She understood when Darcy said, “You mean you actually have puppies, not babies?”“Well, of course, Dog is our natural form. We can’t shift to ...uman until the change happens. Until last night, I had always been in my Dog form,” she told him. “I must say, it feels very odd not having a tail,” she said distracting him further. Then she totally blew him away when she said, “I can’t clean myself either.”Darcy flopped back onto the bed and howled with laughter.Darcy had always had a way with. "I know exactly what you mean," he said. "Is this a sales pitch for your Damsels?"Becca blushed and shook her head vehemently. "No! It would be much too big a job for us. The one we were doing was about our limit. It was taking all our girls three weeks. This place would be like the Forth Bridge. Finish and start again at the beginning."He smiled. "I don't think it would happen anyway," he said. "From what I gather we have contracted painters and we get the work done cheaply because they can. We were so relaxed, they couldn’t get us out. After about 20 minutes, we gave up, too tried to continue and completed our walk back to our towels. Dropping to the sand, we quickly fell asleep under the flapping umbrella. A while later, I awoke to a thirst that didn’t quit. The sun had moved and I was no longer under the shade, and my skin was burning. I sat up and squinted at the sky and estimated about 2 hours had passed. I stood up and walked back to the water to cool off. As I neared the. When I was washed and dressed and went downstairs she acted as though nothing had happened the night before, so that eased my mind, letting me believe that she did not know what had happened. The weather had cleared up a bit, but it was still too wet to risk riding on the wet fields, so we sloped back indoors and slumped in front of the TV for a few hours. That night, Zoe asked if she could sleep in my bed again, to which I agreed, because the storm seemed to be coming back. When she was ready.