I ran to her room as she wentthrough hours of pain to give birth to her son. He was a chortlinglittle thing, without any flaw. It made me feel rather ...onderful, andyet I felt terrified at the same time.The pain she went through was going to happen to me too. My throat feltdry. And at the same time I couldn't play basketball anymore. After Istarted to show, and I had to tell them, I was taken off the team.I knew that the students talked about me. Had I ended up pregnantbecause of the Genderwave?. While it was strange- wear a burqa but nothing under&hellip,..well a girl will just do what she is asked to do ,-) So then, we sat in his car and we drove into proper city and there, he stopped in front of an adult store. when I looked at him confused, he asked me to stay in the car and went into the store. He was there for say about 2o mins. or maybe 30 and then he walked out with a big bag and put it in the back seat of the car and started driving. Out of curiosity, I turned and tried to see. Rhyce-Jones’ Liz said, feeling like some robot was mouthing the words. ‘Your dress looks beautiful Carolyn’ she added. ‘You know each other from school, don’t you?’ Liz’s mother asked. ‘Yes, Mummy.’ ‘Well then we’ll leave you two together’ said Liz’s mother as she turned to join the main body of women that was forming in the center of the solarium. Liz and Carolyn ate little sandwiches and cakes while Liz tried her best to make small talk with Carolyn. It was clear than Carolyn would never have. Looking into its eyes, I could see intelligence there that wasn’t in other birds.“A phoenix? You really found a phoenix?”Nodding she reached into a pouch around her waist. After a moment she withdrew what she wanted and threw it to the bird. As the bird caught it, I could see that it was a small fish. “I tamed her predecessor about nine hundred years ago in a dungeon at the base of Mount Ontake in Japan. Since then I have seen first hand that the myths surrounding phoenixes are quite true. This.