4 years later:
Jon was lying on her side, pawing at a huge ipad, while a very odd-looking litter suckled milk from her, consisting of what appeared to be 3 relatively normal looking fox kits, 2 creatures apparently halfway between human and fox, a large human infant, and a smaller almost human infant possessing fox ears and a bushy tail. Even though there were only 7 of them and Jon had 8 nipples for them to choose from, getting them peacefully settled in was sometimes a bit of a battle.
“You have done quite well for yourself,” a familiar voice said behind her.
Jon lifted her head up and carefully twisted and looked over without disturbing her babies. “Oh, it’s you!” she said cheerfully. The purple man scratched at the base of Jon’s ears, which twitched at the touch, while she wagged her tail a bit. Her tongue hung out the side of her long snout for a moment before she remembered to present herself with as much human dignity as she could.
“A lot has happened while you were gone.”
“I know. I am nearly all-knowing, after all.”
“So you must have known this would happen.”
“I can’t see the future, but this is not too unexpected. I didn’t expect you to go into business selling your children though.”
“Well you probably should have. This is my 20th litter so far, and 21 is already brewing inside me. That Karyn, keeps me pregnant almost all the time. It would be all the time, if I immediately went into estrus after giving birth. I’m a mother to 147 children so far, I couldn’t possibly keep them all.”
“Especially when rich furries are nearly climbing over each other to pay you 2 million dollars each to adopt them,” the purple man expounded.
“What, don’t tell me you have an ethical problem with that,” Jon said with as much of a smile as her fox face would allow.
“Of course not! Cook ‘em and eat ‘em if you want. I just came by to say hi.”
“Karyn is in the back, running around naked, trying to catch rabbits with his bare hands. It’s a good thing we’ve got such a big and isolated estate. At this point I think he realizes he made the wrong choice. He really wishes he was a fox.”
“You were supposed to really wish you were human, but it seems like you’re pretty happy like this.”
“It really wasn’t a bad hand I was dealt. What’s important is that I’m not enslaved to Sarah. That was the horror of the scenario I was in before, I don’t really mind being a talking female fox, or a baby factory. Actually I absolutely love it. Well I also wouldn’t have been able to talk, and I would have been stuck with those overpowering fox instincts. But I’ve realized I actually have a lot of options in life like this, even while constantly pregnant and nursing. I’m even studying to get a degree in computer science! I’m going to design AIs, deep learning.”
“I know. You have done much better than I anticipated.”
“Oh no. Are you here to take it away from me now?”
“No. Just to say hi. And one other thing.”
“Uh oh. Unless it’s a good thing. I don’t suppose it’s to offer me an apprenticeship to learn godlike power from you.”
“You wish.”
“Yes, I wish. I could have had that with a wish at one time.”
“Hmph. You know what, I’ll consider it, just to alleviate the infinite boredom. Speaking of which, regarding extended boredom, that brings me to the other reason for being here. About Sarah.”
“What about her, she’s trapped for a billion years, right?”
“Yes. But in an alternate realm I created for her, where time passes 250 million times slower.”
“250 million. Oh no. And it’s been 4 years...”
“Yes. I’m going to be bringing her back now, and releasing her into your care. I will leave it to you to decide her fate. And I will leave you with the power to change her biology at will, in any way you see fit.”
“What’s she going to be like, after all that?” Jon said in wonder.
“I’ll leave you to find out. She’s your plaything now. Have fun. I’ll be watching.” The purple man gave Jon one more affectionate ear scritch, and then disappeared in a blue haze of electrical discharge, along with a gut quivering thunk of thunder that echoed through the room for a moment before finally quieting down.
Where he was, now lie the crumpled body of a naked girl, with no mouth, and feature between her legs befitting a barbie doll.
Sarah lifted her head and looked at Jon with tiredness and surprise, She could hardly believe the whole billion years were finally over. That she was experiencing something new, experiencing something at all!
“Hi Sarah,” Jon sighed unenthusiastically.
