It had all begun in 1740 when Dorothea Hardbottom-Quark was still
a nine year old boy named Theodore Hardbottom.
Theodore had taken to visiting his eccentric social thinker/scientist
neighbour Sir Gregory Quark,who'd been diddling with accelerating the speed of
light with a barrel sized device he called the
QuarK Universis Accelerating Cannon-Kinetiscope ( QUACK )
As Quark had demonstrated,normal light can impart force and send
the paddles of the Spin Dizzy inside a evacuated glass ball spinning when light
was shone on it.
Fast Light just imparted more force.
But you hard to be careful with Fast Light,Quark explained to the boy,
because that light could,besides throwing you back several feet when it hit you,also muck about
with the stuff you were made up off.
Alas Theodore didn't heed the warning and one day when Quark was off in Londondiscussing business with
Richard Dashwood,Theodore had let himself and his femalecousin,12 year old
Petunia Lambe.
She'd been standing near a Fast Light reflector when the young man had inadvertently
opened the shutters of the QUACK all the way and Theodore had soaked up a lot
of Fast Light that had bounced off Petunias maturing developing
female body along the way.
The boy had known fairly quickly there was something changed inside him,but had
kept mum about the matter.
For a month
That had been how long it had taken for the nipples on his chest to alter and expand and develop little breast buds and a auriole(sp),that signified his changing sex.
In a half year other stuff had altered and it was only when a suspicious Father Hardbottom had
cornered his 9-1/2 year old brown eyed,black haired son that he discovered Theodore was actually
now
his red eyed blonde haired 9-1/2 year old daughter.
After a confrontation with Sir Quark the 2 men had reached a deal.
When she was 16,the new Dorothea Hardbottom would be betrothed to Quarks
nephew Justin,and payments would be made to support her in her childbearing years
and beyond.
And so it came to be.
Theodore/Dorothea matured into a fine young woman,then a wife and raised her family,living the
life of a Georgian countrywoman and so it was till 1755,when...