"Elaine!"  Tanya was so stunned by what she was both seeing and hearing that she dropped to her knees even as she reached out to bring Elaine in close to her chest to give her a long welcoming hug.  "Oh my beautiful daughter I... I never imagined... look at you so beautiful and all dressed up.  I... I don't know why I did not try harder to do such things."  In truth all of her attempts to dress her daughter up had been shut down even before she was able to make the attempt.  Those in charge had wanted her left the way she was.  Only a small part of Tanya's mind wondered how Zara had managed to pull off such a miracle off... well actually there was Allen too who had a real and deep interest in Elaine's well being as well.<br/><br/>"I had not known you were learning to speak so well.  I guess Zara and Allen wished to surprise me."  Tanya finally managed to stand again and took one of Elaine's limbs as she guided the young woman into her rooms and helped her up onto one of the couches then sitting next to her.  Finally taking the letter that had been offered to her earlier.   Tanya was stunned even more as she read Zara's words hardly knowing what to think the last statement hitting her as if with a ton of bricks.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As I feel my work here, in the institute is finished. All her developement has been recorded in her chart, a detailed and exciting material we created together with Allen - my only ask is, to you:<br/>please, let me leave for that lake house together with my true love, Blaine.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Finished?  Leave?  Tanya took Elaine's limbs in her hands then began to sign to her,  "Elaine, I never dreamed of the day I would hear you speak.  And you look so beautiful in those clothes.  I don't know how Zara and Allen managed it all but they have been able to give everything that I couldn't.  Do you... do you know what is in this letter?  Has Zara told you about any of her plans?"