A little time alone within the school grounds for a good long while before class was my ritual to help cope with the day. Thus, until Carmen arrived, ...he only remotely humanoid form I had seen all morning was my own shadow as I moved beneath the occasional active lamppost.Until that moment I had seen nothing remotely out of the ordinary. There had been no anomalous behaviour from anyone in my entourage. There was nothing to say about the family household. There was nothing to say about my. With my baseball cap on I knew she couldn't see my face. "Well, well Hello!" she said. She was staring at my cock then looked up to try to see my face and realized she couldn't. "Uh, my name is Andrea." I paused and then said, with my voice lowered from it's usual pitch, "Well hello Andrea." She smiled toward me. "I see you are very happy to see me," she said giggling a bit. I laughed then and told her I had never gotten to break in a new girl before. Andrea smiled and said, "Be gentle. " ...'telling' you how it works." Not in words. The knowledge was just...there." "If it works, it'll only change me physically?"She put a lot of emphasis on 'If'.I explained that the transformation, 'If' it happened, would create anexternal reality in which the woman in the drawing was Paula DianeLandham, nee Russo; my wife and Jake's mother. Her personality andidentity would remain intact. We'd remember everything we both knew abouther before, though no one else would.She mulled it over a few. “You’re not a paladin, Cinder,” Kaleb said, chuckling. “Or did you get religion when I wasn’t paying attention?”“Illusory images are easier to conjure than actuality,” Cinder said, breathing a slow, shuddering sigh out. Then she shook her head and ran towards the man that had been shot in the chest. She frowned – but he was already dead. In the darkness of the forest, she could hear someone being noisily sick. Madeleine stepped over to whoever it was, touching their back, murmuring softly in.