"I have the face of a girl, or Ishould say a little girl."I turn and see Penny staring at me. "Yes that is your new face, and um,your new face is not ...he only thing that looks like a little girl. Yourwhole body is that of a little girl. Just listen to your new voicesweetie don't you sound like a little girl?"I notice for the first time my new voice, and it is the voice of agirl, a little girl. Penny cannot be right, oh my god what ishappening, this is a nightmare."I can't believe I look like. "What do you mean?" Soldiers eat," Tuck said and Gamelin nodded."Fifty thousand horses eat more," Tuck added. He waved around them. "From where comes food for men, for horses?"Vosper sucked in air, while Gamelin was still just curious. "I don't understand," Gamelin asked.Gamelin knew the rule that a horse ate five times what a man ate, in a day. You just put five times as many wagons carrying hay as flour. Elementary.Tuck chuckled. "Find road, find good spot. Block road. Kill livestock, break. So I'm sure you're just the man she needs."We all made ourselves comfortable and Jenny poured the tea."Now you know most of the guys stay at the Melton Manor Hotel when we're in town. Well! Mike and Tom were telling me today, er, yesterday that there was trouble there on Tuesday morning. Some conference or something was held there on Monday and some of the delegates got totally rat-arsed. Anyway someone smashed a jardinière or something in the corridor on Mike and Tom's floor during the night.". Joy was a later arrival at our small town primary school. Most of us had been in the nursery since three and were together in the same class when proper school started at five. It was rare for new k**s to join so that when Joy arrived a year later she was an object of curiosity made even more so by her Scottish accent which marked her out in our London suburb. The other k**s would giggle when she spoke so she tended to keep quiet as she seemed to get embarrassed easily. After getting the third.