"The truth, but leave out the scary parts! At least for now! When he'stold I want someone that knows a little something about how to tell a boyhe's ...bout to become a girl." A little girl?" Tracy said given his size."What?" Helen asked."He's going to become a little girl," Tracy said."Right!" Ms. Ash noted as she watched the shadow of John in the shower."How are you doing?" Sally asked coming into the bathroom and shower justas John was drying himself off."Feeling odd!" John said and added,. I recalled that Tracy, my thirteen year old daughter had been in and said 'good-night' and shortly after that the rush of water in the pipes but I had been so engaged in my work that I hadn't noticed the time when she started her shower. The bathroom is next to my office, followed by Tracy's room and my bedroom almost across from hers. It had been mine and my wife's until a little more than a year ago when she died from the breast-cancer I thought was easily curable.Tracy has been a great help. I was too far away. Whoever it was had left the path about halfway in.As I was getting closer to the spot where I thought the person had left the path, I heard a quiet scream, more like a loud whimper. Five seconds later I heard another and decided to investigate what was happening. I left the path and started heading in the direction of the noise. I could hear some crying. Just as I got close the crying seemed to stop. I kept going and only 4 more steps and I was at the source. When I looked. They stopped at the stream of sweetwater and everyone drank their fill. It was so tasty that mad it seem someone poured sugar into the stream. They filled all their leather jugs they brought from the village to drink later.As the sun started to dip toward the horizon, they walked up the hill to the cave that Atlanta and Valerie stayed the day Valerie leaped into this strange future. She had looked at the desert earlier to see if she could make out the crash site but didn't see a thing even.