Suddenly they parted to allow a beautiful, naked woman to approach us. Her skin was an odd, pale, almost grey colour, and was crisscrossed with vines,... so dark a green they appeared black, which barely covered her nipples and obscured her sex. Alistair blushed a deep crimson and turned away; Sten looked uncomfortable and also averted his eyes. By contrast, Aedan met her eyes with equanimity and Zevran didn't even try to hide his appreciative look.The werewolves all slightly bowed as she walked. "Yes ok love," I answered brightly.She turned to look at me."Don't forget to wear that housecoat after I bought it for you, I don'twant those things dirty as soon as you've put them on."I looked at the nylon overall with distaste."Ok love," I mumbled. I really didn't want to wear it.Finishing my breakfast, I put my plate in the dishwasher and then tookmy coffee outside, joining her on the garden bench. It was getting quitehot already and I tried to push up the sleeves of the black top, butthey. With that she just fixed my drink and went back to her computer.I sat back down at the table and looked at Jerry's picture that Cindy had sent me. I thought that it was a pretty good likeness, at least good enough, and forwarded it on to an email address that we only access from home. Just to explain, this is one of the things we do to try to help keep Cindy safe when she's out with somebody new. Before she goes anywhere with a new friend she meets them in a public place and she takes their. "Travis-" I protested, but he waved his hand and dropped a coupleof bucks on the counter. "My treat tonight, okay? You can pay for the next time."***20:42 13 Dec There were a lot of people at the dance, relatively speaking. Asusual, when I was dressed like this, I was getting a lot of neutral tofriendly attention. As usual, it was driving me quietly crazy. A lotof people casually said hello to Travis, but we didn't stop to talk toany of them. Not that I minded. He guided me.