As the ground rushed up at the two of them, Slade waited until the absolute last possible moment before he pulled out of his dive. More for the thrill of it than anything else. Shara, not being as much of an adrenaline-junkie as her brother, pulled out a little sooner. Once they were both back on solid ground, Shara noticed that they were standing behind a pair of rather large Dumpsters.

Shara was just grateful that she couldn't smell it at the moment. And also for the fact that she had blocked out the seagull's thoughts from her own mind. With all the garbage just a few feet away, Shara was certain that the seagull would be having a grand old time. Laughing internally, Shara started to demorph.

She also saw that Slade was starting to demorph himself. Shara looked away before the morph could get too strange. Shara had watched her brother morph into the seagull in the first place, and she had no real desire to see it happen in reverse. It was one thing to watch a computerized effect, or to see something like it animated.

But, to watch someone you knew and cared about go though a transformation that wouldn't be at all out of place in a horror movie, it was just a little too much for Shara to deal with right now. Feeling the changes happening to her own body was strange enough. Once she was finished demorphing, Shara started to walk out from behind the Dumpster.

That was when Shara noticed that she had the same problem as when she had first woken up in the barn with Slade. Okay, so now at least I know I'm not going to be able to take any clothes with me when I morph, she thought with an inward laugh.

"Well, now that we're here, we might as well go try to get you a good fighting morph," Slade said.

"Oh yeah," Shara shot back, sarcasm lacing her words. "So, we're both just going to walk around this very, very public place completely nak-" Shara turned and looked at her brother for the first time since she had demorphed. Oh, that is so not fair.

Slade, meanwhile, was looking out over the walkways that made up most of this part of The Gardens. There didn't seem to be anyone near enough to see them, and if he was careful enough he might be able to get to where he wanted to go without them finding out about Shara. Turning at last to speak to his sister, Slade saw that she was giving him a look of incredulous envy.

"So, you care to tell me how you ended up wearing those clothes, while I got stuck standing here in my birthday suit?" Shara asked, raising an eyebrow in her brother's direction.

I had a feeling that there was still something I didn't remember, Slade thought ruefully to himself. "Uh, I might have forgotten to tell you something."

"You think?" Shara smirked at her brother.

Slade offered his sister a one-shouldered shrug, and Shara shook her head while trying valiantly not to laugh. The situation really was a funny one, at least to the two of them, since they hadn't been in the Animorphs long enough to really appreciate the danger they could be in.

After making sure that there was no one close enough to see them, Slade and Shara both turned themselves invisible. Once they were both sure that no one would be able to follow them, both Slade and Shara set off to find Shara a combat morph. Since Slade remembered the interior of The Gardens better than Shara, he elected to lead the way.

Shara was more than happy to follow her brother, since she was still getting used to being completely colorblind. All her other senses seemed to be working fine, better than ever in fact. Since she hadn't been given much time to adjust to her rebuilt body and new senses, Shara wondered if this was because she was currently invisible, or if her senses had been boosted as well.

It was a strange thing to have to think about, but Shara was starting to adapt to the fact that her life from now on would not fit anyone's definition of normal anymore. Being a naturally resilient person, Shara felt that it wouldn't take her as long to get used to her new life as it might have taken someone else.

Now, if I could just have a few minutes to sit down and think about this, that would be good. Somehow though, Shara got the feeling that a few minutes – or any time at all, for that matter – to sit down and think over her new situation would be something of a luxury. Shara followed her brother as he made his way into the labyrinthine interior of The Gardens.