Friday, December 13, 2019

Knowing Not One's True Desires

A little explanation before we begin:
I had a sudden, intense burst of inspiration over the past few days, and was able to channel it into no less than five captions! Wow. Three in one sort of loose series, and two in another. (There was also significant progress toward another part of TBRE, although I guess not many people are as interested in that.) But as I went to actually turn the captions I'd written into images, I realized the former were all probably too long to make readable image-style captions out of. So they're three "standalone stories" instead, and this is the first one. Expect the rest of that output to show up over the next week or two as well.


Anyway, hope you like them.



Miranda was the girl everyone came to when they had problems. She was a tall, gorgeous, fiery redhead with a mysterious aura about her, and somehow she always seemed to know the right thing to say or do to get people past their problems. Rumors had it that sometimes, even when her advice itself wasn't particularly great, the troubles people asked her about would simply...go away all on their own afterward. That was why, when he asked her out on a date and she said yes, Dan was the happiest he'd been in his entire life. The second date was like a dream, too, and when she agreed to a third...he started to think they might start going steady.

Unfortunately, these were the very same reasons he was crushed when she confessed to not really being interested in him—at least not romantically. Like anyone his age, Dan took the words "just friends" the way a criminal would a death sentence, and spent the night in his room sobbing and barely even speaking to his roommate. "It's just not fair," he said. "She doesn't know what it's like!" After all, someone as beautiful and well-liked as her could get a date with anyone. Dan, on the other hand, was a loser, something of a nerd, tall but thin; by no stretch of the imagination was he attractive.

Eric tried to comfort his roommate that night, and had both of them convinced he'd be over it before too long—after all, there was a lot more to life than being with a girl. But it had been a week, and Dan was still completely despondent. It was so bad, his classwork was starting to suffer. Ironically enough, this was the very kind of situation Miranda was supposed to be good and remedying—but it wasn't like he could ask her for help when she was the one who'd caused it! As much as he tried to simply get his mind off of the whole thing, it just wouldn't take. That Friday night, Dan went to sleep in quiet tears. At least his roommate didn't need to suffer just because he was.

When he did finally go to sleep, Dan found himself in an unusually lucid dream. He was aware he was asleep and dreaming, and he was standing—or perhaps even floating—in a perfectly white void. In a strange, undefinable motion that could only make sense in a dream, a speck in the distance appeared and instantly/slowly approached until its form became fully clear. It was Miranda, standing before him and looking just as she had the night she'd broken up with him. Or—since maybe that wasn't a fair way to put it—the night she'd decided they should stop dating.

"What do you want?" he said, in some anger. Even though it wasn't really her, the sight brought up all of the sadness and frustration he'd felt ever since that night at once.
"I want to clear the air," she replied quietly, in a calm but firm voice. "I didn't mean to lead you on, Dan. But the truth is that I was merely interested in getting to know you, and saw agreeing to a few dates as an expedient way to accomplish that. Once I realized that you thought it was serious, I knew it would only harm both of us to continue. It was my mistake to misread your feelings for so long, and I am sorry. But you cannot force someone to feel something which they do not."
“I..I know that," he said, tears starting to come down his face. "I know that!"
"So...what do you want?" she asked.
"I just...look at you," Dan waved toward her. "You're so attractive, and smart, and nice...everyone likes you. I wish I could be like that."
"Dan...you're already smart, and really nice," she said, "at least when you're not like this. And I believe more people like you than you believe. Why do you think I was interested in you in the first place?"
"I—I don't know." He sniffed.
"Well...if it's so great a concern to you, then perhaps we can fix that third thing," she said, bringing her right arm up, her hand just within his reach. "Are you willing to give it a try?"
"Um..." He wasn't sure what that meant—how could some dream make him more attractive? Then again, it was a dream, so maybe it wasn't supposed to make sense. Still, the offer was one he would have taken in real life if he really believed in it, so...why not? Dan reached his hand forward and took hers. Giving a small nod, Miranda pulled herself closer and placed her other hand on his chest for a second. It glowed a bright shade of red that rivaled that of her hair, and then she pulled back to where she'd been before, letting go of his hand. "Let me know what you think in the morning."
"Huh?" Dan didn't know what that meant, but that didn't seem to matter to her. She disappeared in much the same way she had arrived, leaving him with a strange, warm feeling where her hand had been. He brought his hand up to that spot, feeling it, and to his surprise the warmth spread to his hand—and also outward from the spot, up toward his neck and down along his stomach. It felt kind of nice, like the warmth of sitting by a fire after being out in the cold on a winter night.


The day before, Eric had approached Miranda in the cafeteria at lunch. "Hello," she said, giving her usual slight smile. "What troubles you?" As usual, it was obvious to her when someone needed help. Dan's roommate took a seat across from her, setting down his tray of food.
"Dude, my roommate won't quit moping!" he said. "Since you turned him down, he won't stop obsessing over it."
"That's...too bad." She shook her head slightly. "I didn't think it was that serious for him. I thought he would be mature enough to move past it, even if it was."
"Is there anything I can do? Or you? I mean, besides the obvious." Eric shrugged. "He doesn't sleep, he barely eats; I think he's getting behind on homework, too."


Once the warmth had made its way all across Dan's body, it seemed to be accompanied by a mild tingling sensation, and then by something tickling his cheeks..? He reached a hand up to try and figure out what it was, and discovered that his hair was actually growing longer. It flitted down across the back of his neck, too, as locks quickly fell nearly in his eyes and past his head, then onto his shoulders. His dark brown hair felt silky soft as it flowed across his hands, as though it had been carefully groomed his entire life. Plus, with his hand up there his eyes caught sight of a motion on the rest of the arm; focusing on that he saw the hairs there getting shorter, retracting inward as though they were growing in reverse.
"Why's my hair..?" he muttered quietly, confused, but then he felt a slight pressure against the top of his head and shoulders, quickly joined by the distinct impression that he was shrinking. He looked around; the blank landscape of the dream made it difficult to really tell, but he could swear the endless expanse of blank white ground was getting closer and the "sky" slowly rising around him. Besides, when he looked down he detected the hem of his shirt sinking lower on his hips, and it was starting to seem looser on his shoulders too, as though he was not merely getting shorter but smaller that way, too.
The heat across his arms, legs, and stomach turned to pressure too—though a much gentler pressure than that on top of him; in combination with that warmth it was like a relaxing massage. "Mn—mmh..?" He shuddered slightly, enjoying the sensation in spite of himself, and when he looked down he could see his arms and lower legs slimming, his hands and feet slowly shrinking; his shirt grew looser across his stomach as it became shorter and slimmer at the sides, further diminishing his size.


"That won't do at all." Miranda reached over into her bag, dug around, and eventually produced a flower with bright red petals before laying it carefully onto a free part of the table. "I think I can trust you with something private, can't I?"
"Well, uh..I guess so." Eric scratched his head, trying to decipher the purpose of the flower in this conversation.
"The truth is that I am a witch. When my advice isn't enough to help people...I usually turn to magic. There's a little of it on this—" she indicated the flower— "enough for me to arrange something I think could help."


"Wha..?" In a daze, Dan ran a hand through his soft hair again; it now ran down to the small of his back, and the hand running through it looked strangely small, with slim, delicate fingers ending in well-manicured nails. He'd finally stopped getting smaller now, but his arms were skinny as rails, his shirt was threatening to slip entirely off his slender shoulders and trailing as low as his thighs, and the tingling—gone from the rest of his body by now—was returning with some intensity between his legs, a sensation both uncomfortable and yet, at the same time, bizarrely pleasant.
"I-I...I'm so sma~all.." Dan muttered, running a hand down the side of his body and finding a sharp inward curve to his stomach hiding beneath the oversized shirt. His voice cracked slightly when he spoke, and then he let out a surprised "Aah!" at a slight, sharp tugging motion between his legs and heard a voice higher in pitch than his own come out. "Aa~ah..?" he tried again, and heard it pull higher still in the middle of the sound. "M-my, voi~ice..." It changed again as he said it. "It's.." This time he sounded like a young boy. "I-I'm..!"
Another sharp tug interrupted him, drawing a startled "Aah!" followed by an unexpected outburst of "Mmmm~mmnnhh..!" as he actually felt himself shrinking all the more rapidly down there..and furthermore, enjoying it more. His voice floated up out of masculine range entirely during this sound, and he began to understand—to consciously realize—just what was happening to him.


"I'm not really sure I believe you, but...at the same time.." Eric mulled it over in his head. "Well—how's this supposed to help, then?"
"I think he needs a confrontation, but it would be embarrassing in anything but complete private. And he isn't the kind of person who would seek that out or agree to it. So I intend to speak with him in a dream." She pushed the flower toward him slightly. "Simply set this next to him once he's asleep, and I'll take care of the rest. Believe me or don't, just try this one thing for me, please? If he isn't feeling better in the morning then you can come back and throw it in my face."
"Well...okay." He picked it up. "I guess it can't hurt to try it out, at least."


Dan's manhood began to melt away, drawing a pleased "Ah, aah...ooh..." from his lips and causing his eyes to slowly close as he squirmed in place. With each sound, his voice deepened again, steadily maturing from a young girl's voice toward that of a woman. And indeed—somehow, impossibly, he was transforming into a girl! Parts of him wanted to fight it, but it just felt so good; and from the moment he'd felt the softness of his hair, the way it tickled his cheeks and run across his shoulders and back...he might not have admitted it right away, but he liked it. "Oo~ooh..!" His face burned with an intense blush as the final tugging, slipping sensation began; Dan was addicted now, too busy enjoying every second of it to question a single thing. "Aa~aaAAAahhh..!" Away it went, then, and a gentle upward push into the pit of Dan's stomach was accompanied by a deeply pleasant, fuzzy, tingly sensation down there as her womanhood all formed into place at once. "Aa~aahhnn~nn!" she cried out in a deep, mature, womanly alto as her newfound sex supplied her with her first taste of its kind of pleasure, and she found herself instantly addicted.
"Hff...ff.." Dan panted, her slender arms pulled close around her. Her eyes fluttered open to see that the space in front of her had turned into a mirror, cutting the impossibly wide dream-space in two and showing her an image of herself as she now was. Her dark brown hair framed a pretty, round face wonderfully; her eyes had somehow changed to a piercing, bright red shade which she immediately took a liking to. "W-wow..." she mumbled, enraptured. However, turning her eyes downward she found that her boyish shirt and pants fit awkwardly across her body, which seemed annoyingly flat to her—at least until she noticed the warmth and tingling starting to reappear across her chest and hips.

"Heheh.." Dan giggled softly. Her shirt split apart at the hips, the lower part fluttering out into a short, yellow skirt; her pants slid down off her hips and split apart, shrinking into a pair of tight black thigh-high stockings. The top of her shirt gained long sleeves and pulled itself close against her slender shoulders and arms as well as her slim, flat belly, but remained suspiciously loose across the chest. The boxers turned into a pair of soft, tight panties in an instant, before they could even be seen past the part of the shirt turning into a skirt.
Then the sensations across her chest and hips grew strong enough to start affecting her, with a loosening sensation similar, yet opposite, to the pressing massage-like one from before. It came with a clearly visible widening of her hips, her butt and thighs plumping outward to give her a shapely lower third of a figure. Dan's chest was not to be forgotten either, as suddenly-sensitive skin pushed its way out across the soft cloth of her top, drawing more of the pleasant tingling between her legs she'd already grown so fond of. "Oo~oh..." she murmured, calmly enjoying the sensation while eagerly watching as a pair of bumps rose up from her chest in the mirror, then began to swell faster and faster, especially once her hips finished up, straining the material of the top and forcing it to grow along with them. Before long the girl in the mirror was grinning down at two large, round breasts that perfectly filled out a lovely hourglass figure.

There was only one word she had for her newfound appearance: Beautiful. And she wouldn't have it any other way.


Eric wasn't sure what he was expecting the following morning, when he sat up in bed and turned around—but it certainly wasn't this! Where his roommate was supposed to be was a voluptuous girl lying on her back, sleeping peacefully despite the fact that her covers were mostly thrown off of the bed, the last bits of them loosely draped around her in a totally unhelpful fashion. The flower from Dan's nightstand was missing, too—except that some of its petals seemed to have scattered themselves around the girl somehow.
"Uh..D-dan?!" He stood up, wondering why his first thought was that this even was his roommate and not a member of some elaborate prank—but then, after all, Miranda had made some wild claims the day before.

"Mmh.." Her eyes opened slowly, her face still alight with a recent blush. Her right arm reached up and patted her hair for a second, her left crossing just under her chest and pushing upward slightly a couple of times, as though checking that the breasts there were real. After this, she turned her head to one side to face him. "Oh, hey Eric," she said. "Um...wha'happened?"
"Dude..!" Despite the expression of confusion, she was smiling...and her blush was a little brighter since she'd looked at him.


"Miranda!" Later that morning, the redheaded witch was approached by Eric, a girl following along next to him. She stopped walking, allowing them to catch up. "Dude, your...flower thing did something really weird," he said.
"Hmm." Putting two and two together, she looked at the girl. "Dan?"
"Yeah. Uh..."
"That is rather strange. The spell I used is only supposed to moderately tweak your appearance to what you'd consider an attractive version of yourself. Nothing so drastic as that is meant to result."
"So you did do this, though?" she said.
"Mmhm. I can reverse it if you like, although...you appear to be rather pleased with it." The new girl's giddy, flushed grin had not escaped her notice.
"Yeah! I um..it's really weird, but I do like this. Like, a lot."
"What's with the eyes, though?" Eric interjected.
"Hmm?" Looking closer, the witch saw what he meant. "I see...my magic having such a sharp effect left a mark. I can reverse that alone if you want, as well."
"I think they're cute, though..." Dan rocked back and forth, blushing.
"All right. You may change your mind about the whole thing in a month or so. But I see no reason to upset things now if you're happy."

After that, Miranda gave Dan something she never had while she was a boy—her number. "Contact me if you need any help...adjusting, Dan. Or if you change your mind," she said.
"Umm...could you call me Dana?" she asked shyly after a second's hesitation.
"As you like," the witch nodded, entering that as her name in the phone. After that, she continued on her way, leaving the two of them alone.
"Thank you!" the new girl called after her, waving. "Well..I guess I've got some new clothes to buy," she said, half-turning toward her roommate.
"I'm still shocked you're so happy about this," he said, rubbing the back of his head. "Well—I guess I'll go with you. I-I mean, since the whole thing is a little bit my fault anyway."
"Heheh." He was blushing, and now so was she. This was exciting, Dana thought.

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