When he finally felt awake, he turned the water off and reached for a towel. A strange sensation in his chest stopped him.Looking down, he saw that hi...s nipples seemed a bit stout. They were hard to the touch and gave him the oddest sense that he had breasts. He massaged his nipples and the hardness went away. He decided it would be best not to think about the incident... it made him feel... vulnerable.A trip to the toilet would surely cure that! He marched across the bathroom, spread his legs. Kealani noticed that their daily ritual of showering under the hot springwaterfall had helped with the growth of new feathers. They no longeritched from the mites, which were now gone.One afternoon Stephanie came to see them where Natalie was beginning toteach them something she called Judo."Natalie, it is time for a decision. Please bring your students to thePagoda." She strode in its direction."Kealani, Strummer, you have come among us freely. And I now ask you, doyou wish to join us of your. With her depending on me primarily for balance, I splayed my hand against the wall behind her for a brace, and began moving in and out of her.I opened my eyes and blinked; her face was mere inches from mine, watching me intently as the breath hissed in and out of her mouth. A panoply of thoughts expressed themselves across her facial features, as I'm sure was the same for me. Why are we doing this? What will this mean for us? Will we get caught? All that and more rushed through our minds too. He was waitingfor his husband to enter the room. The fireplace cast a warm and romanticlight about the room as it was early morning and the sun wouldn't be upfor another hour or so.The tree was beautifully decorated as was Martin. He had becomeaccustomed some what at being the topic of all the social gossip. Some ofthe rumors were just outrageous and based on nothing more than the biasmisunderstandings of a few prejudice people who somehow always remainedanonymous.As degrading as it was for him.