Insome respects, it's easier to go from male to female." So, it could take a long time?" Maybe a very long time. I'm sorry." Precisely what do you mea... by, 'a very long time'?"I shrugged, unable to give her even a ballpark figure. "I don't know,several decades to centuries? Theoretically, it's possible, but thereare genetic disorders we can fix right now. We're adding naturalimmunities to a variety of diseases. The team has limited resources,and a female to male tree is not one of the top ten. Daniels seems to be terrified, and this General Pendril keeps saying the right things, both encouraging and terrifying him about imagined revolts."General Clarence Pendril is only a one-star General stationed at the Pentagon. He apparently has never had any combat experience, and there's virtually no public history on him, as it appears he's from one of these secret agencies in the Pentagon. Thus he's pretty paranoid himself and is distrustful of the public, of Congress, and of any oversight. She’s just more aggressive about it.”“You know what? Fuck it. Maybe I should just give her what she wants and be done with it.”“You don’t want to do that,” Larry said firmly, clearly warning me against that course of action.“She’s hot for me, has a sexy body, and promised to do anything I wanted.”“And then she’ll think she owns you. And she’ll tell anyone and everyone what happened. It’ll get back to grandfather,” he said calmly.“And that would be bad, wouldn’t it?”“You don’t even want to think. “I didn't say that,” I protested.“You said any dick and your brother has a dick, and a very nice, juicy dick I might add,” she smiled wickedly at me.It was so weird. It was like she couldn’t get over the idea of me having sex with her boyfriend... with my brother.“Fine,” I clarified. “Any dick but my brother’s.”“I don't know,” she purred mischievously, “you looked pretty enthralled with his magic wand last night.”“I was enthralled watching you suck his… magic wand,” I clarified, which was.