............. It's a sunny may day Beth is setting in the kitchen when Sky comes in Morning mom Oh morning honey are you planning to go to t...he beach today? Yea Shel will be here in a few. Sky honey could you please stay here today we need to talk please? Ok yea mom I'll tell Shel I'm not going what a matter? Oh nothing like that I need to Well lets just wait tell then ok? The horn toted and Sky told her to go without her. Ok mom what is up? Beth took a deep breath and. And for a while, I just sort of ... shut down.They put me in the transitional building with the others who would becomedudes. Some were happy, already practicing being macho. Some were crying,and some were so angry that they had to be restrained.But some were like me, in a state of shock.Most recovered.I never really did.I stayed there for the nine months it took for my body to finish itstransition, hating every moment of it.The only way I could handle it was to basically shut down inside.It. Monica had come to despise binding her breasts, but needing assistance, asked for Beatrice’s help. Donning the fresh clothing to wear for the evening meal, Monica reverted to her Monty persona and entered the common room.Having preceded him, Beatrice showed him to a table near the fire, but still in shadows. The meal of mutton stew, served in a large bread trencher, was the best he’d had since arriving on Chaos. The watered wine was very good as well. Perhaps a bath and relative safety had. Then I started a new page of questions. Some of my partners in the Spanish inquisition may get nervous and I needed to watch for that. There were things that were definitely amiss.Vicky and I went back to Fort Smith. I carried a set of oversize head phones that played music. The explosive expert was not going to listen to the questions asked of the other. The doc was fifteen minutes early; that allowed Vicky and me private time to question the General. To get even more time, Ed was to delay a.