Iremembered what the nurse had said and put the knickers on beforeremoving the nightdress. I was put to work cleaning the toilet again. Idid not see M...stress Sheila at all that day. Mistress Isobel gave meincreasingly difficult tasks to do many of which I failed because of the5" court shoes I was wearing."So Mistress Isobel tells me you can't even complete the simplest oftasks. Is that true?" Yes Mistress," I responded."I told you you would be severely punished if you did not come up to. He felt his own body realtering, the skeleton changing andshifting to support a new womanly form. Legs smoothed and toned as he lostmuscle mass. His beer gut softened and flattened, and his hair lengthened,running down his neck. He was too stunned to do much of anything, and thenquickly became dazed, unable to concentrate on anything but how his bodyfelt.And his body.. His perfect body.. It felt.. Hungry. Horny. Pat looked atRiker, confused, and saw the same expression on his face. They both. .. who made this place. She remembered him holding her foot, keeping her from falling. He must be immensely strong.She examined the "house" again, more closely. Nothing man made. Nothing that resembled a place a man would live in. It was utterly... animal. Cleverly done, but still... animal.Suddenly she remembered a tale she'd heard. Something about a white ape. He was legendary. All the hunters and safari men feared him. Some thought him a man, but most thought he was some odd kind of ape with. "Norm was called in because Ishtar shouldn't be colonized. We don't know the whole story yet, but someone back at Earth managed to get one hundred newly picked up recruits put on a transport and taken to Ishtar, where they were dumped. At least that's what Norm believes right now."I could feel the eyes of Heidi, Sarah and the lieutenant all turn to look at me. "It does appear that way. The pickup records have been tampered with and the personnel files for the one person we are sure is on Ishtar.