"So two tests in one," I said and she just nodded. "Anything else I should know before I start asking questions."

"Are you cold," she asked.

"No, whoa... I am perfectly comfortable. This water is a deep earth spring and should be bitter cold."

"The extremes of the elements do not affect us. We can endure the desert heat along with the arctic cold with great ease."

"Okay, so who is my birth mother," I asked.

"I don't know," she said frowning. "If I did I would tell you."

"So, who the heck am I descended from?"

"Good question, we belong to the Star Born races."

"The stone said that,"...