I loved that the tape I made had a wife talking about how they set the grandparents up.Those same grandparents would now get something else to look at... their own grandchildren and their grandchildren's spouses. Those same grandparents that watched and followed Holly and were unknowingly used to cover up for her would now do the same for those that betrayed me. Their natural curiosity would work to my advantage, it would destroy their children and I did not have to lift a finger.I had to work. Pretty sure I knew what was up, I was left to just watch as thechanges passed exactly as I now expected. The most obvious was aprecipitous loss in height. I couldn't tell exactly how much, but itwas over a foot. My lower limit had always been five-foot even, but Iwas pretty sure I was at least an inch or two shorter than that thistime.To go with the diminutive height was a similarly petite figure. Smallbreasts were paired with slight hips, but both actually seemed fairlysignificant compared. They tried to mentally contact ground-based hosts with a meld from orbit, but that test was also unsuccessful.A squadron meeting was held to discuss the ramifications.“The lack of orbit to ground mental communications is a strategic speed bump,” Commander Murphy admitted in the meeting. “That’s the bad news, and it isn’t terrible. Command Control won’t be what we hoped, but we can live with it. The good news is the lack of mental ground communications doesn’t impact our tactical situation. We. It was almost as if Mum didn’t know the answer. Her drawing wasn’t about that one moment but about the last few days. My body being hidden in shadows was code. She was telling me she couldn’t see me clearly – she didn’t understand me. All she could see were my eyes and she couldn’t read what they were saying.I sighed to myself and looked across at Mum as she slept with her head on the table. What could I do? How could I reassure her when I didn’t know the answers?I picked up the sketch book and.