I drifted in and out of sleep for a long time. The strange bubbling sounds around me of the Doctor's body building equipment seem to lull me back to sleep.
"Can you hear me?" asked that voice as my eyes open and his kind face looms large.
I try once again to reply but still only a flat groan issues from numb lips.
"Ok I'll talk to you! Your body was cut to pieces on those rock to which you fell. I as you were enjoying a fantasy in the Park, but I suspect you took the forest path as I enjoyed following the stream.
None the less we got to meet the other. I took pity on you as it would seem the satyr's play rough and I'm sure the billy goat which jumped off the clift was quite human just hours before. You see I've been to that section of the Park too. Oh I'm human, very human, they didn't want me since I have nothing for them to entice. When I was just a youth working my summer away detasseling corn an other worker and I got into a knife fight. Well since then I had nothing to distract me from my work in D.N.A. restructuring. It is my work here in the Park which now gives to some the wildest of wild fantasies. Indeed I've know some to be Donkeys and pull the red velvet hotel transport coaches for some time. Why believe it or not the manager's tell me some so enjoy living the beast of burden lifestyle, they actually sign papers to remain as the beasts, some for life! Now no scientist can walk away from his work when it's so popular and brings such joy to others."
The doctor stops to sip his coffee and begins again to tell his story.
"Oh my friend I'm so elated at being employed by the Pleasure Island Amusement Park. Why they have a staff of tweleve to help in the distribution of the reformation Flux formula. In fact, in actual fact the formula can offer a wonderful fantasy to people. At fist it only worked on boys but in time I got the genes to act on female D.N.A. and they too can now enjoy! Oh it's such fun to watch those who are having fun. I visit the exibits and watch the people walk in. Oh they scream of wild terror just like the one's on the roll-a-coasters and other great rides in the Park."
The phone rings and my Doctor turns to talk. After some heated conversation the man returns to where I can focus on him with tired eyes.
"Yes now where was I, Oh yes, I enjoy watching those people in the exibits. The real fun ones to watch are teenage girls and young men about twenty one or so. Ah, for some reason those ages of people are clinging to life so very tightly that when the Flux is introduced they scream and carry on with such joy and glee. Why they tell me that so many twist and wriggle as the Flux enters the person's body. As their fantasy begins almost everyone seems to be of fear, but then the joy comes as they relax and truly enjoy the feeling of just letting go. There's been many a time when I watched that if my sexual body parts were still in place I'm sure I'd jump the fence and join their fun!"
Now I watch as this scientist rambles on, his words sink into my mind and they make good sense. Yet a scrap of memory tells me that the people changed never change back. Now it's time to listen till I can decide.
"Donkeys, horses, mules, ponies, cattle, cows, bulls, steers, sheep, pretty ewes, tough billy goats, sexy nannies'! Oh yes then to, pigs, nice plump sows with eight wiggling teats, boars, their big balls and bristled bodies, ducks, some chickens, doggies, kitties, lions, tigers. Oh and bears, elk, deer, the does, and mighty stags too! I see
monkey's, gorilla's, they make those teenage girls scream as they change into a black and hairy female gorilla! It about a year ago when one young girl ran out from her fantasy and came right up to me. Oh how ernest she begged if I would release her from that fantasy she so wonderfully chose. I shook my head no seeing in her eyes the Flux take hold and then seeing her pupils change as the gorilla D.N.A. took hold. Why the girl offered my to have sex with her and be a sex toy rather than accept the fantasy she chose, odd don't you think she'd do all that?"
Taking a deep breathe and then letting it out as a siegh, he rambled on again.
Oh the Park pays me well for my work! Why if it wasn't for me and my discovery this Park would still be eeking it's way along giving rides and selling cotton candy. Now it's very wealthy! The fantasy loving people are everywhere and they come in boatloads to this paradise island of joy and peace. You know it does puzzel me why so many people who come here and enter their animal fantasies' prefer to stay on and using the new given sexual talents propagate the spiecies. Why I found out the Park now has several animal breeding farms on the mainland. Those people who decide to live the animal life to the fullest prefer to go there and enjoy the new and in many cases much larger sexual equipment. I think about some of the prettiest' girls who become sows and then prefer swine form to that of the body they were born into, odd very odd! Oh but the boys and men who become donkeys and horses enjoy their bigger penis to the fullest of passions, those I could understand might want to stay as an animal. Now take yourself in the satyr fantasy which you were enjoying! Why then would you wish to be a billy goat when you could remain a satyr for a time. I don't understand then why you might take your life and jump as you did to a possible death! Oh in time the ability to speak may come back in it's total human ability, but for now just moan or groan, point, of gesture and one of us will be most happy to help."
I laid quiet as his words buzzed in my head. So much to hear, so much to reach for understanding. My eye lids close and the peace of sleep overtakes me, now to dream the joy and peace that his great Flux can give.