"Linda flinched visibly and drank the rest of her punch. She said, "When I look at you, mother-- nude and beautiful like that, I wonder why I grew up ...hinking of you as old. You're something- else-- those big round breasts and that lovely black hair on your mound, and I've always admired your long, provocative legs. I mean, you really have a gorgeous body. But-- thinking about you and Danny, I don't know. It all seems sort of unreal." Oh, it's real," Betty said, herself fortified heavily by the. " They were more than that. They were both part of a rape trial 3 yearsago. A fellow student accused them of drugging her, and raping her." I remember that case." So do I. I remember because she was my sister." I dont recall them mentioning her having a sister. A brother wasmentioned, but not a sister." I was her brother at the time." You were a boy?" I was. My transformation into a woman started the day after my sisterwas denied justice." I'll have to see some proof of that, at some point.". His arms were pinned down crucifixion-style, and Aithorn raised his spear for a killing strike. Noah conjured a glass sphere from his ring and flicked it with his thumb like a coin. It shattered against Aithorn’s shredded chest plate, releasing its payload of acid. Though the steel was immune to corrosion, everything else was smoking and dissolving. He instinctively jumped back, realizing the danger was still on him. With Aithorn distracted, Noah managed to wrench himself free from his binds. I quietly left and changed in the car.” She paused again. “Later that day I moved the mirror, over by the door, hoping that I'd be able to... see you... again.”I started to speak again “I l...” she, again, stopped me.“I'm sorry if I made things difficult for you... I just wanted to feel you hold me so badly...” and, with teary eyes, whispered “I'm so sorry.”There was another long pause before I broke the silence. I looked into her eyes and said “I Love you, too... ever since I was thirteen and.