{As she took off her clothes in the small, rented room I could just barely make out a strange sheen on her skin in the dim light. I flipped the switch and saw that from the neck down her skin was comprised of tiny diamond-shaped scales. I couldn't think of anything to say, so I turned the light back off and moved towards her. I vaguely remembered hearing on some nature show that when handling anything reptillian it is wise not to move against the direction of the scales. I kept this in mind as we crawled into bed like a pair of tigers stalking nothing save each other.