"Yes?" Miss Mason turned to her. "Ariel looks un well." "Which one of you is Ariel?" All of the girls pointed towards the back towards a girl with lon... brown hair and brown eyes wearing a short checked skirt and short sleeved white blouse. Miss Mason turned towards Ariel and the corners of her mouth twitched up into a smile. She walked over to Ariel's desk and looked down at her. "Are you alright, Ariel?" she asked. Suddenly, the bell rang for next class. The girls began to stand up and grab up. When I had waited as long as I dared, I went upstairs to her bedroom. I scooped up her scattered clothes from the carpet, where she had stepped out of them the night before. Kicking her shoes under the bed and flicking the lid off the hamper in the corner, I dropped in the bundle, then stretched for the plain white t-shirt just out of reach. Then I saw them, a pair of tiny lavender panties up against her bedside table. Sitting on her bed, I bent down to pick them up. The softness of the satin. "Now we get to do it for real. I'll be last because I have to wait until my training finishes. I'll want two of you to start now and one later, closer to me. They've asked us to spread the pregnancies out a bit so the maternity wards on Waller don't get completely overwhelmed in nine months time. Any of you want to volunteer for a slot?" I'm happy to go first," Maria said. "I've done it before." Can I wait please, Carlita?" Kim asked.Carlita looked at Lupe."I'll go early with Mama if Kim wants. "What the... ?" the man gasped. He then concentrated, trying to do it again. When it repeated its small twitch, he tried the same thing on the other foot, and after a slight delay it too responded, although the response was again very slight. But for a man paralyzed for decades, it was anything but minor! After a minute more, the man's other toes also begin moving slightly.Alex knelt behind the man again, once more holding his hand over the small of the man's back while Cate encouraged the man.