“Mermaids.” Announced Rose as she looked at her husband, Alex, who nodded his head.
Rose’s guilt was almost unbearable, if she hadn’t gotten sick, they wouldn’t have gone to such debt that they would have to leave humanity behind.
“Well Merman for me.” Laughed Alex as the worker nodded.
“Thanks for making that clear, some people do gender transformation as part of the change.” Explained to the worker as he sent them on to the legal department to fill out the paperwork needed.
Their time in legal was actually slightly longer than normal, that was because they had arranged part well all of Alex’s pay toward paying back their medical bills. That meant in five years when their contract was up they would be free of that. While Rose’s pay as a mermaid wasn’t as high as Alex’s pay as a merman it would be enough for them to restart their lives after everything was done.
They didn’t have to worry about storing large amounts of items, they hardly had any items of importance that needed to be kept. Only a few personal items, photos and the like had to be placed in a small storage unit.
All that took only a couple of days and soon both of them embraced each other outside the transformation room in the hospital which did the actual transformation.
“See you on the other side.” Said Alex as he kissed is wife as a human one last time before they headed off to leave humanity behind for at least five years maybe longer.