Change: Science Fiction

The later findings were confusing to the main decision, and so they were suppressed, until a good sixteen years later, when the question became an issue again, as the child reached its majority. The confusion had been suppressed, but unfortunately it was found that this did not actually change the main effect. The child itself had not been confused; but its nature was just as confusing, though some had hoped initially that the outcome would not be so confused if the child itself was not confused of its nature. All hopes of this died the morning that the child, then fifteen, woke up and thought to itself, i would like to be a large bird. It only took a minute, and a large bird was flapping its way through the habitat, careening into things and generally being a nuisance and a spreader of panic. The judges were confounded. They had assumed that bey removing the knowledge of the variability, the child would not seek to exploit it. They had never considered that the child--

Inspiration: A passing fragment of conversation.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Meh. Mutation or some sort of shape-changing, treated in a similar way as gender-ambiguous children.