Goldie discovered that the news of her engagement helped to bring down some of the barriers between her and the other husky females, barriers which, to tell the truth, had mostly been erected by her own fear and low self-esteem. As husky-girls came over to look at the ring and congratulate her on the engagement (it helped that many of them considered Sam quite a catch) she felt more part of a female community. She had even picked out a couple of bridesmaids for the wedding which she and Sam planned to hold at the park.
And with Max thoroughly dead, the nightmares were down to one every couple of weeks.
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Katerina looked at the screen of her five-thousand dollar HD system and grimaced. Everything the man on the screen was saying about the experience of being a rabbit-girl was true, at least in Katerina's estimation, but he was leaving out the whole point of the experience, the bliss that came with the abandonment to pleasure and sexuality, the loving, non-hierarchical world of the warren, the joy of community. To think that the delightful, enthusiastic, pleasure-loving Terry (so attractive, in fact, that Katerina had considered spending her next visit to the warren for the first time as a buck) had reverted to being this joyless male prude.
"Bah, humbug" she snarled, as the filmmaker described rabbit-girl sensuality as if were some form of creepy mind control. But people were listening, and there was no question that Terry was tapping some primal fears, particularly among men afraid that they too could be overtaken by feminine sexuality. The growing backlash against Sister Irene was adding to the movement to have anthro transformations banned or strictly regulated.
Hmmm, she thought, I wonder if Sister Irene needs legal help. . .