I've been very happy with you as our son; you're a good boy, you have goodgrades, you don't smoke or drink, and you're very polite. But having adaught...r will not be a strange as I thought it would be, so we'll justhave to find a way for you to remain a girl instead. Besides," she saidsoftly, "you can hardly unmask yourself as a boy at the party now, canyou?"The revelation, to myself anyway, that I liked being a girl, had beenslowly creeping up on me, but it wasn't until I saw myself after. Mum took charge. 'Now Tommy, I know Lily has briefed you.'Actually I hadn't, but that didn't mattter. 'Take off all your clothesexcept for your underpants. Hands by your side.' So she pulled thenightie over his head and used the cable ties to link each ankle to thehem. 'There. Done!' she said. 'Now if these or anything else is cut,torn, or broken in the morning you two will never see each other again.You understand?' We both nodded agreement. 'If you need to pee during thenight there is a. We were arranged in carriages that would normally have held eight, but with the women's fine dresses we limited it to six each. Starlight and Thistle would come separately later, so it was the fourteen of us left plus the Shavroms - Wick and Violet, Cap and Marsh, Cord and Breeze. Cord's parents, who we had met at dinner for the first time, Crane and Bough Ambrul, were already at the hall with most of the children and other parents. Bough was Wick and Violet's youngest daughter, and Crane was. Once your foreparents landed on Brittany, they stayed there, did they not?”“They did,” he confirmed. “I’m an eleventh generation Britannic. I am the first of my bloodline to choose a profession that took me away from the AZ system.”Her eyes looked into his, probing. “That’s very interesting in and of itself,” she said. “Why did you do it?”He shrugged. “I guess I just wanted to see some of human space while I was young.”“That sounds like wanderlust,” she said. “If you have both wanderlust and.