There weren't any fire trucks or ambulances. I was surprised there was so little response, but it certainly made my getting away much easier.I was hig... enough that I could check the remaining levels of this building. Judging from the animals it contained, the extensive laboratories and some notes and signs I read, it was a very large veterinary pharmaceutical research company. I was surprised by how large, but I realized it'd have to be to provide a good cover story for however many people the. I could do nothing to stop that bomb from detonating. I made a selfish request and woke up eleven years old. I've had to try and remember and mimic my old obnoxious self for a year now. I'm glad you're early because I don't know how much longer I could have managed."I told her that that act wouldn't be necessary around us but only two people besides my parents knew what had happened to me. I probed her for details of her inventions and found that she thought it would be impossible to duplicate. I wanted more but she put her shoes back on and got out of her chair. Then the next day she was going to a shoe shop down the road from the office. She asked me if I wanted to come along, so I agreed. In the shop she sat down, picked up an open pair of heels and tried it on. For the first time, I saw her toes and every other part of her foot. They were the hottest pair of feet I had ever seen. She saw me looking and noticed the look on my face. Being a flirtatious girl, she asked me to do up. I had strained to see out the window, but to no avail. At the first cloud of steam, my mother turned her back and walked away into the crowd. My father had lingered for a moment, and then followed her. That had been three years ago. … Absorbed in memory, I did not notice the train gaining speed, or the door slide open to allow a young soldier into the compartment. Only when his heavy canvas rucksack hit the floor did I look up. He had stooped to rummage in his sack, and I quickly took note of.