"Come here, boys," she beckoned to Emile and Nasic, calling to them in Denarian.Both men traded uneasy glances, and then walked forward from where the...y bivouacked the troop, after their captain had fought ... something on the hill, and then followed it ... somewhere."Your Captain's been called to answer to a congress of the gods," she told them bluntly. "Another will be along here to help guard this place, until we can be certain any hazards are gone." She gestured to the left side of the. ."Steffi reached under her denim skirt, pulled down her briefs and stepped from them. "It's easy -- just put it in and squeeze." She lay on her left side on the sofa and drew up her knees.The thought of what I was about to do made me begin to stiffen. I approached her, lifted the hem of her skirt and beheld her beautiful brown bottom. Then I grasped the orange sheath on the rectal tip."Make sure you take the cap off," she said."I had figured out that much already," I replied and pulled off the. Cassie's empathic sense besets her protected mind with a doubling of every emotion. She feels it through her disconnected, controlled self, as well as radiating from it as if it were indeed a third person who only now joined the tableau and happened to take residence in Cassie's body.For a moment, she is too giddy from the discovery to understand the danger. She is utterly fascinated with the effect, feeling both embodied and disembodied at the same time. When the realization does crash down. I don't like being a kid. AndI don't want to go to college. I don't want to be a boy or a man or agirl, either. I want to be a grown woman like you. I want to be beautifuland elegant and wear nice clothes and makeup and jewelry. I want to talklike an adult woman, move like an adult woman, and have an adult woman'slife and habits. I want do what adult women do, like shop and play bridgewith your friends and gossip."Mom smiled slightly. "There's so much more to being a woman than justplaying.