Charlotte was pleased that Naomi was apparently just getting ready to broach the idea of staying merfolk himself. But there was one thing that Naomi was adamant about. Despite all the fun of the last few days, he was taking the opportunity to revert to female. Naomi had no intention of spending the rest of her life as a male anything. Charlotte was disappointed, but as Naomi pointed out, at least she could look forward to fondling mermaid breasts that weren't her own.
"OK" said Charlotte "But at least let me say goodbye."
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Tim was a little puzzled by the newest addition to the Warren. Not only had the huskies who dropped her off said that her stay was "indefinite," but she had asked three times in five minutes if Tim was quite sure that there were no big, scary cats anywhere close. Apparently she had been traumatized by some kind of feline predator-morph. Eventually, Tim decided that maybe she would benefit from talking to Terry, who had been through something similar.
Terry and the new resident of the Warren hit it off immediately, as the wide-eyed new rabbit-girl looked on Terry as a wise big sister. And Terry knew exactly what Roberta should do about these strange new feelings she had whenever she laid her eyes on a handsome buck!
Despite the growing closeness of the two, there was one thing Terry was keeping secret even from her new friend. She had figured out how to stay in the warren even after her two months park pass had expired. It began with not eating the berries. . . .
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"We've been idiots" Tasha began "Why would the researcher who became the female harpy have to be female to start with? How many transgender anthros do we know, starting with Sherman here? We've been wondering what the hell happened to Yeltis, what if he's right under our noses? Johnson, get over there and see if the female harpy answers to 'Mark.'"
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"Brian" Cheryl began, and he was pleased that she was addressing him by his name rather than as master "Someone told me that you used to be a girl, is that true?"
"Yes, that's true."
"So how did you become a male? Did you lose a bet, too, like I did?"
Brian smiled. "No, I didn't lose a bet. I was a woman active in the feminist movement and the last thing I thought I would ever want to be was a male anything. It's just that, it's just that I was sexually very inhibited. I was straight, but in the first place I had a hard time finding men who would accept my politics, and to be honest I wasn't really very physically attractive in a conventional sense either. And even when I did go to bed with a man, it was usually pretty unsatisfying. And once when I was complaining to a friend--this was after the park had been open for a few years--she made the joking suggestion that I use the park to temporarily be a quote, 'male animal,' as they didn't seem to have much trouble finding mates or enjoying themselves when they did. And I treated it as a joke, but I couldn't get the idea out of my mind. And eventually I decided to try it, more as an act of sexual therapy than anything else. And a few hours after my transformation I was having what was by far the best, the most passionate, the most totally involving sex I had ever had. And I knew at that moment that regardless of what I think about males and females, that I wanted to have a male body even if I still don't really think of myself as a male. And then I got involved in Hannah's--she was the the transgender therapist before me--group and I took over her position when she left for the outside world."
"So that was the best sex you ever had?"
Brian drew Cheryl to him. "Until now" he whispered.
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"Mark Yeltis?" began agent Johnson.
"Sorry! Sorry!" shrieked the harpy. "Meant to go south with Tran! Dropped the briefcase, Tran angry! Mark and Tran go south! Mark dropped the briefcase!"
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Katie, human again, answered the door of her small apartment. Two anthros, one a female wild goat of some kind and the other a rodentine male, stood at the door. "Do you know about the message of sister Irene? It changed my life." the goatmorph began.
Katie slammed the door.
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The reborn and very, very female Naomi shot into the cove that the two had agreed to meet in after Naomi returned from the transformation chamber and seized Charlotte in her arms. Charlotte had to agree that Naomi had been right--it was very nice to see and feel breasts that weren't her own. Tentatively, then with growing enthusiasm, the two worked out how two mermaids could make love.
Afterwards, their tails still twisted together, the two drifted in the current. Naomi's mind was filled with the exultation of being female again and being with the person she loved more than anyone in the world. Charlotte was also coming down off a sexual peak--she had missed making love to another woman more than she thought she had--but she was also thinking that the mermaid colony would grow, and at some point there would be a real, permanent mer-man. I wonder if I can talk Naomi into an open relationship, Charlotte thought.