To Shirley, this might seem perfectly reasonable. All she is thinking about is helping her friend." I'm her friend too, and it wouldn't help me. I wou...d never loan her to a friend of mine." My father was trying his best, but I really wished that Uncle Bunny was still around to listen to my side of things, and then tell me what some of my options were. I had relied on him for things like this. I finally stopped talking about my problem and sat quietly, reading over the list that Dad had handed. "You want to do it?" I do, but radio also wants us to buy ad banners for the festival."Scott rubbed the back of his head. "With as much as we're spending on radio buys, they should cut us a break on that. We'll have signs for our booth right?" Yes." If radio doesn't give us a break, pass on it and tell them why." It's just--" Shirl," Scott said. "What's our word for the month?"Shirl sighed. "I know." Say it with me," Scott said."Delegate," Shirl replied."That's right," he said. "Delegate. I. It was hard to imaginehim as a woman - a stubble shadow darkened his chin and his featuresseemed to pronounced to be feminine. Holding my hair back I stooped tokiss him, no response, so I watched him a moment more. I couldn'tremember ever having found a man so beautiful. Was it because I knew ofhis change, that he had been a woman? Did that shared experience makehim more attractive to me? I kissed him again.Ghosting from under the covers I tiptoed to the toilet and had a long,long pee. I didn't. I can see the ship is real as is the device over there making the plates and stuff. But this enemy is what gets me."Amy walked over to the young man. Looking him in the face, she responded to his questions."He is deadly serious. Let me show you what happened to the passenger liner Queen Ann in 2482."Amy turned to the view screen and a ship appeared on it. Amy told them what was happening as they watch it on the screen."This was the Queen Ann, a seventy million ton passenger liner carrying ten.