" The head of the young woman sitting in the booth behind my date turns fractionally, and I suppress a grin at the involuntary ease dropping. "I w...nt to be like those girls" She leans even further forward and looks me steadily in the eye. Her intensity is surprising in such a pretty girl and I'm reminded that few people get into Harvard without the ability to dedicate themselves to a project and work relentlessly towards it. "The girls you told me about. Your other girls." The last. It took several short exams and if approved, one would be put in a coma. Under ice, the body was injected with hormones and altered. The body was commanded to transform and the proper organs grew. Four months later one would wake up with a full functioning body of the chosen sex.Life as a male had become very hard and restrictive in the Union for Co-prosperity. Several laws were passed that regulated males to subjects. Males could even be owned as slaves by females. This union wasn't anything. He left the room. She heard him searching the apartment carefully, and it took him a long time. When he returned he'd mixed himself a drink."Well, Gunnar, what do you plan to do with me," she said. She was beginning to react to this disaster, thinking up plans... He was drinking a Scotch and soda. He took out an ice cube and tossed it on her navel, exposed in the robe. She jerked and twisted and tossed it off. He merely flicked a second ice cube on her belly. The ice burned."Oh, Gunnar,. The Stonehenge book's contents are real!"She takes out the Stonehenge book from her pouch, then spreads her arms out, holding the ancient text in one of her hands. "Our time to build this group, to learn...all of it has been worth it! While there's still more work to be done and we'll have to be even more careful about our steps, we'll eventually understand! When the time comes, we will eventually be able to share with the world our knowledge, prove its teachings, and make known of its.