A charge.A signal had gone out.The girls turned in circles, conferring with themselves, full ofquestions, conspiring to have me committed. Even Snipe ...ooked dubious.We waited, probably less than four minutes, when a representative in adark suit appeared. "Is-is there a problem?" * * *The wormhole had been closing, and in closing followed through with itsroutine, hitting every planetary delivery port one last time. It was anagreement between the co-op: anyone. At this point a car drew up and came to a noisy halt, the driver jumping out and running after the second of Veronica's attackers, who had started on his hurried way homewards as soon as the car arrived. Veronica saw her rescuer catch up with the fellow and start to drag him back towards her. She went back to the first boy and pulled him roughly to his feet.Emerging back into the road, dragging the would-be rapist behind her, she administered a thorough and painful chastisement to the wretched. They want to live in bodies of their own choosing." God bless them, Mom. I'm one of them, you know, sort of." Yeah, so Shelly tells me," said Mom, chuckling somewhat nervously. There was some anxiety in the family that even though I liked being a girl now, I might become absolutely miserable about it in a few years. I didn't fit the transsexual profile, because I didn't want to be a girl when I was a little boy. At least, not that I could remember. Shelly Lauterbach, my sister-in-law and. "I don't know," replied Frances keeping a deadpan face. "Did he mention anything to you, dear?"Anthony shook his head. "I don't think so. He did say something about it going to rain tomorrow. It was a feeling he gets in his bones." I don't believe it!" Victoria exploded. "That was the same old codswallop that he gave me last Saturday. I'll be back in a minute."She ran from the room and both her parents collapsed in giggles. They heard the banging on Mark's door from where they were which set.