" Well then, you might need to look in a mirror." Puff answered, andthen he waved the tip of his tail which produced a full length mirrorright next to...Jack. "Take a good look at yourself and tell me what yousee."Jack did just that and saw a pretty girl looking back (Actually apretty girl who was drenched with salt water). Jack's normal brown hairwas now long blonde and curly; he grabbed some long strands of his wethair and saw that it was indeed his hair. He looked further down andnoticed what. I looked at you in a hospital room with IV's in you and worried about you. And I got to thinking. I asked myself some questions. And I answered them. You only have to answer one..." Question?" Yes. One question." What, baby?" I looked at those improbably blue eyes. She could ask me to slit my wrists and I'd do it for her."Are we..."I jumped ahead. "Nina. Will you marry me?" That answers my question." Answer mine." Yes," she said. "I told Grandma last night that if you were okay, I'd ask YOU.". The woman -- for it was most certainly a woman rather than a girl -- lay sprawled across the bed for all the world like a discarded rag doll. She was wearing nought but a thin shift which had no doubt once been white but was now a faded grey. The room was empty of all other furniture save for what appeared to be several pieces of broken ivory in the corner.Sophie's heart went out to this creature and wondered; was she ill? Would anyone come to attend to her needs? As if in answer the bedroom. So when she came back down she had a dressing gown over her costume. “I thought you wanted me to SEE it?” I teased. “Patience, Father. Just let me get you a cold drink first while I pour one for myself.” Her cold drink was a glass of wine perhaps to bolster her confidence as once she,d taken a healthy slip she opened the gown and laid it across an arm chair to reveal she wore a very brief “Micro Bikini” of a red shiny material, the bits over her nipples ringed by pearly rhinestones and the.