"Ladies, I've found quite the piece of work" the two women turned their gazes to look at him in glee, quickly walking towards him.They too had a simil...r complexion to their beautiful skin, the two much smaller to the woman that brought him here, clearly to the boy it was the first one who led the group. He was then taken out of thought as they raised him arms and looked him over, feeling along his shoulders "my the boy is so tense and rigid, he's built like an ox!" "You'd swear he could carry a. They'd been in Mexico for two weeks already,with him kept sedated since the middle of their flight. He had beenbrought to a special clinic almost immediately for the work oftransformation to begin. It was work that had combined hormonetreatment as well as surgery.She was wrapping up her explanation when he finally made words leavehis lips. "Why?" In another shock, he realized that even his voice hadbeen changed."Because I could, love. But mostly, because you wouldn't let up thatyou wanted to. While there, we simply followed our intuition as events unfolded, as we have done at other crucial times."As the visit progressed, several things occurred with little or no planned input from us. When we approached the bridge entrance the doors opened automatically, indicating acceptance of our identity and responsibility. How the ship knew about us? We don't know. We now know for certain it was not something Star, the Master-AI, could have done. On entering the bridge, we went straight to the. Corwin’s mom gave her husband a look that said he would not interfere. She didn’t look happy at what I suggested, but after a few minutes of talking it over, quietly, with the other women, she turned to face the children.“I feel that while harsh, the punishment is acceptable. I was unaware that this disgusting and wholly unacceptable behavior, which is something I wouldn’t permit from children who don’t yet know any better. You have embarrassed me in from of the head of all families..