First: I must be naked when I change or I will ruin my clothes. So you must all turn your backs while I remove my clothes. Second: when I change back,...I will again be naked, so all of you must turn around before I change back and redress. Third: I will only stay in my Tiger-form for five minutes. I don't want any of your Parents or relatives to discover me here in my Were-form," I told them."We never saw a real Tiger before," Gail said when I had finished."Do you know that there are several. ”Suddenly, Anna sat up. “Wait! Is this some trick you’re playing so you can have some other woman?”“Not at all, sweetie. Oh, you’d have to be as open to having a woman in our bed as I am to sharing you and our bed with another man, but that isn’t why I asked you about this.”“Hmm ... okay, like I said, let the thought perk a while. We’ll just think about it all.”So we did. It was life as usual for a while. Work, chores and all the things we do keeping the train on the track, took up our time.. It was with a total shock that he got Andrea's letter about the party.He lived for those letters. It was what drove him to work so hard to finish faster. But the chance to be back with her for a few days wasn't something he was willing to pass up.The first month a lot of the students made fun of him because he was so big. It wasn't that he was the tallest, because there were a few who topped over 6'2 to 6'4. It was because of his darker complexion and the fact that he obviously used his body,. “I have no idea,” Paul shook his head. “But it’s gone now.”We stared, dumbfounded, up at the night sky for several minutes. Nobody said anything as there was nothing to say. We had no idea what to make of that bright flash nor if the good Pastor had actually seen something fly into the heavens or not. It was just another goddamned mystery that none of us were capable of solving.How fucking infuriating.“We got to get down there,” Jimmy finally announced. “We need to know what’s happening.”I.