"You're going to be given your head on a mare's body."
"A mare?" Jon said. "As in a female horse?"
"That's what it says," the nurse said, showing him the file. There was a picture of Jon's final form, and, like the nurse said, it showed his head on the body of a horse. "You're going to a farm to serve as a brood mare. You will be impregnated by male horses and give birth to their babies. And these will be ordinary horses that you'll mother. They won't be part human at all."
"But why a mare and not a stallion?" asked Jon.
"It's part of the punishment," said the nurse. "Childbirth is a painful process and enduring that pain is considered part of the punishment. Don't worry. Seeing your foal for the first time makes up for all the pain you went through to give birth to her. You'll be given a strong maternal instinct and sex drive that will help make you want to have babies and raising your foals is supposed to be one of the most wonderful parts of this form of punishment. And don't worry about not having arms; you'll still be able to graze and otherwise eat and you'll have people at the farm to help you do the things you can't be trained to do with your mouth." She closed the file and said, "You've already been given the first of the treatments. It will change your gender over the next few days and then you'll be ready to have your body changed to that of a mare." She bent over and kissed him on the forehead and said goodby. Jon thought about his punishment. Sure his head would stay the same, but the rest of his body would be changed into that of a female and a female HORSE at that. He was going to spend the rest of his life on a farm giving birth to foals until he wished himself back to normal. Feeling tired, he fell asleep wondering if he had made a mistake.
