Allah has decreed your nation should have a chance to redeem itself. The burden of redemption, or destruction, of your country is yours. Your nation m...st cease the violence it foments in other nations, and free your people to know the peace of Allah. You will remember this charge all of your days," the angel pronounced.The end of the sword morphed into something more akin to a branding iron. Five more times the implement flared, accompanied by a scream. Each of the men had been branded, in the. "Beth said, I think you like fucking your daughter first and daughters in laws second. I don't think anyone will get between you and Annie. I also doubt Pa would let them move here as your daughters because that's his territory. It will be tough enough to convince him to let you marry both Robin and me."Annie spoke up and said, "but Pa, what if he wants me in return for these girls?"I said, "hmmm I never thought of that. I said I would not give you to him as a daughter. If he want to get you. . how much time had passed while I was immersed in her neural processor.I looked down at her, and fixed her with my sternest glare. "Look," I said. "I'll deal with you later. Right now I need to assess the situation."Carol continued to stare at me. "Do whatever," she said "I don't care."She was a bad actor. I watched amusedly while she casually slipped her hand into her lab pocket. I had already noticed the familiar bulge of a syringe in that pocket. I had figured it was only a matter of time. Surgery was quite a gory affair, but it was fascinating. Thatexperience led to my involvement in nursing that followed. Before theoperation Delia and I had received instruction including the dissectionof an anaesthetised seal pup to show us how everything would work. Ittook a week of preparation. Throughout it the newly denuded Tim satwith a resigned expression on his face, ready to accept his fate.I thought then that he really would make a very beautiful woman, andthat was how it turned.