"They can dim down?" Yes, there is a control to dim the lights. We can't make it totallydark, but it will be quite cozy," Rachael said. "Why? Are you ...lottingsomething to do with Mark?" I might have some ideas," Larissa said. "I need to come early, and picka cozy corner. My Mama is coming at the end to pick all of us up, andgive us a ride home. It will be dark at 10 p.m." That is great," Rachael said. She rubbed her hands together and quotedfrom some movie or TV show "I love it when a plan. ."I'll bet that I can make you look like a girl, down there, if you wantto try it that is." What!? How?" I asked."With some ice and a bit of glue," mom said with a grin. "But that'sonly if you want to try and look more like a girl, just for the party ofcourse." How did you learn how to do something like that!?" I found it on the Internet. I've been watching you carefully for over aweek now, and with each passing day you have started to act more andmore like a girl, especially at the dinner, and. The smells of different foods permeated the air and I could pick some tastes out from the collage - Cookies, hamburgers, pizza, and several others touched different parts of my tongue.Having missed breakfast, I wondered if Renée was hungry.I was about to make the suggestion when I noticed eyes passing our way. They weren't the eyes of some college guy looking over Renée as I would have expected. Honestly, she was wearing nearly nothing but her outfit covered what decency required. No, that look. " I spat into the dust and wondered if I was a fool."Did she feed you the prisoner story or the cruel father tale?"A bit of both I suppose." She's wonderful isn't she, and she's only sixteen they tell me. I did see her once this week, from a distance, at headquarters just the other day. She glowed but somehow reminded me of a hussy I once knew when I was a boy. The story is that Forbes bought her when she was twelve, privately, down at Fells Point, indentured but I don't believe transported..