Recounting the case involving John and Cindy Prince and how Von Crucial had found them in their safe house he let Jim and Janice know that they both, as well as all of the people in the audience that afternoon were in grave danger.
"Well where is she?" Janice asked "Where is Cindy now?"
"We have her well protected" the doctor said "We have discovered, the hard way unfortunately that Von Crucial maintains a phsycic link to his victims. That is how it was so easy for him to find the Princes, even after we gave them new identities.
"We think we can mask the link however" Detective James said. "After we raided a show similar to the one today we found a box containing some pendants. One of our specialists in the occult says they are ancient charms thought by the Inca to bring good luck. How or why Von Crucial had them we don't know but we can guess that he has a private collection antiquities, these just happened to be lost but we just don't know. Mrs. Prince has one that we keep with her at all times."
"But she's a how?" Jim asked
"Yes, she is quit limited in her movement but with some effort she can roll onto her side if she needs to. Mostly she just lies in her quarters reading.
"Reading?"
"Oh yes, she can read quite well. One of her requests has been for books on the occult. She is quite alert and can communicate with a special microphone we have in her quarters that amplifies and re modulates sound. Her vocal cords were so transformed that without the special amplification, her voice to us was only faint squeaks. She uses a small sensor that she can manipulate with her tongue to surf the web or read digital books."
"Would you like to meet her?"
"Oh, I don't know" Jim said not sure if he was up to visiting with a disembodied penis, not right now anyway. He looked as Janice and the both nodded in agreement that now was not the time. Janice did stop to think that it could be worse. Perhaps all in all that what happened to her isn't quite so bad. She couldn't imaging what that poor woman was going through, but then again before today she couldn't have imagined what it would be like to have her mouth and anus reversed!
"Very well then, I think we should get you two to the campus. Von Crucial will certainly be out to recoup this loss. He is the worst possible combination of perversion and greed.
"Put these on. We need to get you two to the campus ASAP." Detective James as he handed them each a necklace that had green pendants on them.
"I need some clothes" Janice suddenly realized
"Put these on" the detective said handing her some nurses scrubs. She pulled the top over her head, carefull not to knock the surgical mask off. "umm can I get a little help here?" she asked pointing to her legs locked into the cuffs of the stirrups. Jim grabbed her ankle and helped her out of the right stirrup and walked around the end of the table to help with the other leg. He stole a glance at her crotch as he walked by. In the shadow he could barely make out her mouth, with it's thin upper or right lip and slightly more thik left or what was the bottom lip. He took a deep breath and looking up he saw that Janice had caught him looking. He smiled, careful not to cause her any more distress. Her eyes squinted slightly and he thought he saw her mouth in the shadow of her inner thighs curve and form somewhat of a smile.
After her other leg was down, Janice noticed how with her legs together her mouth once again felt smooshed, like when someone grabs and pinches your cheeks together. Sadly, she now knows that that feeling was caused by a whole different set of cheeks.
"Ok a little privacy please" she said. It was muffled but the guys understood and made way back into the staging area. Totally removing the blanked she drew her knees up toward her chest and started to pull on the bottoms that the doctor had given her.
"I'll have to worry about underwear later" she thought and for a moment began to ponder what exactly she would do in that department.
Thrusting her hips up, she pulled the pants all the way and stood up. Her mouth was pressed against the plastic of the seat as she sat up and pivoted off of the table. It kind of hurt as she made a move to rub her lip with her hand, stopping as it made contact with the surgical mask.
Phantom pains are how the doctor described it. Her mind still associates her mouth, lips and tongue with her face so by reflex, when she wanted to touch her lips, she instinctively searched for them where her mind said they should be. Reaching down the front of her trousers, she found that she needed to spread her legs slightly in order to touch her lips in their new location just behind her vagina from the front. Trying a different approach, she placed one leg up on the step stool and reached back and under her thigh until she made contact with her mouth. This proved easier and with her right hand she traced around the fatter lower or right lip now and pinched it. It felt the same both to the touch and to be touched. She stuck her tongue out and licked her thumb. It was salty and by all intents and purposes it felt and tasted normal. She didn't want to do any more exploration with her tongue however as she remembered the shock of feeling the tiny hairs and stubble that now surrounded her mouth.
Pulling her hand out from inside her pants she slid on some sandals the doctor had provided and adjusting the straps on the surgical mask and taking a deep breath through her nose she stepped out of the trailer.
She felt self conscious as she walked toward where her husband was standing talking to the detective and the doctor. It felt as if everyone was seeing right through the mask and was staring at her anus on her face. She felt mortified. "They know" she thought.
"The van will take you to a safer place" the detective said as he motioned to a white limo van parked outside the main doors.
The doctor accompanied them to the van. Jim entered and then turned to help Janice into the seat.
