Light seeped under the bathroom door and it sounded like a tap was running.Nichole called through from the bathroom, "Get undressed. I want you on the... bed!" Dutifully, I complied, although years of travel compelled me to hang my suit neatly in the wardrobe. I was sitting on the bed taking off my socks when Nichole opened the bathroom door, her perfect frame silhouetted by the bright lights."Wow - it's dark in here. We're going to need to get some lights on", she said, walking around the room. They were turning him into one if them! A weird, freakish aliensluglike monstrosity... Soon puckered tentacles or an exoskeleton!Then he felt strength return to his limbs. He stood slowly in theblinding mist, bracing his hands against the glass walls of hisenlarged tube prison. No he had shrunk. He struggled to see... he couldsense that he remained humanoid, but not the fine detail was different.Smaller. Lither. More delicate. His head had a full had of long darkhair... and the weights on his. I want 5 rubies. All the jewels will be of first grade quality. You will write a letter of apology to me and send it to me by messenger. Finally, you will apologize this minute, and make me believe it."I added the last, just to piss him off.I thought he was going to go into a fit. Have you ever heard 'someones feature's blackened', in a book somewhere? Well, this guy's features darkened like hell! I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head. I could see a vein on his left temple start. But that's all right, my wife has her girlfriend. We're sort of a mixed marriage. It might be a problem elsewhere, but it sort of works down here in the Conch Republic." You're gay?" Bi-sexual, actually," he said, "and so's my wife." He took a drink from the buffet table, and offered her one. "We moved down here because of the Tourism, we both work for a Cruise Ship line, and, believe me, if you keep it discrete, there are plenty of chances to score in that work. And we both did. And we both.