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&#039;&#039;The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page&#039;&#039; http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm 2&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot;, the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
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The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, Mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said, turned on her heels and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt that feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and she was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was also unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
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The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the glass doors at the back in the afternoon she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use her stubby, restricted hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged carelessly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
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Under her breath the older woman muttered, mostly to herself, &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worm&#039;s recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to &#039;let go&#039; - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, and I know that I could make all the changes to Daphne that I wanted to in one go, but it will be such fun to watch her manage the intermediate changes, but don&#039;t you go telling her.  I know you think that I&#039;m a beast. Well, I am. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well. And don&#039;t feed the worm any food today.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne cleared up after herself, gathered her things together and left for college for the day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do but figure out how her new lower body was meant to work. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions, and letting go occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did, or whether she could do it again in a hurry, but so far this could be considered a good day.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, but not quite strong enough, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
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She didn&#039;t get to solve it today though. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, dumped her in the corridor, closed the door, flushed, and after a while, flushed again. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of uncontrollable velcro, so she could only make inching progress around the house on her back, facing upwards. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace, rubbing the back of her head, her shoulders and elbows and glutes on the ground. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm stayed still, not sure what this silent intimidation game was about. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman gathered her coat, keys and purse, and left for the day in the van. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was first to return, did not find Glow Worm in her room and guessed rightly that she was by the back door, sunning herself in the heat. She never seemed to overheat despite being in full sunlight behind the glass. Daphne left Glow Worm there, went to her room and continued her studies.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later on the older woman returned in the van, parked it in the garage and went straight to Daphne&#039;s room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hi. You need to empty the van. I&#039;ve brought you inspiration and me, dinner. Go get the mother and the kid from the van.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman lived for these moments - watching all the thoughts of horror pass across her face as she figures out what was just said. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Fuck. What the fuck have you done now!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I have bought both of us a present. Something to inspire you and food for me, you know how I like raw things. Go and take a look&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne attempted to resist, but had given up any real hope of doing so some time ago, so went to the van with a terror in her heart at what she would find. She opened the door, and found cowering in the darkness a baby goat and a mother goat. The mother had black, white and brown markings on her face, short horns and her body was mostly brown. The baby goat was tiny and mostly brown.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Cute aren&#039;t they. I didn&#039;t even steal them. I went to an auction and paid actual money for them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Where are you going to keep them?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It will only be a couple of days. In that sack is the chain, collar and stake, and the kid won&#039;t wander far. We&#039;ll put them in the back yard, there&#039;s easily enough grass for a couple of days, and it will be nice company for Wormitha... and for you&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;For me? I have no interest in goats at all, I don&#039;t even like them&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You will, you&#039;ll see&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne got the icy fear of dread. Why goats? What do goats have to do with anything? Both women worked on sorting out the stake, chain and collar, then lead the reluctant goats out of the van. The mother goat was really reluctant to anywhere near the older woman, so she left that to Daphne, and soon after the two animals were in the back yard, with a bucket of water, enough grass and somewhere sheltered to sleep. Both goats were silent, and Daphne guessed that their power to make any vocal noise had been prohibited by some &#039;index-finger against the temple&#039; work. Wormitha had emerged, having sensed the vibrations in the soil of people being near, and watched silently from the cover of vegetation at the side of the garden.&lt;br /&gt;
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The next morning Daphne checked the back garden, and only the mother goat remained. Daphne also knew not to ask where the kid had gone, because she knew that she would not like the answer.&lt;br /&gt;
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The day passed with some dread of what was to come. Daphne made absolute sure that Glow Worm was fed, and she rinsed and cleaned her furry mouth afterwards. It was a messy job, no matter how carefully she and Glow Worm cooperated, because the fur got covered in the baby food. &lt;br /&gt;
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The goat continued to placidly eat the grass, and many of the flowers that she could reach on the end of her chain, and then one morning there was also no mother goat. The chain and stake had been tidied up, and the new thing that caught Daphne&#039;s eye was the bale of hay.&lt;br /&gt;
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The sun was setting, the low light streaming through the window and into the room when Daphne was called to the dining room and made to strip to her underwear and lie on the dining table. The thought of not complying with the direct instructions was not given even a flicker of a chance in Daphne&#039;s head, but the feeling of dread was all-consuming.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;What are you going to do to me?&amp;quot; she asked as she climbed onto the table and swung her legs onto the varnished wooden surface.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m going to make you remember to feed Glow Worm, that&#039;s all&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Couldn&#039;t we just set a timer?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;That opportunity has sailed for you, you had the last 3 weeks to put something in place, and now you&#039;ve made me do it. Lie still&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne could feel the power of the Enthralling Host build and begin to make changes to her. The first change was to her back teeth, her molars - something happened to them and they felt different to her tongue, but she could not work out what the purpose was. Then as the older woman placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s stomach she felt sick, as her guts seemed to be churning and rearranging, changing, growing, shrinking. This was a horrible feeling and Daphne wanted to scream and fight and get away, but a touch to the temple stopped her making a sound or moving even slightly. Her emotion moved to terror, as she could not move or speak.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman said in an unexpectedly soothing voice &amp;quot;Really, it&#039;s very much in your best interests to stay still, this is quite complicated and I want to get it right. I have my professional reputation to maintain, and this is really going to be such fun to watch.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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After what seemed an eternity she was left for a few minutes, and feeling and her voice came back. Her question &amp;quot;What did you do?&amp;quot; was ignored and was asked to sit up, and felt cramps in her belly as new things shifted around. &amp;quot;Let me just take your sense of taste and small away for 5 minutes, this starter does have an aroma to it&amp;quot;, and she touched Daphne&#039;s temple. She was handed a mug of slightly thick fluid in a mug. &amp;quot;Pretend it&#039;s a chocolate milkshake, and chug it back&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne drank the fluid down, and followed it with a mug of water &#039;to wash it right down&#039;. She was invited to lay back down.&lt;br /&gt;
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While she could not taste or smell the potion, she felt it burn slightly as it travelled into her stomach. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And now for the fun bit... stay still, this is quite tricky. It&#039;s the first copy-and-paste I&#039;ve done for a while. I think that you might be quite intrigued by what I&#039;m about to do to you, so I might just talk it through. These are a good start, as they are already plumbed in, but you won&#039;t want me changing them there, so copy... paste and down you come&amp;quot;. The older woman took each of Daphne&#039;s breasts in a hand and dragged them down her body, leaving them just below the level of her naval and above the crease of her hip. Somehow her breasts also stayed in their usual place, so she now had four; two on her chest and two on her lower abdomen.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You can touch them if you wish&amp;quot;, and Daphne did, and found that they were indeed a copy of her... well... upper breasts but fixed lower down. The teardrop shape started well above her naval, and ended just at the crease of the top of her thigh, but they felt just the same.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Now another copy and paste..., but the copy is in the other room...&amp;quot; and the older woman turned, left the room and came back a few seconds later with her hands apparently full of something which was invisible. She placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s lower breasts and they changed. There was that humming and pulsing that she&#039;d felt before, and then there was silence and calm.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Feel them again&amp;quot; and she did, to find something utterly inexplicable. She could not understand what had happened, the shape was similar, but the skin was rough and the nipple was at the lower edge and formed into a teat. She could feel the teat as being about three finger-widths long and as wide as a chipolata. It felt floppy in her fingers. Since these teats were appendages completely new to her it was both weird and shocking to feel them at all with her fingers, and feel them being felt by her fingers. The skin was wrinkly and loose, and the tip was surprisingly numb.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s good, but there are more things to do, move your hands away.&amp;quot; The woman paid more attention to the lower breasts, heat, vibration, stretching, pulling and then it was done. &amp;quot;Now have a feel, you&#039;ll find them quite different&amp;quot;, and they were - the roughness was gone, they were as smooth as the rest of her body, and each teat was now a full hand width in length and the girth of a fat butchers sausage. Again the feeling was strange, the udders themselves felt firm and the teats still had the loose skin and the unfeeling ends.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Get up, and take a look in the mirror&amp;quot; and with continuing dread Daphne swung off the table and headed for the mirror... She felt the teats knocking gently against her upper thigh and the weight of the udders pulling on her abdominal skin on each step that she took. &amp;quot;It could be worse&amp;quot; she thought, &amp;quot;at least I&#039;m still human&amp;quot;. She turned one way, then the other, and lifted both to feel their weight in her hand. The were broad, like thick skin flaps and did not stick out very much, but would be hard to conceal.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;They are goat udders&amp;quot; the older woman explained. &amp;quot;...and they will fill up once a day, which will help remind you to feed Glow Worm every day without fail. If you can&#039;t remember, I can make you remember. Oh, and this will help, the udder will go right down Glow Worm&#039;s throat, leaving her furry mouth clean. Don&#039;t say I do nothing for you... There&#039;s nothing in them at the moment, but by this time tomorrow you&#039;ll have half a litre in each one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Half a litre! Oh God, what have you done to my voice? What the hell is this?&amp;quot; Daphne&#039;s voice was higher, and more shrill, it had none of the softness of a human voice any more. &amp;quot;I don&#039;t even sound human, I&#039;ve never heard anyone ever sound like this. I bet I can make a really good goat noise. Baaa&amp;quot;. And it was a very authentic goat bleat. &amp;quot;...but how is that supposed to work when I&#039;m in college? Wow? What&#039;s up with your voice? Are you OK? Can we take you to see a doctor? Oh, something&#039;s really wrong with you? You&#039;ve got the voicebox of a goat. If I&#039;m to work for you I can&#039;t be heard sounding like a goat speaking? You have not thought this through! And what of these udders? They will be like two bottles of pop when they are full and stick out in front of me. How will I hide these when I&#039;m out and about?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You got a skirt and tights? You&#039;ll figure it out. You might want to invest in loose dungarees. Or a maxi dress. As for the voice, you&#039;ll have to figure it out. Oh, and another thing, you&#039;ve been costing me too much in food, so I took the opportunity to make it much cheaper to keep you. Do yourself a favour and find out about what goats eat, because you have the innards and metabolism of a goat now. Since they eat mostly grass and hay, that bale outside is for you.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The older woman lived for moments like this. It&#039;s one thing giving someone a pair of authentic and working goat udders, and the voicebox of a goat (which came with the copy and paste from the donor), it&#039;s another telling them that they are no longer fully part of the human race. She fed on the negative emotion, lapping up the anguish and pain and suffering of Daphne as she processed that news.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And I have thought this through on your behalf - from just behind your front teeth you have the mouth and gullet of a goat, so you can chew and grind the grass up. You are lucky that I figured out how you can talk at all, you might have had to be mute. You&#039;ll be eating about 3kg of the hay every day because you&#039;re lactating, and that is going to take quite a chunk out of your day, so you&#039;d better start munching now.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was in tears and ran off to her room, where she sobbed for a long time. The hope of escaping was gone, the realisation that she was no longer part of the human race, but some human/goat hybrid was so disappointing to her - the last flicker of hope extinguished. She was also really hungry. Glow Worm had come back into the room and was laying on her back on the floor. Daphne picked Glow Worm up and cuddled her.&lt;br /&gt;
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After a while Daphne went looking for food. Out of habit she opened the fridge and sniffed at the food but it did not appeal, so reluctantly she went into the garden and stared at the bale of hay. &amp;quot;I&#039;m going to need a knife...&amp;quot; she thought, and fetched one from the kitchen, and the kitchen scales. &amp;quot;3kg she says...&amp;quot; and using the knife, cut the twine and separated the bale into the natural slabs that baled hay is formed from. She found out how much hay weighed and figured out what 3kg looks like. &amp;quot;How can I possibly eat that much?!&amp;quot; she thought, and then said out loud to no one in particular &amp;quot;How can I possibly eat that much?!&amp;quot; in her goaty voice and she tore off a handful and stuffed it reluctantly in her mouth. It tasted sweet, she chewed the first mouthful briefly and swallowed. Somehow the goat part of her was working as it should, and so she tore the next handful off and stuffed it in. She worked out, with a heavy heart, that she&#039;d need to eat for about 5 hours a day at this rate to get through 3kg of hay. She had a thought that goats chew cud, so not only was there a lot of stuffing in to do, but puking the hay back up into her mouth for a second chew was highly likely. She realised that she would be chewing pretty much every waking hour.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later that night, well after bedtime, Glow Worm found herself being dragged backwards off Daphne&#039;s bed. She thumped her head on the floor and felt the roughness of the carpet as she was dragged carelessly to the dining room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Your turn now...&amp;quot; and she was lifted from the floor and rudely dumped on her back on the table.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Oh, I can feel your terror, but really what I&#039;m going to do to you is nothing, or at least very little, compared to what I&#039;ve already done.&amp;quot; The woman stooped down and put her mouth to where Glow Worm&#039;s ears would be. &amp;quot;You&#039;re just going to leave the human race just a little bit further tonight. Enjoy it&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm&#039;s heart sank, and she attempted in vain to get away while the woman was clearly enjoying the anticipation of this work.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Still got that spark of spirit that I enjoyed so much the first time that we met. Well done, but NO! Stay still or I&#039;ll get this wrong and Daphne will have a horrible mess to sort out&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, first, the innards. Like Daphne you are going to sport four stomachs, but *you* are going to have the innards of a baby goat, so that you can get all of your nourishment from Daphne. Did she tell you? I&#039;ve given her working goat udders, so that by tomorrow evening she will be aching, literally aching to feed you. That goat milk will do your human intestines no good at all, but you are going to have the plumbing of a baby goat when I have finished with you. So let&#039;s start at the top, here. Actually, I&#039;m going to give you a voice because it&#039;s easier to do so than not...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm suddenly grasped hope that she would be able to finally speak, as she felt the changes to her throat and neck. The woman was pressing against her and moving her hands down the long furry body, making changes as she went. The deep vibrations and heat then moved to her long torso, and she could feel her guts moving about, stretching, bloating, shrinking, changing. She pressed her stomach with her hands; so tightly attached to her sides, and could feel things moving about under her peach-fuzz green skin. Flowing, stretching and shrinking. Eventually, and after what seemed to be an eternity of discomfort, the woman moved away and admired her work.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;There, all done, you&#039;re now all soft worm on the outside and kid goat on the inside, so let&#039;s hear you speak. Say &#039;I love you&#039;&amp;quot;. A finger was pressed to her temple. She could remember how to say words.&lt;br /&gt;
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It was so long since Glow Worm had thought of speaking that it took her a while to form the words. She made barely audible baby goat&#039;s bleat. No human sound, just the tiny, barely audible bleat of a goat. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;That&#039;s quite enough, I&#039;m sure that between you and Daphne you&#039;ll work this out&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was double crushed by the turnaround on her voice, bleating was not speaking, and now being half goat inside. She did not fell particularly any different but knew that things had changed. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I do not like how you crawl about on your back. Worms should be on their fronts, and crawling about on your back is simply unacceptable, but I can see why you choose to crawl that way. So, I&#039;m going to offer you a choice. Listen very carefully. If you promise to crawl on your stomach I will give you a little bit more power in your tail; or I&#039;ll make it impossible for you to turn on your back without suffocating. Actually, I&#039;ve had a better idea.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman went to the other room, and came back a couple of minutes later. Glow Worm wriggled about to see if she had any more tail power.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I have had just such a better idea. You&#039;re going to be remade in Daphne&#039;s image. Ha, it is no choice at all is it. No, I have this unexpected bonus from my work this afternoon. Let&#039;s shrink these down to nothing.&amp;quot; and Glow Worm felt her huge and unstructured breasts shrink to smooth skin on her chest. That in itself was corrupting, she&#039;d never not had the femininity of breasts before and now felt really unsettled - what was coming now? The woman left to that other room, and Glow Worm hear her mutter &amp;quot;Copy&amp;quot; before she returned.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And paste...&amp;quot; The woman put her hands on Glow Worms chest and dropped a copy of Daphne&#039;s breasts onto her chest. They were a sensible size, human skin and she was sure that without the enormous weight and size these smaller breasts would enable her to crawl on her front.  No sooner had she thought that than the woman got to work. &amp;quot;Copy and Paste and Paste and Paste and Paste...&amp;quot; and she found herself feeling pair after pair of copies form down her front. &lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;Peach fuzz, or not... Hmmm, how about I leave these two top ones as human skin, and the rest soft in the furry way&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The lower breasts were brushed with green peach-skin, and she was turned onto her front on the table. She could feel for the first time the cold of the table directly on human skin, and she felt very odd squashing such tender flesh against the ground. The woman then did something and she felt strange all over, and then the feeling stopped.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Would you like a little look at yourself? Here you go&amp;quot;. The woman touched her and suddenly Glow Worm could see through the woman&#039;s eyes. Her smooth head, huge puffy lips and length of body were the same, but now she had a pair of human breasts without peach fuzz in the conventional place, and copies covered in fur all down her front. She thought that she looked a little more ribbed than she remembered. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Think of them as little legs, like caterpillars or centipedes have little legs, except that these are exact copies of Daphne&#039;s, and she will recognise what I&#039;ve done. I do have to incentivise you to stay on your front... but I can&#039;t think of anything right now, so I&#039;m going to let you go. If I see you crawling on your back I&#039;ll give you antlers, or a sharks dorsal fin, or even a handle on your back, so that you can easily be carried about, but for now, my work here is done.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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She was rolled off the far side of the table, fell to the floor on her back, and made a great and resentful show of rolling to her front before slowly crawling back to the shared bedroom, not that anyone was looking.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
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This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm 2&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot;, the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
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The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, Mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said, turned on her heels and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt that feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and she was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was also unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
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The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the glass doors at the back in the afternoon she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use her stubby, restricted hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged carelessly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
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Under her breath the older woman muttered, mostly to herself, &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worm&#039;s recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to &#039;let go&#039; - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, and I know that I could make all the changes to Daphne that I wanted to in one go, but it will be such fun to watch her manage the intermediate changes, but don&#039;t you go telling her.  I know you think that I&#039;m a beast. Well, I am. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well. And don&#039;t feed the worm any food today.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne cleared up after herself, gathered her things together and left for college for the day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do but figure out how her new lower body was meant to work. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions, and letting go occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did, or whether she could do it again in a hurry, but so far this could be considered a good day.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, but not quite strong enough, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
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She didn&#039;t get to solve it today though. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, dumped her in the corridor, closed the door, flushed, and after a while, flushed again. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of uncontrollable velcro, so she could only make inching progress around the house on her back, facing upwards. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace, rubbing the back of her head, her shoulders and elbows and glutes on the ground. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm stayed still, not sure what this silent intimidation game was about. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman gathered her coat, keys and purse, and left for the day in the van. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was first to return, did not find Glow Worm in her room and guessed rightly that she was by the back door, sunning herself in the heat. She never seemed to overheat despite being in full sunlight behind the glass. Daphne left Glow Worm there, went to her room and continued her studies.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later on the older woman returned in the van, parked it in the garage and went straight to Daphne&#039;s room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hi. You need to empty the van. I&#039;ve brought you inspiration and me, dinner. Go get the mother and the kid from the van.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman lived for these moments - watching all the thoughts of horror pass across her face as she figures out what was just said. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Fuck. What the fuck have you done now!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I have bought both of us a present. Something to inspire you and food for me, you know how I like raw things. Go and take a look&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne attempted to resist, but had given up any real hope of doing so some time ago, so went to the van with a terror in her heart at what she would find. She opened the door, and found cowering in the darkness a baby goat and a mother goat. The mother had black, white and brown markings on her face, short horns and her body was mostly brown. The baby goat was tiny and mostly brown.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Cute aren&#039;t they. I didn&#039;t even steal them. I went to an auction and paid actual money for them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Where are you going to keep them?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It will only be a couple of days. In that sack is the chain, collar and stake, and the kid won&#039;t wander far. We&#039;ll put them in the back yard, there&#039;s easily enough grass for a couple of days, and it will be nice company for Wormitha... and for you&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;For me? I have no interest in goats at all, I don&#039;t even like them&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You will, you&#039;ll see&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne got the icy fear of dread. Why goats? What do goats have to do with anything? Both women worked on sorting out the stake, chain and collar, then lead the reluctant goats out of the van. The mother goat was really reluctant to anywhere near the older woman, so she left that to Daphne, and soon after the two animals were in the back yard, with a bucket of water, enough grass and somewhere sheltered to sleep. Both goats were silent, and Daphne guessed that their power to make any vocal noise had been prohibited by some &#039;index-finger against the temple&#039; work. Wormitha had emerged, having sensed the vibrations in the soil of people being near, and watched silently from the cover of vegetation at the side of the garden.&lt;br /&gt;
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The next morning Daphne checked the back garden, and only the mother goat remained. Daphne also knew not to ask where the kid had gone, because she knew that she would not like the answer.&lt;br /&gt;
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The day passed with some dread of what was to come. Daphne made absolute sure that Glow Worm was fed, and she rinsed and cleaned her furry mouth afterwards. It was a messy job, no matter how carefully she and Glow Worm cooperated, because the fur got covered in the baby food. &lt;br /&gt;
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The goat continued to placidly eat the grass, and many of the flowers that she could reach on the end of her chain, and then one morning there was also no mother goat. The chain and stake had been tidied up, and the new thing that caught Daphne&#039;s eye was the bale of hay.&lt;br /&gt;
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The sun was setting, the low light streaming through the window and into the room when Daphne was called to the dining room and made to strip to her underwear and lie on the dining table. The thought of not complying with the direct instructions was not given even a flicker of a chance in Daphne&#039;s head, but the feeling of dread was all-consuming.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;What are you going to do to me?&amp;quot; she asked as she climbed onto the table and swung her legs onto the varnished wooden surface.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m going to make you remember to feed Glow Worm, that&#039;s all&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Couldn&#039;t we just set a timer?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;That opportunity has sailed for you, you had the last 3 weeks to put something in place, and now you&#039;ve made me do it. Lie still&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne could feel the power of the Enthralling Host build and begin to make changes to her. The first change was to her back teeth, her molars - something happened to them and they felt different to her tongue, but she could not work out what the purpose was. Then as the older woman placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s stomach she felt sick, as her guts seemed to be churning and rearranging, changing, growing, shrinking. This was a horrible feeling and Daphne wanted to scream and fight and get away, but a touch to the temple stopped her making a sound or moving even slightly. Her emotion moved to terror, as she could not move or speak.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman said in an unexpectedly soothing voice &amp;quot;Really, it&#039;s very much in your best interests to stay still, this is quite complicated and I want to get it right. I have my professional reputation to maintain, and this is really going to be such fun to watch.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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After what seemed an eternity she was left for a few minutes, and feeling and her voice came back. Her question &amp;quot;What did you do?&amp;quot; was ignored and was asked to sit up, and felt cramps in her belly as new things shifted around. &amp;quot;Let me just take your sense of taste and small away for 5 minutes, this starter does have an aroma to it&amp;quot;, and she touched Daphne&#039;s temple. She was handed a mug of slightly thick fluid in a mug. &amp;quot;Pretend it&#039;s a chocolate milkshake, and chug it back&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne drank the fluid down, and followed it with a mug of water &#039;to wash it right down&#039;. She was invited to lay back down.&lt;br /&gt;
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While she could not taste or smell the potion, she felt it burn slightly as it travelled into her stomach. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And now for the fun bit... stay still, this is quite tricky. It&#039;s the first copy-and-paste I&#039;ve done for a while. I think that you might be quite intrigued by what I&#039;m about to do to you, so I might just talk it through. These are a good start, as they are already plumbed in, but you won&#039;t want me changing them there, so copy... paste and down you come&amp;quot;. The older woman took each of Daphne&#039;s breasts in a hand and dragged them down her body, leaving them just below the level of her naval and above the crease of her hip. Somehow her breasts also stayed in their usual place, so she now had four; two on her chest and two on her lower abdomen.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You can touch them if you wish&amp;quot;, and Daphne did, and found that they were indeed a copy of her... well... upper breasts but fixed lower down. The teardrop shape started well above her naval, and ended just at the crease of the top of her thigh, but they felt just the same.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Now another copy and paste..., but the copy is in the other room...&amp;quot; and the older woman turned, left the room and came back a few seconds later with her hands apparently full of something which was invisible. She placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s lower breasts and they changed. There was that humming and pulsing that she&#039;d felt before, and then there was silence and calm.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Feel them again&amp;quot; and she did, to find something utterly inexplicable. She could not understand what had happened, the shape was similar, but the skin was rough and the nipple was at the lower edge and formed into a teat. She could feel the teat as being about three finger-widths long and as wide as a chipolata. It felt floppy in her fingers. Since these teats were appendages completely new to her it was both weird and shocking to feel them at all with her fingers, and feel them being felt by her fingers. The skin was wrinkly and loose, and the tip was surprisingly numb.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s good, but there are more things to do, move your hands away.&amp;quot; The woman paid more attention to the lower breasts, heat, vibration, stretching, pulling and then it was done. &amp;quot;Now have a feel, you&#039;ll find them quite different&amp;quot;, and they were - the roughness was gone, they were as smooth as the rest of her body, and each teat was now a full hand width in length and the girth of a fat butchers sausage. Again the feeling was strange, the udders themselves felt firm and the teats still had the loose skin and the unfeeling ends.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Get up, and take a look in the mirror&amp;quot; and with continuing dread Daphne swung off the table and headed for the mirror... She felt the teats knocking gently against her upper thigh and the weight of the udders pulling on her abdominal skin on each step that she took. &amp;quot;It could be worse&amp;quot; she thought, &amp;quot;at least I&#039;m still human&amp;quot;. She turned one way, then the other, and lifted both to feel their weight in her hand. The were broad, like thick skin flaps and did not stick out very much, but would be hard to conceal.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;They are goat udders&amp;quot; the older woman explained. &amp;quot;...and they will fill up once a day, which will help remind you to feed Glow Worm every day without fail. If you can&#039;t remember, I can make you remember. Oh, and this will help, the udder will go right down Glow Worm&#039;s throat, leaving her furry mouth clean. Don&#039;t say I do nothing for you... There&#039;s nothing in them at the moment, but by this time tomorrow you&#039;ll have half a litre in each one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Half a litre! Oh God, what have you done to my voice? What the hell is this?&amp;quot; Daphne&#039;s voice was higher, and more shrill, it had none of the softness of a human voice any more. &amp;quot;I don&#039;t even sound human, I&#039;ve never heard anyone ever sound like this. I bet I can make a really good goat noise. Baaa&amp;quot;. And it was a very authentic goat bleat. &amp;quot;...but how is that supposed to work when I&#039;m in college? Wow? What&#039;s up with your voice? Are you OK? Can we take you to see a doctor? Oh, something&#039;s really wrong with you? You&#039;ve got the voicebox of a goat. If I&#039;m to work for you I can&#039;t be heard sounding like a goat speaking? You have not thought this through! And what of these udders? They will be like two bottles of pop when they are full and stick out in front of me. How will I hide these when I&#039;m out and about?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You got a skirt and tights? You&#039;ll figure it out. You might want to invest in loose dungarees. Or a maxi dress. As for the voice, you&#039;ll have to figure it out. Oh, and another thing, you&#039;ve been costing me too much in food, so I took the opportunity to make it much cheaper to keep you. Do yourself a favour and find out about what goats eat, because you have the innards and metabolism of a goat now. Since they eat mostly grass and hay, that bale outside is for you.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The older woman lived for moments like this. It&#039;s one thing giving someone a pair of authentic and working goat udders, and the voicebox of a goat (which came with the copy and paste from the donor), it&#039;s another telling them that they are no longer fully part of the human race. She fed on the negative emotion, lapping up the anguish and pain and suffering of Daphne as she processed that news.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And I have thought this through on your behalf - from just behind your front teeth you have the mouth and gullet of a goat, so you can chew and grind the grass up. You are lucky that I figured out how you can talk at all, you might have had to be mute. You&#039;ll be eating about 3kg of the hay every day because you&#039;re lactating, and that is going to take quite a chunk out of your day, so you&#039;d better start munching now.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was in tears and ran off to her room, where she sobbed for a long time. The hope of escaping was gone, the realisation that she was no longer part of the human race, but some human/goat hybrid was so disappointing to her - the last flicker of hope extinguished. She was also really hungry. Glow Worm had come back into the room and was laying on her back on the floor. Daphne picked Glow Worm up and cuddled her.&lt;br /&gt;
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After a while Daphne went looking for food. Out of habit she opened the fridge and sniffed at the food but it did not appeal, so reluctantly she went into the garden and stared at the bale of hay. &amp;quot;I&#039;m going to need a knife...&amp;quot; she thought, and fetched one from the kitchen, and the kitchen scales. &amp;quot;3kg she says...&amp;quot; and using the knife, cut the twine and separated the bale into the natural slabs that baled hay is formed from. She found out how much hay weighed and figured out what 3kg looks like. &amp;quot;How can I possibly eat that much?!&amp;quot; she thought, and then said out loud to no one in particular &amp;quot;How can I possibly eat that much?!&amp;quot; in her goaty voice and she tore off a handful and stuffed it reluctantly in her mouth. It tasted sweet, she chewed the first mouthful briefly and swallowed. Somehow the goat part of her was working as it should, and so she tore the next handful off and stuffed it in. She worked out, with a heavy heart, that she&#039;d need to eat for about 5 hours a day at this rate to get through 3kg of hay. She had a thought that goats chew cud, so not only was there a lot of stuffing in to do, but puking the hay back up into her mouth for a second chew was highly likely. She realised that she would be chewing pretty much every waking hour.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later that night, well after bedtime, Glow Worm found herself being dragged backwards off Daphne&#039;s bed. She thumped her head on the floor and felt the roughness of the carpet as she was dragged carelessly to the dining room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Your turn now...&amp;quot; and she was lifted from the floor and rudely dumped on her back on the table.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Oh, I can feel your terror, but really what I&#039;m going to do to you is nothing, or at least very little, compared to what I&#039;ve already done.&amp;quot; The woman stooped down and put her mouth to where Glow Worm&#039;s ears would be. &amp;quot;You&#039;re just going to leave the human race just a little bit further tonight. Enjoy it&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm&#039;s heart sank, and she attempted in vain to get away while the woman was clearly enjoying the anticipation of this work.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, first, the innards. Like Daphne you are going to sport four stomachs, but *you* are going to have the innards of a baby goat, so that you can get all of your nourishment from Daphne. Did she tell you? I&#039;ve given her working goat udders, so that by tomorrow evening she will be aching, literally aching to feed you. That goat milk will do your human intestines no good at all, but you are going to have the plumbing of a baby goat when I have finished with you. So let&#039;s start at the top, here. Actually, I&#039;m going to give you a voice because it&#039;s easier to do so than not...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm suddenly grasped hope that she would be able to finally speak, as she felt the changes to her throat and neck, the deep vibrations and heat then moved to her long torso, and she could feel her guts moving about, stretching, bloating, shrinking, changing. She pressed her stomach with her hands; so tightly attached to her sides, and could feel things moving about under her peach-fuzz green skin.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;There, all done, you&#039;re now all soft worm on the outside and kid goat on the inside, so let&#039;s hear you speak. Say &#039;I love you&#039;&amp;quot;. A finger was pressed to her temple. She could remember how to say words.&lt;br /&gt;
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It was so long since Glow Worm had thought of speaking that it took her a while to form the words. She made barely audible baby goat&#039;s bleat.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was double crushed by the turnaround on her voice and now being half goat.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I do not like how you crawl about on your back. Worms should be on their fronts, and crawling about on your back is simply unacceptable, but I can see why you choose to crawl that way. So, I&#039;m going to offer you a choice. Listen very carefully. If you promise to crawl on your stomach I will give you a little bit more power in your tail; or I&#039;ll make it impossible for you to turn on your back without suffocating. Ha, it is no choice at all is it. No, I have this unexpected bonus from my work this afternoon. Let&#039;s shrink these down to nothing.&amp;quot; and Glow Worm felt her huge and unstructured breasts shrink to smooth skin on her chest.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And paste...&amp;quot; The woman put her hands on Glow Worms chest and dropped a copy of Daphne&#039;s breasts. They were a sensible size, human skin and she was sure that they would enable her to crawl on her front.  No sooner had she thought that than the woman got to work. She then felt them firm up, forming soft but resistant domes. Then her tormentor said &amp;quot;Copy and Paste and Paste and Paste and Paste...&amp;quot; and she found herself feeling pair after pair of firm mounds form down her front. They were brushed with green peach-skin, and she was turned onto her front on the table. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Think of them as little legs, like caterpillars or centipedes have little legs, except that these are exact copies of Daphne&#039;s, and she will recognise what I&#039;ve done. I do have to incentivise you to stay on your front... but I can&#039;t think of anything right now, so I&#039;m going to let you go. If I see you crawling on your back I&#039;ll give you antlers, or a sharks dorsal fin, but for now, my work here is done.&amp;quot; She was rolled off the far side of the table, fell to the floor on her back, and made a great and resentful show of rolling to her front before slowly crawling back to the shared bedroom.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
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This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm 2&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot;, the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
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The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, Mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said, turned on her heels and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt that feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and she was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was also unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
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The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the glass doors at the back in the afternoon she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use her stubby, restricted hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged carelessly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
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Under her breath the older woman muttered, mostly to herself, &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worm&#039;s recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to &#039;let go&#039; - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, and I know that I could make all the changes to Daphne that I wanted to in one go, but it will be such fun to watch her manage the intermediate changes, but don&#039;t you go telling her.  I know you think that I&#039;m a beast. Well, I am. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well. And don&#039;t feed the worm any food today.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne cleared up after herself, gathered her things together and left for college for the day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do but figure out how her new lower body was meant to work. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions, and letting go occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did, or whether she could do it again in a hurry, but so far this could be considered a good day.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, but not quite strong enough, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
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She didn&#039;t get to solve it today though. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, dumped her in the corridor, closed the door, flushed, and after a while, flushed again. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of uncontrollable velcro, so she could only make inching progress around the house on her back, facing upwards. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace, rubbing the back of her head, her shoulders and elbows and glutes on the ground. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm stayed still, not sure what this silent intimidation game was about. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman gathered her coat, keys and purse, and left for the day in the van. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was first to return, did not find Glow Worm in her room and guessed rightly that she was by the back door, sunning herself in the heat. She never seemed to overheat despite being in full sunlight behind the glass. Daphne left Glow Worm there, went to her room and continued her studies.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later on the older woman returned in the van, parked it in the garage and went straight to Daphne&#039;s room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hi. You need to empty the van. I&#039;ve brought you inspiration and me, dinner. Go get the mother and the kid from the van.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman lived for these moments - watching all the thoughts of horror pass across her face as she figures out what was just said. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Fuck. What the fuck have you done now!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I have bought both of us a present. Something to inspire you and food for me, you know how I like raw things. Go and take a look&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne attempted to resist, but had given up any real hope of doing so some time ago, so went to the van with a terror in her heart at what she would find. She opened the door, and found cowering in the darkness a baby goat and a mother goat. The mother had black, white and brown markings on her face, short horns and her body was mostly brown. The baby goat was tiny and mostly brown.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Cute aren&#039;t they. I didn&#039;t even steal them. I went to an auction and paid actual money for them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Where are you going to keep them?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It will only be a couple of days. In that sack is the chain, collar and stake, and the kid won&#039;t wander far. We&#039;ll put them in the back yard, there&#039;s easily enough grass for a couple of days, and it will be nice company for Wormitha... and for you&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;For me? I have no interest in goats at all, I don&#039;t even like them&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You will, you&#039;ll see&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne got the icy fear of dread. Why goats? What do goats have to do with anything? Both women worked on sorting out the stake, chain and collar, then lead the reluctant goats out of the van. The mother goat was really reluctant to anywhere near the older woman, so she left that to Daphne, and soon after the two animals were in the back yard, with a bucket of water, enough grass and somewhere sheltered to sleep. Both goats were silent, and Daphne guessed that their power to make any vocal noise had been prohibited by some &#039;index-finger against the temple&#039; work. Wormitha had emerged, having sensed the vibrations in the soil of people being near, and watched silently from the cover of vegetation at the side of the garden.&lt;br /&gt;
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The next morning Daphne checked the back garden, and only the mother goat remained. Daphne also knew not to ask where the kid had gone, because she knew that she would not like the answer.&lt;br /&gt;
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The day passed with some dread of what was to come. Daphne made absolute sure that Glow Worm was fed, and she rinsed and cleaned her furry mouth afterwards. It was a messy job, no matter how carefully she and Glow Worm cooperated, because the fur got covered in the baby food. &lt;br /&gt;
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The goat continued to placidly eat the grass, and many of the flowers that she could reach on the end of her chain, and then one morning there was also no mother goat. The chain and stake had been tidied up, and the new thing that caught Daphne&#039;s eye was the bale of hay.&lt;br /&gt;
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The sun was setting, the low light streaming through the window and into the room when Daphne was called to the dining room and made to strip to her underwear and lie on the dining table. The thought of not complying with the direct instructions was not given even a flicker of a chance in Daphne&#039;s head, but the feeling of dread was all-consuming.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;What are you going to do to me?&amp;quot; she asked as she climbed onto the table and swung her legs onto the varnished wooden surface.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m going to make you remember to feed Glow Worm, that&#039;s all&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Couldn&#039;t we just set a timer?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;That opportunity has sailed for you, you had the last 3 weeks to put something in place, and now you&#039;ve made me do it. Lie still&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne could feel the power of the Enthralling Host build and begin to make changes to her. The first change was to her back teeth, her molars - something happened to them and they felt different to her tongue, but she could not work out what the purpose was. Then as the older woman placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s stomach she felt sick, as her guts seemed to be churning and rearranging, changing, growing, shrinking. This was a horrible feeling and Daphne wanted to scream and fight and get away, but a touch to the temple stopped her making a sound or moving even slightly. Her emotion moved to terror, as she could not move or speak.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman said in an unexpectedly soothing voice &amp;quot;Really, it&#039;s very much in your best interests to stay still, this is quite complicated and I want to get it right. I have my professional reputation to maintain, and this is really going to be such fun to watch.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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After what seemed an eternity she was left for a few minutes, and feeling and her voice came back. Her question &amp;quot;What did you do?&amp;quot; was ignored and was asked to sit up, and felt cramps in her belly as new things shifted around. &amp;quot;Let me just take your sense of taste and small away for 5 minutes, this starter does have an aroma to it&amp;quot;, and she touched Daphne&#039;s temple. She was handed a mug of slightly thick fluid in a mug. &amp;quot;Pretend it&#039;s a chocolate milkshake, and chug it back&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne drank the fluid down, and followed it with a mug of water &#039;to wash it right down&#039;. She was invited to lay back down.&lt;br /&gt;
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While she could not taste or smell the potion, she felt it burn slightly as it travelled into her stomach. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And now for the fun bit... stay still, this is quite tricky. It&#039;s the first copy-and-paste I&#039;ve done for a while. I think that you might be quite intrigued by what I&#039;m about to do to you, so I might just talk it through. These are a good start, as they are already plumbed in, but you won&#039;t want me changing them there, so copy... paste and down you come&amp;quot;. The older woman took each of Daphne&#039;s breasts in a hand and dragged them down her body, leaving them just below the level of her naval and above the crease of her hip. Somehow her breasts also stayed in their usual place, so she now had four; two on her chest and two on her lower abdomen.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You can touch them if you wish&amp;quot;, and Daphne did, and found that they were indeed a copy of her... well... upper breasts but fixed lower down. The teardrop shape started well above her naval, and ended just at the crease of the top of her thigh, but they felt just the same.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Now another copy and paste..., but the copy is in the other room...&amp;quot; and the older woman turned, left the room and came back a few seconds later with her hands apparently full of something which was invisible. She placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s lower breasts and they changed. There was that humming and pulsing that she&#039;d felt before, and then there was silence and calm.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Feel them again&amp;quot; and she did, to find something utterly inexplicable. She could not understand what had happened, the shape was similar, but the skin was rough and the nipple was a teat. She could feel the teat as being about three finger-widths long and as wide as a chipolata. It felt floppy in her fingers.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s good, but there are more things to do, move your hands away.&amp;quot; The woman paid more attention to the lower breasts, heat, vibration, stretching, pulling and then it was done. &amp;quot;Now have a feel, you&#039;ll find them quite different&amp;quot;, and they were - the roughness was gone, they were as smooth as the rest of her body, and each teat was now a full hand width in length and the girth of a fat butchers sausage. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Get up, and take a look in the mirror&amp;quot; and with continuing dread Daphne swung off the table and headed for the mirror... She felt the teats knocking gently against her upper thigh on each step that she took. &amp;quot;It could be worse&amp;quot; she thought, at least I&#039;m still human. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;They are goat udders&amp;quot; the older woman explained. &amp;quot;...and they will fill up once a day, which will help remind you to feed Glow Worm every day without fail. If you can&#039;t remember, I can make you remember. Oh, and this will help, the udder will go right down Glow Worm&#039;s throat, leaving her furry mouth clean. Don&#039;t say I do nothing for you... There&#039;s nothing in them at the moment, but by this time tomorrow you&#039;ll have half a litre in each one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;How will I hide these when I&#039;m out and about?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You got a skirt and tights? You&#039;ll figure it out. Oh, and another thing, you&#039;ve been costing me too much in food, so I took the opportunity to make it much cheaper to keep you. Find out about what goats eat, because you have the innards of a goat now. Since it&#039;s 90% grass and hay, that bale outside is for you.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The older woman lived for moments like this. It&#039;s one thing giving someone a pair of authentic goat udders, it&#039;s another telling them that they are no longer fully part of the human race. She fed on the negative emotion, lapping up the anguish and pain and suffering of Daphne as she processed that news.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And I have thought this through on your behalf - from just behind your front teeth you have the mouth and gullet of a goat, so you can chew and grind the grass up. You&#039;ll be eating about 3kg of the stuff every day because you&#039;re lactating, and that is going to take quite a chunk out of your day, so you&#039;d better start now.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was in tears and ran off to her room, where she sobbed for a long time. The hope of escaping was gone, the realisation that she was no longer part of the human race, but some human/goat hybrid was so disappointing to her - the last flicker of hope extinguished. She was also really hungry. Glow Worm had come back into the room and was laying on her back on the floor. Daphne picked Glow Worm up and cuddled her.&lt;br /&gt;
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After a while Daphne went looking for food. Out of habit she opened the fridge and sniffed at the food but it did not appeal, so reluctantly she went into the garden and stared at the bale of hay. &amp;quot;I&#039;m going to need a knife...&amp;quot; and fetched one from the kitchen, and the kitchen scales. &amp;quot;3kg she says...&amp;quot; and using the knife, cut the twine and separated the bale into the natural slabs that baled hay is formed from. She found out how much hay weighed and figured out what 3kg looks like. &amp;quot;How can I possibly eat that much?!&amp;quot; and she tore off a handful and stuffed it in her mouth. It tasted sweet, she chewed the first mouthful and swallowed. Somehow the goat part of her was working as it should, and so she tore the next handful off and stuffed it in. She worked out, with a heavy heart, that she&#039;d need to eat for about 5 hours a day at this rate to get through 3kg of hay.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later that night, well after bedtime, Glow Worm found herself being dragged backwards off Daphne&#039;s bed. She thumped her head on the floor and felt the roughness of the carpet as she was dragged carelessly to the dining room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Your turn now...&amp;quot; and she was lifted from the floor and rudely dumped on her back on the table.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Oh, I can feel your terror, but really what I&#039;m going to do to you is nothing, or at least very little, compared to what I&#039;ve already done.&amp;quot; The woman stooped down and put her mouth to where Glow Worm&#039;s ears would be. &amp;quot;You&#039;re just going to leave the human race just a little bit further tonight. Enjoy it&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm&#039;s heart sank, while the woman was clearly enjoying the anticipation of this work.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, first, the innards. Like Daphne you are going to sport four stomachs, but *you* are going to have the innards of a baby goat, so that you can get all of your nourishment from Daphne. Did she tell you? I&#039;ve given her working goat udders, so that by tomorrow evening she will be aching, literally aching to feed you. That goat milk will do your human intestines no good at all, but you are going to have the plumbing of a baby goat when I have finished with you. So let&#039;s start at the top, here. Actually, I&#039;m going to give you a voice...&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm suddenly grasped hope that she would be able to finally speak, as she felt the changes to her throat and neck, the deep vibrations and heat then moved to her long torso, and she could feel her guts moving about, stretching, bloating, shrinking, changing. She pressed her stomach with her hands; so tightly attached to her sides, and could feel things moving about under her peach-fuzz green skin.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;There, all done, you&#039;re now all soft worm on the outside and kid goat on the inside, so let&#039;s hear you speak. Say &#039;I love you&#039;&amp;quot;. A finger was pressed to her temple. She could remember how to say words.&lt;br /&gt;
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It was so long since Glow Worm had thought of speaking that it took her a while to form the words. She made barely audible baby goat&#039;s bleat.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Second thoughts, I think not&amp;quot; and the finger at the temple robbed her of word-forming. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was double crushed by the turnaround on her voice and now being half goat.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I do not like how you crawl about on your back. Worms should be on their fronts, and crawling about on your back is simply unacceptable, but I can see why you choose to crawl that way. So, I&#039;m going to offer you a choice. Listen very carefully. If you promise to crawl on your stomach I will give you a little bit more power in your tail; or I&#039;ll make it impossible for you to turn on your back without suffocating. Ha, it is no choice at all is it.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Glow Worm 2</title>
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The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
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This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm 2&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot;, the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
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The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, Mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said, turned on her heels and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt that feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and she was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was also unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
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The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the glass doors at the back in the afternoon she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use her stubby, restricted hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged carelessly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
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Under her breath the older woman muttered, mostly to herself, &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worm&#039;s recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to &#039;let go&#039; - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, and I know that I could make all the changes to Daphne that I wanted to in one go, but it will be such fun to watch her manage the intermediate changes, but don&#039;t you go telling her.  I know you think that I&#039;m a beast. Well, I am. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well. And don&#039;t feed the worm any food today.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne cleared up after herself, gathered her things together and left for college for the day. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do but figure out how her new lower body was meant to work. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions, and letting go occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did, or whether she could do it again in a hurry, but so far this could be considered a good day.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, but not quite strong enough, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
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She didn&#039;t get to solve it today though. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, dumped her in the corridor, closed the door, flushed, and after a while, flushed again. &lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of uncontrollable velcro, so she could only make inching progress around the house on her back, facing upwards. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace, rubbing the back of her head, her shoulders and elbows and glutes on the ground. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
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Glow Worm stayed still, not sure what this silent intimidation game was about. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman gathered her coat, keys and purse, and left for the day in the van. &lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne was first to return, did not find Glow Worm in her room and guessed rightly that she was by the back door, sunning herself in the heat. She never seemed to overheat despite being in full sunlight behind the glass. Daphne left Glow Worm there, went to her room and continued her studies.&lt;br /&gt;
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Later on the older woman returned in the van, parked it in the garage and went straight to Daphne&#039;s room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hi. You need to empty the van. I&#039;ve brought you inspiration and me, dinner. Go get the mother and the kid from the van.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman lived for these moments - watching all the thoughts of horror pass across her face as she figures out what was just said. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Fuck. What the fuck have you done now!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I have bought both of us a present. Something to inspire you and food for me, you know how I like raw things. Go and take a look&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne attempted to resist, but had given up any real hope of doing so some time ago, so went to the van with a terror in her heart at what she would find. She opened the door, and found cowering in the darkness a baby goat and a mother goat. The mother had black, white and brown markings on her face, short horns and her body was mostly brown. The baby goat was tiny and mostly brown.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Cute aren&#039;t they. I didn&#039;t even steal them. I went to an auction and paid actual money for them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Where are you going to keep them?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;It will only be a couple of days. In that sack is the chain, collar and stake, and the kid won&#039;t wander far. We&#039;ll put them in the back yard, there&#039;s easily enough grass for a couple of days, and it will be nice company for Wormitha... and for you&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;For me? I have no interest in goats at all, I don&#039;t even like them&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;You will, you&#039;ll see&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne got the icy fear of dread. Why goats? What do goats have to do with anything? Both women worked on sorting out the stake, chain and collar, then lead the reluctant goats out of the van. The mother goat was really reluctant to anywhere near the older woman, so she left that to Daphne, and soon after the two animals were in the back yard, with a bucket of water, enough grass and somewhere sheltered to sleep. Both goats were silent, and Daphne guessed that their power to make any vocal noise had been prohibited by some &#039;index-finger against the temple&#039; work. Wormitha had emerged, having sensed the vibrations in the soil of people being near, and watched silently from the cover of vegetation at the side of the garden.&lt;br /&gt;
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The next morning Daphne checked the back garden, and only the mother goat remained. Daphne also knew not to ask where the kid had gone, because she knew that she would not like the answer.&lt;br /&gt;
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The day passed with some dread of what was to come. Daphne made absolute sure that Glow Worm was fed, and she rinsed and cleaned her furry mouth afterwards. It was a messy job, no matter how carefully she and Glow Worm cooperated, because the fur got covered in the baby food. &lt;br /&gt;
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The goat continued to placidly eat the grass, and many of the flowers that she could reach on the end of her chain, and then one morning there was also no mother goat. The chain and stake had been tidied up, and the new thing that caught Daphne&#039;s eye was the bale of hay.&lt;br /&gt;
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The sun was setting, the low light streaming through the window and into the room when Daphne was called to the dining room and made to strip to her underwear and lie on the dining table. The thought of not complying with the direct instructions was not given even a flicker of a chance in Daphne&#039;s head, but the feeling of dread was all-consuming.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;What are you going to do to me?&amp;quot; she asked as she climbed onto the table and swung her legs onto the varnished wooden surface.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m going to make you remember to feed Glow Worm, that&#039;s all&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Couldn&#039;t we just set a timer?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;That opportunity has sailed for you, you had the last 3 weeks to put something in place, and now you&#039;ve made me do it. Lie still&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Daphne could feel the power of the Enthralling Host build and begin to make changes to her. The first change was to her back teeth, her molars - something happened to them and they felt different to her tongue, but she could not work out what the purpose was. Then as the older woman placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s stomach she felt sick, as her guts seemed to be churning and rearranging, changing, growing, shrinking. This was a horrible feeling and Daphne wanted to scream and fight and get away, but a touch to the temple stopped her making a sound or moving even slightly. Her emotion moved to terror, as she could not move or speak.&lt;br /&gt;
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The woman said in an unexpectedly soothing voice &amp;quot;Really, it&#039;s very much in your best interests to stay still, this is quite complicated and I want to get it right. I have my professional reputation to maintain, and this is really going to be such fun to watch.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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After what seemed an eternity she was left for a few minutes, and feeling and her voice came back. Her question &amp;quot;What did you do?&amp;quot; was ignored and was asked to sit up, and felt cramps in her belly as new things shifted around. &amp;quot;Let me just take your sense of taste and small away for 5 minutes, this starter does have an aroma to it&amp;quot;, and she touched Daphne&#039;s temple. She was handed a mug of slightly thick fluid in a mug. &amp;quot;Pretend it&#039;s a chocolate milkshake, and chug it back&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne drank the fluid down, and followed it with a mug of water &#039;to wash it right down&#039;. She was invited to lay back down.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
While she could not taste or smell the potion, she felt it burn slightly as it travelled into her stomach. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And now for the fun bit... stay still, this is quite tricky. It&#039;s the first copy-and-paste I&#039;ve done for a while. I think that you might be quite intrigued by what I&#039;m about to do to you, so I might just talk it through. These are a good start, as they are already plumbed in, but you won&#039;t want me changing them there, so copy... paste and down you come&amp;quot;. The older woman took each of Daphne&#039;s breasts in a hand and dragged them down her body, leaving them just below the level of her naval and above the crease of her hip. Somehow her breasts also stayed in their usual place, so she now had four; two on her chest and two on her lower abdomen.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You can touch them if you wish&amp;quot;, and Daphne did, and found that they were indeed a copy of her... well... upper breasts but fixed lower down. The teardrop shape started well above her naval, and ended just at the crease of the top of her thigh, but they felt just the same.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Now another copy and paste..., but the copy is in the other room...&amp;quot; and the older woman turned, left the room and came back a few seconds later with her hands apparently full of something which was invisible. She placed her hands on Daphne&#039;s lower breasts and they changed. There was that humming and pulsing that she&#039;d felt before, and then there was silence and calm.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Feel them again&amp;quot; and she did, to find something utterly inexplicable. She could not understand what had happened, the shape was similar, but the skin was rough and the nipple was a teat. She could feel the teat as being about three finger-widths long and as wide as a chipolata. It felt floppy in her fingers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It&#039;s good, but there are more things to do, move your hands away.&amp;quot; The woman paid more attention to the lower breasts, heat, vibration, stretching, pulling and then it was done. &amp;quot;Now have a feel, you&#039;ll find them quite different&amp;quot;, and they were - the roughness was gone, they were as smooth as the rest of her body, and each teat was now a full hand width in length and the girth of a fat butchers sausage. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Get up, and take a look in the mirror&amp;quot; and with continuing dread Daphne swung off the table and headed for the mirror... She felt the teats knocking gently against her upper thigh on each step that she took. &amp;quot;It could be worse&amp;quot; she thought, at least I&#039;m still human. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;They are goat udders&amp;quot; the older woman explained. &amp;quot;...and they will fill up once a day, which will help remind you to feed Glow Worm every day without fail. If you can&#039;t remember, I can make you remember. Oh, and this will help, the udder will go right down Glow Worm&#039;s throat, leaving her furry mouth clean. Don&#039;t say I do nothing for you... There&#039;s nothing in them at the moment, but by this time tomorrow you&#039;ll have half a litre in each one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;How will I hide these when I&#039;m out and about?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You got a skirt and tights? You&#039;ll figure it out. Oh, and another thing, you&#039;ve been costing me too much in food, so I took the opportunity to make it much cheaper to keep you. Find out about what goats eat, because you have the innards of a goat now. Since it&#039;s 90% grass and hay, that bale outside is for you.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The older woman lived for moments like this. It&#039;s one thing giving someone a pair of authentic goat udders, it&#039;s another telling them that they are no longer fully part of the human race. She fed on the negative emotion, lapping up the anguish and pain and suffering of Daphne as she processed that news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And I have thought this through on your behalf - from just behind your front teeth you have the mouth and gullet of a goat, so you can chew and grind the grass up. You&#039;ll be eating about 3kg of the stuff every day because you&#039;re lactating, and that is going to take quite a chunk out of your day, so you&#039;d better start now.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne was in tears and ran off to her room, where she sobbed for a long time. The hope of escaping was gone, the realisation that she was no longer part of the human race, but some human/goat hybrid was so disappointing to her - the last flicker of hope extinguished. She was also really hungry. Glow Worm had come back into the room and was laying on her back on the floor. Daphne picked Glow Worm up and cuddled her.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
After a while Daphne went looking for food. Out of habit she opened the fridge and sniffed at the food but it did not appeal, so reluctantly she went into the garden and stared at the bale of hay. &amp;quot;I&#039;m going to need a knife...&amp;quot; and fetched one from the kitchen, and the kitchen scales. &amp;quot;3kg she says...&amp;quot; and using the knife, cut the twine and separated the bale into the natural slabs that baled hay is formed from. She found out how much hay weighed and figured out what 3kg looks like. &amp;quot;How can I possibly eat that much?!&amp;quot; and she tore off a handful and stuffed it in her mouth. It tasted sweet, she chewed the first mouthful and swallowed. Somehow the goat part of her was working as it should, and so she tore the next handful off and stuffed it in. She worked out, with a heavy heart, that she&#039;d need to eat for about 5 hours a day at this rate to get through 3kg of hay.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Glow_Worm_2&amp;diff=19709</id>
		<title>Glow Worm 2</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Glow_Worm_2&amp;diff=19709"/>
		<updated>2021-03-16T07:06:25Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm 2&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot;, the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, Mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said, turned on her heels and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt that feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and she was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was also unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the glass doors at the back in the afternoon she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use her stubby, restricted hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged carelessly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under her breath the older woman muttered, mostly to herself, &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worm&#039;s recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to &#039;let go&#039; - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, and I know that I could make all the changes to Daphne that I wanted to in one go, but it will be such fun to watch her manage the intermediate changes, but don&#039;t you go telling her.  I know you think that I&#039;m a beast. Well, I am. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well. And don&#039;t feed the worm any food today.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne cleared up after herself, gathered her things together and left for college for the day. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do but figure out how her new lower body was meant to work. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions, and letting go occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did, or whether she could do it again in a hurry, but so far this could be considered a good day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, but not quite strong enough, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She didn&#039;t get to solve it today though. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, dumped her in the corridor, closed the door, flushed, and after a while, flushed again. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of uncontrollable velcro, so she could only make inching progress around the house on her back, facing upwards. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace, rubbing the back of her head, her shoulders and elbows and glutes on the ground. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm stayed still, not sure what this silent intimidation game was about. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman gathered her coat, keys and purse, and left for the day in the van. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne was first to return, did not find Glow Worm in her room and guessed rightly that she was by the back door, sunning herself in the heat. She never seemed to overheat despite being in full sunlight behind the glass. Daphne left Glow Worm there, went to her room and continued her studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later on the older woman returned in the van, parked it in the garage and went straight to Daphne&#039;s room.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hi. You need to empty the van. I&#039;ve brought you inspiration and me, dinner. Go get the mother and the kid from the van.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman lived for these moments - watching all the thoughts of horror pass across her face as she figures out what was just said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Fuck. What the fuck have you done now!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I have bought both of us a present. Something to inspire you and food for me, you know how I like raw things. Go and take a look&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne attempted to resist, but had given up any real hope of doing so some time ago, so went to the van with a terror in her heart at what she would find. She opened the door, and found cowering in the darkness a baby goat and a mother goat. The mother had black, white and brown markings on her face, short horns and her body was mostly brown. The baby goat was tiny and mostly brown.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Cute aren&#039;t they. I didn&#039;t even steal them. I went to an auction and paid actual money for them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Where are you going to keep them?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;It will only be a couple of days. In that sack is the chain, collar and stake, and the kid won&#039;t wander far. We&#039;ll put them in the back yard, there&#039;s easily enough grass for a couple of days, and it will be nice company for Wormitha... and for you&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;For me? I have no interest in goats at all, I don&#039;t even like them&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You will, you&#039;ll see&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne got the icy fear of dread. Why goats? What do goats have to do with anything? Both women worked on sorting out the stake, chain and collar, then lead the reluctant goats out of the van. The mother goat was really reluctant to anywhere near the older woman, so she left that to Daphne, and soon after the two animals were in the back yard, with a bucket of water, enough grass and somewhere sheltered to sleep. Both goats were silent, and Daphne guessed that their power to make any vocal noise had been prohibited by some &#039;index-finger against the temple&#039; work. Wormitha had emerged, having sensed the vibrations in the soil of people being near, and watched silently from the cover of vegetation at the side of the garden.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Glow_Worm_2&amp;diff=19708</id>
		<title>Glow Worm 2</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Glow_Worm_2&amp;diff=19708"/>
		<updated>2021-03-14T14:35:54Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot; the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, Mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said, turned on her heels and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt the feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the back glass doors at the back she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented at night when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use the stubby hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged uncaringly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under her breath the older woman muttered, mostly to herself, &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worms recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to &#039;let go&#039; - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, and I know that I could make all the changes to Daphne that I wanted to in one go, but it will be such fun to watch her manage the intermediate changes but don&#039;t you go telling her.  I know you think that I&#039;m a beast. Well, I am. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well. And don&#039;t feed the worm any food today.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne cleared up after herself, gathered her things together and left for college for the day. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do but figure out how her new lower body was meant to work. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions, and letting go occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did, or whether she could do it again in a hurry, but so far this could be considered a good day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, but not quite strong enough, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She didn&#039;t get to solve it today though. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, dumped her in the corridor, closed the door and flushed. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of uncontrollable velcro, so she could only make inching progress on her back. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace, rubbing the back of her head, her shoulders and elbows and bum on the ground. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm stayed still, not sure what this silent intimidation game was about. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman gathered her coat, keys and purse, and left for the day in the van. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne was first to return, did not find Glow Worm in her room and guessed rightly that she was by the back door.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Glow_Worm_2&amp;diff=19707</id>
		<title>Glow Worm 2</title>
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&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot; the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt the feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the back glass doors at the back she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented at night when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use the stubby hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged uncaringly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under her breath the older woman muttered &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worms recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot;. Glow worm could not work out what she needed to do to let go - the feeling of her insides were all unfamiliar and wrong. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. I&#039;m going to practice on Daphne first, lucky you, but don&#039;t you go telling her. Flush when you are done. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And with that, Daphne gathered her things together and left for college for the day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm spent the next hour attempting to work out what she needed to do, and just lay on the bathroom floor with the end of her tail oscillating and pulsing gently just over the lip of the bowl. It&#039;s not like she had anything else to do. Anyone watching would have seen nothing happening externally. Then suddenly and unexpectedly the right configuration of feelings and actions occurred and she went. It was not dramatic, it just took a while, and when she finished she felt considerably better. She wasn&#039;t sure what she did and whether she could do it again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Now was the puzzle of flushing the toilet, which she knew she must do - the river of thought that flowed through her made any other action impossible to contemplate. She only had enough power to get her tail as high as just over the rim of the toilet bowl, and not high enough from the floor to reach the handle. A direct approach of simply reaching up with the end of her tail was fruitless. She did now have a &#039;power tail&#039; as she began to think of it, and this was simply a puzzle to solve. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She didn&#039;t get to solve it. The older woman came in, dragged her out of the bathroom by her head, left her in the corridor, closed the door and flushed. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move at all on her front on carpet because her huge breasts splayed out under and to the sides of her belly, and gripped the floor like large pads of velcro, so she could only make inching progress on her back. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace. She was half way back to the bedroom when the woman came silently up to her and kick-rolled her onto her front, then watched as she laboriously wriggled and squirmed herself back onto her back. The woman kicked her onto her front again, and watched dispassionately, as a cat does when watching the last wriggling moments of a fatally wounded mouse it was playing with.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm stayed still. The woman moved away. Glow Worm repeated the complicated wriggling and squirming to allow herself to roll onto her back, and resumed the long, slow crawl to the bedroom.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Glow_Worm_2&amp;diff=19706</id>
		<title>Glow Worm 2</title>
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		<updated>2021-03-13T19:11:13Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is an unauthorised sequel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The very excellent Evil Dolly wrote a story called Glow Worm, which is hosted on their page http://www.evil-dolly.com/stories.html &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This is an unauthorised sequel, which I plan to write directly here over the next few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Daphne&amp;quot; the older woman called.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The young woman found herself yanked from her own thoughts, which shielded her from the relentless scrubbing and cleaning that she had begun this early morning. The sun was barely up, and she had been soaking and scraping the carbon from the bottom of the oven for half an hour already. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, what?&amp;quot; prompted the older woman as she entered the kitchen. The girl stood up, hands in kitchen gloves, apron splashed with soapy water.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m busy cleaning, mistress&amp;quot; the girl said and lowered her gaze.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Did you feed Glow Worm yesterday?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With a chill of ice flowing down her back and to her belly, the realisation that she&#039;d forgotten to feed Glow Worm yesterday sank in. She would like to lie, but she found that she simply could not.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, mistress&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what did I say would happen if you forgot one more time&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...but it&#039;s only been two weeks, and I&#039;ve not got into a proper routine...&amp;quot; implored the girl.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine who?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Proper routine, mistress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So, it&#039;s a proper routine that you need. I&#039;ve been counting the jars in the pantry so I knew that you&#039;d missed yesterday. I have a proper routine. I can help you with a routine...&amp;quot; she said and left the room. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Daphne (which is not her real name, but one that she hates) felt the feeling in the pit of her stomach for failing to feed Glow Worm change to dread at what might happen next. She reluctantly got back to cleaning the oven.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the bedroom, the woman picked up Glow Worm as if she weighed nothing, sat on the bed and cradled the peach-furry head in her arms. Glow worm had been asleep before being picked up and was momentarily startled and confused. The young once-girl could see, somehow, through the light and dark that she could sense, that it wasn&#039;t Daphne, and was terrified. She&#039;d had nothing to do with her mutilator since the first day of captivity and this was unexpected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Are you OK?&amp;quot; the woman asked? The tenderness in her voice was unexpected. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The girl was not OK, and had no way of communicating it to anyone. For the past few days she had felt quite unwell, and had stopped crawling around the house looking to bathe in the sunlight. She had found that by lying under the front room window in the morning, and by the back glass doors at the back she could soak up the sunlight, which she had been told made her glow more brightly at night, and made her feel extra-contented at night when she was being cuddled by Daphne. The last couple of days she was hurting, and had no vocabulary to communicate, other than to shake her head and use the stubby hands to point to her belly.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I know, she&#039;s not been feeding you regularly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow worm vigorously shook her head, pulsed her tail as energetically as the meagre power in her muscles would allow, and pointed at her belly with both constrained hands. It was not hunger. This was something else. It had been building up for the last few days. She hoped that the woman would understand.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not food then? And your breath stinks!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman moved Glow Worm off her lap and arranged her straight on the bed, the tail draping onto the floor. She began to move her hands over the fur from the head and worked slowly over a five minute period down to the tip of the tail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hmmm. I can see what&#039;s wrong. Let&#039;s clean your mouth up first. Open wide&amp;quot;... The woman put her finger in Glow worm&#039;s mouth and moved it round, over the ridged gums and under her tongue, using her finger somehow as a muck remover. She removed her finger and wiped the filthy residue off and into the bin. For the first time in many days Glow Worm&#039;s mouth was as if it were on the first day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...and come with me...&amp;quot; and the former girl felt herself grabbed by the tail and dragged through the house to the bathroom, her torso and head thumping on the floor off the bed and being dragged uncaringly around door-frames. She lay face up with her head by the bathroom door, draped across the floor, the end of her tail near the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;put the end of your tail over the bowl&amp;quot;. Glow Worm did what she could but did not have the power to lift her tail up that far. The tail would barely move off the floor. The woman put her finger against Glow Worm&#039;s temple and it seemed like she was dialling up the muscle power in the last few sections of the tail. After a couple of minutes, glow worm could just reach up and drape the tip of her tail over the rim of the bowl. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Under her breath the older woman muttered &amp;quot;Now to give you an arsehole, lie still little one, this is going to hurt, there&#039;s some internal plumbing to do. It&#039;s in there somewhere, I just need to find it and pull it along.&amp;quot; The heat, the vibrations, the pulling and stretching of the internal organs. The feeling of her fingers inside the flesh, under the folds of fuzz skin, under and through the ring muscles. And then she was holding the end of the tail in her hands and right at the now slightly blunt end was the puckered tip of the end of glow worms recovered rectum. Tapping it as if giving it a telling off, &amp;quot;You&#039;re going to pee through this as well. Now, if you so much as think of making any kind of mess anywhere around the house, you&#039;ll have this luxury revoked. Do you understand?&amp;quot; Glow worm nodded as solemnly as she could. &amp;quot;Right, put it over the edge of the bowl and let go&amp;quot; and for the first time in a fortnight Glow Worm &#039;went&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;This is not the only modification to you that I have in mind, but that will come later. You can make your own way back to the bedroom.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Glow Worm was already on her back, which was a good start. She could not move easily on her front because her huge breasts gripped the floor like large pads of velcro, so she could only make inching progress on her back. She began to actively pulse her tail and found that with the extra power just received, could scoot along at a slightly better pace.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Back in the kitchen Daphne was finishing the cleaning and a few minutes later the older woman reappeared at the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You know that you&#039;ve not been cleaning her mouth properly, and that the baby food has gone rancid on the fur in her mouth. We will have to stop that happening as well. Do you have a loose skirt? No? Then drop by the thrift store on the way home and get yourself something with an elasticated waist and plenty of room. Have you got any dark coloured leggings? No? Get yourself a cheap pair of those as well.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And with that, Daphne gathered her things together and left for college for the day.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
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&lt;br /&gt;
This is an unauthorised sequel.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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[[Paying attention to detail 1]]  Chapter one in a series&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
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[[A sentence of Truth]] If you tell habitual lies, what could they do?&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint 2]] Girl and metal&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint 3]] Girl with an idea&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint 4]] Succubus and friend&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Horse Girl]] Getting there a different way&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Brachyura]] First idea of mine in the Valentine Divergence setting - Island Crabs&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Selachii]] Following Island Crabs - Sharks&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Glow Worm 2]] An unauthorised sequel to Evil Dolly&#039;s Glow Worm&lt;br /&gt;
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sdw}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_4&amp;diff=19289</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 4</title>
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		<updated>2017-11-18T08:59:58Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Xanadu]] [[Category:Sdw]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}{{XXX}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;One at a time please&amp;quot; said the soldier to the two extraordinary looking characters as they stepped forward from the front of the line to enter the checkpoint.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The short girl dressed as Harley Quinn said insistently &amp;quot;We both travel together, and it&#039;s really best for you if you don&#039;t separate us&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked past them at the long queue behind and wondered how hard it would be to just let them both in at the same time for processing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Come on, in you both come, mind your heads &amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The short girl was dressed entirely as Harley Quinn in skintight PVC, with a hood to which attached two horns. Her face was pure white with dark eyeshadow, bright red lips, and framed by the PVC hood. The PVC covered her completely, including her hands, and upon her feet were shiny high heeled boots. At first glance it looked as if she were wearing a PVC catsuit, but very close inspection suggested to the soldier that she may in fact be completely naked apart from her bots, and that the PVC were her skin. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The tall girl was a latex succubus, every part of her body from the neck down covered in skintight red shiny latex. Her symmetrical face was framed by long jet black hair, with black lip gloss and ombre eye shadow. Surprisingly from the thighs down her physique more closely matched that of a goat, with black gloss cloven hooves for feet, and her hands were black gloss cloven hooves in the proportion of hands. Two impressive ribbed gloss black horns swept back from her temples. She walked smoothly into the room, ducking under the lintel of the door and as the soldier closed the door behind him they stood next to each other. Her tail swayed to her ankles.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Thank you for your time this morning, please tell me what you are and what happened&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The short girl spoke. &amp;quot;It really is best for you if you don&#039;t ask Mary any questions. She&#039;s a succubus and has some powers which you will not want to get involved with&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier was alert to any warning of a threat and focused his attention on Harley.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Thank you - what danger is there&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You&#039;ll be fine as long as I do all the talking. Please, just trust me in this&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;WHAT DO YOU WANT?&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; asked Mary. Her voice was commanding and seductive, penetrating the pleasure centre of anyone who heard it, and as clear and pure in tone as a well played violin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Don&#039;t answer her, really, it&#039;s really important that you don&#039;t answer her, please look at me&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier sat at his desk and pushed an out-of-sight button. He now was assured that the live video stream from this room had the attention of the security teams outside.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What&#039;s your name and what are you?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sam, and clearly I&#039;m also Harley Quinn, but not mentally, just in my costume. I am naked, it&#039;s the way Mary likes me to be&amp;quot;. Mary shifted her gaze from the soldier to Sam. &amp;quot;I can wear clothes over this costume, not like some of the other people here. The PVC is now my skin, look, I have fingernails, and I can take these boots off, but I don&#039;t have any others. These horns are part of my skull somehow.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What powers do you have?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With an emphasis on the word &amp;quot;I&amp;quot;, Mary said &amp;quot;None, I have no powers&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was at the convention with some friends, we&#039;d just bought some coffee and I was sitting on the ground by a door when the change happened. Actually, my story is not exciting, we were barely changed in comparison to the others at Xanadu, I found I could not take the costume off, and very quickly realised that these horns are no longer the foam horns that I had made. I made this costume. I can&#039;t peel the suit away from my face, so I don&#039;t know what has happened to my hair. Oh, and my facepaint got better - it had been a bit smudged and now it&#039;s this solid white colour. Other than that, I&#039;m completely fine. Don&#039;t ask Mary anything.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;SOLDIER, YOU IGNORED ME AND I SHALL NOT BE IGNORED. WHAT DO YOU WANT?&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; The soldier reacted involuntary to her voice. She was beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sam butted in &amp;quot;Mary, I can tell the guard your story, and it will be my honor as your slave to do so&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;PROCEED&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; again a command, but with the promise of so much more to follow...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;She was in the over 18&#039;s area as far as I know&amp;quot;...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;I WAS. CLEARLY I AM A SUCCUBUS, I WAS DOMINATING A FEEBLE CREATURE WHEN THIS CHANGE HAPPENED AND NOW I COMMAND THE WORLD TO DO MY BIDDING&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;. She stood imperiously and looked down at the soldier. She moved slightly closer. The glamour radiated from her. Every instinct in him, every training session he had undertaken to keep control was working hard to have him keep professional focus. All he wanted to do was serve her as his master, make her happy, please her. Every word she said reinforced his need to be approved of by her.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...and then changed into this.&amp;quot; said Sam. &amp;quot;Focus Sir, please, I have seen that look on your face on others, focus, really, it&#039;s possible to do so, I&#039;ve seen others do it&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He broke off from looking at her - really looking, and glanced at Sam for a moment. And then snapped back and looked again. Her eyelashes were beautiful. The way they swept through the air. The colour of her eyeshadow. The way her hair cascaded past her neck. Such beautiful hair. How it shines. The way the light shone on her red smooth skin, her breasts, oh my those breasts, how good they would feel, just to lightly touch them, to feel their warmth under the latex, her waist, her ohmygod she&#039;s naked as well, that smell, latex and sex, the crease, the folds, the feeling there would be of latex between her legs, ohmygod she has a tail, how erotic that would be, to put my arms around her and play with the base of her tail, how would that feel? To kneel before her and kiss her lips, her legs, to squat before her and embrace her legs, kiss her, kiss her deeply, please her, she please me, her cloven hooves, how would it be to lick those, the feeling of smoothness on the tongue, for her to hold me while she made love to me, then I to her, deeply kissing, hugging, caressing the smoothness of her skin...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Guard, please, focus on me&amp;quot; and Sam stepped between them. It distracted the soldier enough to focus on Sam. She took his head in her hands, got his attention and spoke directly at him. The feeling of PVC on his face was a jolt of weird reality that he needed to remind him of his duties. &amp;quot;It&#039;s not just men she has this power over, please focus on me. I know what she does. Listen, she has a power, it seems to radiate from her, and you will be trapped by it if you ask her any questions. Three questions is all it takes. Think of three wishes - what three wishes do you want? Ask her a question and it&#039;s a wish gone. Three and your soul is eternally hers... She will trap you like she trapped me...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was a bang, a flash, pain, falling to the floor, winded, hurting, numbness, blackness.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An indeterminate time later Sam found the world returning. She could feel bars along side her, she was lying on her back, the light ovrhead was bright, the smell - antiseptic? She seemed to be lying on a hospital bed. The light went dimmer, someone was looking down at her. &amp;quot;Hello, how are you? Are you ok? Does anything hurt?&amp;quot; Her head hurt, her neck, and her shoulder &amp;quot;Did I fall?&amp;quot; she asked weakly. &amp;quot;Probably, I heard that we had to rescue you&amp;quot;. She felt up at the horn on her right side with her left hand - how this could be real she did not know, but there was a tenderness to the horn. Bruising? And her neck really was sore, she moved her head a bit and winced, her right arm just hurt, she felt the shoulder joint, the elbow joint. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Just stay there for the moment, you need some time to recover&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Where is Mary?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Succubus? She&#039;s in an isolation room, and she&#039;s still asleep&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panic rose in Sam &amp;quot;I have to be with her when she wakes up.&amp;quot; She tried to get up off the bed but her right arm and shoulder really hurt and she winced as she struggled to sit up &amp;quot;it&#039;s really, really important that I get to be with her&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You have to stay here, she&#039;ll be fine where she is&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, you don&#039;t understand. She&#039;s dangerous. I think she&#039;s killed my mum and dad already, and if I&#039;m not there when she wakes up I&#039;ll probably die as well.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Stay there&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary did not really see who it was she was talking to - her mind was cloudy and she wanted to sleep, but Mary... What will Mary do when she wakes up and I&#039;m not there...?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Moments later Mary knew Law Enforcement was there. The hat, the uniform, the badges.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello, I&#039;m here to help you&amp;quot;. The Law pulled up a chair and sat down. &amp;quot;I know you are Sam and the red girl is Mary. What can you tell us?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is she asleep still&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, she&#039;s sedated&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Will she stay sedated?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Until you tell us what&#039;s happening, then yes, she will&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It was clear that knowing this calmed Sam, and they got on with answering the standard questions - name, address, and so on. Sam was a cosplayer, and had been working on ever more authentic costumes until she realised that it&#039;s also fun to do sexy as well as authentic. While Harley Quinn has many costumes, she set her heart on reproducing the skintight look in PVC, and made a catsuit with some four way gloss stretchy material imported from Japan. She was at the show with her friends, and they were just hanging out, took in a movie, had some stall food, wandered about, it was just light fun. When the weirdness kicked off she became how she looked and in the chaos got separated from her friends. She crashed through a fire exit just as Mary did, and they ran away from the building together. Sam noticed that Mary ran differently to anyone she&#039;d ever seen, and the tail looked real, and since Mary was dressed in a similar kind of way, when they stopped running Sam started a conversation. Sam had showed no interest in girls before, and suddenly was attracted to Mary. The place they found themselves in was secluded and Mary embraced the interest, and they caressed and kissed, and pretty much made love, standing up, right there, until both has orgasmed to deep and warm satisfation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And while that was weird, the next bit is the bit that makes me terrified of her. She asked me if there was anything that I wanted. I said I wanted to know that my friends were safe, that my parents would not be freaked out by what has happened to me and that I hoped that we&#039;d keep in touch. She said that yes, my friends were safe, that my parents will definitely not be freaked out by anything every again and that we were now joined by a bond until death. She said that those were the three wishes and that if I did anything to dissatisfy her my immortal soul would be claimed by her in a heartbeat. It&#039;s how she gets by without hands - I am her slave, bonded to her until my death. I have found my friends since, they are fine, and I cannot get hold of my parents. I think she may have somehow killed them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Law enforcement found out pretty quickly that at the time of the three wishes, her parents both suddenly died, with no identifiable cause. Sam was utterly devastated, and understandably so - she was bonded with a cold blooded killer, and Sam&#039;s life was in Mary&#039;s hands at all times. The law concluded that Mary was likely to be a murderer but with no conventional connection between perpetrator and victims there was no case to prove. Given the bond between Mary and Sam, Mary could not be held indefinitely, and as it happens one of the hospital staff found an acceptable compromise. As long as Mary was unable to speak, she was not able to lure victims into her &#039;three wishes&#039; trap, and Mary exchanged her freedom for being gagged at all times when in public.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_4&amp;diff=19288</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 4</title>
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		<updated>2017-11-18T08:47:10Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Created&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Xanadu]] [[Category:Sdw]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}{{XXX}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;One at a time please&amp;quot; said the soldier to the two extraordinary looking characters as they stepped forward from the front of the line to enter the checkpoint.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The short girl dressed as Harley Quinn said insistently &amp;quot;We both travel together, and it&#039;s really best for you if you don&#039;t separate us&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked past them at the long queue behind and wondered how hard it would be to just let them both in at the same time for processing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Come on, in you both come, mind your heads &amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The short girl was dressed entirely as Harley Quinn in skintight PVC, with a hood to which attached two horns. Her face was pure white with dark eyeshadow, bright red lips, and framed by the PVC hood. The PVC covered her completely, including her hands, and upon her feet were shiny high heeled boots. At first glance it looked as if she were wearing a PVC catsuit, but very close inspection suggested to the soldier that she may in fact be completely naked, and that the PVC were her skin. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The tall girl was a latex succubus, every part of her body from the neck down covered in skintight red shiny latex. Her symmetrical face was framed by long jet black hair, with black lip gloss and ombre eye shadow. Surprisingly from the thighs down her physique more closely matched that of a goat, with black gloss cloven hooves for feet, and her hands were cloven hooves in the proportion of hands. Two impressive ribbed gloss black horns swept back from her temples. She walked smoothly into the room, ducking under the lintel of the door and as the soldier closed the door behind him they stood next to each other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Thank you for your time this morning, please tell me what you are and what happened&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The short girl spoke. &amp;quot;It really is best for you if you don&#039;t ask Mary any questions. She&#039;s a succubus and has some powers which you will not want to get involved with&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier was alert to any warning of a threat and focused his attention on Harley.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Thank you - what danger is there&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You&#039;ll be fine as long as I do all the talking. Please, just trust me in this&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;WHAT DO YOU WANT?&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; asked Mary. Her voice was commanding and seductive, penetrating the pleasure centre of anyone who heard it, and as clear and pure in tone as a well played violin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Don&#039;t answer her, really, it&#039;s really important that you don&#039;t answer her, please look at me&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier sat at his desk and pushed an out-of-sight button. He now knew that the live video stream from this room had the attention of the security teams outside.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What&#039;s your name and what are you?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sam, and clearly I&#039;m also Harley Quinn, but not mentally, just in my costume. I am naked, it&#039;s the way Mary likes me to be&amp;quot;. Mary shifted her gaze from the soldier to Sam. &amp;quot;I can wear clothes over this costume, not like some of the other people here. The PVC is now my skin, look, I have fingernails, and I can take these boots off, but I don&#039;t have any others. These horns are part of my skull somehow.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What powers do you have?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With an emphasis on the word &amp;quot;I&amp;quot;, Mary said &amp;quot;None, I have no powers&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was at the convention with some friends, we&#039;d just bought some coffee and I was sitting on the ground by a door when the change happened. Actually, my story is not exciting, we were barely changed in comparison to the others at Xanadu, I found I could not take the costume off, and very quickly realised that these horns are no longer the foam horns that I had made. I made this costume. I can&#039;t peel the suit away from my face, so I don&#039;t know what has happened to my hair. Oh, and my facepaint got better - it had been a bit smudged and now it&#039;s this white colour. Other than that, I&#039;m completely fine. Don&#039;t ask Mary anything.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;SOLDIER, YOU IGNORED ME AND I SHALL NOT BE IGNORED. WHAT DO YOU WANT?&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; The soldier reacted involuntary to her voice. She was beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sam butted in &amp;quot;Mary, I can tell the guard your story, and it will be my honor as your slave to do so&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;PROCEED&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; again a command, but with the promise of so much more to follow...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;She was in the over 18&#039;s area as far as I know&amp;quot;...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;I WAS. CLEARLY I AM A SUCCUBUS, I WAS DOMINATING A FEEBLE CREATURE WHEN THIS CHANGE HAPPENED AND NOW I COMMAND THE WORLD TO DO MY BIDDING&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;. She stood imperiously and looked down at the soldier. She moved slightly closer. The glamour radiated from her. Every instinct in him, every training session he had undertaken to keep control was working hard to have him keep focus. All he wanted to do was serve her as his master, make her happy, please her. Every word she said reinforced his need to be approved of by her.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...and then changed into this.&amp;quot; said Sam. &amp;quot;Focus Sir, please, I have seen that look on your face on others, focus, really, it&#039;s possible to do so, I&#039;ve seen others do it&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He broke off from looking at her - really looking. And then snapped back and looked again. Her eyelashes were beautiful. The way her hair cascaded past her neck. The way the light shone on her skin, her breasts, oh my those breasts, how good they would feel, her waist, her ohmygod she&#039;s naked as well, that smell, latex and sex, the crease, the folds, the feeling there would be of latex between her legs, ohmygod she has a tail, how erotic that would be, to put my arms around her and play with the base of her tail, how would that feel, her legs, to squat before her and embrace her legs, kiss her, kiss her deeply, please her, she please me, her cloven hooves, how would it be to lick those, the feeling of smoothness on the tongue, for her to hold me while she made love to me, then I to her, deeply kissing, hugging, caressing the smoothness of her skin...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Guard, please, focus on me&amp;quot; and Sam stepped between them. It distracted the soldier enough to focus on Sam. She took his head in her hands, got his attention and spoke directly at him. The feeling of PVC on his face was a jolt that he needed to remind him of his duties. &amp;quot;It&#039;s not just men she has this power over, please focus on me. I know what she does. Listen, she has a power, it seems to radiate from her, and you will be trapped by it if you ask her any questions. Three questions is all it takes. Think of three wishes - what three wishes do you want? Ask her a question and it&#039;s a wish gone. Three and your soul is eternally hers...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was a bang, a flash, pain, falling to the floor, winded, hurting, numbness, blackness.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An indeterminate time later Sam found the world returning. She could feel bars along side her, was on her back, the light was bright, she was lying on a hospital bed. The light went dimmer, someone was looking down at her. &amp;quot;Hello, how are you? Are you ok? Does anything hurt?&amp;quot; Her head hurt, her neck, and her shoulder &amp;quot;Did I fall?&amp;quot; she asked weakly. &amp;quot;Probably, I heard that we had to rescue you&amp;quot;. She felt up at the horn on her right side - how this could be real she did not know, but there was a tenderness to the horn. Bruising? And her neck really was sore, she moved her head a bit and winced &amp;quot;Just stay there for the moment, you need some time to recover&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Where is Mary?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The Succubus? She&#039;s in an isolation room, and she&#039;s still asleep&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panic rose in Sam &amp;quot;I have to be with her when she wakes up.&amp;quot; She tried to get up off the bed but her right arm and shoulder really hurt and she winced as she struggled to sit up &amp;quot;it&#039;s really, really important that I get to be with her&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You have to stay here, she&#039;ll be fine where she is&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, you don&#039;t understand. She&#039;s dangerous. I think she&#039;s killed my best friend already, and if I&#039;m not there when she wakes up I&#039;ll probably die as well.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Stay there&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary did not really see who it was she was talking to - her mind was cloudy and she wanted to sleep, but Mary... What will Mary do when she wakes up and I&#039;m not there...?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Moments later Mary knew Law Enforcement was there. The hats, the uniforms, the badges.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello, I&#039;m here to help you&amp;quot;. The Law pulled up a chair and sat down. &amp;quot;I know you are Sam and the red girl is Mary. What can you tell us?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is she asleep still&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, she&#039;s sedated&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Will she stay sedated?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Until you tell us what&#039;s happening, then yes, she will&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It was clear that knowing this calmed Sam, and they got on with answering the standard questions - name, address, and so on. Sam was a cosplayer, and had been working on every more authentic costumes until she realised that it&#039;s also fun to do sexy as well as authentic. While Harley Quinn has many costumes, she set her heart on reproducing the skintight look in PVC, and made a catsuit with some four way gloss stretchy material imported from Japan. She was at the show with her friends, and they were just hanging out, took in a movie, had some stall food, wandered about, it was just light fun. When the weirdness kicked off she became how she looked and in the chaos got separated from her friends. She crashed through a fire exit just as Mary did, and they ran away from the building together. Sam noticed that Mary ran differently to anyone she&#039;d ever seen, and the tail looked real, and since Mary was dressed in a similar kind of way, when they stopped running Sam started a conversation. Sam had showed no interest in girls before, and suddenly was attracted to Mary. The place they found themselves in was secluded and Mary embraced the interest, and they caressed and kissed, and pretty much made love, standing up, right there.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And while that was weird, the next bit is the bit that makes me terrified of her. She asked me if there was anything that I wanted. I said I wanted to know that my friends were safe, that my parents would not be freaked out by what has happened to me and that I hoped that we&#039;d keep in touch. She said that yes, my friends were safe, that my parents will definitely not be freaked out by anything every again and that we were now joined by a bond until death. She said that those were the three wishes and that if I did anything to dissatisfy her my immortal soul would be claimed by her in a heartbeat. It&#039;s how she gets by without hands - I am her slave, bonded to her until my death. I have found my friends since, they are fine, and I cannot get hold of my parents. I think she may have somehow killed them.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Law enforcement found out pretty quickly that at the time of the three wishes, her parents both suddenly died, with no identifiable cause. Sam was utterly devastated, and understandably so - she was bonded with a cold blooded killer, and Sam&#039;s life was in Mary&#039;s hands at all times. The law concluded that Mary was likely to be a murderer but with no conventional connection between perpetrator and victims there was no case to prove. Given the bond between Mary and Sam, Mary could not be held indefinitely, and as it happens one of the hospital staff found an acceptable compromise. As long as Mary was unable to speak, she was not able to lure victims into her &#039;three wishes&#039; trap, and Mary exchanged her freedom for being gagged at all times when in public.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:Sdw&amp;diff=19287</id>
		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2017-11-18T06:53:33Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Sdw Homepage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{my stories}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 1]]  Chapter one in a series&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[A sentence of Truth]] If you tell habitual lies, what could they do?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 2]] Girl and metal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 3]] Girl with an idea&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 4]] Succubus and friend&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Horse Girl]] Getting there a different way&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Brachyura]] First idea of mine in the Valentine Divergence setting - Island Crabs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Selachii]] Following Island Crabs - Sharks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{author page}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sdw}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Selachii&amp;diff=19207</id>
		<title>Selachii</title>
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		<updated>2017-04-09T07:20:04Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This is a work in progress, and we&#039;ll get to the sharks in a while... First, the birds...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Being able to fly is all well and good&amp;quot; thought Karen, &amp;quot;but I&#039;ve lost so much&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Until a few weeks ago, Karen had been a middle aged mother of two children, enjoying a job in a large corporation and when the Divergence occurred she suddenly became a one metre high, fully functioning bird. Since this also happened to all the people in the same area, many were involved in the accidents that occurred as the result, and she was not affected as fortunately at that moment she and the rest of her team were enjoying a soft drink in the sun outside. One moment human and the next avian was tremendously disorientating, and it took a while to figure out what had happened and who she now was.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was nothing left to indicate that any of these huge birds were originally human - and since beaks and the vocal apparatus are not built for speech, no matter how much she tried the sounds all came out very similar, as slight variations on &#039;caw&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the couple of weeks since the change, a number of things had happened - the &#039;flock&#039; had dispersed along the coast, as houses and flats were no good to huge birds. They had individually figured out that they could eat both grain and flesh, and fresh fish as well as small creatures were delicious. The beak was really important. It did not seem to be suited to a specialist task - it was just as good at ripping into flesh as tearing open a bag of popcorn stolen from a supermarket, or rooting up vegetables from an allotment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Flying was an effort, and she could manage about 30 minutes before tiring - so much for living on the wing she thought, and flew at about 15 miles an hour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A persistent bird had sorted out a keyboard and computer, on which it was possible to type, one letter at a time with the tip of the beak. Karen had tried it and found it both a relief to be able to communicate, and a literal pain in the neck to do such fiddly movements. At a rate of about ten characters a minute, this was hard going, especially as her eyes looked either side of her head, so it was an act of supreme concentration to focus on the spot at the very front of the vision in both eyes to keep the keyboard and the tip of the beak in focus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Somehow she had retained all her life memories, and also inherited the skills that the body required to fly, keep the body and feathers in good condition, and sleep on a roost with the long claws at rest wrapped hard around a branch. She could understand English, so could follow a conversation and yet not be able to contribute, except with a nod for yes and a shake for no. She had perfected the shoulder shrug for &#039;I don&#039;t know&#039; but it was being misinterpreted as &#039;whatever&#039; sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As soon as neighboring cells of recognisably human people realised that this area was no longer populated with people they began to move in, spreading like a tide through the neighborhoods, selecting the best places to inhabit, finding the keys to the best cars, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karen was not bothered by the loss of her material possessions, but she was really sad that she could not find her children or husband. Life was reduced to finding food and good quality rooting places.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Selachii&amp;diff=19206</id>
		<title>Selachii</title>
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		<updated>2017-04-09T07:07:33Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This is a work in progress, and we&#039;ll get to the sharks in a while... First, the birds...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Being able to fly is all well and good&amp;quot; thought Karen, &amp;quot;but I&#039;ve lost so much&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Until a few weeks ago, Karen had been a middle aged mother of two children, enjoying a job in a large corporation and when the Divergence occurred she suddenly became a one metre high, fully functioning bird. Since this also happened to all the people in the same area, many were involved in the accidents that occurred as the result, and she was not affected as fortunately at that moment she and the rest of her team were enjoying a soft drink in the sun outside. One moment human and the next avian was tremendously disorientating, and it took a while to figure out what had happened and who she now was.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was nothing left to indicate that any of these huge birds were originally human - and since beaks and the vocal apparatus are not built for speech, no matter how much she tried the sounds all came out very similar, as slight variations on &#039;caw&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In the couple of weeks since the change happened a number of things had happened - the &#039;flock&#039; had dispersed along the coast, as houses and flats were no good to huge birds. They had individually figured out that they could eat both grain and flesh, and fresh fish as well as small creatures were delicious. A persistent bird had sorted out a keyboard and computer, on which it was possible to type, one letter at a time with the tip of the beak. Karen had tried it and found it both a relief to be able to communicate, and a literal pain in the neck to do such fiddly movements. At a rate of about ten characters a minute, this was hard going, especially as their eyes looked either side of their heads, so it was an act of supreme concentration to focus on the spot at the very front of the vision in both eyes to keep the keyboard and the tip of the beak in focus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Somehow she had retained all her life memories, and also inherited the skills that the body required to fly, keep the body and feathers in good condition, and sleep on a roost with the long claws at rest wrapped hard around a branch.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As soon as neighboring cells of recognisably human people realised that this area was no longer populated with people they began to move in, spreading like a tide through the neighborhoods, selecting the best places to inhabit, finding the keys to the best cars, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Karen was not bothered by the loss of her material possessions, but she was really sad that she could not find her children or husband. Life was reduced to finding food and good quality rooting places.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Selachii&amp;diff=19205</id>
		<title>Selachii</title>
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		<updated>2017-04-09T06:45:39Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Created page with &amp;quot;Work in progress&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Work in progress&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:Sdw&amp;diff=19204</id>
		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2017-04-09T06:45:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Sdw Homepage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{my stories}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 1]]  Chapter one in a series&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[A sentence of Truth]] If you tell habitual lies, what could they do?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 2]] Girl and metal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 3]] Girl with an idea&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Horse Girl]] Getting there a different way&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Brachyura]] First idea of mine in the Valentine Divergence setting - Island Crabs&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Selachii]] Following Island Crabs - Sharks&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{author page}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sdw}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19199</id>
		<title>Brachyura</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-28T17:12:32Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;{{Universe|Valentine Divergence}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he took his clothes off, drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the sun outside the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound over the next few days that we became all but unrecognisable.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand, water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot; she mumbled barely making sense.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able only with great effort to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My limbs had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. Both my arms were longer, about the length that my legs used to be. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a sitting position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust just to move. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Our eyes and eyelids needed work to open and blink. Having broken the crust we could talk and look about. Our ears were hardening into solid human ears on the sides of our bald heads.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become hard pointed spikes, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard, slightly curved appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been. I worked at the ankle joint and more powder fell away. There was no movement to be made in the long spike.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, neither of us have any idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea that morning, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes between the twelve of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about, flexed what I thought I needed and watched her workout. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, picking where to put claw and spike carefully. We had agreed the previous day to meet for lunch every day. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained. It is impossible to carry anything in the claws while travelling - the claw is used by us as a leg, so we resolved to fashion some kind of bag to carry things in.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside that morning. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the sea. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the fresh flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. The seafood was delicious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shallows that the joints in our legs were rearranging. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. Four limbs, the front strong with large claws, the back fully articulated hips and now reverse knees, ankles and long spikes for feet.  It was possible to lie with our chests to the ground with all four limbs upwards, with our knees and elbows high above our backs and then raise our bodies by straightening all four limbs at the same time to leave our heads at about our original height. And we retained the torso shape of humans - there was no hiding that we were originally human, our eyes framed by black and hairless skin, our mouths and lips black, with human teeth and tongue, as if we were wearing a close fitting head helmet. Our necks a series of hooped shell and black flexible skin. Those who had worked hard had segmented torsos, more like a lobster, while some like myself had a single breastplate and back, something like a turtle. It was obvious who had and had not made love - the difference in both sexes was obvious. None of us tested our skeletons to see what would happen if we broke the shell, but we did have a sensation if a lot of stress was put on a shell - at one point Katy got a spike caught in a rock crevice and reported that she could tell that there was stress in the limb.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs, and it turned out that there are many more and different ways of approaching a satisfying position for both of us. Those who did not see what would happen on that first morning discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently. We were comfortable on our backs, sides or fronts, but walked front downwards due to the reverse knees. Only by holding onto something is it possible to stand &#039;upright&#039; - we are creatures who are most comfortable on all fours.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden and strengthen. The cracked edges where we had worked against the hardening shell rounded and smoothed to accommodate movement. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up feeling stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises and lovemaiking to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown - every day a little less. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster moving in the water, and one of us snatched a passing morsel of fish on the third day which was shared between us. By the third day the changes had finished. No additional limbs were grown, no tails erupted from our rears and the flexibility remained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, sleeping on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents. We are all much longer than before if we lie down and stretch out, and I think I&#039;m not so warm bodied as before. We made bags for carrying things, and could tie a bundle under our torsos fairly easily.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had always exercised more than I had, and as a crab was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than me. He naturally became head hunter of the cast. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.  Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively. Beth was small and slight and could hold her breath for longer than the rest of us, which allowed her to forage in deeper water than the rest of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel was going to run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that hung in the water from the quay to the boat that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform and a net for catching food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The idyllic lifestyle was something we got quite used to, and we realised that we had turned in on ourselves and our lives had reduced to a happy and comfortable survival until a raiding party from our new neighbours intruded on our lives...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:Valentine Divergence]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reality Shift]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Crab]]&lt;br /&gt;
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{{info&lt;br /&gt;
|author= Sdw&lt;br /&gt;
|title= Brachyura&lt;br /&gt;
|setting= Valentine Divergence&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 1]]  Chapter one in a series&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
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[[A sentence of Truth]] If you tell habitual lies, what could they do?&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint 2]] Girl and metal&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint 3]] Girl with an idea&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Horse Girl]] Getting there a different way&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Brachyura]] First idea of mine in the Valentine Divergence setting - Island Crabs&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Brachyura</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-26T17:49:39Z</updated>

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&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;{{Universe|Valentine Divergence}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he took his clothes off, drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the sun outside the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound over the next few days that we became all but unrecognisable.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand, water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot; she mumbled barely making sense.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able only with great effort to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My limbs had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a sitting position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust just to move. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Our eyes and eyelids needed work to open and blink. Having broken the crust we could talk and look about. Our ears were hardening into solid human ears on the sides of our bald heads.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become hard pointed spikes, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard, slightly curved appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been. I worked at the ankle joint and more powder fell away. There was no movement to be made in the long spike.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, I have no idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea that morning, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes between the twelve of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about, flexed what I thought I needed and watched her workout. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, picking where to put claw and spike carefully. We had agreed the previous day to meet for lunch every day. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained. It is impossible to carry anything in the claws while travelling - the claw is used by us as a leg, so we resolved to fashion some kind of bag to carry things in.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside that morning. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the sea. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the fresh flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. The seafood was delicious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shallows that the joints in our legs were rearranging. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. Four limbs, the front strong with large claws, the back fully articulated hips and now reverse knees, ankles and long spikes for feet.  It was possible to lie with our chests to the ground with all four limbs upwards, and then raise our bodies to about our original heights. And we retained the torso shape of humans - there was no hiding that we were originally human, our eyes framed by black and hairless skin, our mouths and lips black, with human teeth and tongue, as if we were wearing a close fitting head helmet. Our necks a series of hooped shell and black flexible skin. Those who had worked hard had segmented torsos, more like a lobster, while some like myself had a single breastplate and back, something like a turtle. It was obvious who had and had not made love - the difference in both sexes was obvious. None of us tested our skeletons to see what would happen if we broke the shell, but we did have a sensation if a lot of stress was put on a shell - at one point Katy got a spike caught in a rock crevice and reported that she could tell that there was stress in the limb.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs, and it turned out that there are many more and different ways of approaching a satisfying position for both of us. Those who did not see what would happen on that first morning discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently. We were comfortable on our backs, sides or fronts, but walked front downwards due to the reverse knees. Only by holding onto something is it possible to stand &#039;upright&#039; - we are creatures who are most comfortable on all fours.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden and strengthen. The cracked edges where we had worked against the hardening shell rounded and smoothed to accommodate movement. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up feeling stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises and lovemaiking to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown - every day a little less. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster moving in the water, and one of us snatched a passing morsel of fish on the third day which was shared between us. By the third day the changes had finished. No additional limbs were grown, no tails erupted from our rears and the flexibility remained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, sleeping on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents. We are all much longer than before if we lie down and stretch out, and I think I&#039;m not so warm bodied as before. We made bags for carrying things, and could tie a bundle under our torsos fairly easily.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had always exercised more than I had, and as a crab was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than me. He naturally became head hunter of the cast. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.  Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively. Beth was small and slight and could hold her breath for longer than the rest of us, which allowed her to forage in deeper water than the rest of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel was going to run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that hung in the water from the quay to the boat that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform and a net for catching food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The idyllic lifestyle was something we got quite used to, and we realised that we had turned in on ourselves and our lives had reduced to a happy and comfortable survival until a raiding party from our new neighbours intruded on our lives...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Story]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Valentine Divergence]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reality Shift]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Crab]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{info&lt;br /&gt;
|author= Sdw&lt;br /&gt;
|title= Brachyura&lt;br /&gt;
|setting= Valentine Divergence&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<updated>2017-03-26T16:14:38Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;{{Universe|Valentine Divergence}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he took his clothes off, drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the sun outside the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound over the next few days that we became all but unrecognisable.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand, water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot; she mumbled barely making sense.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able only with great effort to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My limbs had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a sitting position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust just to move. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Our eyes and eyelids needed work to open and blink. Having broken the crust we could talk and look about. Our ears were hardening.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become hard pointed spikes, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been. I worked at the ankle joint and more powder fell away. There was no movement to be made in the long spike.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, I have no idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea that morning, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes between the twelve of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about and watched. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, picking where to put claw and spike carefully. We had agreed the previous day to meet for lunch every day. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the sea. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the fresh flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. The seafood was delicious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shadows that our legs were rearranging themselves. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. Four limbs, the front strong with large claws, the back fully articulated hips and now reverse knees, ankles and long spikes for feet.  And we retained the shape of humans - there was no denying that we were originally human, our eyes frames by black and hairless skin, our mouths and lips black with human teeth and tongue, as if we were wearing a close head helmet. Our necks a series of hooped shell and black flexible skin. Those who had worked hard had segmented torsos, more like a lobster, while I had a single breastplate and back, something like a turtle. None of us tested our skeletons to see what would happen if we broke the shell. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs. Those who did not discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently. We were comfortable on our backs, sides or fronts, but walked front downwards due to the reverse knees. Only by holding onto something is it possible to stand &#039;upright&#039; - we are creatures of all fours.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster in the water, and one of us caught a fish on the third day which was shared. By the third day the changes had finished. No additional limbs were grown, no tails erupted from our rears. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents. We are all much longer than before if we lie down and stretch out, and I think I&#039;m not so warm bodied as before.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had exercised more than I had, and was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than I did. He became head hunter. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel was going to run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that hung in the water from the quay to the boat that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform for catching food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The idyllic lifestyle was something we got quite used to, and we realised that we had turned in on ourselves and our lives had reduced to a happy and comfortable survival until a raiding party from our new neighbours intruded on our lives...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Story]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Valentine Divergence]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reality Shift]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Crab]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{info&lt;br /&gt;
|author= Sdw&lt;br /&gt;
|title= Brachyura&lt;br /&gt;
|setting= Valentine Divergence&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19195</id>
		<title>Brachyura</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19195"/>
		<updated>2017-03-26T15:58:06Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;{{Universe|Valentine Divergence}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he took his clothes off, drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the sun outside the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound over the next few days that we became all but unrecognisable.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand, water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot; she mumbled barely making sense.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able only with great effort to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My limbs had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a sitting position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust just to move. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Our eyes and eyelids needed work to open and blink. Having broken the crust we could talk and look about. Our ears were hardening.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become hard pointed spikes, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been. I worked at the ankle joint and more powder fell away. There was no movement to be made in the long spike.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, I have no idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea that morning, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes between the twelve of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about and watched. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, picking where to put claw and spike carefully. We had agreed the previous day to meet for lunch every day. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the sea. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the fresh flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. The seafood was delicious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shadows that our legs were rearranging themselves. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. And we retained the shape of humans - there was no denying that we were originally human.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs. Those who did not discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster in the water, and one of us caught a fish on the third day which was shared.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had exercised more than I had, and was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than I did. He became head hunter. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel was going to run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform for catching food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The idyllic lifestyle was something we got quite used to, and we realised that we had turned in on ourselves and our lives had reduced to a happy and comfortable survival until a raiding party from our new neighbours intruded on our lives...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Story]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Valentine Divergence]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reality Shift]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Crab]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{info&lt;br /&gt;
|author= Sdw&lt;br /&gt;
|title= Brachyura&lt;br /&gt;
|setting= Valentine Divergence&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19194</id>
		<title>Brachyura</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19194"/>
		<updated>2017-03-26T07:33:56Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he took his clothes off, drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the sun outside the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound over the next few days that we became all but unrecognisable.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand, water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
--&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot; she mumbled barely making sense.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able only with great effort to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My limbs had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a sitting position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust just to move. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Our eyes and eyelids needed work to open and blink. Having broken the crust we could talk and look about. Our ears were hardening.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become hard pointed spikes, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been. I worked at the ankle joint and more powder fell away. There was no movement to be made in the long spike.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, I have no idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea that morning, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes between the twelve of us.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about and watched. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, picking where to put claw and spike carefully. We had agreed the previous day to meet for lunch every day. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the sea. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the fresh flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. The seafood was delicious.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shadows that our legs were rearranging themselves. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. And we retained the shape of humans - there was no denying that we were originally human.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs. Those who did not discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster in the water, and one of us caught a fish on the third day which was shared.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had exercised more than I had, and was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than I did. He became head hunter. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel was going to run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform for catching food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The idyllic lifestyle was something we got quite used to, and we realised that we had turned in on ourselves and our lives had reduced to a happy and comfortable survival until a raiding party from our new neighbours intruded on our lives...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Story]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Valentine Divergence]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reality Shift]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Crab]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19193</id>
		<title>Brachyura</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19193"/>
		<updated>2017-03-26T07:18:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, took off all his clothes and entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound when it came.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand,water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My hands had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a kneeling position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Having broken the crust we could talk. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become pointed, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, I have no idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about and watched. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, where we&#039;d agreed the previous day to meet for lunch. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the water. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shadows that our legs were rearranging themselves. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. And we retained the shape of humans - there was no denying that we were originally human.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs. Those who did not discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster in the water, and one of us caught a fish on the third day which was shared.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had exercised more than I had, and was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than I did. He became head hunter. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel would run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform for catching food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Story]] &lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Valentine Divergence]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Reality Shift]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Category:Crab]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:Sdw&amp;diff=19192</id>
		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-26T07:17:34Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Sdw Homepage&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{my stories}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 1]]  Chapter one in a series&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[A sentence of Truth]] If you tell habitual lies, what could they do?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 2]] Girl and metal&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Checkpoint 3]] Girl with an idea&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Horse Girl]] Getting there a different way&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Brachyura]] First idea in the Valentine Divergence setting&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{{author page}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sdw}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19191</id>
		<title>Brachyura</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Brachyura&amp;diff=19191"/>
		<updated>2017-03-26T07:12:59Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Created page with &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people we...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Let&#039;s get the important things out of the way first. At the moment the world changed, the people in the area I was in were initially almost unchanged. Since very few people were driving vehicles, and those who were doing so were traveling slowly nobody was killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
All our hair, on our heads, everywhere else did immediately fall out. It just fell away; beards, head hair, body hair. We were left completely smooth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those of us near to the main village at the time heard the crashing of a passenger aircraft into the sea many miles away, and that was our queue that something had happened. Those working in the hills were just stunned at how smooth their skin had become. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
My skin was the smoothest substance I&#039;d ever felt - since my fingers were also smooth it was as if I had been coated in some kind of plastic. Along with Tom and Mary I was at the factory working my shift, and all of us just looked at each other and stared. Mary&#039;s long red hair was plaited that day, and her whole plait fell to the floor, her eyebrows and eyelashes cascaded from her face like rain and landed in her lap. And so it was for all of us. Naturally the work we were doing was immediately forgotten. We did all feel the urge to remove our clothing - it simply felt right to do so, and were unashamedly stepped out of our garments, leaving the body hair in our clothes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On that first day none of us had changed physical appearance particularly, we just had smooth skin and no clothing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I did not feel the draw of the sea very strongly on that day. None of us in the factory did, but those who were close to the sea felt it very strongly. Randolph was on a boat in the harbour, and was first to enter the water - he drove his boat back to the dock, tied it up, took off all his clothes and entered the blue and clear ocean, and ducked under.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all knew what to do when any kind of crisis happened - with only 12 people living on the island we knew to go to the island hall. After a couple of hours we&#039;d stopped what we were doing and all had gathered there. All our experiences were the same, and we sat around in the hall, broke out the emergency tea and sat about in the sun. We were worried about Randolph and were about to send out a search party when he walked up the beach and we were shocked to see what had happened to him.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What happened to you?&amp;quot; Katy asked. It really doesn&#039;t matter what Katy, or indeed any of us did, or how old we were, the change was so profound when it came.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He told us about that happened when he went for a swim.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The water felt differently wonderful, it was like swimming in liquid silk, and he had been in it for 90 minutes just lost in his own thoughts. He spent most of the time lying on his back on the sand,water lapping over him, looking up at the sky and not really noticing the changes that were happening. By the time he felt ready to get out of the water, things had become different. On that first day, and for all of us immediately after our first session in the water two main changes happened - our fingers fused together, and our toes fused together. It did not hurt, it just was inconvenient to pick anything up and hold it. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The eleven of us looked Randolph over, and he was fine with letting us feel his skin. He did look odd without his hair. His hands felt like they were in mittens, the skin of his fingers had grown together.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beth was the first to suggest that the rest of us went to the beach, and so we did, and all experienced the silky satin feeling of the water. Whatever was happening to our bodies seemed to be accepted by our minds, because it was not traumatic - we just laid back and enjoyed it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Mary, I feel stiff&amp;quot; is what I wanted to say, but my jaws and lips were very stiff to operate.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I had just woken up, the glimmer of the early morning sun painted a hue in the East and I raised my head with great difficulty to see the view from our bedroom window.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, so do I&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Movement was difficult, and I was able to reach over and press the light switch on the bedside lamp. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Every movement was hard. My hands had changed overnight. The lamplight fell on changed hands. My thumb was bigger and more pointed, and my fingers larger and no longer articulate - from wrist to fingertip the movement was frozen in the unmistakable shape of a crab claw. It was the same for Mary. With a lot of effort I sat up, in a cascade of white powder. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Both of us struggled to a kneeling position. At every joint, as we moved, our skin cracked and fell away like talc. It took great effort to move against what felt like a hardening plastercast. It felt like every joint was stiff and we needed to break the crust. All feeling was gone from our - well it was hard to describe it as skin - shell, except at the joints where we could still feel pain. Our faces were also covered in a hard shell, and only by exercising our jaw muscles against the stiffness did we regain full speech. Having broken the crust we could talk. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&#039;s breastplate followed her female figure pretty exactly, and she said the same way that I was feeling, it was like wearing a body cast.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to the edge of the bed and then the next change became clear - there were no human feet at the end of my legs - my feet had become pointed, a vestigial nub showed where my big toe had once been , the rest of my &#039;foot&#039; was a long thin hard appendage ending in a spike, about three times as long as my foot had been.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Is it even going to be possible to walk on this?&amp;quot; I asked out loud. It was the same with her feet - long sharp spikes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It turned out not to be possible to walk as a biped. We could get about using our claws and spikes on all fours, and so practiced &#039;walking&#039; around the room - powder still falling from us where we were using the joints in a new way. Our upright walking knees were not helpful on that first day as they worked in the wrong direction for walking on &#039;hands&#039; and &#039;feet&#039;, or as we started calling them &#039;claws&#039; and &#039;spikes&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fixing breakfast was difficult just because movement was awkward - the claws had good feedback to help know how hard something was being held, but manipulating a cereal box, bowl, a plastic milk bottle was difficult. Eventually between us we had food in our bowls and were sitting at our kitchen table, spikes on the floor in as conventional a manner as we could muster. We had not thought through how to eat it, as claws are good for holding things that go directly in the mouth, but are not good at holding cutlery. We figured the easiest way was to hold the bowl and eat from the side. It was a bit messy, but at least we had human teeth and tongue.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We wondered if it were possible to make love - and now, looking back, I have no idea what gave both of us that idea because with all the changes going on it seemed to be a weird thing to think about. Nevertheless we gave it a go, and while it was difficult, and there was a lot of dust produced as exoskeleton was cracked off to make way for skin, it did work. It turned out that only about half of the island had that idea, and that&#039;s how we ended up with two slightly different tribes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was bothered about the bodycast, and wondered if it were possible to crack it so that spinal movement and twisting were possible. Since she had always been quite flexible, she began working on it and after a while there were cracks appearing in her torso, flecks of shell began to fall away and after an hour of intense workout she had segmented her body armor into four plates; a breastplate and three sections around her waist. I truly wish I had made the effort, but I did not feel such strong willpower at the time so I sat about and watched. I now have a solid and rigid bodyshell, and she has a much more flexible torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Later in the day we made ourselves slowly to the hall, where we&#039;d agreed the previous day to meet for lunch. Mary was having an easier time of it that I was, simply because of the additional torso movement she&#039;d gained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Everyone was in the same stage of change - apart from Randolph - he was a couple of hours ahead of us and had already been to the seaside. He had changed colour. His shell was taking on the dark red and brown of a crab, his claws had turned black and his &#039;skin&#039; at the joints was jet black. He encouraged us to the water and we slowly made our way to the shore and into the water. The weightlessness was a relief, and the water felt really good. Using the spikes in the sand and pebbles made perfect sense - they are adapted perfectly in the waters of the shore, and Kate was first to catch live seafood which she reported to be delicious. We all began to scavenge for food. I found a sea crab, and while it felt slightly wrong to tear it to pieces and pick out the flesh, the drive to eat it beat my revulsion of eating &#039;one of my own&#039;. I was changing colour, as were we all. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We also did not notice as we moved about in the shadows that our legs were rearranging themselves. When we came out of the sea later that day our legs moved correctly for our bodies. Yes we had firmly lost bipedal movement, and now moved on four limbs. And we retained the shape of humans - there was no denying that we were originally human.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Those couples who had &#039;human&#039; sex on that first day became a different species to those who did not. We were able to continue to enjoy face to face - as it were - lovemaking with recognisably human organs. Those who did not discovered in time that they reproduced the way that sea crabs reproduce, which is quite differently.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our colouring continued to change, we all became darker that evening, and our shells continued to harden. Having made our way back to our house, Mary again did her exercises and continued to work on her flexibility - inventing completely different, non human exercises to maintain a supple body. I followed her lead, but it was too late for my bodyshell, it had hardened beyond my, indeed our ability to break it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next morning, and for a couple more mornings after that we woke up stiff again, and had to repeat talking, movements, exercises to break the shell - the powder now sloughing from us a dark brown. Our skin was leathery and thick at the joints, and whatever was going on underneath the joint was a hybrid of our original joints and the exoskeleton. No longer thinking of it as walking, traveling on land became more instinctive, and it did become easier to move sideways than forwards and backwards. Each day in those few days we would meet as a cast at lunchtime and forage together for live food around the island - we were faster in the water, and one of us caught a fish on the third day which was shared.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We all very much still liked living in our houses, on our beds, and we adapted our homes to suit our new situation. We transitioned to eating exclusively from the sea, and spent time arranging ourselves to benefit from our slightly divergent talents.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tom had exercised more than I had, and was much stronger, flexible and had much more patience than I did. He became head hunter. His ability to stay stationary for long periods of time made him an extraordinary catcher of larger prey, and he became our cast leader.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mary was fast - our fastest and could react incredibly quickly, catching fast prey sometimes apparently instinctively.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Randolph was able to take his boat out into the bay, soon the diesel would run out and there was no more to have, so he anchored it a way off shore and we used his ropes to make a ropeway that we could pull ourselves along, allowing us a deeper platform for catching food.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Paying attention to detail 4</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Adding more to the story&lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;quot;You go on ahead, I&#039;ll find you in the lobby, I just want to drop in on, um, actually I don&#039;t think I know his name, but he&#039;s in some trouble and could probably use some help with his food&amp;quot;. I headed for the room at the end with the guy with ball gloves for hands as the others headed for the stairs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I knocked, and there was a shout from inside the room. I waited a short while and then heard &amp;quot;I can&#039;t open the door&amp;quot;. Ball gloves - that figured. &amp;quot;Can you slide your roomkey under the door?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The key was posted under the door, and I opened it to a quite unexpected scene.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The latex gothic angel girlfriend had arrived, flown in from outside I guessed and was an imposing sight. Take a girl, make her eight feet tall, and thin, cover her skin with fine black feathers and then add fully functional wings - now folded over her head, down her sides and just trailing on the floor behind, again jet black. Her breastbone hugely distorted her chest area, with the flight muscles a massive construction. Her chest now protruded forward about two feet and huge flight muscles now distorted her upper body. Her elbows were now about two feet above her head. Behind her a tail fanned out, again just touching the floor. She was wearing a black latex miniskirt and black latex high heeled boots, the rest of her body covered in real feathers. Her face seemed unchanged, and I guess she was beautiful in an imposing way, and was looking at me for a moment as if I were food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hi&amp;quot; I said - lame I knew at the time, but I just wasn&#039;t expecting to see this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hi. James just said you helped him get into the room, thank you&amp;quot; she replied. She sounded nice.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So you can fly&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With a grin she opened one wing - there was only room for one wing to open, it stretched across the room as it unfolded with a quiet rustle, and as it did it sucked light from the room - a huge black aerodynamic foil of black feathers and raw power. &amp;quot;Yes I can, and it is the most beautiful feeling in the world&amp;quot;. She tucked her wing back over and beside her carefully. &amp;quot;I&#039;ve only just arrived, and I&#039;m about to test my powers out on James - do you want to watch?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What powers?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;ve three wishes.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why do angels have wishes?&amp;quot; I asked.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m not an angel, I&#039;m a fairy, and as a fairy I have three wishes. I always have had, ever since I was a little girl&amp;quot;. She said with an impish grin. &amp;quot;James, what do you want to be?&amp;quot; she asked.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Like you&amp;quot; he replied. James was still in his heavily modified form.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She paused.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Can I touch you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Of course you can...&amp;quot; and he moved towards her. She leaned forward and downwards to allow him to kiss her, and then he touched her feathers with the balls of his hands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Be careful, these wings really work and I&#039;m missing the beak required to properly preen them. You can stroke them in the right direction, but be very careful&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He explored her body, stroking down the feathers on her body and head. He had tears in his eyes &amp;quot;I thought I had lost you. You are so beautiful&amp;quot; he whispered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I missed you. And I love you so much.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So what are you going to do?&amp;quot; he asked.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Make you like me, but with improvements. I cannot perch, and that would waste one of my three spells. I can make you better than me.&amp;quot; She looked at her boots thoughtfully.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Let me see, I need to work it all out first in my head before I do the actual spell. It&#039;s probably easier to do it in stages. Stay quiet and let me think. One spell...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She closed her eyes, and a stillness came over the occupants in the room. All thoughts of food temporarily banished, just the sound of breathing, air conditioning and a soft rustle as her feathers quivered as she moved slightly. Time seemed to stop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She whispered &amp;quot;This will come in stages...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
James began to change shape, it was like watching water flow, ice melt, skin ripple, in a matter of a few seconds James was what I expect James was like before the Xanadu moment, now naked and checking himself over. He went to the mirror and inspected his reflection. &amp;quot;I&#039;m not the same as I was, I think I&#039;m better, stronger, taller...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And you are still changing, or this spell will end. That&#039;s how I saw you&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Now, I really need to concentrate, quiet, and...&amp;quot; looking at me, &amp;quot;stand back.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I moved to a corner, and again the stillness came to the room. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Again she whispered to herself &amp;quot;Wings good, strength good, feet, think the feet through first...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I couldn&#039;t help but think that I was witnessing something magical and at the edge of belief, and when the change came it was swift and sure - James took on height, muscle moved about, feathers of an iridescent purple and green formed and a few seconds later another feather clad creature was standing in the room. He was standing on black bird feet with shiny black claws digging into the carpet. His chest thrust forward even further than Tara&#039;s did - strong powerful flight muscles rippled across his torso.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
James looked into his girlfriend&#039;s eyes. &amp;quot;Tara - this is amazing&amp;quot; and he partially spread his wings - which filled the room and there was more to spread. &amp;quot;I&#039;m stuck&amp;quot; and he looked at his feet, where his claws had sunk deeply into the weave of the carpet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You need to think them open. At rest they will hold tightly to whatever you are standing on, and you need to actively think them open&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was a moment before the ends of his talons lifted from the pile, and like someone wearing snow shoes he shifted his huge feet and took a couple of steps. &amp;quot;This is going to take some getting used to. Don&#039;t you miss your hands?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I do, and everything has now changed. We will need to find some way to survive, but that&#039;s in the future&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Only by standing diagonally and using the corridor space could the wingspan be stretched out, and still not completely. He attempted a little flap of the wings, dust stirred in the room as a small hurricane whipped air around the room.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not in here James, this is too small and you are too strong. You need to get used to that shape before you can fly&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;But you flew straight away&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;This is different magic - this is my magic and you&#039;ll need some time.&amp;quot; The went to each other and kissed, and discovered the inconvenience of wings and the impossibility of hugging and clearly were excluding me, so I made some goodbyes and left the room.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Having been overwhelmed by the experience, and still not quite thinking straight I headed for the lobby. Mike was looking out for me and I joined the others in a quiet area of a bar - there was no food to be had, the American Red Cross were on their way with a field kitchen, Law Enforcement had cordoned the hotel and we could not get out, and the kitchens in the restaurants had been locked. Someone remembered that there was a restaurant on the top floor, we headed for the elevators, and found that we needed a key card to push the top two floors. To cut a dull story short we broke into the top floors, the kitchen was open, no one was about and we fixed ourselves a meal in their kitchen. Over &#039;dinner&#039; I told the story of Tara and James. This caused a great deal more excitement than I expected at the time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;She can do wishes! And you didn&#039;t think to let us know!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...And she only did one wish while you were there!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;That means that two of us could be saved&amp;quot; shouted Sharon, who thumped the table with a hoof, got up from the table and started stamping around the restaurant - shouting and screaming that she could be changed back. Mary, who had sat on two chairs, got really cross with me and Mike looked at me in utter disbelief of what I&#039;d done. There was much swearing. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Food forgotten they raced to the room, to find the door ajar, and Tara and James gone. Mike and Mary rifled through the posessions left in the room, looking for anything that resembled contact details or an address. Crumpled in the bin was an E-ticket for a flight from Minneapolis, and on the receipt was their address. All we had to do was get to Minneapolis, find them and persuade Tara to use the last spell to help us before she used the last spell on someone or something else.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Simply put, we did not catch up with Tara before she had used all her spells - she did modify her feet, and provided them both with a set of arms and hands in addition to the wings. They became quite famous and earned money in a variety of different ways, some of which might have been military.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Well, who else is going to feed you? I don&#039;t see a long line of volunteers&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I was cross. Three weeks later and I was back at home, and mid way through my change. It was uncomfortable, and it hurt. And I had enjoyed an unexpected surprise when my  changes were not what I had consciously expected to happen. Yes it was taking six weeks to change, but no, it was not all below the waist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sharon was living with me, which was not entirely my plan, but it kind of happened. Unfortunately for me she brought very little practically to the running of a home. She couldn&#039;t really do any of the chores that kept a household running, and she made a mess which she couldn&#039;t clear up. Her limited range of movement prevented her from doing most things, but she had a really nice bright and bubbly personality and tried so hard to please and help. I was just feeling particularly grumpy because I was not getting what I had expected. And I could not go to work, so money was really tight. There is a lot to be said for an instantaneous change. What possessed me to imagine a long slow change I don&#039;t know.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;But it&#039;s the sort of thing that you can do for me in exchange for something that I can do for you. You know you can&#039;t get about. I can help. You don&#039;t even know whether you&#039;ll be able to get about quickly once you have changed, Mr Muscle Man. All the muscles might get in the way.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She was right. I was hoping that once completely changed I would be able to walk, maybe even run. But for now I was stuck.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why don&#039;t we get a wheelchair delivered?&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;If we sort out some kind of shafts, I can pull you about. I can be your transportation&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
By we, she meant me, but I could probably do something and there was some lumber in the outhouse which could be lashed onto the sides of a wheelchair.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Fire up the laptop, attach the pointers and I&#039;ll take a look for you&amp;quot;. We had improvised a holder for a pencil on each hoof which she could use to type on a keyboard and she could push a mouse about. It took a long time, but that was something she did not seem to mind at all. Nothing really frustrated or infuriated her. Everything infuriated me.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
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		<title>Paying attention to detail 4</title>
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{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You go on ahead, I&#039;ll find you in the lobby, I just want to drop in on, um, actually I don&#039;t think I know his name, but he&#039;s in some trouble and could probably use some help with his food&amp;quot;. I headed for the room at the end with the guy with ball gloves for hands as the others headed for the stairs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I knocked, and there was a shout from inside the room. I waited a short while and then heard &amp;quot;I can&#039;t open the door&amp;quot;. Ball gloves - that figured. &amp;quot;Can you slide your roomkey under the door?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The key was posted under the door, and I opened it to a quite unexpected scene.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The latex gothic angel girlfriend had arrived, flown in from outside I guessed and was an imposing sight. Take a girl, make her eight feet tall, and thin, cover her skin with fine black feathers and then add fully functional wings - now folded over her head, down her sides and just trailing on the floor behind, again jet black. Her breastbone hugely distorted her chest area, with the flight muscles a massive construction. Her chest now protruded forward about two feet and huge flight muscles now distorted her upper body. Her elbows were now about two feet above her head. Behind her a tail fanned out, again just touching the floor. She was wearing a black latex miniskirt and black latex high heeled boots, the rest of her body covered in real feathers. Her face seemed unchanged, and I guess she was beautiful in an imposing way, and was looking at me for a moment as if I were food.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hi&amp;quot; I said - lame I knew at the time, but I just wasn&#039;t expecting to see this.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hi. James just said you helped him get into the room, thank you&amp;quot; she replied. She sounded nice.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So you can fly&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
With a grin she opened one wing - there was only room for one wing to open, it stretched across the room as it unfolded with a quiet rustle, and as it did it sucked light from the room - a huge black aerodynamic foil of black feathers and raw power. &amp;quot;Yes I can, and it is the most beautiful feeling in the world&amp;quot;. She tucked her wing back over and beside her carefully. &amp;quot;I&#039;ve only just arrived, and I&#039;m about to test my powers out on James - do you want to watch?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What powers?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;ve three wishes.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Why do angels have wishes?&amp;quot; I asked.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m not an angel, I&#039;m a fairy, and as a fairy I have three wishes. I always have had, ever since I was a little girl&amp;quot;. She said with an impish grin. &amp;quot;James, what do you want to be?&amp;quot; she asked.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Like you&amp;quot; he replied. James was still in his heavily modified form.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She paused.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Can I touch you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Of course you can...&amp;quot; and he moved towards her. She leaned forward and downwards to allow him to kiss her, and then he touched her feathers with the balls of his hands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Be careful, these wings really work and I&#039;m missing the beak required to properly preen them. You can stroke them in the right direction, but be very careful&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
He explored her body, stroking down the feathers on her body and head. He had tears in his eyes &amp;quot;I thought I had lost you. You are so beautiful&amp;quot; he whispered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I missed you. And I love you so much.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;So what are you going to do?&amp;quot; he asked.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Make you like me, but with improvements. I cannot perch, and that would waste one of my three spells. I can make you better than me.&amp;quot; She looked at her boots thoughtfully.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Let me see, I need to work it all out first in my head before I do the actual spell. It&#039;s probably easier to do it in stages. Stay quiet and let me think. One spell...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She closed her eyes, and a stillness came over the occupants in the room. All thoughts of food temporarily banished, just the sound of breathing, air conditioning and a soft rustle as her feathers moved as she moved slightly. Time seemed to stop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She whispered &amp;quot;This will come in stages...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
James began to change shape, it was like watching water flow, ice melt, skin ripple, in a matter of a few seconds James was what I expect James was like before the Xanadu moment, now naked and checking himself over. He went to the mirror and inspected his reflection. &amp;quot;I&#039;m not the same as I was, I think I&#039;m better, stronger, taller...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;And you are still changing, or this spell will end. That&#039;s how I saw you&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Now, I really need to concentrate, quiet, and...&amp;quot; looking at me, &amp;quot;stand back.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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I moved to a corner, and again the stillness came to the room. &lt;br /&gt;
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Again she whispered to herself &amp;quot;Wings good, strength good, feet, think the feet through first...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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I couldn&#039;t help but think that I was witnessing something magical and at the edge of belief, and when the change came it was swift and sure - James took on height, muscle moved about, feathers of an iridescent purple and green formed and a few seconds later another feather clad creature was standing in the room. He was standing on black bird feet with shiny black claws digging into the carpet.&lt;br /&gt;
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James looked into his girlfriend&#039;s eyes. &amp;quot;Tara - this is amazing&amp;quot; and he spread his wings - which filled the room and there was more to spread, only by standing diagonally and using the corridor space could the wingspan be stretched out completely. He attempted a little flap of the wings, dust stirred in the room as a small hurricane whipped air around the room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Not in here James, this is too small and you are too strong. You need to get used to that shape before you can fly&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;But you flew straight away&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;This is different magic - this is my magic and you&#039;ll need some time.&amp;quot; The went to each other and kissed, and discovered the inconvenience of wings and hugging and clearly were excluding me, so I made some goodbyes and left the room.&lt;br /&gt;
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Having been overwhelmed by the experience, and still not quite thinking straight I headed for the lobby. Mike was looking out for me and I joined the others in a quiet area of a bar - there was no food to be had, the American Red Cross were on their way with a field kitchen, Law Enforcement had cordoned the hotel and we could not get out, and the kitchens in the restaurants had been locked. Someone remembered that there was a restaurant on the top floor, we headed for the elevators, and found that we needed a key card to push the top two floors. To cut a dull story short we broke into the top floors, the kitchen was open, no one was about and we fixed ourselves a meal in their kitchen. Over &#039;dinner&#039; I told the story of Tara and James. This caused a great deal more excitement than I expected at the time.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;She can do wishes! And you didn&#039;t think to let us know!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;...And she only did one wish while you were there!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;That means that two of us could be saved&amp;quot; shouted Sharon, who thumped the table with a hoof, got up from the table and started stamping around the restaurant - shouting and screaming that she could be changed back. Mary, who had sat on two chairs, got really cross with me and Mike looked at me in utter disbelief of what I&#039;d done. There was much swearing. &lt;br /&gt;
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Food forgotten they raced to the room, to find the door ajar, and Tara and James gone. Mike and Mary rifled through the posessions left in the room, looking for anything that resembled contact details or an address. Crumpled in the bin was an E-ticket for a flight from Minneapolis, and on the receipt was their address. All we had to do was get to Minneapolis, find them and persuade Tara to use the last spell to help us before she used the last spell on someone or something else.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: /* Admin help please */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;==Searching==&lt;br /&gt;
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After the chat we had about the limitations of the internal search system of MediaWiki I took a look at wikimedia for search extensions. &amp;quot;Lucene Search&amp;quot; seemed to be the best bet, but after fighting to get the backend for it built and installed I learned it wasn&#039;t any better than the built-in system. (In truth, its worse. No ability to select additional namespaces to search in, requires manual dumping of the database and importing into the backend for indexing, etc...) All the code is there to support it, though. However I&#039;ve shut down the search daemon and disabled the extension. I&#039;m going to go back to poking at the MediaWiki internals to see if I can change the default search to include the User namespace. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 21:22, 21 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:When Wikipedia&#039;s under extreme load it shuts down the internal search engine to conserve resources and instead present a wrapper for a Google search limited to the wikipedia.org server, perhaps you could use something like that?  Wouldn&#039;t work until Google started spidering us, which I don&#039;t know if they&#039;ve done yet, but with MediaWiki&#039;s search as poor as it is it may be an improvement. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 02:42, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::There are several extensions on MetaWiki for Google searches. As far as I can tell from the [http://www.keil-draco.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=shifti stats page] Google has started the indexing process. (look down under the &amp;quot;bots&amp;quot; section). I&#039;ll get to work doing the reorg so Category:Author points to author homepages and Category:Stories By Author is the stories themselves. (It&#039;s better if we stay ahead of the curve, no?) [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 13:13, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Sure, though staying behind the curve also has its advantages (we&#039;ll know more about what the organization of Shifti actually looks like :). I&#039;d advise lowercase titles for pages and categories where possible, BTW, it makes them more natural to link to. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 13:18, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::Now you tell me. I&#039;ve already gone and finished the reorg. How about I put together a few templates to somewhat automate the categorization and linking process? [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 13:39, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::If you like, though I don&#039;t really see the point of turning &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;[[Category:Author]]&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; into &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{Category author}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; and such. I&#039;ll convert over the category to lower case, I&#039;m used to doing that sort of thing over on Wikipedia. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 13:49, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::I was thinking more along the lines of &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{AuthorPage}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; adding &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;[[Category:(Author Name)]]&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; to the &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{Title}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; template. No need to go crazy with stuff like that. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 14:04, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::&amp;lt;s&amp;gt;A potential gotcha you might run into: If you put &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{PAGENAME}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; on a template, it resolves as the &#039;&#039;template&#039;s&#039;&#039; page name. So every author page could wind up categorized in [[:Category:AuthorPage]]. You&#039;d probably need to take the category name as a parameter, or ask that every user substitute the template rather than transclude it (if you use &amp;quot;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{subst:template name}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&amp;quot; instead of just &amp;quot;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{template name}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&amp;quot; the text of the template page is inserted directly into the article the moment you click &amp;quot;save&amp;quot;).&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt; Huh. I see now that you already use this in [[Template:Title]] and it works the other way. I&#039;m going to have to double-check my Wikipedia experience on this one. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 14:28, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::: I&#039;m also not a fan of categories in templates because it makes it impossible to use the template elsewhere (such as on a help page describing its usage) without incorrectly categorizing the other pages it appears in. I really think we&#039;re not a big enough wiki yet to be worrying much about this, I&#039;m capable of cleaning everything up manually. It only took me two minutes to switch everything over from Stories By Author to stories by author. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 14:21, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::Not a problem. But look at the hoops I had to jump through for the &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{part}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; template, which refused to resolve inside the table on the help page. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 14:31, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Searching and redirects==&lt;br /&gt;
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I think we might be able to sidestep the whole &amp;quot;search upgrade&amp;quot; thing by adding redirects - put on at [[Companion (Bob Stein)]], have it redirect to [[User:Posti/Companion]] and it should work, no?  [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 14:48, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Yup. Wikipedia uses redirects of common misspellings in the same manner. No need for the parenthetical (Bob Stein) unless there&#039;s some other page already called &amp;quot;Companion&amp;quot;, though. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 15:06, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Actually, I guess the parenthetical might be useful for people who are searching for &amp;quot;Bob Stein&amp;quot;. The category would be a more useful place to find that but I guess people might not know to look there initially. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 15:47, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:: That was my thought on it. It would allow for a search for Bob Stein to turn it up. Though you are correct, the category page would be the better spot. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 16:29, 22 July 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Dragons of Histh organization==&lt;br /&gt;
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About the &amp;quot;Dragons of Histh&amp;quot; stuff... I&#039;m not to comfortable with &amp;quot;Book the One&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Book the Two&amp;quot; and such being main namespace entries. I&#039;m asking before I do anything, but I&#039;d feel better if they were moved to, say, &amp;quot;Dragons of Histh: Book the One&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Book the One (Dragons of Histh)&amp;quot;. As well, does this &amp;quot;Kinglake Film Partnership&amp;quot; actually exist or is it just some fluff name that &#039;Loathesome Dragon&#039; created to make the setting seem more important/famous than it really is? (And if it is just a fluff name then I think it should be moved to User:Loathesomedragon/Kinglake_Film_Partnership. If it isn&#039;t it seems like rampant advertisement and I will delete it with that being the reason.) -- [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 00:03, 5 August 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I was thinking of moving those stories myself, actually. The names seemed overly generic and could be confusing. But as for the Kinglake thing, I don&#039;t see any reason not to leave it be; it&#039;s not likely that anyone&#039;s going to name a story that and it&#039;s not going to be in any story categories, so nobody will see it unless they&#039;re actively searching for it. So there&#039;s no clutter. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 00:30, 5 August 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== New Templates ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve noticed that you&#039;ve been adding some new templates lately.  However, the [[Help:Templates]] page still needs updating with the howtos and examples. Or are they still in the rough? --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] 19:38, 2 September 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Not really, I just haven&#039;t got to updating it yet (and the external image template is covered in the image help page, which IMO is a more approriate place for it). I&#039;ll update tonight after I&#039;ve done more work on &#039;&#039;Against Type&#039;&#039;, my creativity is tied up at the moment. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 19:50, 2 September 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Against Type ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Your ISP is blocking my emails again.  I can&#039;t send you the current file.  It&#039;s almost done, too. :P --[[User:JonBuck|Buck]] 22:39, 7 September 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Blacklists ==&lt;br /&gt;
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In addition to the Captcha there are now two blacklists, one for certain username patterns and one for certain URL&#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
Username Blacklist can be found at [http://shifti.org/MediaWiki:usernameblacklist MediaWiki:usernameblacklist] and the URL blacklist is at [http://shifti.org/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist] -- [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 21:00, 12 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve gone and slapped the spam blacklist code around a bit because it irritated the crap out of me earlier. Won&#039;t be irritating me anymore, even though it&#039;s still installed and functional. &amp;amp;mdash; [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 02:53, 8 January 2008 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Can you disable the &#039;&#039;captcha&#039;&#039; for me, please? Its a pain to recognize very jabbered letters, I have to post one story many times consuming a traffic. Strange, it requests identify eben for a page without any links.[[User:Inry|Inry]] 11:39, 10 February 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Code Update ==&lt;br /&gt;
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You asked for it, you got it. A list of random pages is available via &amp;amp;lt;randompages/&amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;ndash; it currently understands &amp;quot;style&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;class&amp;quot; as standard HTML parameters and can take a &amp;quot;count&amp;quot; parameter, which determines the length of the list generated. It is currently completely undecorated, so I think I&#039;ll set it up so it you can do &amp;amp;lt;randompages&amp;amp;gt;title text&amp;amp;lt;/randompages&amp;amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I also fixed up Special:Random to search NS_MAIN and NS_USER by default while not interfering with the operation of Special:Random/&amp;amp;lt;namespace&amp;amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;mdash;[[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 23:40, 20 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;Update&#039;&#039;&#039; &amp;amp;mdash; added the title bar stuff. Two new paramters to go with it, &amp;quot;titlestyle&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;titleclass&amp;quot; &amp;amp;ndash; these control the look of the displayed title text. &amp;amp;mdash; [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 00:00, 21 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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More news. I&#039;ve added the requested &amp;quot;Total Number Of Articles&amp;quot; bit to the categories page. Unfortunately it only covers articles and not subcategories. Doing subcategories is going to take another chunk of patching. &amp;amp;mdash; [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 19:57, 23 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Unfortunately it&#039;s borked at this point and combining sub-categories and articles in one lump. I&#039;m going to disable it for now and go back to the poking. &amp;amp;mdash; [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 20:00, 23 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::And I&#039;ve fixed it. Problem is that this would never fly for MediaWiki - it&#039;s making a massive database query and iterating over the results to count the  articles. On Wikipedia, for example, this would require getting millions of results and iterating over them - quite intensive. &amp;amp;mdash; [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 20:35, 23 October 2007 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== другие языки / International ==&lt;br /&gt;
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How to correctly add to the Shifti pages on Russian? I have some translation of your stories and some my own stories.&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:217.21.43.222|217.21.43.222]] 04:00, 20 December 2007 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Neat! Shifti runs on MediaWiki software, which is fully Unicode-compliant. It should be possible to just copy and paste Cyrillic text straight into the edit window and save it as-is, and you should be able to use Cyrillic in page titles and user names and such as well. Give it a try and let me know if any specific problems crop up.&lt;br /&gt;
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:Also, I&#039;d be happy to see Russian translations of my stories posted here. It&#039;s something I&#039;d never have imagined would ever happen :) Just make sure you ask other authors for permission before posting translations of any of theirs, though - copyright remains with the original authors and if they don&#039;t want translations posted they get the final say on that. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 04:13, 20 December 2007 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Same here. BD&#039;s stories are excellent and if they have been translated into another language, it&#039;d be nice to see them here so his international fans can read them.&lt;br /&gt;
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::As a side note, it&#039;s wonderful that the non-english-speaking furs and TF fans have found Shifti and are interested in participating. This is the kind of thing I was hoping for when I decided to host the site. [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 04:24, 20 December 2007 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
== Alex Warlorn said ... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I just want to say, I&#039;m sorry that my comment offended you. That was not my intention. I have been a fan of your writing for YEARS. &lt;br /&gt;
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:Which comment? I don&#039;t recall being offended by any comments on Shifti, so perhaps something&#039;s being misinterpreted, or perhaps my memory is faulty. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 01:25, 25 December 2007 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Forum? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Hey there, I&#039;ve been contemplating this since a conversation I had with bard a while back about the number of comments posted to storys on shifti and I&#039;ve been wondering if maybe there are some people that just arent familiar with or crazy about the commenting method of a wiki.&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve also been pondering a kind of central place where people can post or discuss whatever they want about stuff on shifti or about transformation in general, basically a forum like Proboards linked to from the main page.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just wondering what you and shadow wolf think about this. [[User:Devin]]&lt;br /&gt;
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:Well, I consider TSA-Talk to be the sorta-semi-official &amp;quot;forum&amp;quot; for Shifti. This site originally grew out of the need to replace the TSA with a new archive that would be more flexible and easier to keep updated, so inheriting the associated fora seems reasonable to me. Better to use existing places with existing populations than to fragment the userbase unnecessarily, IMO. But if other fora are created I&#039;d have no problem with listing them here too. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 12:59, 26 December 2007 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Admin help please ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Bryan, I should have read the manual first, but I didn&#039;t. I should have moved story &amp;quot;Mermaid&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Paying attention to detail 1&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Mermaid Too&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Paying attention to detail 2&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Paying attention to detail&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Paying attention to detail 3&amp;quot; and the irony is not lost on me, but I created new pages with those names and then realised there is no &#039;delete&#039; function. Now I&#039;ve created new pages I can&#039;t move to them, I think an admin needs to sort out the mess. Apologies in advance - sdw.&lt;br /&gt;
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:No problem. Just to make sure I follow your request correctly, are you&#039;re wanting me to delete the pages [[Mermaid]], [[Mermaid Too]] and [[Paying attention to detail]]? Or do you want the revision histories of those pages to be merged into the new pages&#039; ones instead? For future reference you can request page deletions by adding the string &amp;quot;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{request deletion}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&amp;quot; to the page. Alternately, if you&#039;re concerned that people might have linked to the old pages and will now get lost looking for your story sections, you can redirect the old pages by replacing the contents with &amp;quot;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;#REDIRECT [[new page name]]&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&amp;quot;. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 18:40, 3 January 2008 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Could You please check if my story The Right of Dreamers is listed properly in search categories and is accessible for anyone who might want to read it. I submitted the story two months ago and there is no single comment on it yet, neither good nor bad one :(. I’m not waiting for many comments for my other two stories as they are written in Russian language and therefore are unreadable for most shifti users, but The Right of Dreamers I wrote in English for it to be readable on shifti. I don’t want to think that my story wasn’t interpreting enough to leave a comment for at least a few people of those who should see it in Dragons category since it is there. Therefore I assume there might be some technical problems I don’t understand myself. &lt;br /&gt;
[[User:GreyDragon|GreyDragon]] 04:49, 17 November 2008 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Three-fourths ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;
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I didn&#039;t know about watching pages, so I wasn&#039;t aware of the comment, I&#039;ll be amending my watchlist presently.  The story was a request from Soty, and I was familiar with his work, but not the one you linked, thanks for that too.  Feel free to have a go at editing the story.  I&#039;ll go take a look at it as well when I have the time.&lt;br /&gt;
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--[[User:Leasara|Leasara]] 01:00, 16 February 2008 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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I have tightened the story up a bit and caught a few typos.  Let me know if you think it still needs work.&lt;br /&gt;
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--[[User:Leasara|Leasara]] 02:10, 18 February 2008 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Will do. Sorry I haven&#039;t got to giving any help myself yet, weekend&#039;s been pretty hectic for me. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 02:48, 18 February 2008 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
== U-V said ... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Wow! My goodness, I&#039;m touched and honoured (re:  unequal share) That I could help inspire a story like that! It&#039;s very in keeping with the spirit of the little scenario I had slightly built up in mind. :)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Thanks. I wrote it without referencing the image, just my memory of it, so the setting wound up slightly different - I take it the image was meant to be set on a ship. Oh well, a minor thing. It also wasn&#039;t the mass TF implied by the bit of text you included in the image description, but it didn&#039;t rule out anything like that happening subsequently. I&#039;ve got other writing commitments right now so I can&#039;t extend it, but maybe later. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 11:45, 27 March 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==General==&lt;br /&gt;
Hello again, Bryan. I have just finished creating my homepage on Shifti. I hope that the stories’ list I had just created will be interesting for other Shifti users. The list has only 3 stories at the moment but I hope that there will be more with time either with my own search efforts or thanks to help of more experienced TF readers and writers (including You, sir).&lt;br /&gt;
As for my own TF stories, they are in Russian language. Will it make sense posting them on my Shifti homepage anyway?&lt;br /&gt;
--[[User:GreyDragon|GreyDragon]] 14:07, 21 August 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Sure! There was a fellow a while back who was doing Russian translations of existing stories (see [[#другие языки / International]] earlier on this page), I was keen to host a bunch of those here. If you like you could create a category for Russian-language stuff, if more comes along it&#039;d be neat to have a directory of it. Shifti supports unicode, so you can use Cyrillic characters both within the page text and in page titles (eg, [[Русский язык]]). I&#039;m not a Russian speaker myself, unfortunately, so I won&#039;t be able to help much with the editing and such. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 14:22, 21 August 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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great site thanks see u&lt;br /&gt;
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--bobby 17:13, 23 September 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Um, thanks. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 19:34, 23 September 2008 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Oops... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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One of these days I&#039;ll remember to double-check that I&#039;m actually giving the greeting on the right page... I keep forgetting that the &amp;quot;new user&amp;quot; entries on Special:RecentChanges doesn&#039;t have a &#039;Talk&#039; link. And I guess I should also keep from editing when distracted :) -- [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 06:12, 7 March 2009 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:No problem, everything&#039;s easily fixable. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 07:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Spam/Vandalism ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Viqsi has said that [[Web comics]] comes up as the #2 result on [http://www.google.com Google] in a search for Shifti. That might be the reason that it seems to be getting hit more often than other pages.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Besides that, though, it is looking like Shifti might be pulling in some spammers/vandals who hit a page once or twice to test if the site is being patrolled. There are a lot of Wiki&#039;s that have been massively vandalized and the vandals might have been following that pattern.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Beyond that... I had thought about protecting [[Web comics]] but decided not to because I was unsure if it could be blocked against just anon-edits. Good to see that it can. -- [[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]] 02:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Yup, semi-protection blocks both anonymous edits and edits by accounts that are relatively young - I believe the default is four days. That prevents throwaway accounts from being easily used to circumvent it. Good to know why [[web comics]] was picked as the target; that means it&#039;s unlikely that the vandal will just start picking other pages at random. Not that there are a heck of a lot of publically-editable pages, since most authors seem to prefer the subpage route. [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 05:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Defaultsort ==&lt;br /&gt;
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It seems that the Default Sort Template doesn&#039;t work anymore. In Category Pages, my stories appear in User:Forestier/... [[User:Forestier|Forestier]] 14:32, 6 January 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I made a mistake. The story are correctly &#039;&#039;sorted&#039;&#039; ; but I remember that they used to appeared under their real title, not under their page name. [[User:Forestier|Forestier]] 14:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Yeah, this was previously done by a custom tweak done to Shifti&#039;s code that was lost in the crash. It&#039;s been noticed and we&#039;ll have it fixed back up soon. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 08:08, 10 January 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Thanks. [[User:Forestier|Forestier]] 20:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Critique Request ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Your Xanadu Universe has really struck a chord with me.  Since I first discovered it a few weeks ago, it has inspired me to write the first fiction I&#039;ve done in more than a decade.  I would appreciate it if some time, when you have the time, you could read what I&#039;ve written and tell me what you think of it and or how I could improve it.  There is no hurry, and I won&#039;t be upset if you decline. I&#039;m a grown up and can take criticism.  :-)&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you&lt;br /&gt;
Alveric&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:Sure thing, I&#039;ll give it a read-over tomorrow after sleep (to make sure I read it right :). [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 08:31, 27 February 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve posted my stories on Deviant Art and would like to post on TSATalk.  How do I properly give you credit for creating the Xanadu Universe?  I only know you as Bryan.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Alveric&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
On DA I gave a short discription of the Xanadu Universe and directed folks who want to learn more to Shifti.org.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When you want to, take another look at &#039;Wynd, Skye etc.&#039;  And tell me what you think so far.  No hurry, it&#039;s far from finished.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Alveric&lt;br /&gt;
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==Permission Sought==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Despite the long odds against it, I&#039;ve decided to bite the bullet and see if I can get my Mermaid stories published as a novel.  I want to seek your permission first, since the Xanadu setting is such an important inspiration in their creation and Eric and Felix show up briefly as characters.  I&#039;ll give full credit and, as before, I won&#039;t be upset if you decline.  Thanks  --[[User:Alveric|Alveric]] 17:07, 22 November 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:By all means, permission granted! If by some chance you get it published and have the opportunity to add an author&#039;s note or forward or other such bit of text I&#039;d be tickled if you managed to slip in mention of the Xanadu shared universe existing beyond just that story, but even that&#039;s not really a request. :) [[User:Bryan|Bryan]] 04:25, 23 November 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Actually, how would you feel about writing a preface?  --[[User:Alveric|Alveric]] 05:18, 23 November 2011 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An Update:  My Mermaid stories have been published as &#039;&#039;The Accidental Mermaid&#039;&#039;.  It&#039;s available on Amazon and Barnes &amp;amp; Noble.  You&#039;re on the dedication page along with a mention for Shifti.org.  I&#039;m working on the sequel, &#039;&#039;The Girl With the Sea-Green Eyes&#039;&#039; (also here on Shifti).  Alot of the questions I get involve the Xanadu Event.  I refer people here, but I would still be interested in a preface from you.  --[[User:Alveric|Alveric]] ([[User talk:Alveric|talk]]) 16:27, 6 August 2012 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Horse_Girl&amp;diff=14042</id>
		<title>Horse Girl</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Horse_Girl&amp;diff=14042"/>
		<updated>2011-03-29T12:30:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]]   [[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Equine]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
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She was entirely innocent of any crime - and was going about her business in an entirely unknowing way when, for no reason she could detect, her vision went blurry and she had to sit down. Feeling faint in the head was unusual but the feeling soon passed and she though nothing of it - only later did she realise that this moment was the start. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Many days passed and she continued to work, complete the chores and sleep soundly next to her loving husband. She was happy and enjoyed the life she had. One evening before bed she noticed that the skin on her hands felt strange, and she applied something which she thought would help, but by the next morning there was definitely something wrong from the wrists to the ends of her fingers and thumbs. She consulted a doctor who did not know what it was and prescribed some ointment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the days passed the skin continued to get more strange, and she began to wear gloves so that people would not notice. Over the days she realised that both her hands were growing a coarse stubble - backs and palms were sprouting coarse hair. Once it became established is began to grow far faster that hair on her head, and soon after she had hands which were all but invisible under the hair. She cut it, of course, shaved it and tried to hold back the growth, but it came in ever more length. Soon she gave up cutting it, and allowed the hair to grow. Her husband, supportive and concerned, was employing every available resource to help alleviate the condition and nothing seemed to be available. Soon the hair was neither coverable with gloves nor anything else, it reached to her knees when standing. If wearing a long sleeved garment the hair simply cascaded from the sleeves.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Shortly after that she found that both shoulder joints became stiff, and the movement of her upper arms began to become restricted when attempting to bring her elbows forward of her hips. She could still continue to complete chores, but her movement was limited and her shoulders stiff, and this continued for several days, every day she found that the movement of her elbows were becoming further restricted towards her spine, and her elbow movement was becoming more and more limited. She had to give up work, and shortly afterwards give up helping out around the house as well. Unable to help, and finding sitting on her arms very uncomfortable she took to either standing, or with help from her husband, lying on her front.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A message arrived for her and her husband, and it told them to visit a far off city, where there may be a cure. There was an address, but no money to make the very long journey a pleasent one. No attempt to contact the location worked, no information about the location was available from any source. There seemed to be no choice but to follow the instructions. The overland journey was going to take many days, and with little money left they undertook it, sleeping on public transport, eating in roadside food establishments; her husband now feeding her every mouthful of food and every gulp of drink. Her elbows now touched at her spine, her arms extended straight down, and it was clear that she now sported a tail, now down to her ankles where it seemed to stop growing further. One morning they realised that the skin was growing between her back and her arms, and over the next few days her arms were absorbed into her back. Her fingers fused into one hair covered stub, and she now looked like an armless girl with a tail, which could be swished vigorously back and forth - she could keep flies off her whole body with a swish of her tail. While being an interesting party-piece, she was terrified of falling - without arms to protect her in a fall she would seriously hurt herself. She took to wearing a long coat which buttoned at the front and extended to her ankles - in this way she would pass un-noticed in the street, or on the public transport.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They both arrived a the destination. The building was unmarked, no logo or sign to indicate the contents or purpose, and they knocked on the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The door buzzed and they pushed and entered the building. It was cold inside, and the walls were painted plainly, the space had only one other door. The door behind them closed. The one in front buzzed and they opened it, onto a courtyard in the middle of the building. A man was sitting on a chair, and stood up to greet them, shaking the hand of the man and grasping the shoulder of the woman warmly. They were invited to sit or stand, whichever was more comfortable. There was a chair and a stool - she took the stool and the husband the chair. The man expressed regret at what had happened to the girl, and took full responsibility. He explained that during research there was a containment failure on one of the experiments that his company was conducting, and a &#039;sprite&#039; had escaped. He confirmed that the sprite could fly for many miles, carried on the winds, but would eventually find a host at random, enter that host would have caused a vision loss and faintness when it entered her, and also that it was responsible for her current condition. He also explained that it was possible to extract the sprite, so that it would cause no further changes - mental changes would be next. The husband and wife became extremely distressed with this news, and angry, there was shouting and the husband began to get voilent, but the man calmly caught and held his wrists as if he were a child, with the strength of ten men he held the man, and calmed him. In the face of such extreme physical strength there was nothing to be done, and the husband slumped back to his chair and wept for the loss of humanity suffered by his wife and his impotence to help.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The man listened to the wife telling him of the suffering she had undergone, the changes that had happened, the loss of ability and the terror she now felt from falling. She asked how she was to get the use of her arms back, and was horrified to find out that they were permanently lost. The changes were one way and final. She asked what could be done about her falling - that animals on two legs have very big feet and things which have no arms have four legs. She raged about how difficult it is to be a two legged creature without arms. The man calmed her, and invited her to take one step at a time - the first and most important step is to remove the sprite, and that would be done now if she was willing. She was, they went into a side room where there was a raised bed, she was helped onto it, and left in the room on her own. Just as the man walked out he unscrewed the lid on a jar which seemed to have a piece of offal in it. He left the jar on the floor under the table. The man and her husband went into the next room and waited - they discussed what was happening - the offal was bait - the sprite would notice it, and leave the current host. Five minutes later there was a cry of surprise and they entered to see the offal now surrounded with a light pink mist, and the girl still on the bed but very talkative. The man screwed the lid on and carried the jar to another room. She seemed lighter, more positive about the world, but still nervous about falling. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They took a warm drink together, and the man began to explain the choices - there were many and most were dismissed. One of the alternatives would have moved her legs to her shoulders, so that she had some kind of arm movement, with toes slightly longer to act like fingers - but that would have left her with no legs, and it would have resulted in her being more of a strange creature than she was now. Having suffered amputation once she was not ready to be unable to walk. One further alternative was to leave her just as she was, eventually she would learn to manipulate things with her feet as amputees learn to do. She was overwhelmingly sure of one thing - her goal was to become more surefooted. Since she could not grow her arms back - the sprite had taken that from her - she was now a two limbed creature for the rest of her life  He had a way of making the best of her current condition - it did mean that she would host another sprite, but this time one which would only apply physical changes. Since she had no arms any more, she could maximise the strength and sureness of her legs and feet. And so it was that they both stayed in the building and over the next few days she was infected by a sprite which continued to change her from the waist down, but this time she knew what was happening, and with the correct nutrition the changes continued quickly and the sprite left her body of it&#039;s own free will. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The creature which emerged in her long coat several days later from the front of the unmarked building was still, from a casual viewers standpoint, a girl with no arms in a long coat, but look below the coat at her feet, now the huge hooves of a shire horse. Look at the way she walks, not in quite the same way as a human would walk, with the joints and muscles of the back legs of a shire horse. From below the waist she was now a powerful horse, with the human body merging with the horse body at the places where a swimsuit would fit -  her genitals unchanged but all else about her legs those of a powerful horse, covered with a fine hair. She made a clopping sound on the concrete pavement, and they went by bus to a local blacksmith who seemed unsurprised to see her. He fitted her huge feet with metal shoes, the acrid smell of the hot shoe bedding into the foot stung her nose sharply, and he gave her some rubber boots to fit over the hooves for walking on concrete. She found the legs no inconvenience - the strength of her muscles easily making up for the weight of the huge hooves. For the rest of her life she would require feeding and cleaning, but she would remain surefooted no matter what the future held.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She was still not happy about what had happened, but had resolved to make the best of it, knowing that many people would pay to see her in this condition, and that her chances of falling over were very slim.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Horse_Girl&amp;diff=14034</id>
		<title>Horse Girl</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Horse_Girl&amp;diff=14034"/>
		<updated>2011-03-28T08:42:36Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]]   [[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Equine]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She was entirely innocent of any crime - and was going about her business in an entirely unknowing way when, for no reason she could detect, her vision went blurry and she had to sit down. Feeling faint in the head was unusual but the feeling soon passed and she though nothing of it - only later did she realise that this moment was the start. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Many days passed and she continued to work, complete the chores and sleep soundly next to her loving husband. She was happy and enjoyed the life she had. One evening before bed she noticed that the skin on her hands felt strange, and she applied something which she thought would help, but by the next morning there was definitely something wrong from the wrists to the ends of her fingers and thumbs. She consulted a doctor who did not know what it was and prescribed some ointment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the days passed the skin continued to get more strange, and she began to wear gloves so that people would not notice. Over the days she realised that both her hands were growing a coarse stubble - backs and palms were sprouting coarse hair. Once it became established is began to grow far faster that hair on her head, and soon after she had hands which were all but invisible under the hair. She cut it, of course, shaved it and tried to hold back the growth, but it came in ever more length. Soon she gave up cutting it, and allowed the hair to grow. Her husband, supportive and concerned, was employing every available resource to help alleviate the condition and nothing seemed to be available. Soon the hair was neither coverable with gloves nor anything else, it reached to her knees when standing. If wearing a long sleeved garment the hair simply cascaded from the sleeves.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Shortly after that she found that both shoulder joints became stiff, and the movement of her upper arms began to become restricted when attempting to bring her elbows forward of her hips. She could still continue to complete chores, but her movement was limited and her shoulders stiff, and this continued for several days, every day she found that the movement of her elbows were becoming further restricted towards her spine, and her elbow movement was becoming more and more limited. She had to give up work, and shortly afterwards give up helping out around the house as well. Unable to help, and finding sitting on her arms very uncomfortable she took to either standing, or with help from her husband, lying on her front.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A message arrived for her and her husband, and it told them to visit a far off city, where there may be a cure. There was an address, but no money to make the very long journey a pleasent one. No attempt to contact the location worked, no information about the location was available from any source. There seemed to be no choice but to follow the instructions. The overland journey was going to take many days, and with little money left they undertook it, sleeping on public transport, eating in roadside food establishments; her husband now feeding her every mouthful of food and every gulp of drink. Her elbows now touched at her spine, her arms extended straight down, and it was clear that she now sported a tail, now down to her ankles where it seemed to stop growing further. One morning they realised that the skin was growing between her back and her arms, and over the next few days her arms were absorbed into her back. Her fingers fused into one hair covered stub, and she now looked like an armless girl with a tail, which could be swished vigorously back and forth - she could keep flies off her whole body with a swish of her tail. While being an interesting party-piece, she was terrified of falling - without arms to protect her in a fall she would seriously hurt herself. She took to wearing a long coat which buttoned at the front and extended to her ankles - in this way she would pass un-noticed in the street, or on the public transport.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They both arrived a the destination. The building was unmarked, no logo or sign to indicate the contents or purpose, and they knocked on the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The door buzzed and they pushed and entered the building. It was cold inside, and the walls were painted plainly, the space had only one other door. The door behind them closed. The one in front buzzed and they opened it, onto a courtyard in the middle of the building. A man was sitting on a chair, and stood up to greet them, shaking the hand of the man and grasping the shoulder of the woman warmly. They were invited to sit or stand, whichever was more comfortable. There was a chair and a stool - she took the stool and the husband the chair. The man expressed regret at what had happened to the girl, and took full responsibility. He explained that during research there was a containment failure on one of the experiments that his company was conducting, and a &#039;sprite&#039; had escaped. He confirmed that the sprite could fly for many miles, carried on the winds, but would eventually find a host at random, enter that host would have caused a vision loss and faintness when it entered her, and also that it was responsible for her current condition. He also explained that it was possible to extract the sprite, so that it would cause no further changes - mental changes would be next. The husband and wife became extremely distressed with this news, and angry, there was shouting and the husband began to get voilent, but the man calmly caught and held his wrists as if he were a child, with the strength of ten men he held the man, and calmed him. In the face of such extreme physical strength there was nothing to be done, and the husband slumped back to his chair and wept for the loss of humanity suffered by his wife and his impotence to help.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The man listened to the wife telling him of the suffering she had undergone, the changes that had happened, the loss of ability and the terror she now felt from falling. She asked how she was to get the use of her arms back, and was horrified to find out that they were permanently lost. The changes were one way and final. She asked what could be done about her falling - that animals on two legs have very big feet and things which have no arms have four legs. She raged about how difficult it is to be a two legged creature without arms. The man calmed her, and invited her to take one step at a time - the first and most important step is to remove the sprite, and that would be done now if she was willing. She was, they went into a side room where there was a raised bed, she was helped onto it, and left in the room on her own. Just as the man walked out he unscrewed the lid on a jar which seemed to have a piece of offal in it. He left the jar on the floor under the table. The man and her husband went into the next room and waited - they discussed what was happening - the offal was bait - the sprite would notice it, and leave the current host. Five minutes later there was a cry of surprise and they entered to see the offal now surrounded with a light pink mist, and the girl still on the bed but very talkative. The man screwed the lid on and carried the jar to another room. She seemed lighter, more positive about the world, but still nervous about falling. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They took a warm drink together, and the man began to explain the choices - there were many and most were dismissed, but one was not - becoming more surefooted. He had a way of making the best of her current condition - it did mean that she would host another sprite, but this time one which would only apply physical changes. Since she had no arms any more, she could maximise the strength and sureness of her legs and feet. And so it was that they both stayed in the building and over the next few days she was infected by a sprite which continued to change her from the waist down, but this time she knew what was happening, and with the correct nutrition the changes continued quickly and the sprite left her body of it&#039;s own free will. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The creature which emerged in her long coat several days later from the front of the unmarked building was still, from a casual viewers standpoint, a girl with no arms in a long coat, but look below the coat at her feet, now the huge hooves of a shire horse. Look at the way she walks, not in quite the same way as a human would walk, with the joints and muscles of a shire horse. From below the waist she was now a powerful horse, with her genitals unchanged but all else now those of a horse, covered with a fine hair. She made a clopping sound on the concrete pavement, and they went by bus to a local blacksmith who seemed unsurprised to see her. He fitted her huge feet with metal shoes, the acrid smell of the hot shoe bedding into the foot stung her nose sharply, and he gave her some rubber boots to fit over the hooves for walking on concrete. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She was still not happy about what had happened, but had resolved to make the best of it, knowing that many people would pay to see her in this condition, and that her chances of falling over were very slim.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Horse_Girl&amp;diff=14033</id>
		<title>Horse Girl</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Horse_Girl&amp;diff=14033"/>
		<updated>2011-03-28T08:42:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Created page with &amp;#039;Category:Story   Category:Sdw Category:Canine {{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}  She was entirely innocent of any crime - and was going about her business in an entirely…&amp;#039;&lt;/p&gt;
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{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She was entirely innocent of any crime - and was going about her business in an entirely unknowing way when, for no reason she could detect, her vision went blurry and she had to sit down. Feeling faint in the head was unusual but the feeling soon passed and she though nothing of it - only later did she realise that this moment was the start. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Many days passed and she continued to work, complete the chores and sleep soundly next to her loving husband. She was happy and enjoyed the life she had. One evening before bed she noticed that the skin on her hands felt strange, and she applied something which she thought would help, but by the next morning there was definitely something wrong from the wrists to the ends of her fingers and thumbs. She consulted a doctor who did not know what it was and prescribed some ointment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As the days passed the skin continued to get more strange, and she began to wear gloves so that people would not notice. Over the days she realised that both her hands were growing a coarse stubble - backs and palms were sprouting coarse hair. Once it became established is began to grow far faster that hair on her head, and soon after she had hands which were all but invisible under the hair. She cut it, of course, shaved it and tried to hold back the growth, but it came in ever more length. Soon she gave up cutting it, and allowed the hair to grow. Her husband, supportive and concerned, was employing every available resource to help alleviate the condition and nothing seemed to be available. Soon the hair was neither coverable with gloves nor anything else, it reached to her knees when standing. If wearing a long sleeved garment the hair simply cascaded from the sleeves.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Shortly after that she found that both shoulder joints became stiff, and the movement of her upper arms began to become restricted when attempting to bring her elbows forward of her hips. She could still continue to complete chores, but her movement was limited and her shoulders stiff, and this continued for several days, every day she found that the movement of her elbows were becoming further restricted towards her spine, and her elbow movement was becoming more and more limited. She had to give up work, and shortly afterwards give up helping out around the house as well. Unable to help, and finding sitting on her arms very uncomfortable she took to either standing, or with help from her husband, lying on her front.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A message arrived for her and her husband, and it told them to visit a far off city, where there may be a cure. There was an address, but no money to make the very long journey a pleasent one. No attempt to contact the location worked, no information about the location was available from any source. There seemed to be no choice but to follow the instructions. The overland journey was going to take many days, and with little money left they undertook it, sleeping on public transport, eating in roadside food establishments; her husband now feeding her every mouthful of food and every gulp of drink. Her elbows now touched at her spine, her arms extended straight down, and it was clear that she now sported a tail, now down to her ankles where it seemed to stop growing further. One morning they realised that the skin was growing between her back and her arms, and over the next few days her arms were absorbed into her back. Her fingers fused into one hair covered stub, and she now looked like an armless girl with a tail, which could be swished vigorously back and forth - she could keep flies off her whole body with a swish of her tail. While being an interesting party-piece, she was terrified of falling - without arms to protect her in a fall she would seriously hurt herself. She took to wearing a long coat which buttoned at the front and extended to her ankles - in this way she would pass un-noticed in the street, or on the public transport.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They both arrived a the destination. The building was unmarked, no logo or sign to indicate the contents or purpose, and they knocked on the door.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The door buzzed and they pushed and entered the building. It was cold inside, and the walls were painted plainly, the space had only one other door. The door behind them closed. The one in front buzzed and they opened it, onto a courtyard in the middle of the building. A man was sitting on a chair, and stood up to greet them, shaking the hand of the man and grasping the shoulder of the woman warmly. They were invited to sit or stand, whichever was more comfortable. There was a chair and a stool - she took the stool and the husband the chair. The man expressed regret at what had happened to the girl, and took full responsibility. He explained that during research there was a containment failure on one of the experiments that his company was conducting, and a &#039;sprite&#039; had escaped. He confirmed that the sprite could fly for many miles, carried on the winds, but would eventually find a host at random, enter that host would have caused a vision loss and faintness when it entered her, and also that it was responsible for her current condition. He also explained that it was possible to extract the sprite, so that it would cause no further changes - mental changes would be next. The husband and wife became extremely distressed with this news, and angry, there was shouting and the husband began to get voilent, but the man calmly caught and held his wrists as if he were a child, with the strength of ten men he held the man, and calmed him. In the face of such extreme physical strength there was nothing to be done, and the husband slumped back to his chair and wept for the loss of humanity suffered by his wife and his impotence to help.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The man listened to the wife telling him of the suffering she had undergone, the changes that had happened, the loss of ability and the terror she now felt from falling. She asked how she was to get the use of her arms back, and was horrified to find out that they were permanently lost. The changes were one way and final. She asked what could be done about her falling - that animals on two legs have very big feet and things which have no arms have four legs. She raged about how difficult it is to be a two legged creature without arms. The man calmed her, and invited her to take one step at a time - the first and most important step is to remove the sprite, and that would be done now if she was willing. She was, they went into a side room where there was a raised bed, she was helped onto it, and left in the room on her own. Just as the man walked out he unscrewed the lid on a jar which seemed to have a piece of offal in it. He left the jar on the floor under the table. The man and her husband went into the next room and waited - they discussed what was happening - the offal was bait - the sprite would notice it, and leave the current host. Five minutes later there was a cry of surprise and they entered to see the offal now surrounded with a light pink mist, and the girl still on the bed but very talkative. The man screwed the lid on and carried the jar to another room. She seemed lighter, more positive about the world, but still nervous about falling. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They took a warm drink together, and the man began to explain the choices - there were many and most were dismissed, but one was not - becoming more surefooted. He had a way of making the best of her current condition - it did mean that she would host another sprite, but this time one which would only apply physical changes. Since she had no arms any more, she could maximise the strength and sureness of her legs and feet. And so it was that they both stayed in the building and over the next few days she was infected by a sprite which continued to change her from the waist down, but this time she knew what was happening, and with the correct nutrition the changes continued quickly and the sprite left her body of it&#039;s own free will. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The creature which emerged in her long coat several days later from the front of the unmarked building was still, from a casual viewers standpoint, a girl with no arms in a long coat, but look below the coat at her feet, now the huge hooves of a shire horse. Look at the way she walks, not in quite the same way as a human would walk, with the joints and muscles of a shire horse. From below the waist she was now a powerful horse, with her genitals unchanged but all else now those of a horse, covered with a fine hair. She made a clopping sound on the concrete pavement, and they went by bus to a local blacksmith who seemed unsurprised to see her. He fitted her huge feet with metal shoes, the acrid smell of the hot shoe bedding into the foot stung her nose sharply, and he gave her some rubber boots to fit over the hooves for walking on concrete. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She was still not happy about what had happened, but had resolved to make the best of it, knowing that many people would pay to see her in this condition, and that her chances of falling over were very slim.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Checkpoint 3</title>
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The figure that strode confidently into the checkpoint area was certainly tall, certainly female and certainly hairy. Her face did not seem to have been involved in the change, and was that of a girl of early twenties with a fresh faced complexion, bright eyes and a slightly turned up nose. Her face was framed in long blonde hair which fell from a centre parting, and from her chin up there was no reason to think that any change had occurred. &lt;br /&gt;
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From the neck down there were many changes. Firstly her frame was almost entirely covered in long blonde silky hair, the same colour as that on her head, with the hair draping off her like a swishing curtain. Her frame was not entirely human, her arms were too long for a human, her torso more narrow with narrow hips and each leg on her thighs was thinner from the front but was longer front to back - like the hind legs of a quadruped. She was standing on the balls of her feet, her heels many inches from the floor, like those of a dog but with human toes - toes however with claws where her nails would have been. What the soldier could see of her hands through the hair, suggested human hands with claws for fingernails. She was wearing a short plain skirt (under which draped a long and similarly hairy tail) and a baggy cotton shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hello... what are you?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sally, and I&#039;m both a human and a dog, I&#039;m a completely new breed of animal, and I&#039;m very happy&amp;quot;. Her hairy tail wagged, which caused her hips and body to sway in time.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Hello Sally&amp;quot;. The soldier consulted his list and found only one Sally &amp;quot;Sally Wong?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Yes, that&#039;s right&amp;quot;. She was gushing with excitement. Her tail wagged even more vigorously with her name being found.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what is your story?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, this is completely brilliant?&amp;quot; she gushed. &amp;quot;For years and years I&#039;ve been developing my character, and when I come to these events I always cosplay as an afghan hound. I&#039;ve had a fantasy for years to be a human cross dog, and now it&#039;s happened! Look!&amp;quot; She took a twirl to show off her new body. &amp;quot;My whole character has come to life - I&#039;m living my dream, and I can&#039;t tell you just how fabulous this is! Look&amp;quot; she bared her teeth &amp;quot;even down to the longer canines!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She held out her hand, palm up, and on each finger and the palm of her hand were the pads usually found on dog feet. She then steadied herself and raised her foot, which still showed some signs of a human foot, but with her heel way off the ground, and with the same pads and claws where nails would have been expected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The best bit, is that I have a choice - look, two legs or four&amp;quot;. She dropped to all fours, where her extended arms made sense - she was a balanced animal with a level backbone and her tail looking correct and standing proud. Her short skirt did not really work when on all fours, and was lifted by her tail. Her neck seemed to facilitate forward view. She looked up at the soldier through her long hair, stood on three legs and with a hand swept the hair from her face.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I can run at over 30 miles per hour for short bursts like this. I am built for speed&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked impressed. He began to make notes on his pad.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You can run fast, I can see you&#039;re built for it, what else can you do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I have to do a lot of combing and brushing, the hair does get tangled. Oh, and I can catch things. I caught a rabbit - not a Xanadu rabbit - a real one from the hotel grounds, and I caught it because I could see it - my vision is excellent, and I could smell it, I have the nose of a dog, and I have the speed to catch things. It tasted good too - I seem to prefer my meat fresh and warm.&amp;quot; She licked her lips.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;What else?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, nothing I can think of. This is enough though, isn&#039;t it&amp;quot;. She wagged her tail furiously and &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Ok, let me take some details&amp;quot;, he was referring to his checklist, mumbled to himself as he filled in the answers he already had. &amp;quot;I know this is obvious, but I have to ask, what sex are you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m definitely all girl, and I am built for fantastic sex - do you want to see?&amp;quot; She turned round and lifted her tail and in full view under the tail was her human female anatomy. &amp;quot;I am so glad I thought that through - and I am an erogenous zone all over. And no inhibitions! Look&amp;quot;, she stood up onto her back feet, and with her arms lifted her shirt. Three pairs of human female and hair free breasts were visible, a D cup pair at the top, a C cup nestling beneath and a B cup just below those. &amp;quot;The power of six, and they all will function when I have pups and they all are quite sensitive&amp;quot;. She ran a finger over a couple of nipples and then dropped her shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I see, and what do you hope to do now that you have become the first of a kind?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, I have it all planned out, you see. I have been working this out for years in my head. I have the power to transform other humans into hudogs. If I want them to become male hudogs I let  them make love to me first from behind, and if I want to make a hudog female I first deeply kiss them. It&#039;s like a kind of virus that I have, even girls can become male hudogs with enough juices, and then they change over a couple of days and then they are hudogs too! And they can change others in the same way.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Wow, you really have thought this through - I am impressed. How many people have you changed so far?&amp;quot; said the soldier&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;None, I just know that I can do it&amp;quot; she said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier took more than an minute to write things on his pad, and then in the tone of voice usually associated with parade grounds he barked &amp;quot;SALLY SIT!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She immediately sat down, front arms straight, back legs folded and her tail on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Holy crap, I can&#039;t move. What did you do to me?&amp;quot; Her expression was one of horror. &amp;quot;Damn this is cold! I&#039;&#039;m sitting on my girl parts! Let me stand up!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY LIE DOWN&amp;quot; and she had to obey, lying on her stomach in the sphinx position. &amp;quot;Stop this right now - now my breasts are on the floor. And it&#039;s cold. And I&#039;m squashing them!&amp;quot; She tried to move but could only slightly wriggle. Her tail was still.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY HEEL&amp;quot; and she rose to all fours and came round to stand next to the soldier&#039;s leg and looked up in obedience, again flicking her hair from her face, and wagging her tail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What the crap have you done to me?&amp;quot; she crossly asked again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was just checking how far you thought this through, and it seems that you have imagined yourself as a well trained dog. That is very excellent.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, this is crap&amp;quot;. There was a pause. &amp;quot;What are you going to get me to do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY SIT&amp;quot; She sat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuckit, this floor is cold and my girl parts are right on the cold. Please let me stand!&amp;quot; she whimpered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY... STAY&amp;quot; said the soldier and  he pointed to the ground at her front paws. She looked down and stayed looking down. He left the room and she heard the lock turn. She was unable to move, no matter how hard she tried she could do nothing but sit for what seemed to be hours, but was probably minutes, only able to look at the floor. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The lock turned again. The soldier had raided the 18+ area for useful hardware, and came back in with a leather lockable head harness with mouth gag, a locking collar and a lead. He closed and locked the door and pocketed the key.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Damn it, this floor is really cold. You knew that as well, you bastard. Let me look up. Let me stand, please!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sally, I see you&#039;re exactly where I told you to stay. That is very good. Well done.&amp;quot; Her tail betrayed her human feelings and wagged. &amp;quot;We simply cannot have you running around making hudogs of any kind of sex at your whim. If what you say is true we have military grade weaponry that can be developed from your spit and your juices. I suspect the Justice Department could more easily manage prisoners if they were as well behaved as you are. There are all sorts of implications from this technology. I&#039;m sorry girl, but you are coming with me&amp;quot;. Despite resisting all she could, there was nothing to stop the soldier putting a collar on her, a lead on the collar, and then the locking head harness and mouth gag around her head to effectively muzzle her. &amp;quot;SALLY, HEEL!&amp;quot; She was lead away on all fours, protesting as loudly as she could while muzzled, to a waiting security van, and taken to where the sun only shines when it&#039;s exercise time.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Checkpoint 3</title>
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		<updated>2011-03-16T11:13:02Z</updated>

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{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The figure that strode confidently into the checkpoint area was certainly tall, certainly female and certainly hairy. Her face did not seem to have been involved in the change, and was that of a girl of early twenties with a fresh faced complexion, bright eyes and a slightly turned up nose. Her face was framed in long blonde hair which fell from a centre parting, and from her chin up there was no reason to think that any change had occurred. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
From the neck down there were many changes. Firstly her frame was almost entirely covered in long blonde silky hair, the same colour as that on her head, with the hair draping off her like a swishing curtain. Her frame was not entirely human, her arms were too long for a human, her torso more narrow with narrow hips and each leg on her thighs was thinner from the front but was longer front to back - like the hind legs of a quadruped. She was standing on the balls of her feet, her heels many inches from the floor, like those of a dog but with human toes - toes however with claws where her nails would have been. What the soldier could see of her hands through the hair, suggested human hands with claws for fingernails. She was wearing a short plain skirt (under which draped a long and similarly hairy tail) and a baggy cotton shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello... what are you?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sally, and I&#039;m both a human and a dog, I&#039;m a completely new breed of animal, and I&#039;m very happy&amp;quot;. Her hairy tail wagged, which caused her hips and body to sway in time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello Sally&amp;quot;. The soldier consulted his list and found only one Sally &amp;quot;Sally Wong?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, that&#039;s right&amp;quot;. She was gushing with excitement. Her tail wagged even more vigorously with her name being found.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what is your story?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, this is completely brilliant?&amp;quot; she gushed. &amp;quot;For years and years I&#039;ve been developing my character, and when I come to these events I always cosplay as an afghan hound. I&#039;ve had a fantasy for years to be a human cross dog, and now it&#039;s happened! Look!&amp;quot; She took a twirl to show off her new body.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She held out her hand, palm up, and on each finger and the palm of her hand were the pads usually found on dog feet. She then steadied herself and raised her foot, which still showed some signs of a human foot, but with her heel way off the ground, and with the same pads and claws where nails would have been expected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The best bit, is that I have a choice - look, two legs or four&amp;quot;. She dropped to all fours, where her extended arms made sense - she was a balanced animal with a level backbone and her tail looking correct and standing proud. Her short skirt did not really work when on all fours, and was lifted by her tail. Her neck seemed to facilitate forward view. She looked up at the soldier through her long hair, stood on three legs and with a hand swept the hair from her face.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I can run at over 30 miles per hour for short bursts like this. I am built for speed&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked impressed. He began to make notes on his pad.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You can run fast, I can see you&#039;re built for it, what else can you do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I have to do a lot of combing and brushing, the hair does get tangled. Oh, and I can catch things. I caught a rabbit - not a Xanadu rabbit - a real one from the woods, and I caught it because I could see it - my vision is excellent, and I could smell it, I have the nose of a dog, and I have the speed to catch things. It tasted good too - I seem to prefer my meat fresh and warm.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What else?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, nothing I can think of&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Ok, let me take some details&amp;quot;, he was referring to his checklist, &amp;quot;What sex are you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m definitely all girl, and I am built for fantastic sex - do you want to see?&amp;quot; She turned round and lifted her tail and in full view under the tail was her human female anatomy. &amp;quot;I am so glad I thought that through - I am an erogenous zone all over. Look&amp;quot;, she stood up onto her back feet, and with her arms lifted her shirt. Three pairs of human female and hair free breasts were visible, a D cup pair at the top, a C cup nestling beneath and a B cup just below those. &amp;quot;The power of six, and they all will function when I have pups and they all are quite sensitive&amp;quot;. She dropped her shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I see, and what do you hope to do now that you have become the first of a kind?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, I have it all planned out, you see. I have been working this out for years in my head. I have the power to transform other humans into hudogs. If I want them to become male hudogs I let  them make love with me from behind, and if I want to make a hudog female I deeply kiss them. It&#039;s like a kind of virus that I have, even girls can become male hudogs with enough juices, and then they change over a couple of days and then they are hudogs too!&amp;quot; And they can change others in the same way.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Wow, you really have thought this through - I am impressed. How many people have you changed so far?&amp;quot; said the soldier&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;None, I just know that I can do it&amp;quot; she said.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier took more than an minute to write things on his pad, and then in the tone of voice usually associated with parade grounds he barked &amp;quot;SALLY SIT!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She immediately sat down, front arms straight, back legs folded and her tail on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Holy crap, I can&#039;t move. What did you do to me?&amp;quot; Her expression was one of horror. &amp;quot;Damn this is cold! I&#039;&#039;m sitting on my girl parts! Let me stand up!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY LIE DOWN&amp;quot; and she had to obey, lying on her stomach in the sphinx position. &amp;quot;Stop this right now - now my breasts are on the floor and it&#039;s cold and I&#039;m squashing them!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY HEEL&amp;quot; and she rose to all fours and came round to stand next to the soldier&#039;s leg and looked up in obedience, again flicking her hair from her face, and wagging her tail.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What the crap have you done to me?&amp;quot; she crossly asked again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was just checking how far you thought this through, and it seems that you have imagined yourself as a well trained dog. That is very excellent.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, this is crap&amp;quot;. There was a pause. &amp;quot;What are you going to get me to do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY SIT&amp;quot; She sat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuckit, this floor is cold and my girl parts are right on the cold. Please let me stand!&amp;quot; she whimpered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY... STAY&amp;quot; said the soldier and  he pointed to the ground at her front paws. He left the room and she heard the lock turn. She was unable to move, no matter how hard she tried she could do nothing but sit for what seemed to be hours, but was probably minutes. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The lock turned again. The soldier had raided the 18+ area for useful hardware, and came back in with a leather lockable mouth gag, a locking collar and a lead. He locked the door and pocketed the key.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Damn it, this floor is really cold. You knew that as well, you bastard. Let me stand, please!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sally, I see you&#039;re exactly where I told you to stay. That is very good. Well done.&amp;quot; Her tail wagged. &amp;quot;We simply cannot have you running around making hudogs of any kind of sex at your whim. If what you say is true we have military grade weaponry that can be developed from your spit and your juices. I suspect the Justice Department could more easily manage prisoners if they were as well behaved as you are. There are all sorts of implications from this technology. I&#039;m sorry girl, but you are coming with me&amp;quot;. Despite resisting all she could, there was nothing to stop the soldier putting a collar on her, a lead on the collar, and then the locking mouth gag around her head to effectively muzzle her. &amp;quot;SALLY, HEEL!&amp;quot; She was lead away on all fours, protesting as loudly as she could while muzzled, to a waiting security van, and taken to where the sun only shines when it&#039;s exercise time.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_2&amp;diff=13905</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 2</title>
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		<updated>2011-03-10T09:25:25Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Xanadu]]  [[Category:Sdw]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You are free to go, next...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Knock knock.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Come in. Name, and what&#039;s happened to you...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sandra Levine, and nothing happened to me, I&#039;m fine.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sandra, you would believe what I&#039;ve seen here today, they are all around here, and I&#039;m not for one second about to buy that story, unless the medical doctor in the next room gives you a full medical examination. So, what&#039;s it to be because there&#039;s a hundred more people I have to see before I go off shift&amp;quot; the soldier replied.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sandra did, on initial inspection, look fine. Her long hair framed an oval face with symmetry and beauty, her slender arms ended in long fingers with shaped and polished nails, she looked comfortable in the cozy yet shapeless long fleece and long elasticated hippy skirt, and had ordinary leather boots on her feet. She walked into the office fine, and yet those last two word she said, they were a telltale sign of covering something up. The soldier stayed quiet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Nothing, really, nothing happened.&amp;quot; Her words were said, but the flick of her eyes, the slight raise of a brow as she said it confirmed to the soldier that there was more to find out.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sandra, Sandra Levine...&amp;quot; the soldier looked through some lists until he found her &amp;quot;are you telling me that at the point of the event you were not wearing anything interesting? You had a pass to the 18+ area as an exhibitor and you were entirely unaffected?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, there have been some changes&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Go on, I doubt if you&#039;ll surprise me&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She paused, gathering up the courage to tell...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I was wearing a chastity harness and waiting backstage to go on when it happened, and I thought that nothing had happened to me because there was so much chaos and running and people screaming and I seemed fine so I helped some others and it was only when I got to my room when I found out what had happened to me.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She took her fleece over her head and exposed her torso - which looked entirely unchanged, and most distracting to the soldier. Then she lifted her hippy boho skirt over something and stepped out of it, and standing naked to her boots it was obvious what had happened. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was wearing a steel chastity belt with a fitting for a dildo, and I must have thought this was a good idea at the time, but I&#039;m not sure it is any more.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rising from her mound was a male penis, now stiffening to full potential. As she lifted it up and against her belly, a shiny steel guard with elaborate filligree could be seen beneath it, covering her female parts and seeming to lock into place. The soldier had reached for a standard pad and was taking notes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Not as strange as I&#039;ve seen today. Does the penis ejaculate?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rather than answering, Sandra&#039;s face changed to reflect the internal rapture of a building male organsm, and she caught a copious ejaculation in her hand. After a few moments her senses returned to the room.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;That happens every time someone else suggests it. You said &#039;Does the penis ejaculate&#039;, and that&#039;s an invitation to do so, and there&#039;s nothing I can do to stop it. I cannot cause a climax myself - any amount of masturbation my me or anyone else makes no difference - it makes it rigid, but it takes the suggestion from someone else to come, and it does every time.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;How long does it take before you can come again?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And that was enough for a second coming within the space of a few seconds.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Panting slightly, Sandra said &amp;quot;can you be careful what you&#039;re saying, any invitation at all is enough. I was listening to the TV last night and something entirely unrelated to sex was said during a yoghurt commercial, and that was enough - there and then, inside my skirt, on my lap, it was all such a mess!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Maybe you need to wear a nappy - there are others who have some of the functional control of beasts who are going to be in nappies for the rest of their lives if they want to hang around in polite society.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, yeah, that sounds like a sexy solution to this problem&amp;quot; she replied sarcastically.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What about that metal guard, what are the rules around that?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I think this is quite clever. I can think the lock open, and...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was a click. She bent down and lowered the cage between her legs, and she turned round to show the soldier how the chastity cage tapered to a curved steel rod which fitted into a hinge that came out of her near the base of her spine. She unhooked the back of the belt from the hinge and removed it. It was a small piece of crafted polished steel work, and she handed it to the soldier, who inspected the warm metal.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And why don&#039;t you just take the chastity part off?&amp;quot; He guessed the answer before asking the question.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Because if I leave it off for more than about 30 minutes my hips hurt, and I can only make the aching stop by putting it back on. I can&#039;t leave it off for more than about an hour or the pain becomes too great.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what&#039;s this about thinking the lock open?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I don&#039;t know - I just think it locked and it locks. I think it open and it opens. And I have complete control of this&amp;quot; She let the penis go and it stood out erect. &amp;quot;I&#039;m thinking it down.&amp;quot; Indeed, it went down to flaccid. She fumbled with the hinge and brought the cover back between her legs, pushed it home and again there was a click. &amp;quot;No one can get in without me thinking I should let them, which I think it actually rather good.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier was writing notes on his pad &amp;quot;actually rather good...&amp;quot; he mumbled to himself as he caught up with the narrative. She smiled to him and wriggled her hips. The now flaccid penis wagged like a puppies tail. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The trouble is that anyone else saying something that could be interpreted as an invitation can make me come again and again, but I&#039;m really not sure about this&amp;quot; she continued, pointing to the now flaccid penis hanging down over the front of the cage. &amp;quot;I think this is going to get me into a great deal of trouble, because at the slightest provocation it does it&#039;s thing, very nice though the feeling is, but I don&#039;t know what to do with it, &#039;cos I&#039;m not at all, in any way gay.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;...come again and again.&amp;quot; he mumbled to himself as he continued to write.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh no!&amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_3&amp;diff=13883</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 3</title>
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		<updated>2011-03-08T07:02:31Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Xanadu]]  [[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Canine]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The figure that strode confidently into the checkpoint area was certainly tall, certainly female and certainly hairy. Her face did not seem to have been involved in the change, and was that of a girl of early twenties with a fresh faced complexion, bright eyes and a slightly turned up nose. Her face was framed in long blonde hair, and from the chin up there was no reason to think that any change had occurred. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
From the neck down there were many changes. Firstly her frame was almost entirely covered in long blonde silky hair, the same colour as that on her head, with the hair draping off her like a swishing curtain. Her frame was not entirely human, her arms were too long for a human, her torso more narrow and her thighs more pointed. She was standing on the balls of her feet, her heel many inches from the floor. What the soldier could see of her hands through the hair, suggested human hands with claws for fingernails. She was wearing a short skirt (under which draped a tail) and a baggy cotton shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello, what are you?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sally, and I&#039;m a human and a dog, I&#039;m a completely new breed of animal, and I&#039;m very happy&amp;quot;. Her hairy tail wagged.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello Sally&amp;quot;. The soldier consulted his list and found only one Sally &amp;quot;Sally Wong?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, that&#039;s right&amp;quot;. She was gushing with excitement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what is your story?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, this is completely brilliant. For years I&#039;ve been developing my character, and when I come to these events I always cosplay as an afghan hound. I&#039;ve had a fantasy for years to be a human cross dog, and now it&#039;s happened! Look!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She held out her hand, palm up, and on each finger and the palm of her hand were the pads usually found on dog feet. She then steadied herself and raised her foot, which still showed some signs of a human foot, but with her heel way off the ground, and with the same pads and claws where nails would have been expected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The best bit, is that I have a choice - look, two legs or four&amp;quot;. She dropped to all fours, where her extended arms made sense - she was a balanced animal with a level backbone and her tail looking correct. Her neck seemed to facilitate forward view. She looked up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I can run at over 30 miles per hour for short bursts like this. I am built for speed&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked impressed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You can run fast, I can see you&#039;re built for it, what else can you do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I have to do a lot of combing and brushing, the hair does get tangled. Oh, and I can catch things. I caught a rabbit - not a Xanadu rabbit - a real one from the woods, and I caught it because I could see it - my vision is excellent, and I could smell it, I have the nose of a dog, and I have the speed to catch things. It tasted good too - I seem to prefer my meat fresh and warm.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What else?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, nothing I can think of&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Ok, let me take some details&amp;quot;, he was referring to his checklist, &amp;quot;What sex are you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m definitely all girl, and I am built for fantastic sex - do you want to see?&amp;quot; She turned round and lifted her tail and in full view under the tail was the human female anatomy. &amp;quot;I am so glad I thought that through - I am an erogenous zone all over. Look&amp;quot;, she stood up onto her back feet, and with her arms lifted her shirt. Three pairs of human female and hair free breasts were visible, a D cup pair at the top, a C cup nestling beneath and a B cup just below those. &amp;quot;The power of six, and they all will function when I have pups and they all are quite sensitive to the touch&amp;quot;. She dropped her shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I see, and what do you hope to do now that you have become the first of a kind?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, I have it all planned out, you see. I have been working this out for years in my head. I have the power to transform other humans into hudogs. If I want them to become male hudogs I let  them make love with me from behind, and if I want to make a hudog female I deeply kiss them. It&#039;s like a kind of virus that I have, even girls can become male hudogs with enough juices, and then they change over a couple of days and then they are hudogs too!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Wow, you really have thought this through - I am impressed&amp;quot; said the soldier, and then in the tone of voice usually associated with parade grounds he barked &amp;quot;SALLY SIT!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She immediately sat down, front arms straight, back legs folded and her tail on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Holy crap, I can&#039;t move. What did you do to me?&amp;quot; Her expression was one of horror. &amp;quot;Damn this is cold! I&#039;&#039;m sitting on my girl parts&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY LIE DOWN&amp;quot; and she had to obey, lying on her stomach in the sphinx position. &amp;quot;Can you stop this - now my breasts are on the floor!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY HEEL&amp;quot; and she rose to all fours and came round to stand next to the soldier&#039;s leg and looked up in obedience.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What the crap have you done to me?&amp;quot; she asked again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was just checking how far you thought this through, and it seems that you have imagined yourself as a well trained dog&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, this is crap&amp;quot;. There was a pause. &amp;quot;What are you going to get me to do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY SIT&amp;quot; She sat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuckit, this floor is cold and my girl parts are right on the cold. Please let me stand!&amp;quot; she whimpered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY STAY&amp;quot; said the soldier. He left the room and she heard the lock turn. She was unable to move, no matter how hard she tried she could do nothing but sit for what seemed to be hours, but was probably minutes. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The lock turned again. The soldier had raided the 18+ area for useful hardware, and came back in with a leather lockable mouth gag, a locking collar and a lead. He locked the door and pocketed the key.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Damn it, this floor is really cold. You knew that as well, you bastard. Let me stand, please!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sally, I see you&#039;re exactly where I told you to stay. That is very good. Well done.&amp;quot; Her tail wagged. &amp;quot;We simply cannot have you running around making hudogs of any kind of sex at your whim. If what you say is true we have military grade weaponry that can be developed from your spit and your juices. I suspect the Justice Department could more easily manage prisoners if they were as well behaved as you are. I&#039;m sorry girl, but you are coming with me&amp;quot;. Despite resisting all she could, there was nothing to stop the soldier putting a collar on her, a lead on the collar, and then the locking mouth gag around her head to effectively muzzle her. &amp;quot;SALLY, HEEL!&amp;quot; She was lead away on all fours, protesting as loudly as she could while muzzled, to a waiting security van, and taken to where the sun only shines when it&#039;s exercise time.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_3&amp;diff=13773</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 3</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_3&amp;diff=13773"/>
		<updated>2011-03-01T19:52:08Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Story]] [[Category:Xanadu]]  [[Category:Sdw]] [[Category:Canine]]&lt;br /&gt;
{{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{universe|Xanadu}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The figure that strode confidently into the checkpoint area was certainly tall, certainly female and certainly hairy. Her face did not seem to have been involved in the change, and was that of a girl of early twenties with a fresh faced complexion, bright eyes and a slightly turned up nose. Her face was framed in long blonde hair, and from the chin up there was no reason to think that any change had occurred. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
From the neck down there were many changes. Firstly her frame was almost entirely covered in long blonde silky hair, the same colour as that on her head, with the hair draping off her like a swishing curtain. Her frame was not entirely human, her arms were too long for a human, her torso more narrow and her thighs more pointed. She was standing on the balls of her feet, her heel many inches from the floor. What the soldier could see of her hands through the hair, suggested human hands with claws for fingernails. She was wearing a short skirt (under which draped a tail) and a baggy cotton shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello, what are you?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sally, and I&#039;m a human and a dog, I&#039;m a completely new breed of animal, and I&#039;m very happy&amp;quot;. Her hairy tail wagged.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello Sally&amp;quot;. The soldier consulted his list and found only one Sally &amp;quot;Sally Wong?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, that&#039;s right&amp;quot;. She was gushing with excitement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what is your story?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, this is completely brilliant. For years I&#039;ve been developing my character, and when I come to these events I always cosplay as an afghan hound. I&#039;ve had a fantasy for years to be a human cross dog, and now it&#039;s happened! Look!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She held out her hand, palm up, and on each finger and the palm of her hand were the pads usually found on dog feet. She then steadied herself and raised her foot, which still showed some signs of a human foot, but with her heel way off the ground, and with the same pads and claws where nails would have been expected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The best bit, is that I have a choice - look, two legs or four&amp;quot;. She dropped to all fours, where her extended arms made sense - she was a balanced animal with a level backbone and her tail looking correct. Her neck seemed to facilitate forward view. She looked up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I can run at over 30 miles per hour for short bursts like this. I am built for speed&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked impressed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You can run fast, I can see you&#039;re built for it, what else can you do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I have to do a lot of combing and brushing, the hair does get tangled. Oh, and I can catch things. I caught a rabbit - not a Xanadu rabbit - a real one from the woods, and I caught it because I could see it - my vision is excellent, and I could smell it, I have the nose of a dog, and I have the speed to catch things. It tasted good too - I seem to prefer my meat fresh and warm.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What else?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, nothing I can think of&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Ok, let me take some details&amp;quot;, he was referring to his checklist, &amp;quot;What sex are you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m definitely all girl, and I am built for fantastic sex - do you want to see?&amp;quot; She turned round and lifted her tail and in full view under the tail was the human female anatomy. &amp;quot;I am so glad I thought that through - I am an erogenous zone all over. Look&amp;quot;, she stood up onto her back feet, and with her arms lifted her shirt. Three pairs of human female and hair free breasts were visible, a D cup pair at the top, a C cup nestling beneath and a B cup just below those. &amp;quot;The power of six, and they all will function when I have pups and they all are quite sensitive to the touch&amp;quot;. She dropped her shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I see, and what do you hope to do now that you have become the first of a kind?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, I have it all planned out, you see. I have been working this out for years in my head. I have the power to transform other humans into hudogs. If I want them to become male hudogs I let  them make love with me from behind, and if I want to make a hudog female I deeply kiss them. It&#039;s like a kind of virus that I have, even girls can become male hudogs with enough juices, and then they change over a couple of days and then they are hudogs too!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Wow, you really have thought this through - I am impressed&amp;quot; said the soldier, and then in the tone of voice usually associated with parade grounds he barked &amp;quot;SALLY SIT!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She immediately sat down, front arms straight, back legs folded and her tail on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Holy crap, I can&#039;t move. What did you do to me?&amp;quot; Her expression was one of horror. &amp;quot;Damn this is cold!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY LIE DOWN&amp;quot; and she had to obey.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY HEEL&amp;quot; and she rose to all fours and came round to stand next to the soldier&#039;s leg and looked up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What the crap have you done to me?&amp;quot; she asked again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was just checking how far you thought this through, and it seems that you have imagined yourself as a well trained dog&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, this is crap&amp;quot;. There was a pause. &amp;quot;What are you going to get me to do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY SIT&amp;quot; She sat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuckit, this floor is cold and my girl parts are right on the cold. Please let me stand!&amp;quot; she whimpered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY STAY&amp;quot; said the soldier. He left the room and she heard the lock turn. She was unable to move, no matter how hard she tried she could do nothing but sit for what seemed to be hours, but was probably minutes. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The lock turned again. The soldier had raided the 18+ area for useful hardware, and came back in with a leather lockable mouth gag, a locking collar and a lead. He locked the door and pocketed the key.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Damn it, this floor is really cold. Let me stand, please!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sally, I see you&#039;re exactly where I told you to stay. That is very good. Well done.&amp;quot; Her tail wagged. &amp;quot;We simply cannot have you running around making hudogs of any kind of sex at your whim. If what you say is true we have military grade weaponry that can be developed from your spit and your juices. I suspect the Justice Department could more easily manage prisoners if they were as well behaved as you are. I&#039;m sorry girl, but you are coming with me&amp;quot;. Despite resisting all she could, there was nothing to stop the soldier putting a collar on her, a lead on the collar, and then the locking mouth gag around her head to effectively muzzle her. She was lead away on all fours, protesting as loudly as she could while muzzled, to a waiting security van, and taken to where the sun only shines when it&#039;s exercise time.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_3&amp;diff=13771</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 3</title>
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		<updated>2011-03-01T19:50:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Created page with &amp;#039;Category:Story Category:Xanadu  Category:Sdw {{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}} {{universe|Xanadu}}  The figure that strode confidently into the checkpoint area was certa…&amp;#039;&lt;/p&gt;
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The figure that strode confidently into the checkpoint area was certainly tall, certainly female and certainly hairy. Her face did not seem to have been involved in the change, and was that of a girl of early twenties with a fresh faced complexion, bright eyes and a slightly turned up nose. Her face was framed in long blonde hair, and from the chin up there was no reason to think that any change had occurred. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
From the neck down there were many changes. Firstly her frame was almost entirely covered in long blonde silky hair, the same colour as that on her head, with the hair draping off her like a swishing curtain. Her frame was not entirely human, her arms were too long for a human, her torso more narrow and her thighs more pointed. She was standing on the balls of her feet, her heel many inches from the floor. What the soldier could see of her hands through the hair, suggested human hands with claws for fingernails. She was wearing a short skirt (under which draped a tail) and a baggy cotton shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello, what are you?&amp;quot; asked the soldier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sally, and I&#039;m a human and a dog, I&#039;m a completely new breed of animal, and I&#039;m very happy&amp;quot;. Her hairy tail wagged.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Hello Sally&amp;quot;. The soldier consulted his list and found only one Sally &amp;quot;Sally Wong?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, that&#039;s right&amp;quot;. She was gushing with excitement.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what is your story?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, this is completely brilliant. For years I&#039;ve been developing my character, and when I come to these events I always cosplay as an afghan hound. I&#039;ve had a fantasy for years to be a human cross dog, and now it&#039;s happened! Look!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She held out her hand, palm up, and on each finger and the palm of her hand were the pads usually found on dog feet. She then steadied herself and raised her foot, which still showed some signs of a human foot, but with her heel way off the ground, and with the same pads and claws where nails would have been expected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The best bit, is that I have a choice - look, two legs or four&amp;quot;. She dropped to all fours, where her extended arms made sense - she was a balanced animal with a level backbone and her tail looking correct. Her neck seemed to facilitate forward view. She looked up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I can run at over 30 miles per hour for short bursts like this. I am built for speed&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The soldier looked impressed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;You can run fast, I can see you&#039;re built for it, what else can you do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I have to do a lot of combing and brushing, the hair does get tangled. Oh, and I can catch things. I caught a rabbit - not a Xanadu rabbit - a real one from the woods, and I caught it because I could see it - my vision is excellent, and I could smell it, I have the nose of a dog, and I have the speed to catch things. It tasted good too - I seem to prefer my meat fresh and warm.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What else?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, nothing I can think of&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Ok, let me take some details&amp;quot;, he was referring to his checklist, &amp;quot;What sex are you?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m definitely all girl, and I am built for fantastic sex - do you want to see?&amp;quot; She turned round and lifted her tail and in full view under the tail was the human female anatomy. &amp;quot;I am so glad I thought that through - I am an erogenous zone all over. Look&amp;quot;, she stood up onto her back feet, and with her arms lifted her shirt. Three pairs of human female and hair free breasts were visible, a D cup pair at the top, a C cup nestling beneath and a B cup just below those. &amp;quot;The power of six, and they all will function when I have pups and they all are quite sensitive to the touch&amp;quot;. She dropped her shirt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I see, and what do you hope to do now that you have become the first of a kind?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh, I have it all planned out, you see. I have been working this out for years in my head. I have the power to transform other humans into hudogs. If I want them to become male hudogs I let  them make love with me from behind, and if I want to make a hudog female I deeply kiss them. It&#039;s like a kind of virus that I have, even girls can become male hudogs with enough juices, and then they change over a couple of days and then they are hudogs too!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Wow, you really have thought this through - I am impressed&amp;quot; said the soldier, and then in the tone of voice usually associated with parade grounds he barked &amp;quot;SALLY SIT!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She immediately sat down, front arms straight, back legs folded and her tail on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Holy crap, I can&#039;t move. What did you do to me?&amp;quot; Her expression was one of horror. &amp;quot;Damn this is cold!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY LIE DOWN&amp;quot; and she had to obey.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY HEEL&amp;quot; and she rose to all fours and came round to stand next to the soldier&#039;s leg and looked up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;What the crap have you done to me?&amp;quot; she asked again.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was just checking how far you thought this through, and it seems that you have imagined yourself as a well trained dog&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, this is crap&amp;quot;. There was a pause. &amp;quot;What are you going to get me to do?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY SIT&amp;quot; She sat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Oh fuckit, this floor is cold and my girl parts are right on the cold. Please let me stand!&amp;quot; she whimpered.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;SALLY STAY&amp;quot; said the soldier. He left the room and she heard the lock turn. She was unable to move, no matter how hard she tried she could do nothing but sit for what seemed to be hours, but was probably minutes. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The lock turned again. The soldier had raided the 18+ area for useful hardware, and came back in with a leather lockable mouth gag, a locking collar and a lead. He locked the door and pocketed the key.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Damn it, this floor is really cold. Let me stand, please!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sally, I see you&#039;re exactly where I told you to stay. That is very good. Well done.&amp;quot; Her tail wagged. &amp;quot;We simply cannot have you running around making hudogs of any kind of sex at your whim. If what you say is true we have military grade weaponry that can be developed from your spit and your juices. I suspect the Justice Department could more easily manage prisoners if they were as well behaved as you are. I&#039;m sorry girl, but you are coming with me&amp;quot;. Despite resisting all she could, there was nothing to stop the soldier putting a collar on her, a lead on the collar, and then the locking mouth gag around her head to effectively muzzle her. She was lead away on all fours, protesting as loudly as she could while muzzled, to a waiting security van, and taken to where the sun only shines when it&#039;s exercise time.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
	</entry>
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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:Sdw&amp;diff=13764</id>
		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2011-03-01T18:42:58Z</updated>

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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:Sdw&amp;diff=10763</id>
		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2009-03-08T16:36:42Z</updated>

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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Checkpoint_2&amp;diff=10762</id>
		<title>Checkpoint 2</title>
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		<updated>2009-03-08T16:35:33Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: Created page with &amp;#039;Category:Story Category:Xanadu Category:Mythical Category:Sdw {{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}} {{universe|Xanadu}}  &amp;quot;You are free to go, next...&amp;quot;  Knock knock.  &amp;quot;Co...&amp;#039;&lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;quot;You are free to go, next...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Knock knock.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Come in. Name, and what&#039;s happened to you...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I&#039;m Sandra Levine, and nothing happened to me, I&#039;m fine&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Sandra, you would believe what I&#039;ve seen here today, they are all around here, and I&#039;m not for one second about to buy that story, unless the medical doctor in the next room gives you a full medical examination. So, what&#039;s it to be because there&#039;s a hundred more people I have to see before I go off shift&amp;quot; the soldier replied.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sandra did, on initial inspection, look fine. Her long hair framed an oval face with symmetry and beauty, her slender arms ended in long fingers with shaped and polished nails, she looked comfortable in the cozy yet shapeless long fleece and long elasticated hippy skirt, and had ordinary leather boots on her feet. She walked into the office fine, and yet those last two word she said, they were a telltale sign of covering something up. The soldier stayed quiet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Nothing, really, nothing happened&amp;quot;. Her words were said, but the flick of her eyes, the slight raise of a brow as she said it confirmed to the soldier that there was more to find out.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Sandra, Sandra Levine...&amp;quot; the soldier looked through some lists until he found her &amp;quot;are you telling me that at the point of the event you were not wearing anything interesting? You had a pass to the 18+ area as an exhibitor and you were entirely unaffected?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No, there have been some changes&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Go on, I doubt if you&#039;ll surprise me&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She paused, gathering up the courage to tell...&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Well, I was wearing a chastity harness and waiting backstage to go on when it happened, and I thought that nothing had happened to me because there was so much chaos and running and people screaming and I seemed fine so I helped some others and it was only when I got to my room when I found out what had happened to me&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
She took her fleece over her head and exposed her torso - which looked entirely unchanged, and most distracting to the soldier. Then she lifted her hippy boho skirt over something and stepped out of it, and standing naked to her boots it was obvious what had happened. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I was wearing a steel chastity belt with a fitting for a dildo, and I must have thought this was a good idea at the time, but I&#039;m not sure it is any more&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Rising from her mound was a male penis, now stiffening to full potential. As she lifted it up and against her belly, a steel guard could be seen. The soldier had reached for a standard pad and was taking notes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Does the penis ejaculate?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;No&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And do you have access to your original parts&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Yes, look - I can think the lock open, and...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There was a click. She bent down and unfolded the cage between her legs, and she turned round to show the soldier the hinge that came out of her spine. She unhooked the back of the belt from the hinge and removed it. &lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And why don&#039;t you just take the chastity part off?&amp;quot; He guessed the answer before asking the question.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Because if I leave it off for more than about 30 minutes my hips hurt, and I can only make it stop by putting it back on&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;And what&#039;s this about thinking the lock open&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I don&#039;t know - I just think it locked and it locks. I think it open and it opens. And I have complete control of this&amp;quot; She let the penis go and it stood out erect. &amp;quot;I&#039;m thinking it down&amp;quot; and indeed it went down to flaccid. She fumbled with the hinge and brought the cover back between her legs, pushed it home and again there was a click. &amp;quot;No one can get in without me thinking I should let them, which I think it actually rather good&amp;quot; She smiled to him and wriggled her hips.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;But I&#039;m really not sure about this&amp;quot; she said, pointing to the now flaccid penis hanging down over the front of the cage. &amp;quot;I don&#039;t know what to do with it, &#039;cos I&#039;m not at all, in any way gay&amp;quot;.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=User:Sdw&amp;diff=10761</id>
		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2009-03-08T16:03:47Z</updated>

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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=A_sentence_of_Truth&amp;diff=7865</id>
		<title>A sentence of Truth</title>
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		<updated>2008-06-08T22:29:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: New page: Category:Story  Category:Magic Category:Sdw {{byline|author=Sdw|user=Sdw}}  &amp;quot;You are a habitual liar. You have told lies, cheated your friends, neighbours, business associates ...&lt;/p&gt;
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&amp;quot;You are a habitual liar. You have told lies, cheated your friends, neighbours, business associates and recruits you have gathered around you who are simply gullible. Your lying has probably cost the life of two people, possibly more, although the lies you have told make the extraction of the truth almost impossible to ascertain. Your are a habitual liar and you will be punished for it&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Dave stared the judge directly in the eyes. Dave was not going to bend to the will of anyone.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Your lying days are at an end. Simply put, given the weight of evidence against you, and the testimonials of the witnesses, you are to be punished for your deceitful and entirely selfish practices. This Life sentence is irreversible. You are to be sentenced to the Truth for the rest of your life. Case Dismissed.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Confusion flooded into Daves&#039; mind - what did being sentenced to the Truth mean? His handcuffed wrists were sore from the metal, and his guards were rough with his upper arms as he was lead out of the court and back to the small, austere metal lined cell in the courtroom. Shortly afterward he was collected by the transportation guards and taken to a small van and locked in the back. The thin padding seemed to smell of sick and urine, and he watched the courtroom walls slide past the small barred window. For a brief moment many flash-bulbs flared at the window as journalists wrestled for a shot. Then the van accelerated away and drove for what seemed like hours.&lt;br /&gt;
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He had slumped on the floor, hands still cuffed when the van finally came to a halt and the door was opened, and he was handled very carefully and given every courtesy as he was taken from the van to a small, low building as part of a larger prison complex. He was given a comfortable room, much like a hotel room, and had access to a TV, some newspapers and a shower. His prison clothes were changed for a comfortable pair of trousers and a shirt, yet despite repeated requests for some answers, none were forthcoming. He was invited to rest for the night and the next day there would be some tests.&lt;br /&gt;
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The tests seemed to go on for days in a repeating pattern. He had been connected to a distant machine using a series of skin electrodes and an automatic blood monitoring system had been hooked up. Again and again, and very nicely, people asked him questions, repeating some of the questions every day, introducing new questions every day, and by the time ten days of 12 hour questioning had been completed he was entirely physically and mentally exhausted. Then he had several days to recover - still no-one was telling him what was going on. &lt;br /&gt;
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On about day 15 he woke up with a head-splitting headache, and called for help - he could hardly see for the migrane-like pain, and requested and received some painkillers. The headache seemed to go on for hours, and eventually subsided.&lt;br /&gt;
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Then without warning, and entirely unexpectedly, the judge from the trial and sentencing was with him in the room.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;How are you?&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;OK, I think. Are you going to tell me what is happening?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Yes, I am, and right now you need to know that you must stay silent while I tell you. This is really very important. You have been sentenced, as you know, to The Truth. This is what that means. You must, from now on, only speak the truth. The consequence if you do not is slightly delayed, and irreversible, so listen carefully. The tests over the past few days have identified the subtle physiological changes that occur uniquely in you when you tell a lie. They are calibrated so that even if you do not realise that you are lying, but what you are saying is in fact a lie, that counts. Quiet! Hear me out! SIT DOWN! Every time you lie, the biological reprogramme you have received will add material to your nose - think of it as a Pinocchio Virus, although it&#039;s not a virus, it&#039;s more complicated than that. Each time you tell a lie, your nose will swell both in width and girth. If you were to tell a lie every day for a month, you nose would be about the size of a tennis ball, and a lie every day for a year and you would have a medicine ball attached to your face, with a weight exceeding that of your head. You would not be able to see past it, and it would interfere with all aspects of your life as you would require both hands to hold it while you walked, not that you could see where you were going. You can have the growth removed, and some of our lifers have taken a sharp knife to the growth, and since it has a main artery designed to run into it, they have almost all died of blood loss a few seconds later. Feel gently the tip of your nose - go on, do it now, can you feel the slight soft area at the tip - that is the beginning of the artery. The one who survived did so only because he was in hospital, and unfortunately for him having removed the tip of his nose the secondary sentence kicked in and he now lives with lie regulated growths across his face, each one is now the size of a marble and he has mended his ways. Speaking, typing, texting a lie, communicating a lie in any way will generate growth, however since a small amount of lying could be incorrectly detected you have been set at three unintentional lies a day before the growth kicks in, and it kicks in overnight. One deliberate lie will generate growth, two will generate twice more, so in effect if you were to tell 30 lies today your nose tomorrow would be the size of a tennis ball. Please stay silent and think carefully how you now speak - if you for instance say &#039;This isn&#039;t so&#039; - that&#039;s clearly a lie because it is so, and that would be one strike. If you say &#039;I can&#039;t believe you&#039;ve done this to me&#039; actually you need to be sure about that - it might be a lie, you might believe that we have done this to you. Think carefully before you say or write anything from now on, as it is entirely possible to go through life without telling a lie to anyone else - a number of hermits have a lovely, peaceful life without telling a lie to a soul. Now, what questions do you have...?&amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Sdw</name></author>
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		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2008-06-08T21:45:15Z</updated>

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[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
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		<id>https://shifti.org/index.php?title=Mostly_Harmless&amp;diff=7789</id>
		<title>Mostly Harmless</title>
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		<updated>2008-05-27T22:13:12Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
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Report on Samantha Reynolds&lt;br /&gt;
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The subject was part of the Xanadu incident, and has since suffered severe depression. Having been repatriated to the UK at the expense of her family she was cared for at home by her mother and father for a period of three years until they found it physically impossible to manage her, both physically and emotionally. She is now being cared for at Lymingstone Hospice where considerable modifications to her ground floor room and the surrounding environment have eased her physical and mental symptoms. Lymingstone was favoured, even though it is more expensive, as the overall architecture of the building facilitated more easily her special needs, especially as it has an on-site swimming pool.&lt;br /&gt;
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In order for new care assistants to be prepared to assist in her care additional orientation is now given. An excerpt from the orientation materials will give the local authority an insight into the current and future needs of this care client.&lt;br /&gt;
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Samantha was involved in the Xanadu incident, and at the time of the magic event she was dressed in a mermaid outfit and lying on a plinth as part of an underwater latex fetish store. Since it is well established that the subjects transformed into a physical and mental form that was their internal representation of the costume, it is understood that every attendee transformed in a unique manner. As in the case of many mermaids transformed on that day she no longer has a human skeleton below her pelvic bones, her hip sockets are empty and the tail moves entirely under her control in all directions. It is covered in skin that has a slight scale texture and is brightly polished black. Her tail fins are under her control, as is the dorsal fin that projects from the base of her spine. From the waist upward she maintains a human frame. Her jet black hair, if cut, grows to a length of 1500mm overnight without apparent side-effects. This has proved to be a source of income for her which offsets some of her care costs. She has empty shoulder sockets and has no arms, which necessitates that she is fed at every mealtime. The greatest inconvenience, and the one which is causing her the greatest difficulty in the past year is that her breasts have been very slowly growing larger, and are now of such a weight that she is no longer able to sit up or roll over unaided. She reports that there is considerable pain where the breasts attach to her body, and that the only relief she gets from the pain is when floating in water, however a vigilant watch must be maintained at all times as the weight of the breasts means that now she can only suspend herself in an upright posture in the pool. If she now moves onto her back, her head is submerged by their weight, and if lying face downward the slight negative buoyancy drags her head under the water. Aqualung equipment has been provided and this appears to be her one pleasure left and which she enjoys, although again constant attention must be made using a human diver as she is unable to re-site the mouthpiece should it become dislodged. Much progress has been made in the past year to slow the rate of breast growth, and once the link was made between food intake and energy expenditure we have regulated her metabolism considerably. It seems that any weight loss between meals is taken from the rest of her body, which is lean, and any weight gain from eating a meal is laid down in her breast material where it is never lost. This is apparently a reaction to the observation that ‘it’s the first place to lose weight and the last place to gain it’ – it seems she is living the opposite. She is highly sexually aroused the majority of the time, and makes continuous requests to carers to provide sexual stimulation to the human vagina and clitoris that is mounted six inches below her belly button and on the flat latex surface directly level with where her clitoris would have been. Medical tests have proven that she is fertile and should she become pregnant the only alternative for a successful birth would be by Caesarian Section. She defecates through an anus six inches below her vagina on her front side, and urinates through a conventionally arranged urethra, both of which require cleaning as required. Since she suggests sexual intercourse almost all the time, there have been a number of instances where a care assistant has succumbed to her advances, and a number of relationships, serial in nature, have occurred, and since she is a consenting adult these have been cautiously and discreetly monitored to minimise the chances of abuse.&lt;br /&gt;
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Her mental disposition has deteriorated as her physical immobility has become more profound. Despite having no arms she used to be able to move about quite effortlessly, and the latex skin has proven to be very tough. Her tail is moveable in all directions and is extremely strong, and there is no requirement to keep her wet. She learned to use a computer voice to text system and could operate it successfully with her mouth and the tip of her left fluke, and kept in touch with many of her old friends and Xanadu friends via the internet. Six months ago she had an operation to remove both breasts, and the operation was initially a complete success, but within three months her breasts had regrown and where before they were filled with fatty breast tissue, they are now nothing more than huge bags of strong and stable skin containing blood and fluid, which has made them less structured and heavier for their size than before. An interim measure to remove fluid using medical fluid drains has only increased her thirst to intolerable levels and conventional medicine has not decreased her symptoms. She has recently become depressed and again modern medicines seem unable to improve her mood. Her outlook without some permanent removal of her oversized breasts looks bleak.&lt;br /&gt;
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As with other Xanadu attendees it is expensive to keep Samantha alive and with a reasonable quality of life, and we are watching with interest the Class Action in the US against the Xanadu organisers by the healthcare authorities.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<updated>2008-05-27T21:12:39Z</updated>

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[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Mostly Harmless]] What can be done when all hope is lost&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Zentai</title>
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		<updated>2008-05-26T19:18:11Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sdw: &lt;/p&gt;
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People ask us all the time how we survive in the anonymity of having no faces, no fingerprints, and barely anything that remains of what we would consider humanity. So many problems can be fixed with a will, and the services that have sprung up to assist the Xanadu refugees have been a help.&lt;br /&gt;
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And people ask what&#039;s the thing that we miss the most, and that&#039;s different for each of us, because Manda was wearing a different Zentai costume to me, and clearly had a different image in her head. I miss people seeing my eyes the most. She misses her feet.&lt;br /&gt;
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We had decided that we&#039;d go to the Xanadu event a long time ago, and because our friend Sam had been to something similar last year and been caught on camera in the background of a news clip, endlessly repeated for a day, he was recognised by his work colleagues and they had made fun of him, we decided to go in something that would not show our faces. Manda had a leopard pattern lycra dance unitard from a theatre production a couple of years ago which she liked to wear, so we went on the internet together and bought a similar patterned zentai catsuit, one hundred percent coverage and thin enough to see clearly out of. She is brilliant at making costumes, and had all the stuff needed to make the high heel shoes part of the catsuit. She cut a hole in the foot at the right point to allow the heel through, and then glued the lycra to the shoe, and added a rubber sole to the bottom of the shoe. the effect was that apart from the steel high heel she was completely covered in leopard print. She looked fantastic when dressed up, and wore a black satin corset outside the suit to give her the feeling of tightness that she loved. Fortunately she doesn&#039;t pee too often, as the corset needed to come off and the suit come down to do so. She had always been a fan of form over function and the form was very pleasing to see.&lt;br /&gt;
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I wish now I&#039;d bought the shiny black 100% coverage suit that was also on the internet in my size, but I didn&#039;t, I&#039;d chosen a flamboyant snakeskin print but instead of gloves it had mittens - I don&#039;t know why. I have never been a cross-dresser and putting it on for the first time was my first experience of the smoothness and slipperyness of a skintight hugging garment. I felt great, Manda thought I felt great, I thought she felt great and it was all rather lovely. I was concerned that my male member was too easily seen through the thin material, and entirely uncharacteristically Manda suggested I wear one of her black lycra skating skirts - it wasn&#039;t really odd as no-one would know it was me, and I had tried some of my shorts on, but none of them went with the outfit. I wore some black army boots on my feet.&lt;br /&gt;
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Xanadu is a well publicised event, and suffice to say that we were involved in the chaos that immediately erupted when the magic shook the event. &lt;br /&gt;
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I ran from the hall following Manda through the corridors until we were ourside, and away from the immediate danger. When we stopped running, in the dappled sunlight that streamed through the branches of the overhanging trees, and with the sounds of alarms in our ears we first took stock of the changes. Mandy seemed to have changed the most - the leopard print was now etched in a very short fur across her entire body, which must feel lovely if either of us were able to feel it properly. The material was no longer stretched across her face, she had eyes, a nose, human ears and a mouth, and looked exactly like Manda used to look except every part of her skin was now fur leopard print, including her eyelids and lips, and her eyes were those of a cat with vertical stripes. Her long once blonde hair was again hanging down her back, and every strand was the colours of the leopard-print, as if at the moment of change her blonde hair had imprinted a leopard pattern on it, and from the running the fibres had all mixed up. Looking further down she was clearly naked, her breasts unchanged in size but patterned the same, her corset still bound tightly around her waist. Her legs unchanged as well, but her feet were still in the shoes, except that they were not in the shoes at all, her feet were now shoe shaped and the heel still held her heels way above the ground. Almost all furry animals have pads of some kind to allow them to feel textures properly, thanks to millions of years of evolution, but this wasn&#039;t evolution, and her fingers had no such pads, the relentless leopard patterned fur extended over her entire body, from the soles of her feet to the scalp on her head - the only places where it did not cover being the high heels and her eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
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I had not fared so well. Now that the participants understand why some poeple changed in some ways and others in other ways I now know that I did not have much of an idea of what I was in mind - other than the notion that I was quite snakelike and from what I had seen in the mirror. The lycra had become part of me, but I was not substantially changed. I could see and breathe through the material, I could talk through the material and I could see that my arms and hands were unchanged through the material. After a few seconds I asked Manda to unzip me, and that&#039;s where the problem began, because while it was obvious to Manda that she had changed, it was not obvious to me that the suit had become part of me - there was no zipper. Manda rubbed her furry hands over the suit where the zips used to meet at the nape of the next, I did too, there was simply no zipper. &lt;br /&gt;
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I could see perfectly well through the material, and we just stood under the tree for a bit, checking each other and ourselves out. Manda discovered that she was effectively completely naked apart from the corset and asked me to untie it, which I did. There was not the usual relaxation when the knot was undone - and we discovered that she was now permenantly the shape the corset had pulled her into. There was no second skin for me to get out of, despite searching around.&lt;br /&gt;
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Life has had to be adapted, and we are known around the township where we live as the Xanadu Couple - people have to call us something. The medical screening caught me in it&#039;s net as we were trying to leave, and I am grateful to them, as they identified that I would be unable to eat, drink or defecate without surgery. Adreneline had kept me going and I simply had not noticed. Manda and I were taken to a distant hospital where I was examined by a team of doctors, who recommended swift surgery - the most painful being the cut they made to my lips. The material was a part of me, a part of my skin and therefore a part of my nervous system, and as soon as they realised this they gave me an anasthetic. The lycra has grown painfully slowly inside my lips, my nostrils and my anus, but they decided to leave everything else as it is. When I pee it makes a big wet stain no matter what I do, and I have to wash every time, and drying takes ages. &lt;br /&gt;
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The doctors have decided that my fingers are inseparable - looking at how slowly and poorly the lycra seems to heal, and from others who have a similar affliction they have decided that my thumbs and fingers make an adequate claw for me and the discomfort would be extreme as I heal too slowly. They can do nothing for my eyes - I can see out fine, but no one can see in - others cannot see my emotions, they see just a blank snakeskin patterned face with a mouth and nose. &lt;br /&gt;
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Manda seems to be fine, although we are going to split up. She&#039;s still got her receptionists job although her days of track athletics and dinghy sailing are completely over thanks to the permanently attached heels. We both miss the more physical side of our relationship, and since I am effectively now unable to consummate our relationship, she&#039;s going to move out and find someone else. &lt;br /&gt;
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I move on my own through the world - just because they can&#039;t see my eyes, doesn&#039;t mean I can&#039;t see them, and I can see that the eyes are the window to my soul. I live in a one way mirror, I can see out, but without others being able to see in, they stay away.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>User:Sdw</title>
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		<updated>2008-05-26T17:57:33Z</updated>

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[[Paying attention to detail 2]]  Chapter two &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 3]]  Chapter three &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Paying attention to detail 4]]  Chapter four&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Checkpoint]] The beginnings of some short Xanadu stories&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Zentai]] Maybe you would expect this&lt;br /&gt;
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