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unicorns and your precious mer-people! These are not humans! They are filth,
nothing but degenerate FILTH!"
"Oh, my," Ishtar said. "I do believe that we've annoyed our good Chansa. And let
me ask you, boy, do your natural genetics indicate that you should be three
meters tall and two hundred kilos?"
"That is beside the point," the council member growled. "At least I am human."
"Yes, well, I think that about sssettlesss that," Ungphakorn said. "Thanksss for
clearing up that little point. Time for a voiccce vote. I motion that the
dissscusssion of waysss to forccce people to 'work' ssso that they begin
breeding fassster and dissscusssionsss of forsss-able end to the 'abominable'
Changed be permanently tabled."
"We haven't heard from a few of the council members," Sheida pointed out.
"Minjie? Tetzacola? You've been unusually silent."
"That's because we're with Paul." The answerer was Said Dracovich, but she
gestured at the rest. "We six think that the best action to take is to enforce
some restrictions. ToЕ put pressure on the human race again so it can be strong.
Expose it to the fire for a while to temper the steel."
"Oh, deary, deary, deary," Ishtar said. "First we're abominations and now we're
simple knife blades to be tinkered with."
"All of us do not consider the Changed to be abominations," Celine said. "I have
assisted too many Changes to consider it abomination. But Change is resource
intensive and support of the Changed is more so; just look at Cantor for
example. Such resource overuse redirects it from important projects."
She paused and smiled ingratiatingly at Ishtar. "I will add, though, that Change
among the leadership would, of course, be fully acceptable. So no one in this
room has anything to fear from this program."
"R№igh'," Cantor growled skeptically. He had shifted back to full bear form when
Chansa started talking. "So no' 'ere we're being bribe'. I secon'!"
"All in favor?" Ishtar asked.
"A'," Cantor said.
"Aye," Sheida.
"Aye," Aikawa said. " 'The true abomination is intolerance.' "
"Aye," Ungphakorn.
"Aye," Ishtar finished. "That's it. You need nine votes to override all the
protocols in place to prevent your 'program,' Paul. So until three of us die,
you're shit out of luck."
"We'll see," Bowman said. "The necessity for this will become clear. I promise
you."
"Not as long as I've got eyes to see," Sheida answered.


CHAPTER TWO
Over the desk a three dimensional hologram of a double helix broke apart,
incorporated new DNA, broke down into sections, simulated protein linkage, then
recombined only to start over again.
Daneh Ghorbani watched the simulation with a distant expression. The Doctor of
Genetic Repair was fine skinned like her sister, with the same titian hair.
Unlike her sister she wore it long, and a good geneticist would be able to tell
that her eyes probably were not naturally cornflower blue. However, like her
sister, she had very little in the way of "enhancements" and the ones that she