She settled down and stared up at me wide-eyed with a mixture of fear, helplessness, and defiance.I shifted back into humanoid form, and pulled my fox...in to her feet.“Don’t move.” I said, and slowly walked around her. For the first time, I had a chance to really examine one of the non-human, yet still humanoid races.She was an anthropomorphic fox, not a woman with animal ears and a tail stuck to her.Reddish-orange and white fur covered her, just like a classic red fox. She had large fox-like. Just sat at the bar and looked our way every few minutesbut never came over. Too bad, he's a cutie.Chapter One hundred fifty - DarlaIt's been months since Krissy's party. She seems differentsomehow, a little more a rebel than the old Krissy. We haven'tseen Claudia around in ages. Krissy used to talk about her but Ican't even remember the last time I even heard her name mentioned.Probably makes Barbara happy though, Lexi is still puzzled by thatyoung guy that stops in a couple of times a month.. “Well you’re just being nice because you’re my sister.” Luna said, “If you were a stranger, you would have started running 5 minutes ago.” “That’s not true.” Riley defended herself, “I would love you no matter the circumstances, stranger or not.” “That’s easy to say when you aren’t a stranger.” Luna teased. “Whatever,” Riley said. It seemed like she wanted to ask something but was holding back. “What is it?…” Luna sighed after a moment, “I know that look, just ask.” “Well…. It’s just that….”. "The waitress came and Linda ordered. We made small talk until the food came and then we ate and chatted and carefully avoided mentioning either of our ex spouses.I had met Linda on the first day I stopped at the restaurant where Helen had gotten her job. I'd had a doctor's appointment that morning for my annual physical and so I had taken a day off from work. The physical came with the instructions that I not have anything but water after seven in the evening. As a result I was pretty hungry.