As they continued to jet through the water, John realized the dolphins appeared to be getting larger. They had him pinned between them, but where he had been the same length before, now he was much shorter. And there was an odd sensation in his belly that spread slowly across his front. It wasn't until the dolphins suddenly separated that John discovered he was somehow attached to one of them.
Confused, he tried to move away, but no arms responded, and his legs only moved together. The sensation was stronger now, recognizable as suction. He was shrinking! It should have terrified him, but there was a calming voice in his head now. 'Sleep Little One. You will wake as one of The People, and enjoy a new life with us.'
A thin membrane was forming around him as he dwindled, and fatigue filled his mind. Very small now, no longer human at all. The membrane closed in around what was now an embryonic dolphin, pulled close, and finally inside the female's opening and up into her womb. Poseidon watched, pleased with the results. The former human would be rebirthed as one of his subjects, a new dolphin, in about ten months.