Soon he will succumb to the heat of the fire, and you will die, watching as the heat of my fire chars your son's skin."With a crazed look in his red e...es, Avendelin said, "I will gladly destroy you in my original form. No one can stop me and you will die!" At that moment, Avendelin's skin turned red and to wrinkle, his arms and legs started to protrude. Chadwick stepped back, shocked by what he was seeing. Avendelin's face began to deform as his jaws broke through the skin. Large bones broke. " I have done some studies. The Tandra bodies I examined, are slightly different. Their brains indicate, that they no longer use their mental powers. This may only be an isolated colony. The other bodies are of two races that I am familiar with. One is not too different from the Dogfaces themselves. From stomach contents, I know that the bodies you found, were indeed being eaten. There were three Tandra on the ship, that did have proper brain functions. They appeared to be helping the dogfaces,. And she was so small. So petite, a little tiny body.I just help Jessica move into her new apartment on my days off and she's been spoiling me a little bit on our days off. And it was fun to see her crawl around and cleaning the walls and floors. And to see her climb up on the kitchen counter to clean the cupboards we couldn't reach from standing on the floor. I watched her when we were cleaning. She didn't notice, I liked seeing her little body move around like that. It was quite attractive, It. " And you gave a lot of yourself saving others. Both good reasons." Her smile vanished into thin air, replaced by the 'you know I'm right and I love you' look. "So we're gonna stay tied up to the dock? Or see how far out we can get before it's too dark?"In our meager plans for the weekend, we'd discussed both options. I'd worried about getting out of the office late on Friday. I'd gotten dragged in on the tail of a project gone wrong and the big guys were scrambling to fix it. I thought we had.