Tears pricked and trickled down as my toothless mouth suddenly sprouted out of my face. I screamed, but it wasn’t a scream. I noticed that my mouth and nose had… merged, and in a strange moment of clarity, I watched the tiny blood points, from the pricking sensation, I watched them sprout into small black hairs. I was curled up in on myself when I felt someone touch my shoulder. Sight murky, fading, I looked up and stared at a person. I tried to say something, but I couldn’t. Their mouth was moving, but I couldn’t hear them. A sudden burst of sound made me wince— someone was screaming.

Slowly, the coarse black hairs spread out of my vision and I felt my bones… Shifting shape, changing. I heard a rip and felt the air currents move behind me. My eyes rolled back into my head and I just couldn’t see, it was all black. Then, my ears… Popped. I felt them moving up on my newly hairy head, and changing sshape with a funny crunching noise. My hearing had returned, and after another minute, I could see again.