Hans was right, he appeared human at first, but that impression didn’t last very long. His eyes had an eerie all penetrating quality. He smiled at h...r and his voice was deep, full of authority even now as he spoke friendly and soft. “You do have the same nose as your incredibly beautiful great grandmother Nefirata. She was a very close and dear friend of mine, princess.”He spoke of Queen Nefirata, who was considered influential and important in her time over 200 years ago. Elfi did not even. Kendall... What will he say when we show up like this? We had no reasonable excuse; he knew where we’d been and what we were doing.Tommy continued his amused and idle banter. “Funny how I can ski just fine, but I try jumping on a little log and it all goes wrong!”I kept quiet as did Carmen for the most part, except to occasionally apologize. I focused on the repetitive movements of our awkward march, soon feeling the strain of having his weight relying on me more and more as Carmen tired out.. As I guided her throughsteering and speed control. We were keeping a steady ten to twentymiles an hour. Then as we got farther from the rest she giggled happilyand opened it up more. Soon we were racing along as we jumped snowdrifts.It wasn't long before we were joined by other Centaurs and we werehaving so much fun.We swung farther out toward the freeway and suddenly she stopped, herhead up listening intently. I turned to look at her curious."Did you hear it Erika? A child, I heard a child,". "It took me a moment to realize what he had said, and after my inevitable query of confusion, he told me, "Take off all your clothes." At this point we were driving down a highway, and while it wasn't exactly like being stripped in Times Square, there was no question that people would see me. Nevertheless, I began to remove my clothes. When I was naked, he took my clothes and shoved them under the back seat, where it would take me a little time to get at them.He then told me to lean my seat.