" "And it shrinks when you get further away?" "Yes. But it suddenly drops off to nothing beyond that." "Ok. we'll see what we can do." The first thing... they did was go out for some supplies. They got aninexpensive student lab kit, with a pack of microscope slides and slidecovers, and a few other useful tools. They also picked up some softwaredesigned to help with the identification. The first part was relatively easy. Each of them could fairly easilydifferentiate between virii and bacteria (and. Dotted with a few trees and far from civilization, a teleportation flash lit a small grove of flora. Five figures materialized from the flash as Vinayaki, Ryujin, Taweret, Gary, and Fumi all appeared to look around them.“Done,” Vinayaki commented as she looked at Fumi. Her towering frame among the other two deities all looked down at Gary and Fumi as if they were waiting for the next thing to happen.“Alright,” Fumi commented. “We appeared at the right spot. That was a first.”“Me too,” Gary. ” Chance nods, taking a spoonful of the oatmeal. “You certainly slept late today.”“I’m surprised you didn’t,” he blurts out without thinking first.There is a slight gleam in his sister’s eye. It’s brief, but he catches it nonetheless. “What do you mean?” she asks, sounding almost excited.“I had the weirdest dream last night,” he says, quickly trying to find a way out of the entanglement he just shoved himself in. “I woke up and heard noises in your room. I guess you had a late night movie. Even wearing my shirt and jacketand tying my hair back in a less feminine ponytail I looked moreandrogynous than male. It didn't help that I now completely filled mymaternity bra and as a result my office clothes were less loose on me. Iwished I had checked my appearance earlier and had taken the opportunityto buy some larger sizes. I hoped that I would get through the daywithout any further comments.A little later after dropping Bekka off in the workplace nursery andgetting a funny look from.