”“That is good to hear,” he replied to her in a neutral voice.Ifra tilted her head to him as they walked. She seemed to note the tonal changes o...r lack thereof in his voice. She seemed to study him carefully.“Are you well?” she asked.“It is something that needs to be discussed alone.”She seemed to tighten her grip on his arm before. Kane was getting used to this by now, as her vise-like grip appeared to be a Geiger counter of her emotions. He was starting to tell if she was tense or not. He. Of course, he couldn't help being like his father, as he was his father's son. As a result, Ariel began to act and look more and more like a girl, until people couldn't tell whether or not he was a boy or a girl. Even his name, Ariel, could be the name of either a boy or a girl.The years that Ariel was the most androgynous were the years when boys usually start noticing girls and wanting to touch them and have sex with them. This was a difficult and painful time for Ariel, as he wasn't sure how. It had not recovered its scales from the previous exchange, but layers of sparkling black ice formed around its body and burst to glitter after every attack.Zax’s punches and kicks slammed the fleeting small mountains of ice and each time they made contact he failed to break through them, even when he tried to delivered soul attacks. Furthermore, the glittering fragments that touched his body infused cold air to his innards.‘It’s almost unfair. If their growth was not limited, Deformed Beings. Showing up, like always, to get a hit or two and go on their merry way, were "Skeeter," "Ace" (because of his lone tattoo), "Freeloader" and "M.J." Of this group, M.J. was the most welcome, as she once upon a time was a reasonably good-looking girl who I had a crush on in elementary school. But she discovered dope and sex at the same time (well before I did either). She had been such an easy lay, it was rumored, that it wasn't even funny. What was true was that she'd had two abortions by her.