I put my head into my hands in terror and felt the bones in my facesshifting and morphing into a new form. The cheekbones in my faceshifted upwards, b...coming more prominent. Eyes burned as each irisbecame green in color. Lips became thinner. My body tingled for thelast times as facial bones settled, estrogen flowed through my veins,DNA and blood type conformed. Small wrinkles began to appear around myeyes and hands. And then it stopped and my transformation was complete.Brent stood against the. Rumor had it that her previous assistants — all three of them - had not gone on to bigger and better postings after their time in her office. One had resigned, one had been demoted, and the other was serving time. But it was better than guarding boxes of old files. Or, so he hoped.Cap. Billings, or Sandi, as she had him call her, was neither overly friendly nor was she as cold a bitch as he had feared when they finally met for his interview. She was all business and that business was a clean. --------------------------------------------------------"Greetings major," The voice came strong with notes of authoritarian arrogance. "I'm glad you managed to make some time for a chat. This meeting was scheduled eight standard minutes ago."I stood at attention, feet exactly five inches apart, hands held behind my back as I stared at my superior with what one could call respect. "I apologize, miss Hayes. I was verifying our equipment before the mission, no one at maintenance had been assigned. But can we stop off at the store real quick? I just realized I don't have any more eye contacts and other supplies. I've been going without for the entire day."My dad quickly made a change of lanes, so we could pick up some supplies for Val. With the crazy moves he did and all the honking, I almost had a heart attack. But as we got out in the parking lot, I could see by the look on my dad's face that he thought it was worth the risk. My mom, on the other hand, not so much. Val asked to go alone.