Johniee's vision cleared, and she found herself in a beautiful, walled courtyard rimmed with date palms. A fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard, it's sparkling water tinkling into a wide pool. Everything looked rather peaceful, really. Except that several things were very wrong.
The most obvious was that everything seemed almost like toys. Everything was almost half the size it should have been. The fountain couldn't have been more than a foot or two tall. And the trees were barely 10 feet up.
Two more facts suddenly became aparent to Johniee: One was that she was crouched down on all fours. The second was that she was completely and utterly naked.
Automatically, she tried to stand up. And discovered that something in her hips didn't work right anymore. She got up to about a 45 degree angle, and then suddenly lost her balance, and fell back onto all fours. A surprized shout escaped her lips, except that it came out as a bellow that sounded strange to her ears. And her face felt strangely heavy, as though something were pulling it down. Abruptly she caught sight of what was making her face feel so heavy...
And the full realization of her sitiation suddenly hit her. Jasmine's wish. The way everything seemed so small. And her inability to stand on two legs...
Already knowing what she would see, Johniee looked down at her "hands".
Two wrinkled, grey legs. And a trunk, dangling from the center of her face. There was no denying her fate at this point, she was very clearly an elephant...
at least she left me my mind... thought Johniee. Suddenly she became aware of two men dressed in arabian clothing, standing off to the side of the courtyard, watching her, and talking. She heard one of them say "...still obviously fairly excitable. Did you hear her a moment ago?" The other one nodded, and the two of them began walking towards her. "Still", the other one said "she's quite a beautiful animal."
"I'm am NOT an animal!" Johniee tried to say. But all that came out was another bellow. One of the men chuckled. "Yes, definatly an excitable one."
Johniee felt herself burning with shame. She was a human being, but she looked like an elephant, and had no way to convince these men otherwise. Suddenly, she felt something around her legs.
While she had been lost in her dark thoughts, the men had walked up and calmly hobbled her front legs with a stout length of chain.
"She'll make a fine beast of burden though, once we get her trained." Commented one of the men. "Truely an animal befitting of the great sultan."
