<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/02/Hayden_hawkens_12.jpg)</div>As the others conversed, Tears moved over to the heater, switching it on to a low enough setting not to upset the room but still warm enough to be relaxing.  Then she shifted to Suchid, suddenly a monitor lizard draped over the radiator and relaxing in the sudden warmth.  It was a true benefit at night, when it was so cold.<br/><br/>Explanations were given, but Tears didn't really understand all that well.  For the moment, the best thing for her was to just listen and allow for any possibility of formulating a plan.<br/><br/>For the moment, being a lizard just felt so much more peaceful.  She didn't have all the weird feelings going through her that she had as a human.  It was just something about being warm-blooded, apparently.<br/><br/>Sometimes she wondered how people could stand it for a significant length of time, let alone an entire lifetime.