Kenneth shrugged. "As you will. And yet, your brother has notbeen physically abused or disciplined in any way. He's been wellfed and his physical need... seen to at all times, and he's beenchallenged physically, emotionally and mentally in ways thatforce him to learn things about himself he'd never otherwise." Everything's wonderful except he's being turned into a girl!" He's being made to act like a girl. In three months to a year,he'd be back in trousers, living as masculine an existence as Iam. She had the face of an angel, and eyes as blue as a summer's ocean. Her hair was the color of golden rays of sunshine. She wore a long red overcoat and little schoolgirl shoes, and carried a picnic basket in her hands."No, I am not," Ted answered through his sobs. "I am very sad. I lost my job, and my wife threw me out of the house." That is very sad," the girl agreed. "Life is very hard, sometimes."Ted nodded. "Yes, it is. You are very wise for such a young person," he said. "What is your. " Every cat acted like they were one meal away from starving to death.I grabbed the master key from the coat hook beside my front door and walked further down the private hallway to Mom's door. All the family had rooms in a little dogleg at the back of the building. My mother's was at the end of the hall here on the second floor. Her room was between mine and my absent brother's. Frank decided he wanted to be a movie special effects man after seeing a TV special on it when he was seven.. Then an idea occurred to me: could this be a private operation done with military surplus equipment? Hasup and Ansa (my pilot) assured me that all operations in other time lines were done against Bustols with much more modern equipment. The more I thought about the situation, the more convinced I became that the Bustol government had nothing to do with this sex slavery operation. I was willing to bet that it was an operation mounted by crooks, and the Bustol government might not know anything.