Biologist

The biologist has a name but it is never given to the reader, nor the other members of her expedition team. As part of their mission they are stripped of their names and identities, given posthypnotic suggestions, and given specific mission parameters. However, because of the biologist's interior landscape, feeling separated from the rest of society, her mind only partially accepts the conditioning given to them.

Her husband, who was a botanist, was a member on the previous expedition (11). The mission failed and all of them were thought to be dead. However, 18 months later the biologist goes into her kitchen to find her husband eating ravenously out of their refrigerator. However, he was changed and was never the same. The biologist saw her husband taken away by the government for study. She was told some months later that he had died. This turns out to be untrue, but...