Metamorphodick: The Sexually Explicit Adventures of a Man and His Shape-Changing Penis
Chapter Two: Escape from Base 69!
I wake up. Again. I’m in a dimly lit room. It looks like small laboratory: a few worktables with sciencey-looking stuff, with shelves and cupboards lining the walls. I try to move and discover that I’m strapped to something. Looking around me, I can see that it’s something like a dentist’s chair. As I move my head, I feel something moving with it. Rolling my eyes up, I can just about make out the edge of some device around my scalp. Back to being an experimental subject, it seems.
One wall of the room, the one I’m facing, is dominated by a room-length window. Through it, I can see a group of people studying me intently. Meela is among them. That solves the mystery of where I am: this must be the rebel base.
The people are talking. I can hear them through the window.
“But it’s just sexual augments,” one of them is saying. “That’s no use to us.”
“Any glimpse into the Corp’s genetic technology is invaluable to us,” says a slightly dishevelled man. “Even it is something as frivolous as this.”