" That's good," she said wistfully. Fay did not like Janice. I do not know why and I was not going to reopen a closed subject. Janice and I had been f...riends for too long though for me to simply cut her off. So when she said she was looking for work, I put in a good word for her. She was a skilled technician and manager and we agreed to hide anything else."I'm sorry, Gary," she said, "it has been a very stressful couple of days and I needed..." Shh," I hushed her and held her against me. "I. His ears lengthen and migrate to the top of his head while his spine grows to form a tail. And just like that, he becomes a dog. Countless scientists and geneticists have attempted to identify the cause for The Change, but to this day, the odd phenomena remains shrouded in mystery. All we know is that only the body is affected. The ability for logical thought and speech persists, ensuring that men of legal age remain active members of society. I learned all about The Change at school, but. Tommy did not even make the man a list, he just told him to fix what needed repairing. He gave Pablo a couple of hundred dollars for materials and let him have at it. Pablo became a Tommy fan when the young man stayed away from the house and let him work in peace. With carte blanche, Pablo lovingly restored the fifteen-hundred square foot house as if it were his own.Pablo finished up on Wednesday the eleventh. Tommy, Connie and Ruth were all amazed at the transformation. Freshly varnished. Thinking about her words as she hurriedly made her way around the room, gathering her belongings, I frowned, ‘Hey, I resent that.’ My words fell on deaf ears as she silently got dressed, arranged her wild hair and prepared to storm out of my house. Looking at her going from one corner of the room to another and back, she reminded me of the Tazmanian devil. One heck of a temper those two had. My breath caught in my throat, making me choke when she glared at me, as though sensing my wayward.