I just bent my head slightly and sniffed at her armpits. Man. it was such a huge turn. Then I suddenly was overcome with embarrassment. Why did I have...to do this! What if she thinks I’m just a village pervert? I very slowly looked upwards at her. She was staring at me. And smiling!Deepika: You like what you smelt Niteesh?I smiled back at her sheepishly.Me: Yeah, Deepika. I’m sorry. It’s just that I couldn’t resist. I always wanted to smell a women’s armpits.As soon as I said this she slowly. But there were direct manifestations of animals, she noticed. On the buildings she could see crows, though they were exaggerated in strange ways; particularly, their eyes had a habit of glowing in the dark, mostly white, but sometimes she could see a crow with red eyes peering down at her from the edges of rooftops. And the rats were practically amorphous blobs, moving along the base edge of buildings, and disappearing into the million holes Dolareido had to offer. Some were larger, had more. All of the children had become Wardens and had left on assignment, so there was nothing left to keep them at home.It took a little time to find something suitable to involve the team as a whole, but something finally showed up. M'rth's people had found a way to visit alternate universes, and the Galactic Council wanted to mount an expedition to visit one to determine if friendly relations could be established. This looked like an ideal job for the team, so they began training immediately.The. I got up and quietly walked into the bathroom, quickly getting into my semi-dry clothes. As I returned to the living room, he was sitting on the adjacent carpeting, yawning as Ella talked. Acutely depressed, I let myself out and slowly walked down to the apartment entrance. The snow was even deeper than I had thought; I couldn't distinguish the sidewalk from the street. Knowing it was insane, but unwilling to face Frank's adverse reaction, I struggled down the sidewalk through foot-deep snow..