She smiled at my concern and then helped me up. Despite being so small, she was quite strong, and when I was standing, she reached up to my chest.“D... you need a hospital?” I asked.“No, but a place to stay, to rest and recover my strength, do you live alone?”Her voice had an accent, not pronounced but clearly there. I couldn’t place it, but it was quite nice and sounded kind of sexy.“Sure, yeah, I do. My car is parked over there,” I said and put my arm around her so I could support. Nothing exciting,’ stated Brian, still miffed. ‘I see things went great while I was gone,’ sarcasm dripping from his voice. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Well, assembly is a day behind. I’m not sure what happened in finishing while I was gone plus we’re an entire cut behind and now my saw operator is gone for the next three days!’ ‘Roger’s not coming in?’ ‘Apparently his Grandma died and he’s not coming in till Thursday. I have no idea how I’m supposed to get back on schedule.’ ‘Well, we have to do what. .. Sailbait had just been through refit.”“You’re a vindictive wench.”“Ah ... recognition ... and I didn’t have to be a dead artist.”“I’m not talking to you for a week.”And he didn’t. He wrote down instructions and cooked his own meals, locked his stateroom against me. He did give me hope though ... Every hundred miles north adds 2 degrees warmth. He wrote that on the instructions... 1100 miles meant 22 degrees warmer. That’s damn near 74 ... I can tan before Brisbane! Great! I don’t want to be. Eyelashesgrew longer, the nose more pert. Other than for the blank look on Trevor'sface, everything else was already changing or on the verge thereof. Marissawasn't surprised. Each person she'd seen changed reacted differently once thetriggers had been activated. Some changed faster than others - perhaps in anhour or two - but the process was slower in most. Trevor was going to be oneof the faster ones. Which is good, since I don't want to baby-sit him allday, Marissa thought. Her own.