Chrysalis

It would soon happen - the beginning and the end. Here, at last, was the creation of a new identity, a new certainty. Cleopatra knew, too, that the extraordinary activity that would occur in the next few moments would terminate the physical, social and psychological confusion that had dominated her life for so long. This final act would begin in pain and climax in pleasure. In victory. It would set her on a strange and exciting journey where there was much to learn - much to discover. She stretched her hands above her head in delicious anticipation and sighed longingly. In a few minutes the long, agonizing process would be complete. She would, at last, be a woman.Sometimes the tragedies of life can be avoided. But who is to blame? Sergeant Harding? the women? or Cleopatra himself? You decide.