You are floating naked in a tank of warm water. A mask over your face supplies you with air. Wires drift around you, connected to various probes attached to the surface of your skin. One is attached to your genitals and another protrudes from your anus. Though the water and the glass sides of the tank, you can see technicians busily working away.
One of them waves to you, and as the water around you begins to glow pink, you think that there have to be all sorts of better ways to make a living.
Then you feel the familiar compression as your body begins to change.
You stare at your fingers as they grow webbed and spindly. Then they vanish as your arms are pulled into your body. You can feel the same happening to your legs as your spine lengthens and you begin to grow a tail. The hated probes begin popping off as your body is reconfigured. You try to look, but your neck has already disappeared and you only succeed in thrashing about enough to knock your air mask off.
You try to hold your breath even as your lungs begin to disappear. Luckily, this doesn't last long, for very quickly you begin forming gills. You feel the oxygenated water rush into you, relieving the discomfort of forced asphyxiation.
Then the tank begins to grow large around you as your body shrinks.
This is the only part of the process that is painful. Luckily, your nervous system is no longer nearly as complex as it had been only moments before, so the pain is easy to bear. You thrash some more in spite of your self, managing to free yourself of the last of the restraining probes. Thus free, you begin to swim about the tank, filling your gills and flexing your fins as your transformation comes to an end.
As the pink glow fades, you can make out your reflection in the side of the tank.
You are a fish.
A salmon, to be precise.
Your attention is drawn to the technicians, who are now drawing close to the tank, readying to prepare you for transport to your destination.
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