Enhanced

Kim sat down in the chair in front of a young man who had a middle-aged man's expression on his off-white face. His eyes weren't blue they were indigo and seemed too intelligent, too discerning, like x-ray eyes.

"Do you have your smart-card?" he asked with some kind of European accent.

She gave him her smart-card which held all of her medical and genetic information. He swiped it into the artificial intelligence portal and handed it back to her. He double-checked her information to insure she was the person on the card.

"Your genetic lineage is standard North American Caucasian. English, German, a little Dutch, one Semite ancestor ten generations ago, surely an illicit affair. So Ms. Lemon, what would you like to become?"

She lifted up her key chain and dangled the plastic red-haired girl that had a dolphin's tail. She had won the key chain herself at the county fair.

"A very common request. Care to change anything else?"

"Eye color, I want blue eyes," she said.

"No difficulty there," he said. "Anything else?"

"I want to be placed with other mermaids, merpeople," she said. "I don't want anyone to find me."

"Certainly, but you will have to be fresh water," he said. "There are already too many millions of mermen and innumerable other transgenics going into the oceans."

"Okay," Kim said after a pause.

"Here is the contract for you to sign. I see you are still only seventeen. Do you have parental permission?"