Maybe you ought to take over permanently!"Angela shook her head at the last suggestion. "No, Joanne, you are the leader in the long term, but you ough...t to be punished, and pretty ferociously - you're right about that. I can hardly believe what you've just said - I really can't! One or two of our conversations suddenly make a bit more sense! So! - OK, I'll take over, but you must understand that you won't like it one little bit! An Army is a very hard place to be when you step out of line as. His bones were breaking, moving, changing, and reformingthemselves into a merman's tail. Time seemed meaningless as wave afterwave of convulsions swept through him, and he was barely aware of hisbody starting to spin. He felt muscles grow, twisting up from histail, snaking up along his spine, anchoring themselves along his pelvisand backbone. His skin tingled as waves of pleasure throbbed outwardfrom his newly repositioned groin, and he felt fins and flukes push outfrom his hips, knees,. ’ Come on, you know.’ But Dez didn’t know. She didn’t watch television. Neither did Hannah. When she got off of work, those long shifts at the drugstore, stocking and manning the registers on her feet, she still had to make dinner, clean up, shower. By then, she was exhausted. Even if she wanted to, it would have interrupted Hannah’s studying. What with her going back to school and trying to get her degree, a lot fell to Dez, and silly TV shows- make-over shows, nonetheless- were very low on. "What's wrong?" Nothing," I lied."I can feel it. Your body tensed up in a something's-wrong way." You can't possibly tell that just from holding me."But I knew he could. So I told him about my conversation with Sandy and my fears."It's a triumph of hope over reason. I've never been seriously hurt by someone I trust. If it happens, I won't be a virgin anymore. I'll learn to deal with it. I just won't have my innocence intact."And that was it.My body relaxed and he chuckled, his point confirmed..