"Edelweiss Edelweiss So Pure and White....."
Snarling,Maximillian Cerne,a normal guy who turned into a were-dragoness whenever he got emotional,switched off the TV.
He'd seen the news item before.It started with a decade old video of a 8 foot tall werewolf leading a troupe of oiking were-pig and were-sow children over a sunny hilly pasture covered in the flowers.
Mr Barth Rufolo,a actor who'd been turned into a werewolf by the 'orbital compression'
had recently been arrested in Washington DC after the American authority had found were-sow and were-ig remains buried in the basement of his mansion just outside of Washington.
The commercial had been filmed when the authorities were still spending money promoting harmony amongst the shapeshifters.
Most people were still buying the government line that wolves and pigs could leave in peace,but Maximillian,who knew what kind of predatory instincts a wolf had to cope with,being a hungry dragoness every now and then,
didn't buy the Age of Happiness ,Space Exploration is Dead pitch anymore.
Not because he'd eaten any were-pigs lately,but because he was one of the were-dragons preparing the worlds ninth Orbital Compress Powered spaceship for launch.
For a 3 month voyage to Pluto,and perhaps beyond.
The researchers at the Hadron Collider had figured out fairly quickly what had happened a decade earlier.
The Hadron Collider had suddenly emitted a energy wave that had caused the orbits of electrons around the proton-neutron core of a atom to shrink.
Orbitaal Compression.
Nobody had quite figured out yet how smaller atoms led to shapeshifting,but the scientists knew a shapeshift was due to a alterating in our nuclear makeup,rather
then due to biology or some other such life sciences field.
It was basically
E = MC(squared) writ large in our,and the other stuff on New Terra's makeup.
Unlike America,where they were still producing commercials of
big black were-wolf men and little white sheep-girls standing to attention for the
Red White and Blue
here in Mount Pilatus,Switzerland the researchers were getting ready for the 9th manned mission to Pluto.
Pluto?
Well it had taken a while for the investigators to figure out why the Hadron
Collider had gone rogue,but in the end they'd traced it too some
astronomical data some deep space scientist
had sent over from her studies on that
'once a planet,now a planetoid' hunk of distant
rock.