Diana even went to her doctor to obtain a prescription of birth control pills to help convince Joe she was really going through with it.Joe would be h...ome tomorrow morning and Diana knew one of the first things Joe was going to ask, "Honey, have you had any luck finding a lover yet?" Tonight she was going to ask Tony’s opinion about avoiding that question.Later that night Diana was online chatting with her friend Tony and asked that question. Tony said that perhaps if she went out shopping and. .. herself.There was no other way to describe it. Her eyes haddeepened to a clear glacial blue; her hair shimmered likefine white silk. A thousand subtle alterations had takenplace over the last hour or so, from the tone of her skinto the smooth curve of her thighs. Almost as if she were...what? Transforming? No. Evolving? Closer, but not quite.Developing? Yes, that was it. She was coming into focus,like an image sharpening to a higher resolution.He raised a hand to his throat and drew it. “We are here, and I am ready to serve.” The moment I hit the enter key to send the message. I did not even know who or where the person was that was reading it. I just knew that this was like standing at the doorway of a perfectly good airplane and jumping out into the nothingness of space.It did not take long. The text said simply, “Turn on your camera and have Kevin move behind you to where I can see him also.” I obeyed. I did not always obey. Sometimes I just ignored him. But those. Bright red, like a traffic light. I don't know how I managed to make it through rounds.But I did, and by the time we were done -- a couple of really interesting diagnoses, by the way; I'll want to make a note of that bilateral occlusion -- I'd pretty much forgotten my embarrassment.Then I go to pick up some charts from the nursing station and I start talking to one of the nurses -- the cute one with the red hair, have I written about her before? No? Good, let's keep it that way -- at least,.