After transforming Susan, Candace went to the camp doctor. A nurse led Candace to an examination room.
 The doctor came into the room, "What seems to be the problem?"
 "The problem is that there are too many people to transform and I could use another naga to help me" said Candace. "I can think of no one more qualified than you. Plus, the camp could stand it if its doctor wasn't starving."
 "I'd feed on others though, like you do" said the doctor.
 "Yes, I would change two others into foliedi before you. Preferably members of your nursing staff."
 "How exactly do you feed?" asked the doctor.
 "I have a tentacle that can spray tissue into my womb or onto a subject" said Candace. "I spray a parasite over the subjects cervix. The tissue spreads into the uterus and simulates pregnancy to extract nutrients from the subject. I have a special feeding tentacle that connects to the head of the parasite, sitting over the cervix, to collect the nutrients it has absorbed."
 "The subject has to be entirely inside you to spray the parasite or to feed?" asked the doctor.
 "Not entirely inside, but I think it would be more comfortable for both parties that way" said Candace. "Although it will take several months after your transformation before you're long enough to take a subject entirely inside you."
 "Tell me more about the transformation" said the doctor.
 "You'd be inside me for about two months" said Candace. "After that you will be about as long as you are tall right now, though your legs will be folded up around your vagina."
 "The transformation will change me into a female" interrupted the doctor.
 "Yes" said Candace. "You might experience some mood and behavioral changes due to the estrogen. At the beginning your back will be stiff and you will be unable to move on your own. It will take nine or ten months before you can slither without using your hands. It will also take that long before the organs that process cells develop and you are able to perform transformations."
 "Tell me about transforming people" said the doctor.
 "I take a cell sample using my breathing tentacle-" started Candace.
 "Your breathing tentacle?" said the doctor.
 "It's a specialized tentacle connected to my air sacs that is wrapped around the subjects face to allow them to breath while inside me" said Candace "There is a small mouth and an ear inside the tentacle to allow me to communicate with the subject. The tongue inside the tentacle can collect a cell sample from the subjects mouth. The cell processing organs inside me allow me to visualize the genetics and epigenetic markers of the sample and associate that with a memory. I can change the epigenetic markers by visualizing the changes I want to make. I can add transform genetics to the sample. Then I take the transformation genome visualize making cells around it and spray the cells into a fold inside my uterus. After a few days, the transformation tissue develops an umbilical. I use my venom to anesthetize the subject, then take the subject completely inside me. I use my feeding tentacle to grab the umbilical and hold it against the subjects belly button. The umbilical makes a hole in the belly button and inserts two tentacles into the subject. They locate and attach to the inferior vena cava and the hepatic portal vein to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the subject. Once the subject stops breathing, I remove the breathing tentacle and bring the subject into the fold of my uterus. The transformation organs send in an anesthetic to keep the subject unconscious, then an immunosuppressant, then a virus like agent to change the subjects DNA. The transform genetics cause the bone marrow cells to eat away bone tissue that is to be changed. Meanwhile, they cause tissue to grow and move into new locations. Once the transformation is complete, the transformation organs stop releasing the immunosuppressant and begin to detach from the womb. When I feel the organs detaching I push the subject out of the fold and put the breathing tentacle back over the subjects mouth. Once the organs completely detach, the umbilical tentacles break off at the veins, leaving a small portion to suture the wounds. Then the umbilical breaks off at the subjects skin, also leaving behind a small portion to suture the wound. Then I release the subject and dispose of the transformation organs."
 "How do you keep your uterus sanitary?" asked the doctor.
 "There are several cleaning tentacles inside my uterus that continually move over its surface, and over anything I take inside my uterus, collecting dirt and bacteria that get inside me" said Candace.
 "I know someone who would be better suited to being a naga" said the doctor. "He is the bio-geneticist that used to make the graft tissue for the zoomorphs I altered. He knows more about genetics and epigenetic markers than I do. I'll get back to you tomorrow morning." Then he left the examination room.
 As Candace left the building she was surrounded by a small crowd.
 "All you alright?"
 "Yes" said Candace. "I'm fine, I just wanted to talk to the doctor."
 "You can still perform transformations, right?"
 "Yes" said Candace.
 "When is the next lottery to see who gets transformed?"
 "I'll let everyone know through a camp meeting when the next lottery is" said Candace.
 Candace was stopped several times to answer the same question on her way back to her tent.
 Alice came back to the tent a while later. She went over and kissed Candace. "How did the meeting with the doctor go?"
 "He'll get back to me tomorrow" said Candace. "How is Susan doing with walking?"
 "She's getting the hang of it" said Alice. "I have her walking through buildings to practice turning without bumping into things. Tomorrow I'll have her practice walking on two legs."
 "Don't forget the exercises to move the rear legs independently" said Candace.
 "I won't" said Alice. She secured the tent flaps. "It's been a while since it's been just the two of us."
 Candace smiled. "We've only got a few days until the next transformation."
 Alice walked over to Candace and kissed her while undoing her shirt. Candace got her own shirt off and then helped Alice out of the rest of her clothes. Alice lay down on her cot and Candace brought her vagina up to Alice's rear. They started kissing again as Candace worked her vagina over Alice's rear body. The cleaning tentacles started working over Alice's rear end as soon as it exited the cervix into the womb. Candace's vagina pushed up around Alice's front legs, then around her chest, and finally up to her head. The breathing tentacle came out and Candace broke the kiss. The breathing tentacle wrapped around Alice's head. Then Candace lifted Alice up and Alice's chest slid into the cervix, followed by her head. Then Alice was completely inside the womb. A tentacle moved up Alice's rear, around her penis, and rubbed against the outside of Alice's slit. "Put it in" said Alice. The tentacle slid between Alice's lower lips and into her vagina. It wiggled around until it found Alice's g-spot. "There, right there" said Alice. The tip of the tentacle rubbed Alice's g-spot, while outside her vagina, the tentacle looped up over the head of her penis. "Mmmmmmmm" moaned Alice as the tentacle rubbed her g-spot and the tip of her penis simultaneously. "Faster, harder" said Alice, and the tentacle complied. "Oh yes, yes" cried Alice. She came, her cum spraying against the tentacle. The tentacle did not let up. Not until Alice's body shook in orgasm. "Ahhhh" cried Alice as her body shook. The tentacle held it's position as Alice came down from her orgasm. Alice rested inside Candace, feeling the pulse beating around her. She stayed there for the rest of the morning.
  The next morning, after breakfast, the doctor came to Candace's tent with three other people. "This is the man I told you about yesterday, Doctor Jason Willbrook" said the doctor motioning at one of the wolf-morphs. "This is his wife Samantha" he said motioning at the other wolf-morph. "This is my wife Elizabeth" he said motioning to woman beside him. "The three of us have agreed to feed Jason."
 "I really wish you were another naga Doctor Terrence" said Candace. "As a foliedi, you will spend a lot of time eating. As a naga, you would feed in your sleep, and we could always use an extra naga."
 "Yes, but my movement would be restricted during my growth period and while transforming another" said Doctor Terrence. "Whereas, I am given to understand, a foliedi can move rather quickly when needed."
 "I've seen Alice running around the camp" said Elizabeth.
 "Alright" said Candace. "Have you decided on an order?"
 "Yes" said Jason. "I insist you change Herbert first, then his wife, then my wife, then me."
 "Alright" Candace said again. She went into the back of the tent got a paper, a board to write on, and a pen. "Doctor Terrence, there is a risk involved in the transformation procedure. You could come out deformed or even die during the process. If you could sign this paper indicating you understand the risk involved." Candace handed the board and pen to the doctor. The doctor signed it and handed it back. Candace filed the paper away. "Now, if I could get a tissue sample." Candace held up her rear end, opened her vagina, stuck out her breathing tentacle, and opened it up. The doctor put his face into the opening and opened his mouth. Candace stuck the tentacle's tongue into his mouth and scraped a skin sample from inside his cheek. "It'll be a few days for the transformation organs to develop. I'll come and get you then."
 The four left the tent and a woman walked up. "What was that about" she asked.
 "My next transformations, It'll be a year before the next lottery. Pass it around."
  Three months later, Alice was teaching Doctor Terrence to walk. A year and half after that, Candace had transformed Elizabeth, Samantha, Jason, two other foliedi, one other naga, and was in the process of transforming another foliedi.
 Candace was looking at the newest naga lying on the ground while the naga's two supporters hovered nearby. "OK now Brittany, curl your lower body to the left. Now push off." Brittany pushed off with her body and walked on her hands. She ended up moving a little bit forward and twisting to the right. "Now curl your body to the right. Now push off. Keep practicing" Candace said as Jason slithered up to them. "Your slithering is looking very natural Jason."
 "It feels natural" said Jason. "Also, I've been standing up without focusing on inflating my belly sack for the past few days. But the important thing is that I saw my DNA while thinking about myself last night. It's amazing how I can see the molecular structure."
 "You'll have to thank Doctor Jonah Brown for that" said Candace. "Your cell processing organs are ready. Now take a sample of this tissue." Candace pushed out her breathing tentacle. It was holding a flap of tissue. Jason stuck out her breathing tentacle and wrapped it around the tissue sample. "Now close your eyes and think about me." Jason removed her breathing tentacle from the tissue sample and Candace brought the sample back into her body.
 "I can see the DNA" said Jason.
 "Now think about yourself and me at the same time" said Candace. "You should see both genomes and the differences between them. Notice there are no epigenetic differences."
 After a while Jason said "I can see it."
 "OK, now take a sample of this tissue and think of me as if I were human" said Candace.
 Jason took the sample. "I see it" he said.
 "Now picture me as a naga and me as a human at the same time" said Candace. "See the differences in the DNA."
 A little while later Candace said "OK Brittany, turn around and come back now."
 A little while after that Jason said "I can see the differences."
 "Now comes the tricky part. Keep in mind the differences and think about yourself. You should see your DNA and your human form DNA."
 Jason concentrated for a long time. "I keep getting just my own DNA" she said.
 "Keep trying" said Candace. "You have to keep in mind three things: me, my human form, and yourself."
 Jason kept concentrating. Then she said "I think I got it. I got it. Hey, my human form DNA has two x chromosomes."
 "Focus on the x chromosomes" said Candace. "You should be able to see the differences between them. Notice that the differences are only epigenetic. The transformation process overwrote your y chromosome. I can show you the epigenetic markers to make it act like a y chromosome, if you want."
 "That's OK" said Jason. "Now what?"
 "Just a sec" said Candace. "OK Brittany, that's enough for today." Brittany stopped moving and lay down on the ground. Her two supporters brought over a gurney, picked her up, and placed her on it. They wheeled her away.
 "Now take a sample of this tissue" said Candace. "This is my human form cheek DNA. Compare it to my human form DNA. You should see only epigenetic differences. When you take a sample of DNA from a subject, apply the differences to make DNA ready for the transformation genome."
 Jason took the sample. "I can see the differences" she said.
 "Here are two more samples" said Candace. "The first one is the transform genome to convert from female to foliedi. The second one is to transform from male to foliedi. Both are based on my human form DNA."
 Jason took the two samples. "So let me get this straight. I take a cheek sample from my subject. I convert the sample to the base DNA using the differences between your cheek DNA and your human form DNA. Then I apply the differences from your human form DNA to the appropriate transformation DNA to create the transform DNA for the subject. Then what?"
 "Then you visualize dragging the DNA into a cell" said Candace. "This will start creating cells to spray into your uterus. Lay down a layer as tall and wide as a human and a few inches thick. Then visualize pulling the DNA out of a cell to stop making new cells."
 "Then I wait for the umbilical to develop and then can transform the subject" said Jason.
 "That's right" said Candace. "Now you're ready to transform people into foliedi. Now for the transformations to nagas. Once again, the first one is from female and the second from male." Jason took the two samples. "Now you're ready to hold a lottery" said Candace. "Remember that the transforms only work on sexually mature adults, no children."
  In six months time, Candace had finished two more foliedi transformations and was transforming another. Jason had transformed one foliedi, and was just about finished on her second. Brittany had yet to grow to full length. Then the army showed up. Soldiers went through the buildings gathering up the foliedi and the nagas. They were brought to the gate of the camp. In total there were ten foliedi and three nagas.
 "Is this all the exotics?" asked the commander.
 "Yes, this is all of us" said Doctor Terrence. "What are you going to do with us?"
 "You have been tried in absentia and found guilty of performing and receiving illegal biological modifications" said the commander. "You have been sentenced to exile to South America."
 By this time a crowd had gathered around the soldiers.
 "We were only trying to survive" said someone from the crowd.
 "A quarter of the camp's population has starved to death already" said the doctor.
 "The military is rationing what little there is" said the commander. "That does not excuse illegal behavior."
 "I notice the soldiers aren't starving" said someone else from the crowd.
 "I bet the politicians aren't starving either" said another voice.
 "What if we want to appeal" said the doctor.
 "Then you will be held in prison, given the same meals as the other prisoners, until your appeal goes through" said the commander. "Is this what you want?"
 "Are there plants in South America?" asked Candace.
 "Yes" said the commander. "We seeded the ground with root clippings over a year ago. There is grass, bushes, and trees growing down there now. But there was no sign of anything living when we seeded it. I guess they didn't know how to ration their food."
 Candace and the doctor looked at each other. "We won't survive in prison" said Candace.
 "We accept exile" said the doctor to the commander.
 "No" cried the crowd and pushed up against the soldiers.
 A gun shot went off. The commander held his pistol at an angle in the air. "Disperse now or we will open fire."
 "Go back" said the doctor to the crowd. "There's no use getting killed now. Do your best to survive."
 The soldiers moved the exotics to trucks. The crowd dispersed.
 The trucks took them to an airfield with a cargo plane on the runway. The exotics were taken onto the plane. The plane took them south and landed on a runway surrounded by tall grass. The exotics got off the plane and the plane took off again, leaving them on the runway.
 "Well then, let's eat" said the doctor moving towards the closest grass. The other foliedi spread out and started pulling up and eating the grass.
 Candace stood on the runway watching where the plane went, smiling.
 "What are you smiling about?" asked Jason. "We're stuck here for the rest of our lives."
 "But our descendants might not be" said Candace.
 "Our descendants?" said Jason. "But that means ..."
 Candace's smile turned into a grin.
 "From gametes to sexual maturity?" asked Jason.
 "I had a lot of time on my hands" said Candace.
 "You mean the children of foliedi are foliedi?" asked Brittany.
 "That's right" said Candace.
 "What about those that are feeding us?" asked Jason. "They can't have children due to the parasite."
 "If you visualize pulling the DNA apart it will undergo male meiotic division into four haploid sets of genes. Pull one of the sets towards another DNA and that DNA will undergo female meiotic division, join with the pulled set and form a zygote, which you can implant in your own uterus. I'll show you my foliedi DNA so you can create your own foliedi DNA from your human DNA. I also have one more transform to show you, that from foliedi to naga."
 "Any more tricks up your sleeve?" asked Jason.
 "A few more" said Candace. "I can show you the genetics for making pre-bone mass. You can lay it down and wait a week for it to calcify. We can make bone tools like knives. I can show you the genetics for making a layer of skin. We can cure it and tan it into leather. I also have the genetics for skin with a thick coat of fur should we or our descendants every want to go somewhere cold."
 "And you know all this because?" asked Jason
 "It was my job to create graft tissue for Doctor Brown before the police caught me" said Candace. "I know a bunch of epigenetic markers for other tissue, I just don't see the use of them at the moment."
 The nagas split up. Candace moved from the runway to where Alice was eating.
 Alice swallowed, then asked "What were you guys talking about?"
 "The future" said Candace. "How about when I'm done with this transformation, you and I have a kid together?"