Juanita so hoped that the other Managers didn't get involved. There were far too many
'quick fix schemes' that could back fire in a situation like this. At least since the other
Managers had left her with the task of working directly with the park guests, she would
have complete authority of the situation for now. She knew Hannah was ideal when Juanita
met with the doe. Hannah had common sense, self control, self respect, enjoyed her new
self, wasn't ashamed of it, and still wanted to do something with her life as a fellow
member of civilization. Juanita honestly believed Hannah could be the one. Hannah's new
X chromosome wouldn't get nearly the attention as her new species would.
However, when a thirty year old man, and a disfigured fifty year old man, came out as a
anthro vixen and sage and a teenage couple to boot, this would get people's attention, it
would be 'fountain of youth.' Truly, after figuring out how to change, rearranged, and
alter DNA, the RNA wasn't that impossible.
Many of the Management feared the 'age regression' option was a mistake, that it would
muddy the waters, and people fearing an immortal class of the rich would push it back,
and the non-age altering DNA secret along with it.
Juanita also knew it would destroy the foxes to have made to go back into his disfigured
and elderly form now. Juanita knew this wasn't just about the foxes, or the Managers own
plan to have anthros be assimilated into society. She knew what happened soon between
herself and the foxes, would set many precedents for all guests to come.
What SHOULD be the price for agelessness, heck, for a second go at life? For a third go? Or
a sixteenth go? Juanita felt a headache coming on.
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Naomi found herself once again forced to interact with the park guests, or leaving guests
in this instance. She also had enough self control not to look at anything on Jasmine
besides her face, true, they were all naked anyway, but she didn't want to get things side
tracked by making Jasmine feel uncomfortable. Mike of course, stayed politely close to
Jasmine.
Given the slight hiccup this gave the system with the teenagers' request, Laura was still in
her fox form. She also wanted to be there for the teens when they met with management
least they agreed to something they shouldn't.
"The Management would like to speak with you personally about your request to keep your
DNA and RNA altered after formally leaving the park." Said Naomi repeating her given
lines. Then, "For what's it's worth, I suppose your decision." Naomi said personally putting
her paw on Jasmine's shoulder.
"Er, thank you." Jasmine said politely.
"I guess you doggies understand this sort of thing." Mike said humorously.
"Yes." Naomi said to Mike as politely as she could. Though he didn't act the rigid, narrow
minded, blind, stubborn old men she was used to thinking of in his context. Naomi
shrugged it off as an except to the rule.
While going down one of the many, identical, featureless smooth unnatural hallways, the
foxes huddled slightly together to form a unified front, though knowing it wouldn't do
much to someone with the money and power to aid in creating this park in the first place.
"Congratulations by the way." Said Naomi to Laura, "You're the first non-humans besides
us huskies to see this part of the park."
'At least,' Laura thought, 'that means the Management isn't shoveling us through the
system.'
'Human', Jasmine did her best to remember precisely what a human even looked like! It
had been so long. HAD it been so long? She wasn't sure. She knew only by the time their
vacation was supposed to end how long they had spent in the park. Having been in the
park even longer than Laura and Jasmine, Mike found the task of remembering the precise
details of their original species more daunting.
The huskies were actually now discussing setting up a photo gallery for the looks on park
guests' faces when they realized the monkey morph they were looking at -was- human.
All in the name of good and harmless fun of course!
Soon enough, the foxes and husky were at the place of destiny, the secondary office of the
mysterious 'Miss J.'
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Since Maggie didn't enter the park at one of the standard times, she was totally missed by
Hannah. Which was likely for the better, since Hannah might have mistake Maggie's
intense mood for a disgruntled male. And Maggie was in no mood for being mistake for a
male.
She also slipped though the news hounds' net by the same virtue.
Maggie, while still annoyed at her nakedness, (rather than ashamed or embarrassed like
most first time park goers), had more important things to think about, like her son. There
was one thing Grizzly bears were known for, and that was 70% of fatalities involving
grizzly bears came form a mama bear wanting to protect their young! While Maggie didn't
know this figure, this base instinct proved to be very good new best friends with her
personality.
She didn't know what species her son would be here, (the idea he had changed genders
and ages never entered her brain), but she knew the rest of his collage buddies were here
also, so, it should be a simple matter of asking around until she found him. The park itself
was gigantic. But she was nothing, if not determined.
From the introduction video's explanation about sex, she just hoped she didn't run into a
'Yogi the Bear' before she found her son. After all, she was already a mama bear, she
already had a cub, a cub who was lost to her, and she intended to find him! After all, he
was her son.
So driven by her own desire to remind her son about reality, and her new instincts, Maggie
felt her quest to find her son with new intensity.
+++++++++
While Keith begrudgingly couldn't argue against Jackie's logic of staying -relatively- active
during her early stages, that didn't mean he couldn't conspire to keep her distracted and
out of harm's way. With no television, this required some actual imagination on his part.
While the lack of mass media did stack the odd against him, there were other less hypnotic
means of entertainment to keep Jackie from over exerting herself.
This included: Monty Mongoose's conspiracy theory seminars, (absolute torture), and the
daily meeting of the news hounds.
There was a theory among some Americans that the whole reason England kept the royal
family around was because they made a better soap opera than anything on American
television.
While there was no way Keith could get Jackie (for now) to forgo her stubborn desire to
continue to hunt in spite of her load, he was able to come up with one thing to keep her
relatively distracted and from over exerting herself.
"And just last week, there was an incredibly rain and wind storm in California, thousands
were left without power." Explained the hound dog to Jackie about the current events she
had missed since coming into the park.
Curiosity killed the cat, and while it didn't stop Jackie from hunting, it did fill up her day,
listening to the latest global gossip. Plus... maybe there were a few drama students and
stand up comics among the park goers. They seemed to have people from -all- walks of
life after all.
++++++++++
Leticia thought of her husband, and their child. And wondered, how much of their
attraction was the instincts talking? She wanted to ask Jeremy THE question. True he had
gotten much bolder and confident about such things since they had first met, but there
were a few things that had a habit of slipping his mind. So it might come down to her to
ask that question. But should she? How long had they known each other? How much did
they know about each other? Could she risk it? Though the fawn inside proved that she
was indeed past the point of no return with him.
Still, she had another half on the other side, whom her relationship had never been bad
with, let alone abusive, who she had no way to let know she had found someone else. She
felt she owed it to her, to at least let her know somehow, before asking Jeremy the biggest
question of her, and his life.
+++++++++++
"Yo, ya hear." Robbie asked.
"I hear a lot." John replied.
"Jenny's got a new -fawn-! And it's Spike!"
John glared. "You gotta be kidding me! That's not funny Rob!"
"I'm not joking! Looks like the park owners finally decided what to do with him!"
"Well... I can't say it isn't an improvement then."
Robbie sighed. "Looks like I owe you some bark, I was sure he was gonna come out a
doe."
John moaned. "You and your does."
"Look, the point IS, Boss-man Jeremy himself said anyone who lays a finger on Spike, heck,
ANY Fawn, is in for it from Boss-man Jeremy PERSONALLY!"
John felt scared by the very idea, "Whao... ya don't... ya don't think ... that maybe... Boss-
Man Jeremy could be... still loyal to that walking set of antlers?"
"I don't think so." Robbie said, "I think it was cause Jenny asked him nicely!"
"And Boss-Lady Leticia didn't get jealous?"
"No no no, I know it sounds weird but Jenny didn't ask nicely THAT way, she just asked if
Jeremy could make sure no one hurt Spike."
"No one hurt Spike. I'm worried about him hurting us!"
"Ya should see him! No trace of antlers on him, no scars, and no trace of those muscles of
his."
"Not what I mean." John explained, "Ever see the movie Chucky? No? Good! I'm more
scared on what's going on behind that cute face than whatever his build is right now!"
"Ya think he's gonna murder us in our sleep?"
"No... Spike was, is, a lot of thing, but psychotic was never one of them. I'm just worried
what he MIGHT do to get revenge on us!"
"Well, Boss-Man Jeremy said for nobody to touch Spike so that settles that. And you
haven't seen him. Spike was a ace at political science, but he stank at drama class. No way
it's an act. He's like a typical kid with no one else his age to play with."
John narrowed his eyes, "If you suggest -us- going into the gene splicer to get turned into
single digit aged fawns I swear I'm gonna.."
"Nonono! I just mean I don't think Spike is really something we have to worry about. I vote
we worry about how Lance will be once we leave the park, and Bossman Jeremy is still IN
the park with Boss lady Leticia."
"At least we'll have plenty to keep him from torturing the pledges with all the blackmail
material we're collecting with how he's acting towards Jeremy now."
Robbie nodded. "Thank Heaven for that."