“ […] The whole thing takes about a microfortnight.” ¶ “What’s a microfortnight?” I asked. ¶ “About one-point-two seconds,” DiFrancesco answered, as if I were the stupidest man alive. […]

The young man's lucky star shone full on him, and dazzled him to a seeming indiscretion.

And so he opens the bottle and takes two out (little blue caplets—cute actually, plump, smurfy) and swallows them.

Gynandroid males have in addition to the male set of external genitalia, one or more reproductive appendages resembling a short ovipositor sheath or even a sting.