All these details I quickly took in and more besides. The room, as you might expect, was predominately made up of men, yet I was surprised to see a fe... females scattered amidst their number.The auctioneer was talking. In my dream-like state I was hardly aware of the words he spoke. Bids were already being placed. I was a commodity, a thing to be exchanged for money and it appeared that money was prepared to be willingly traded for me.I stood stock still as the auctioneer order my gown removed.. .. what happened to Darren?He's gone, Nicole, Sandy said. Josh, I love you. You were my love for this life. Goodbye, love.No! I screamed. No!Goodbye, Josh, Nicole said.I felt them holding each other.And then I felt nothing.I was alone.Epilogue: JoshSixteen Years LaterIt's a good painting, I decided as I dropped a brush in solvent.A wrinkled old man and a pretty young girl stared back at me from the canvas. An old soul, and a new one. One ready for death but still fighting for life, angry. Aneyebrow raised on his foe's green face, and Link's bluster was stoppedin his tracks. He couldn't move, at all. Frozen in place, the inertiabuilt into nausea, as his body waited to fall, but it never came. Linkgrowled, but that was about all he could will. The Thief King laughed,and then casually glanced up, a wry smile growing. Things definitelyweren't what they seemed."You dare? You dare to face me?"He stood up in all his glory, six foot five and a body built fordestruction. Every muscle was. 4. You will continue to attend your school, but as a girl. 5. In order to see that this does not happen again, you will be made to look like a girl your age. 6. If at the end of one year we determine that you have learned your lesson you may become a boy again if you wish. Do you understand all of these?" I was shocked! They were going to make me dress like a girl! "Mom!" "There will be no discussion David. You will spend at least the next year as a girl, the only question is, do you understand.