Something was missing. Someone told me of an opening in the FBI so I applied and that's where I'm at now," Mike finished with a sigh."You don't sound ...appy where you're at?" I thought I was. As a cop, you couldn't really look at it as protecting a person. You were protecting a community from a person. Once the incident was dealt with, that was it. I wanted something more." And you thought doing the gang task force would be more what you were looking for?" No, like I said I got transferred to it. “Well then. Gang’s all here. Took your time coming up outta stasis, didn’t you?”The silver-blonde lowered her eyes haughtily, one shoulder rising and falling in some regal semblance of a shrug. “We telegens require higher doses of sedatives to keep us under than the average human, Captain. But, of course, a man as intelligent as you must already have known as much.”Telegen. That was how fancy Hubworlders and blue-bloods liked to say “psyker”. Cas cursed himself internally for not realising it. But it was the image on the screen that caused her sudden distress. Elizabeth wanted to turn away but the guards caught her by the hair and forced her to look at the monitor. It presented the image of a woman with a contorted expression, her face a mask of pain framed by locks of auburn hair. The frame grew wider. The woman’s arms were tied behind her back and hoisted sharply toward the ceiling, forcing her to bend over a crossbar.?Now you see,? Ramirez said, grinning. ?Like you, she has – how. . your body haschanged. You now are a woman."That floored me. It explained why my voice sounded so different, and whyI had been restrained hand and foot for the weeks since I came out ofthe coma, except for physio sessions, when a therapist or two werealways holding my arms. I had thought that the huge tent on my chest wassome kind of medical device sitting there. I could certainly feel itsweight. The restraints had come off the prior night, and I had a veryconfused exploration of my body with.