Technically, really, Veronica knew she should have been in the Council office, helping tend to the flood of panicked people, all dealing with sudden and unwanted sex changes. She should have been. The others had it under control for the moment, though, and there was nothing she could do to make the changes go away. She'd never been good at calming people or soothing their fears. As long as it wasn't her again, she had no qualms about what had happened.

There was a knock at the door and the sound of her name, and though she wasn't expecting company, it was hardly out of the ordinary, so she rolled to her feet and went to open the door. Change still had a way of showing up in her life, unannounced. "Hi," she said, blinking up at the unfamiliar girl in her doorway. "Can I help you?"