"Oh yes... The cause... We mustn't forget that, must we?" She spokealmost in time with his thought, and he knew she was reading his mind.He felt his t...ousers crawling back up his legs, although they took on adifferent texture, thinned, became almost see-through as they reachedhis crotch, clinging to his new unmentionables. His jacket grew tighterat the waist, a thing he hadn't had except as a technicality for aslong as he could remember, before splitting into two separate parts.That lower part,. " As the two women began to bluster, Diana quickly went on, "Enough said on that subject." But..." Charlotte started before Diana cut her off with a change of subject."Your bodies are different in ways that takes a bit of getting used to. They have been enhanced, of course, but there are some things that you need to understand better. While the process is ongoing, most of the major enhancements will finalize in the first week or so, but as I understand it, small changes will continue for a. Alan had stripped her of income and taken custody of their son away from her. He'd left her with her daughter conceived with Aaron while she and Alan had still been married.We now pick up Alan's life five years after his revenge.Alan sat in his recliner working on a paper for the EPA where he was now employed as a key member of the toxic dumps task force. He was readying for a field trip to Germantown Maryland where a development of single family homes appeared to have been built over a toxic. I was just outside thehall when it happened. I didn't really want to watch whatever she wasgoing to do with you, you see." He sat down cross-legged on the groundjust outside the rock hole. The sun shone bright across his face,revealing an open, frank, smile. "Just be aware that I'm taking some riskof my own by approaching you. Maybe you still have some of your magic likeyou say, maybe you don't. I'm not eager to find out what you might do withit if you tried. But I am eager to talk with you.