TANYA'S ROOM<br/><br/>But one day a strange visitor knocked on her door. Oh, that wasn't a usual knock, but something like that. When she opened it up for the unexpected guest who cut her red wide-ruminations... there was Elaine standing there, in a much "human" posture, a beautiful, proud posture to say so, wearing a pretty purple dress that was made just for her size and left enough space for the bunches of tentacles on both sides and one of her upper feelers was holding a long white cane. For the first time she took this journey to her mother like a young lady, not like a classified patient.<br/>When she felt the other woman standing there, as she felt her slightly alcoholic breath in front of her, a limb rose to the air and gently caressed the side of her face and her<em>voice</em>tried its best to greet her.<br/>"Good evening, mother" It was slow and slightly distorted but yet perfectly understandable. "How do you do?" She added, haltingly and insecure but obviously enjoying the fact she could finally SPEAK to her family - to anybody she wished to.<br/>More changes were visible, as chestnut-brown hair and brows -the very same as Zara's- had begun to grow on her pale skin, thanks to Raiker's great efforts - and she was squeezing a letter in a feeler of her. Then she handled it:<br/><br/><br/><em>"Dearest Tanya,<br/><br/>Here I send back Elaine to you, ready to learn and live, live actually. By now she learned to read sign-language by groping hands and also to speak and with Allen's help you'll be free to continue enriching her vocabulary. The basic words she all knows and she doesn't breastfeed anymore, at least not from me. <br/>As I see it she took the first steps towards adulthood and this is exactly the reason why I asked her to return to you at this point.<br/>As she's deeply in love with Doctor Raiker and those feelings prooved to be mutual we agreed that it will be the best to let you be the one who tells her about... intimate things. Women's things. /And I'm sure you know what I mean.../<br/><br/>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/><br/>Your honest friend:<br/><br/>Zara"</em><br/><br/>