.. you were as a lover, I never even thought about my phone!” She said that last with a huge smile on her face.“Adequate?” I demanded, “ADEQUA...E?”Julie actually giggled.“Unbelievably, incredibly, amazingly, stupendously adequate,” she smirked. “In fact, the most adequate I had ever imagined!”Somewhat mollified by that last, Julie further assuaged my hurt feelings by giving me a kiss which made me forget all about what she had just said!Julie grabbed her overnight bag and pulled out her phone. Ellie lived with her parents, and visiting her closest friends for the entire weekend would be an exciting time for her.The door opened. Florence was standing there, already in her pyjamas, tentatively awaiting the arrival of her two guests. Florence was the sixteen-year-old child of two proud owners of the large city mansion that Ellie was stepping into for the hundredth time. She had long brown hair, a cute, pale face, with a button-like nose, and a sense of elegance in her stride. They. Dennis eyed them hungrily.“Eat as much as you are able, there will be a lot of walking today with few opportunities for rest.”He took the tray from her hands and set it on a table, picking up a fish with his fingers and biting into it, savoring the smokey flavor.“How are we doing with the cutlery situation?” he mumbled through a mouthful of fish.“I have put out a territory-wide request asking for cutlery, should any be available. The Patriarch buys all manner of things, often on a whim. It is. "What else could I say?I had worn a man's size 8D shoe, which would be about a 10C in awoman's. I was wearing a woman's 8B, which meant that my male size wasnow a 6C and hard to find. My hips seemed to stay the same at 36" butmy waist continued to shrink. It was now 27". My rib cage and shoulderseven seemed to be getting smaller. I began to wonder if Merlin wasgoing to be bigger than me. My mind shot back to a couple of old moviesabout incredible shrinking people.The first week of March, it.