"Uh, well, I thought you would be able to make a better decision than me. I'm sure you can come up with something that will work."She looked at him wi...h a strange expression. This was something new and unexpected. He wanted her to handle the decision."Okay ... I guess that makes sense. I'll call the landscaper right away and set up a meeting." Thanks, Tatya. I appreciate that," Gus said with a sigh of relief.Again, Tatya looked at him questioningly. Was this the beginning of a new more civil. Since the length of a day, week, month, and year are different on different planets, their time references are out-of-sync with those of other planets. For example: for one planet, two days may be a period of seventy-two hours, while on a different planet, the first planet’s seventy-two hours may be a duration of three days.Due to these variations, it’s necessary to link each planet’s time and date to a single time reference in order to coordinate events between planets. The Multiverse’s. It would be a big sacrifice for me, to give up being a man and acceptanother man as my master. I would be surrendering my exclusiverelationship with Amy too, becoming more like an intimate girlfriend toher than a masculine mate. My whole world would be upside down.My only other option, was to stand up to Charles and say no. To refuseto be a girl for him, and reclaim my masculinity. Nothing that hadhappened so far was permanent. I could reverse almost everythingquickly, and be the guy I was. Amazingly, I felt my heart lurch and thump back to life under the pressure of his hand.At least I think he did all that. It doesn’t seem logical, though, does it? I think my brain was playing tricks on me, but I don’t know what was real and what wasn’t – so I wrote it all down.Dan leaned over me and kissed me on the nose. My heart was now thumping steadily under the reassuring pressure of his hand.“There you are – all back together again.”Dan’s voice sounded solid and real. It was something I.