped outside.Arthur gazed along the row of neat, well maintained homes. Any of the occupants would do for. .It felt strange going downstairs just in my dressing gown, I felt older but vunerable. M*m and d*d where eating breakfast reading for work, sch**l loomed for me and clare who I had heard in the shower. I sat and felt conspicuous , I had seen raised eyebrows and nudges between my parents.Clare appeared in her uniform and sat by me, smiling. My parents bustled in and out. I felt exposed.During a brief interval alone Clare said " well done " looking at my legs , causing me to blush but also a.