Then I started as I saw the tanbark shift and clatter. A huge dorsal fin – easily the size of a house – thrust up from the distance. Tree-stumps d...dn’t shift as it passed, despite the creature clearly being huge. Instead, it eeled and flowed through the massive, dead forest as if it had been born there. Then the dorsal fin started to submerve.“The fucking fuck was that?” I asked.“Oh,” Ali said. “Those are the desert worms.”“Ah.”We came to the front gate. The entrance to the city was not made of. I made it back to my own bedroom and slept more restful than I had in years.The next day, after the folks had left for work, and Laura was getting ready to go to work herself, we had a chance to say a few words to each other, mainly about the events of the night before. Laura asked me why I hadn't said something to her when I heard the folks drive in last night, we could have been caught and gotten into a lot of trouble. I told her "I finally got my sweet revenge for all the times you gave me. My last-secondoutburst added the complication of a resisting arrestcharge.Thankfully, we weren't tossed into the "whore cage" as theycalled it. Instead we were taken to a small cell with acouple of cots in it--no larger than my apartment bathroom."Trust me, Char, this is not what I had in mind." I know Jacquie--it's not your fault. That bitch must havehad your male body do this to us."It all seemed so surreal.A couple of hours passed before we were taken before anight-court judge who set bail. The pair of other serverswere busily working. I had to look twice to convince myself that theywere honestly males, just pretending to be girls. Then a well dressedman at a nearby table signaled for me to come and take the order of thefour customers there.Putting one foot carefully in front of the other, feeling how that mademy hips roll, and aware of my enlarged backside also moving to my newgait, I approached him and his companions. When I stopped a few stepsaway, he crooked is finger to.