As you watch and can not respond being a breathing tube is inserted down the throat one can only nod the head.

A sudden entry of some young man stops the Doctor making him walk away into the darker part of the room. He speaks asking if this is true and then slowly turns to walk back where you are strapped to his surgical table.

"Mister Showers your final destination has changed and we won't be sending a Palamino stallion into the feild of honor. Instead the newest threat comes from within your own country. Thus your orders have been changed and with them so shall your final position. For me it makes the transition of genus and species easier, as it will make you much larger than what you were at first to become. The sorry part of this is that you must become a Percheron draft horse and then be a part of one team pulling a Governor's carriage. At first you are allowed to remain as a stallion but once deemed into service those over you will undoubtedly geld you for use as a carriage animal. The shiek has by his gracious offer suggested we make you the stallion now and as you become accustom to being a horse some special mating rituals would grant insight to how a horse feels and lusts. If when in the service you are put to a test the actions and manners used as a horse would come into direct play. This would stop any thought of trickery or decent on our part giving you clear territory to listen and report. As speach and hands worthy of writing are not going to be availabe our operator there will read you report by you writing it into the drifting sands of your corral. This being slow to give your report but since having you become a Percheron means the way to become human again is closed, you shall remain a Percheron the rest of your natural life. I tell you this now because after gelding you your human intellect will begin to wane and fade once having been the horse for more than three years. After that our operative will not come to visit as your thoughts and instincts will be those of the common animal and horse. As then you pay and whatever you deem will be sent on to your family with a thankful letter from our Shiek." the Doctor explains away your form, your service, and your humanity.

Moaning your fate you had fond hope that being as a Palamino Stallion was only a short time or at the worst five years. The offer of returning to at least some human form if not your own was making the bestial form acceptable.

Your drifting off to sleep and the thoughts of becoming an animal seem to matter very little now. As sleep takes you the real work begins.

(See part two "The Percheron Spy")