"Excuse me, but what exactly does 'being Downsent' mean?"
"You didn't hear about it?" my barrister was genuinely surprised "It was introduced a couple years ago when they invented this new technology... What basically happen is they send the consciousness of a sexual offender to a especially engineered opposite-sex body in a parallel universe where humans are still on a cavemen level. The government believes that this punishment is very suitable for violent male rapists as in such primitive cultures there is no social norms. Females are simply the property of the male part of the tribe who make sure that no fertility is being wasted. The women primarily role is simply to serve as 'child factories' and stress relievers..."
"Oh..." the only thing I could do was gasp.
So that was what I was going to be for the next 20 years? A 'child factory'? This couldn't be true!
Why the hell did I have to wish such a stupid vague wish?!
I looked at the people gathered in the room looking for some familiar faces. I saw Karyn running out of the room crying. I shouted her name but she didn't even bother to turn. Was I ever to see her again?
The next thing that happened was heavily armed policeman took me out of the room. On my way out my eyes met my mother's eyes.
"I don't want to know you." - I didn't realize back then that those were the last words I was to hear from my mother.
Again, I was put in the armored police van and taken to a futuristic-looking facility where they put me in a cell for the night.
I was to be downsent the first thing in the morning...
