Chapter Forty-One “The Transformatory is divided into two sections: Hormonal-Surgical Suite and Crafts Shop,” Leona was saying as she and Emma walked along the corridor that led to the Transformatory. “A well trained staff in the medical suite performs physical alterations and monitors Cook’s hormonal recipes. All medical staff are board certified and dedicated to the Institute’s mission. Both sections are always busy. We always seem to have a backlog of furniture and craft orders, not to mention material submissions from our clients.” “Can I ask who are your clients and what do they want?” “They are women just like you, your mother, your mother-in-law, Judith. Some of them want their charges transformed –transfigured as we say – into replicas of themselves, their alter egos, if you wil

