[ Alex's eyes brighten as she gently strokes the top of Aeto's smooth head.

Oh, but she does feel the wince that she sees when she looks up at Paris. ]

It is, isn't it?

[ It was a bit of a relief to see she wasn't the only one. Some of others she met seemed to be taking it a lot better than she was anyway. ]

I just saw someone with the body of a deer and I kept wondering when the body was going to separate and just show another person in a costume.