The temperature suddenly, sharply drops in the sauna, the steam condensing to liquid water and beading on Marsha and Linda's scales. Their furious pleasuring of each other slows, steadily and unnoticed by the girls, until they stop altogether, slipping into a reptilian state of hibernation on account of their newly ectothermic state of being.
The door slides open on the dozing lizard-girls, and two men in highly insulated hazmat suits enter the room and carry them off, their forms too sluggish, their blood too slowed by the temperature for them to respond.
***
They are brought to a basement room at the Terrarium, one with heated lamps which raises their temperatures high enough to awaken them and bring them to higher state of alertness and activity.
"Marsha...?" Linda whispers, confused at the change in her surroundings.
"Yeah, Lind, right here." Marsha's voice is raspy, almost hissing. "Where are we?"
"I don't know..." Linda notices that her voice is just as raspy and hissing as Marsha's.
"YOU'RE IN YOUR NEW HOMES, LADIES." A voice sounds over an intercom.
"Who's there?" They gasp in unison.
"THAT IS NOT OF YOUR CONCERN. SURELY YOU HAVE NOTICED THE CHANGES IN YOUR BODIES, WE HAVE ADAPTED YOUR BRAINS TO BE MORE ACCEPTING OF THESE CHANGES. AND WE ARE HERE TO OFFER YOU TWO CHOICES."
"And these are...?" Linda asks while looking over the slightly iridescent scales on her arms. The green tint looks almost black in the red lights.
"OPTION NUMBER ONE: THE TWO OF YOU ARE TO BE RELEASED INTO THE WILD OF PLEASURE ISLAND, WHERE YOU WILL HAVE TO RELY ON SURVIVAL INSTINCTS TO COMPETE WITH THE OTHER TRANSFORMED PEOPLE WHO CHOSE THIS ONE."
"The other...?"
"WE GIVE YOU A SAFE, ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT TO LIVE IN, CLOTHES TO WEAR IF YOU SO CHOOSE, FREE REIGN OF THE ISLAND, MALE COMPANIONSHIP, AND ALL THE FREE FOOD YOU COULD DESIRE IN EXCHANGE FOR PERFORMING FOR NO PAY FOR OUR CUSTOMERS AND THAT YOU HAND OVER ALL EGGS YOU MAY LAY TO OUR SCIENCE LABS. WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER?"
"Uh... what do you mean by perform?" Marsha asks, intrigued.
"YOUR MALE COMPANIONS, YOUR MATES, WILL ALSO BE YOUR DANCING PARTNERS AND INSTRUCTORS. YOU WILL BE TAUGHT IN EROTIC DANCE, AND BE ENTERTAINMENT FOR OUR PAID GUESTS. DO YOU ACCEPT?"
"Is this even legal?"
"PARADISE ISLAND IS AUTONOMOUS. WE MAKE OUR OWN LAWS. YOU SUBJECTED YOURSELVES TO OUR LAWS THE SECOND YOU SET FOOT ON OUR LAND."
"That doesn't seem very fair," Marsha is feeling confrontational, Linda just wants to see if she can climb the walls: she can, and does.
"'FAIR' IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT. WE CAN ENSURE THAT THE REST OF YOUR LIVES ARE INCREDIBLY BLISSFUL, JUST SO LONG AS YOU FOLLOW OUR RULES."
So now, the girls are left with a choice... do they choose to be released into the wild, to live as animals, or will they accept the "employment" of the island?