"I saw a slight smile, a shy smile, and then she said, "I just check."Then she turned, and she was gone. I stood there like a big baboon. I was stunne.... I should have gone after her, but I didn't. I can't explain what came over me. It just did.Her hair was vibrant, with a reddish shimmer. It came down to her shoulders. Her face was lovely and full of life. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of glacier blue. There was something in their shape that I found very attractive. I would describe them as. "That is what I was trying to stop," Melonia replied. "Karen, we are truegeniuses. You are not old enough as a human yet to fully understand it,but here on this world of Nengi I am a full adult, and in my latetwenties. I have been highly educated, and marveled my teachers as I wasfound to be a prodigy. I am a "shaper", a person you would call a bio-geneticist or genetic engineer. With a combination of drugs and mypsychic powers, I have sung and shaped into being a dozen forms of lifethat have. I returned to the little oasis that Wanda and I had created for ourselves and discovered that we were no longer alone. Three young men had set up camp just a few yards away. No doubt they had been drawn to Wanda the way stray dogs are attracted to a bitch in heat. Not surprisingly, they frowned when they saw me.I stretched out beside Wanda, who was peacefully dozing. Eager to call her attention to her fawning admirers, I "accidentally" nudged her. "Oh, sorry, Wanda, I didn't mean to wake you.". Then she added, “I think.”“And since you are not a true horse, what should be done?”“A shower?” Nicole said. “Or perhaps a bath?”“Or maybe a shower and then a nice dip in a big pool?” Mistress Joan said as she led Nicole over to a small building next to the house. “The shower’s in there,” she said firmly, “and the pool is on the other side. Mistress Ann and I will be waiting for you there when you get yourself cleaned up.”When Nicole came out of the shower house, Annabelle and Joan were.