"One last time" the technician asked "Are you absolutely sure about this?"
Goldie sighed in exasperation. After talking it over with Sam, getting approval from Zack, and signing an endless array of legal documents she was tired of the whole subject and just wanted to get it over with. "Yes, I'm sure" she answered.
"Very well" answered the technician, and typed the commands that would delete the files for the physical forms of James Gorman the male human and the "Lone Wolf." Although the information on their DNA and physical identifiers such as fingerprints would remain as required by law, a living body could not be reconstructed from this evidence. James and the Lone Wolf were gone; only Goldie remained.
Goodbye, Goldie thought, goodbye and good riddance. She felt as if the weight of the world had been taken from her shoulders.
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"Uh, Charlotte, can I talk to you about something?'
Charlotte grinned without moving a muscle on her face. She had been expecting this for some time.
"Sure, sweetheart. What about?"
"I think my sexuality was altered the same way yours was--I think I'm bi now."
Charlotte laughed. "Naomi, love of my life, do you think I haven't noticed the way you look at Justin? He is pretty cute, isn't he?"
"It's just that you, you got to explore what making love to a merman is like, and I've got to admit I'm curious."
"Do you want an open relationship, Naomi?"
"Yes, I guess, but just as regards men."
"In other words, we can experiment with mermen, but I better not catch you with another mermaid or you're shark food? And vice-versa?"
Naomi sighed in relief. "Yes, that's exactly it."
"OK" said Charlotte. "I do feel sorry for Justin though--that poor boy already seems a little overworked."
Naomi remembered all the times in the park when imbalances between the sexes in particular species tended to self-correct. "Once the word gets out as to how many females Justin has chasing after him, I think we'll start seeing a few more mermen here!"
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"The reason why you can't get Cheryl and Pamela to assert themselves or really develop any form of feminist consciousness at all" Meghan explained to Brian "Is that they haven't just been brainwashed with bad ideas--their brains have literally been designed to make them submissive to males. It's structural, so you can't really alter it except on the fringes a little bit, and even then another buck could change it right back."
Brian felt sick. What kind of monster would have done this?
"Is there nothing we can do? Can we fix their brains?" He discovered that the most obvious solution--just changing them back into the fratboy assholes they had been to start with--didn't appeal to him. Despite himself he had come to have feelings for the does, and he wanted them liberated, not annihilated by a return to their original forms.
"Not while they're pregnant. You know how strict the park is on that. Maybe after they deliver."
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Steve and Zack had worked out a plan neither one was terribly enthusiastic about, but they couldn't seen any better options. Terry was due in a few days--rabbit-girl pregnancies, it turned out, were brief--and after delivery she would be transformed back into Terry, with the insistence Terry had made in the video will that he be returned to human form providing legal cover. Both were queasy about children being raised in the sexual hothouse of a rabbit warren, so the Park would try and get the consent of Terry and Tim as the parents for the young rabbits to be transformed into another species as soon as their young systems could stand it, and put up for adoption unless Terry or Tim wanted to raise them. And, Steve was adamant, the rabbit-morph templates in the park's system would be altered to "sterile."