The gooey lump on the table was still Gladys, which wasn't much of an improvement over the lump of a girl she had been before she contracted the beauty, though her mass was harder to make out beneath the goo that encased her she was still quite large on the table. She had now been inside this cocoon for 8 hours with little change except the depth of the foggy white goo which surrounded her. This was noted by the scientists who reported to the hush hush black suits who had to report to people that no one was to know about. It was therefore of great note when in hour 9 with a large slurp sound, Gladys Brewer split in two. It was like watching a cell divide, very much so in fact, except instead of seeing ribosomes and mitochondria it was clear you could see a girl split right down the middle as if cut by a very sharp sword. You could see brain tissue, bone, liver, guts all of it, suspended in the goo, in two separate cocoons now, laying next to each other on the table, like a loving couple in their wedding bed. There was of course panic, a rush to see exactly what was happening, if either one of them or both were dying, but there was nothing they could do without penetrating's the soft shell around her, which they knew would have to have the effect of killing them, so the call was made to wait. Waiting revealed over the next three hours a process both wonderous and horrific to behold as both sides of Gladys started growing the other side out of the goo that encased them. At first it was hard to make this process out, but as goo became tissue, became hair, teeth, an eye, bone and skin again, there was then less of it to hid the process so that by an hour in it was all too clear what was happening. By hour 10 of this process a pair of girls lay next to each other on the table, similar to Gladys but in many respects vastly different. They shared a height, 5 foot 3 inches, 6 inches shorter than Glady's old height, there was no way to know their weights till they got off the table, but if it was evenly split between the two each would only weigh 105 pounds, less than half what Gladys had when she came in at 240 lbs. They were both well endowed, appeared to be in very good shape, and where whole in all other ways although they were not identical, though both possesses perfectly symmetrical faces and while those faces both looked like Gladys it was as if nature had given two separate drafts, a perfect F Sharp and F Flat to Gladys original F. It was as if each side of her had been forced to recreate the missing half of themselves from memory and had switched some details along the way. One last thing, Gladys had always had rather thin wavy hair that was an unremarkable brown, it was the only thin thing about her, both girls laying on the table, who had both started suddenly visibly breathing for the first time in 29 hours, had hair that had turned near completely white, though it was hard to tell exactly as everything was still wet.
coughing one opened her still brown eyes, the process was complete.
