The M-12 was armored, and so he bulldozed past a few of the smaller cars and pieces of debris that blocked their path, Alba whooping enthusiastically ...s she watched a small electric car roll onto its roof.“Alba likes this vehicle!” she shouted over the roar of the engine. “Reminds me of a Prowler!”They drove through one of the short tunnels that were spaced out along the highway, the lighting strips blurring into an unbroken line on the roof above them, their engine echoing. Something was. They gratefully gave him a bonus week off. During his week off we were notified that his next assignment would be in Dallas. Two days before Tom had to fly out to Dallas one of his colleagues named "Rocky" came up from Ga. to spend the weekend with us. Rocky was familiar with who Tom would be meeting in Dallas so they thought it a good idea for Rocky to coach and prep Tom for the upcoming conferences there.On the second night the three of us spent the entire evening out on the patio grilling. The man with the knife was stronger than she, and the knife itself was razor sharp and gleamed wickedly in the light that filtered in from the open doors. Clenching her fists in the straw and gritting her teeth, Melina braced herself for the inevitable, hoping to survive without being maimed or killed.The man shoved Melina's outer dress off her shoulders and down to her waist, revealing the soft linen of her shift, which was thin enough that the dark outline of her nipples could be seen right. Ripping my shirt off,I scratched until welts appeared. Looking at my body, something didn'tlook right. Then it hit me. All of the body hair on my chest and armshad disappeared. No, not disappeared but gone fine and nearly invisiblyblond.I moved in slow motion to the master bath where I watched, frozen inshock as the changes happened one after another. My hair became seemedto float above my head, finer and thicker then I'd ever seen it. Myfacial features began to shift as bones moved beneath the.