Phaze Doubt -- Piers Anthony Version 1.0 -- 12/12/2001 Lysander Lysander found his assigned seat in the shuttle as it commenced slow acceleration. The spaceship had been a liner with individual cabins for each passenger but the planetary shuttle was cramped in the manner of an atmospheric transport. Well he was used to tight quarters after his time in the laboratory. He hesitated glancing at the young human woman in the adjacent seat. She was in the process of getting out of her dress by working it up past her legs and buttocks. quotPlease excuse me if it is not an imposition -- quot She looked up at him pausing in her labor. She had short curly black hair and dark brown pupils in those respects almost matching him. But what was coming into view below didnt match. quotAm 1 embarrassing youquot she inquired brightly. quotNo I am most interested. Your form strikes me as pulchri-tudinous.quot She blinked. quotWhat11 Evidently he had used the wrong term. quotOf aesthetic outline. Comely. Subject to admiration. Incitive of sexual ambition.quot She smiled. quotAttractivequot quotYes thank you. That must be the operative term.quot 2 Piers Anthony quotYoure not from this neighborhoodquot she remarked. quotThis is a perceptive observation. Indeed I am not. But you -- you are a native of the upcoming planet quotYes. In a manner. Im a serf. We dont wear clothing.quot quotNow I understand. I read the handbook. I will be a serf too to earn what I need to be recognized as an independent individual. But would you be willing to exchange seats I have little experience of planetfall and would like to gaze out the window.quot quotOh of course. Ive seen it before.quot She got up and stepped to the center aisle her dress remaining halfway up. Lysander took the seat she had occupied. Then she lifted her dress the rest of the way off over her head leaving only pink bra and panties. She was a well-endowed female quite appealing in thai limited outfit. She folded the dress carefully