Arlina flanked by Klathnar and Taro her twochosen mates slowly appeared. They had exited the Transport nearlyinvisible as they blended their camouflag... to their surroundings. Nowthey stood showing themselves."I wonder how they would feel if they knew there were six more of ushere?" thought Arlina to Otru. Another trio appeared atop the truck,the last appeared atop the building.When they were joined by another Terrellian woman she was introduced bySaniya. "This is Dessie, my sister wife. And. Of course, his confused demeanor didn't really give him much opportunity to protest. And eventually once any of these men soon found out that he was indeed a boy and not a girl, contrary to their initial assumptions, some walked away with a simple 'nevermind'. Others, simply called him a 'freak' and stomped off. but a slight percentage of them, became angry, and soon began to bully the boy. Though, all of this didn't happen his freshman year in Highschool, but rather his Sophomore year.. . When ... Where???" raced trough my mind. Then quickly it settled in on the more expanded, "Why Me?" Why was I hearing that cry seemingly calling out just to me," I thought.I know both Tom and I had heard the sound. Plus, as I thought over it, Valerie had heard it too just as she arrived back with us in the conference room. But in my mind, it seemed to be directed more at me than at Tom or her."Got me too," smiled Valerie."Say what?" came from Tom as he looked back and forth between me and. We entered a great lake, Black Lake according to Pierre. The end I could not espy. I had never seen a lake as large as this. Pierre quickly disabused me telling me of lakes many times larger than this one, lakes as large as seas themselves.I noted a tension that evening as we put in on a bank. Pierre informed me that we had left civilization behind and might run into savages who would not take our presence lightly. I looked hard around but could only see the dense forests which covered every.