Response to Her Contract Entails
The story was unnecessary long and my attention wandered and I often thought of deleting it before I finished reading it. The thing is, the conversion to a mermaid is not impossible with modern science technology! It would not be a fish tail but more like a whale or sea lion covered in a slick oily fur. The Beluga wales actually have femurs and tibia fibula and all the bones of feet in their tails. In photos of the Beluga whales their knees are visible through their skin. In external vats could cloned fat / blubber and skin of the person for the fill in the process of fusing the legs into a tail. Sex organs and colon could be surgically relocated to the ventral surface of the tail. The conversion would likely take months to a year and be painful beyond belief; But why? But soon possible for life in aquatic environment.
John Galt