"You'd better turn him back when he comes back," Mark said."She is an independent person. I'll turn her back when she asks me to,"Orthis said and stuc... out his tongue at Mark, then smiled. "I learnedthat on TV." I- god damn it," Mark said and stomped in a little circle."Oh relax. Changing gender is a fun and pretty common transformation. Ionce spent a decade as Orthia." Well it's not normal here!" Mark snapped."Come on. Even here I bet people fantasize about it. Hell without anymagical outlet. One was "metamorphosis"and the meaning of that was very clear.Perhaps, if I wore the ring, I could magically transform in the way I'd so oftenimagined. Gingerly I tried to put it on my third finger, but it would only fiton my fourth. Nothing happened. I did feel a little strange with it on but I putthat down to anticipation. I was a bit surprised to find that I really believedthat the ring had magic powers. Perhaps, I thought, I need to recite the wordsengraved inside the ring. I glanced around. So&hellip, you want me to let you go and you promise not to say anything, or you want me to kill you after I fuck you tonight? I was scared to death. I knew hed do it, hed already showed me that he didnt care about slapping me and hurting me. I shook my head. I .. I wont say anything. I whispered. Good he said. Cause itd be a shame to waste a nice little cunt like yours. Now get over here on the floor and show me your pretty little cunt slut. I got up and went to his side of the table then lay. A replaced police chief here, a new council member there, and maybe a new professor over there. All of it was pretty much normal, and at worst, an eyebrow or two was raised over the sexist remarks of one of them. But all in all, society in the US continued as usual. At the same time, the claws of the Founding Patriarchs began to creep into society slowly.With time, the Founding Patriarchs continued to put pressure on society, slowly replacing leadership from the bottom up in society. Schools.