"Hey sleepy squirely wakey wakey!" Stacy poked her little sister while she still snoozed away.
"Mm" the little squirrel girl leaned to the left, snuggling onto her own tail shutting out the light easily.
Stacy chuckled a bit and poked her again though that tail. "come on wake up."
The squirrel girl tossed her body to the right... once again snuggling onto her other tail. The shock of that weird sensation of two things touching her woke the girl up.
"Heya Squirely," She said still in a festive mood. She wanted to know how her little sister's first sleep over went.
"Hey, my name is L-illy-" she stopped.
That was... weird. She didn't intend to say that. It just slipped out.
"Lilly? I like it," Stacy said thoughtfully. "Come on, breakfast is almost ready. You know I'll eat your share if you don't come down quickly" he grinned. Being a dinosaur meant he had quite a large diet requirement... but he wasn't really about to eat them out of house and home. Though he did have to be careful going under door frames... some of them made him, bang his head.
The squirrel girl got up slowly, brushing her furry tails slightly in her small claws. She was still perplexed how she completely got her own name wrong and used the one Jenny gave her. She didn't mind the name.. but... well.. wasn't her name Billy? Just a slip of the tongue maybe, that's all.
Jenny smiled feeling strangely... peaceful.
It was probably the best day she ever had. She met a new friend, helped her out, and was now with Tetra and her mother again. She was so happy. She marvelled at seeing all the strange shapes people were in now out her car window. She could see snake people, colourful people, stony people, and other creatures she couldn't name. But she didn't see anyone like herself or Muriel... actually everyone was just so unique in their own way.
"Mummy? Why did the sun... change?" Jenny asked wondering. She had a vague memory of the sun being yellow before.
"I don't know sweety..." She said while driving. "People are trying to find out... why do you ask?"
"Um... well..." The white haired girl hesitated. "I'm kinda... glad it changed. Cause...I met you an' Tetra. Is that bad?" she looked down a bit.
"Oh honey... no it's not bad. A good thing can come from any situation," She smiled. Was that why she felt she did a bad thing? Because she was happy the sun changed? The poor thing, must have felt terribly guilty with such a thought. "I'm happy the sun changed too... if it didn't I wouldn't have met you either."
Jenny smiled a little happily at that. What's nana like?" She asked.
Oh how cute, Muriel thought. "You'll like her" she giggled a bit taking another turn to the left.
Tetra poked out of Jenny's pocket. "You did good," she said with a spark of pride in her voice.
"I- I feel good," Jenny said wonderingly. It was like... she felt complete.
Life was... just about perfect.
Alex paced a bit, her thoughts very distracted. She was very worried.. she couldn't help it. Her sister had gone through this before- or at least something similar. How different was ... she couldn't even say it. Laying eggs was just.. foreign. The thing birds did, or anything else. Not her!
She wasn't sure she could go through it.. and while being a girl was 'okay' in her mind, this seemed like a step into a territory she had no business in.
How would she even know what to do? Would her body just do it? How much control over this situation did she have? If her sister had gone first she could ask her... if she went first, she would deal with it then help her.
But if they both went at the same time, they were both on their own in this. Still, there was a chance that their transformation reset the cycle... maybe it won't happen in a week. It might be four weeks.. or maybe longer? Who knows how long in between they had?
The dragon girl consoled herself with those thoughts.
"You're volunteers?" Asked Rachel curiously. She had not seen other angels- angelic transformed humans, she reminded herself. This place was nice... while Hell's Kitchen seemed to mute the light, this one enhanced it.
Rachel's red body was positively glowing, but nothing quite compared to the light on David's head. Not quite forty watts any more.
"That's right. So, what will you have?" The angel woman asked again.
David glanced around. "Um... well it's still early. What's for breakfast?"
"We have a rather pleasant soup, and wholesome grains," She explained.
"Um.. I'll have the soup," said David.
"Me too!" Rachel exclaimed. "Tomato soup. But come on.. tell us. What's really going on here? Who actually asked you to volunteer?"
The strange elder angel flashed a little smile. "We volunteered ourselves, of course. One need not have to ask to give. This is a nice place to work in anyway. Though... a shame it's rather quiet."
"So- there are not that many angel people?" Asked David curiously.
"I'm not sure," She said while dusting a table. "I Think it's more that there are fewer places suitable to find this place in, and even fewer people willing to try."
"If that pastor knew we got in here through his church... shame he's stuck on the ground though," thought Rachel.
David hoped she could visit this pastor. Maybe.. she could at least apologise for what they did the day she changed. It was a stupid thing... She glanced up as her halo was glowing, signalling one of her sisters had just changed clothes. She could already feel the fabric around her body, so she knew she would be decent... but what would she look like?
She cringed slightly as the bright flash seemed even brighter in this place. Now David was wearing a set of jeans and shirt. Very boy-ish clothes she surmised.
"Oh.. my..." said the elder angel. "You are... not alone then?"
David looked down a bit unsure of that question. Had she seen something like this before? Was it.. common? "No.. I... I changed with five others."
"Ah.. you are a chorus," She said thoughtfully.
"A what?" Asked David.
Rachel watched curiously, playing with one of the knives. The devil girl was trying to decide if it was real silver.. in the light, it certainly looked like real silver. In this day and age?
The elder angel nodded. "A chorus dear. Or even a choir. You are one of many, and yet all are one" She said simply.
David nearly pounced up from the table in desperation. "D-Do you know some way to undo this? It's hard enough being- this. But to share myself like this with so many others..."
The woman shook her head. "Everything happens for a reason dear. You can't change what you are now, as much as anyone else... including that aspect of you."
Rachel grinned. "As much as I want you all to myself, it does make things... interesting."
The angel girl blushed again.
"Is it really burdensome?" The angel woman asked carefully.
Was it? It was annoying.. tricky.. sometimes difficult... but a burden? Well.. No. For some reason she was able to handle all the sensations and even though she felt them, it didn't stop her doing her own things... or stop the others either doing their own things. It still placed an incredible amount of fear though in what this could mean for the future. "B-But what if one of them.. got.. um... pregnant.. or.."
"You would probably share in their experience, I would imagine... nothing more. You won't become pregnant yourself, of course. There is only one known way to do such a thing" She winked. "The power you have can not create life... only share in its experiences. You are probably taking after whoever has the most loud or rather dominant difference..."
The thought didn't really make David feel any better. Especially given if any of her sisters did that, she- and all of them would feel it too. That was just... wrong!
"Here's your soup girls, tuck in. I do hope we'll have some more guests."
Jenny was back home. She excused herself to the bathroom while Muriel prepared dinner.
The white haired girl smiled a bit seeing herself in the mirror, though she scratched her chest where Tetra's claws had dug into her. A curious thought struck her as she removed her top to see those strange spots on her front. They felt.. a little weird. Very tender to the touch. She felt a little bump underneath completely identical to the others.
When she put on her light vest, she saw that the spots pushed out just a tiny bit against the fabric. All four of them.
... why didn't she notice that before? It made her feel a bit anxious so she quickly put on her top covering them so nobody would notice.
She quickly left the bathroom to see what food Mom had cooked for her.
