I had stripped off all my clothes in my bedroom, and before I could put on my robe, I heard a slight noise behind me. I whirled just in time to see Da...ny taking a snapshot with his phone. A photo of his naked mother. ‘DANNY!’ ‘You look beautiful, Mom. What a great body you have!’ ‘Delete that this second!’ I had whipped my robe on and tied it tighter than I usually did. ‘Have a good shower, Mom.’ Danny left and I sat down on the bed. Shocked yet again. My teenaged son now had seen his mother. Her lower portion was covered with what I could onlydescribe as a long Centaur skirt. Across her back was slung a bow andquiver of hunting arrows."Momma, is this why you were asking about others like Marta?" asked Tuti."I had no idea they were here," I answered as I stood up and steppedcloser."My name is Erika Tyler, and you are?" I asked."Delrina, and the one with the attitude?" she could only be speaking ofTuti."Is my Foster daughter, Tuti. Daughter of the Iridani Herds Spirit Woman,Fire," I. "Is the stress getting to him?"Brittany giggled. "Not at all. He was actually laughing with Timothy at some of the things Captain Narvaza said." I thought the Sahara had communication problems," I said."They did," Brittany said as we walked down the passage to our door. "He could hear us quickly thanks to our repeater stations, but the only transmissions Sahara could make were low power and could only be picked up by our main antennae on Astarte. It could take quite a while before we received a. I ordered some food and ate it while i watched some TV. But I wasdistracted by the folder that I had left on the table. I decided to go tobed and sleep on it but after I tossed and turned for a couple of hours,I gave up. I had to know how they were going to compensate me for beingthe test subject for this craziness. I had figured that I would thinkabout the offer before I found out how much money was involved, so that Icould make a clear headed decision. But I had pretty much hit an impassein.