His neighbor was the widow of an assistant curator at the Louvre. When he was in town, she would invite him for tea or wine in the late afternoon. Her... flat was an art gallery of paintings and sculptures that was sublime.Hunter's mind kept returning to the meadow. How had the dark man appeared? Hunter had read that scientists had been teleporting photons from one end of a room to the other for nearly a decade. Scientists were convinced that such geographical shifts were actually a natural. “Tuesday after work,” she said. “I won’t be back until the 19th though, so you’d better have made some progress or I’ll kick your ass when I get back.”I chuckled. “Yes, Ma’am,” I promised, thinking that I’d like to surprise her a little.We chatted through the meal and generally enjoyed each others company. We didn’t talk of anything deep or consequential, just chatted and ate and fell deeper in love with each other.When we were done, Emma wanted to go see the new Star Wars movie. We’d missed. Tom replied in honest but catatonic way: "Ifeel good, I feel more serene and relaxed. Seeing my body flawless makesme happy. I feel pretty."Alice giggled the first of many steps had started. "Very good," shecontinued, "I want you to remain always so smooth and hairless. From nowon you will seek information about taking care of your skin, trying tohave it always smooth and clean." Another thing that I want and you have to obey, is that you have towear panties every time from now on. They feel so. I could not wait for more.I must have dozed off, because I woke up to my cell phone ringing in the other room. I jumped out of bed and headed to the living room trying to find the phone before it quit ringing. I found it next to the computer and noticed that it was Doug's phone calling me.I flipped open the phone and answered it and heard a lot of road noise."Hey Doug, guess you guys are mobile again" I asked."Yup, we are rolling down the highway as we speak, and headed to Atlanta and should be.