The Girl on the Couch

Here we have yet another "tried to write a caption, it wound up too long, so it's a 'story' now."

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Nathan woke up on the morning of November first the same way he usually did, turning off his alarm just before it would've started making noise and heading out into the common area to make breakfast. What he didn't expect to find when he did that, however, was a tall, curvy woman with what appeared to be the ears and tail of a canine sleeping on the couch.

He sneaked by while giving her an extremely confused look. The only way someone else could've gotten into the apartment was if his roommate had let them in. And...what's more, his roommate's cat, who seemed to be friendly only with her owner and just barely tolerated Nathan's presence, was curled up on the back of the couch just above the stranger, sleeping contentedly. Well—that was, at least, until he got to the kitchenette and the black-furred feline opened one of her eyes slightly to glare at him for a second. But she closed it again after that and still didn't move from being practically on top of the wolfish visitor, which remained...strange.

Whatever was going on here, investigating it would just have to wait. Nathan had classes to get to, which meant he had breakfast to prepare. He just tried to do it as quietly as possible, presuming firstly that she was his roommate's guest—because, despite how impossible that seemed, it felt even less possible that she'd just casually crash on their couch if she was an intruder—and secondly that she'd be much more easily roused by noise than someone with human ears. He was about to the point of putting food on his plate to sneak back into his bedroom when this plan finally failed, and she audibly yawned—which got him looking in her direction—and pulled around to sit up, stretching in place.

And..wow. She'd looked pretty good before, when she was lying on her side facing toward the back of the couch, but was an even more impressive and bizarre sight from the front. Heterochromatic eyes, huge boobs, a cute face and..some weird kind of getup in purple and orange. Taking all of this in stunned Nathan long enough for her to notice him standing there.

"Oh, morning," she said casually, and stood up. "That smells good~."

"Uh.." Well, maybe he should've expected a wolf-girl to have a sensitive nose. "Yeah." Not a very eloquent response, but Nathan was still a little taken aback by her sudden appearance in his apartment...as well as her appearance, of course.

"Hey, can I have some?" She took a couple of steps toward him, the cat on the couch meowing in response to her voice and hopping down to follow her...exactly like she usually did Zander. Okay, this just didn't stop getting weirder, Nathan thought.

"Um, I only made enough for one person. I guess I could make more?" he said awkwardly. Neither of them had really had a guest before, but he supposed a simple breakfast was normal enough hospitality.

She smiled at that. "Please?" Then, finally seeming to notice his gaze on her body in general, she looked down and tugged at her top briefly. "Oh, wow, I should go change," she said, seeming to realize her outfit was a little..ridiculous. "Hey, I'd really appreciate it, but no pressure!" she added, waving backwards as she went...right into Zander's bedroom with zero hesitation, the cat following her inside. She didn't even bother to shut the door before audibly dumping clothes on the floor—but, thankfully, it was at a right angle and not straight in Nathan's line of sight. He wasn't sure he could fight temptation that strong.

He just shrugged to himself and went ahead with making a second batch, setting the original plate on the table for their guest. It seemed like her walking in and changing clothes should've woken his roommate up, but...maybe Zander was crashing somewhere else? He'd gone to some party the night before, which was well out of character for him, and was still gone when Nathan went to bed. That didn't make any sense either, though, since—if he wasn't here, then how did she get in? He lent her his key for some reason, or..?

The strange woman drew further confusion when she returned wearing...definitely one of Zander's t-shirts, and—the way it fit her hips made it kind of hard to be sure—but a pair of his boxers, too!? This outfit was ill-fitting in a way that only seemed to accentuate her generous curves, plus she'd taken the striped leggings off, leaving her long, gorgeous legs completely bare. It didn't help that when Nathan caught sight of her walking out, she was tugging down on the shirt and blushing slightly. "We~ell, I shoulda realized this stuff wouldn't fit too great," she said—seemingly to herself.

"Um." Unsure what to say, he just waved to the plate on the table before putting his own breakfast together and starting to the opposite chair himself.

"Oh, sweet! Thanks." She was pleased with this offering, visibly wagging her tail as she took her seat. This was...stunningly cute. "You really didn't have to, but—well, I can pay you back later if you want."

"Uh, n-no problem?" This guest's behavior just kept finding new ways to disable Nathan's verbal capabilities. Where did Zander even find someone like this?

They ate quietly for a bit while he attempted once again to gather his wits together. Then, finally, he went for the safest question he could to broach the subject of—just everything about this situation. "So uh..what's your name?"

"Hmn?" She looked up, her head tilted slightly with one ear folding to the side a bit—another hopelessly adorable expression, equal parts canine and human. Gradually a look of realization took over, and she sat up. "..Oh! H-heheh..HAa~haha..!" Then she just started laughing, further confusing Nathan as she doubled over briefly before sitting up again, making a visible effort to stop.

"Heh..o-oh, gods wow," she said, wiping a tear off of one of her eyes with a finger. "Sorry, it's just..duh. No wonder you've been acting weird!"

I've been acting weird? Nathan thought, but didn't say.

"Uh, Nathan. It's—me," she said, pointing to herself with both thumbs. "By which I mean: Your roommate?"

"My roommate," he repeated.

"Yeah!"

"Okay, not to state the obvious, but...my roommate's, a guy? And..not, uh.." he pointed vaguely to one of his own ears.

"Oh, uh-huh!" she nodded. "Not anymore, though! Ask me anything only Zander would know."

"Okay, uh..what's your share of the rent?"

"Seven hundred fifty two dollars, eighty-two cents," she rattled off immediately.

"...What's the cat's name?" he said, pointing. Well—Zander probably would've told someone pranking him that, but...

"Terry," she said, and the cat immediately meowed in response. In all of the time he'd known the animal, Nathan had only ever seen three responses to her name: She hissed at anyone she didn't know, meowed at Zander, and completely ignored Nathan, or anyone else she "tolerated". Plus, as soon as she heard that the woman leaned down to rub Terry's ears and she purred instead of backing away and looking ready to bite her hand off.

He crossed his arms. "..Well, the cat seems to think it's you. Honestly, that's better evidence than anything else as far as I'm concerned."

"Aww, really? Terry's such a sweety, though," she said, sitting up again. "She just hasn't totally warmed up to you yet."

"In two years?" Nathan retorted. "Anyway, and much more importantly. Like: Why? How even?" he said, thrusting both his arms forward at her to try to express the absurdity he was experiencing.

"Oh, uh, well." She gave a kind of helpless shrug. "Long story short, a witch did it? I was at the party last night, and this witch was like, 'I wanna test out a spell on you that should give you whatever body type you want', and I was like 'sure, why not'."

"And...you wanted. To be a girl, and also part wolf," Nathan said slowly. The casual, halfhearted explanation was definitely Zander; in fact, the more bizarre it was that she was him, the more impossible he found disbelieving it to be.

"Um, yeah! Kinda. I mean, it's not what I was going for at first, but when it started happening I just kinda found out I liked it!" she said. "Uh, I started telling people my name was Azura, because I thought it sounded cooler, and..I, had a great time! Didn't, really think too hard about waking up still like this the next morning, or anything."

"Do we...need to call someone to help you turn back, then?" This was uncharted territory for Nathan, at least—probably for her, too.

"No way! I still love this!" she said, with a grin that made it extremely believable (and was, again, unbelievably cute, fangs and all). "I'm just admitting I didn't really think through what all I'd have to do for staying this way, and stuff."

"Yeah, I bet." She just giggled in response to this. And before long, Nathan had to leave for class and leave her to figure those things out on her own—for the moment, at least.

Over the next few days, anyone who needed to got the news. "Azura"—which name she chose to stick to—bought a bunch of clothes that fit her new body and donated most of the old ones, keeping several of her favorite t-shirts and some other stuff that still sort of fit her to lounge around in the apartment with. Their relationship didn't change much, although Nathan was fairly sure she knew how attracted he was and occasionally went out of her way to deliberately tease and fluster him.

He came in one afternoon a few weeks later to find her sitting on the couch in one of her old t-shirts and a pair of tight gym shorts. Apparently she'd been waiting for him, since she hopped to her feet to greet him (and Terry jumped awake next to her on the couch, giving an alarmed meow at the sudden movement). "Hey!"

"Uh, hi?" Nathan continued inside while she moved slightly closer to continue talking.

"So, you know that witch I told you about? Who, uh, helped me with this?" she said, waving vaguely to her current appearance.

"You didn't so much tell me about her as mention her once and never again."

"Oh! Well, uh, she's a candy witch. And makes candy with magic, and also magic candy," she said, following him around as he set down his stuff. "So anyway, she got in contact and said she was looking for people to test out this new kind of candy that's supposed to, uh, transform whoever eats it, but then let them turn back to what they were whenever they wanna. So I thought of you!"

"Um.." Nathan stopped, turning to look at her—which may have been a mistake, since she had on a smile that could disarm a nuke. "You thought of me," he repeated.

"Uh-huh!"

"Wwwwhy?"

"Well, I dunno. I thought you might wanna try it out? And, see what it's like to get turned into something different? But then, you'd, still be able to turn back," she said.

"There are probably lots of people who'd want that more than I would," Nathan pointed out, still fishing for clues to her reasoning.

"Yeah, maybe. But—I know you," she said. "And uhh, how do I put this?"

Azura's ears folded down slightly. "Um..you like me, right?"

Nathan shrugged. "Yes? You're a good roommate."

"Nooo, I mean. You like this," she said, gesturing toward her own body again.

"Well—yeah. I mean, I'm male?" Nathan said. "You can't possibly have failed to notice how attractive you are, right?"

"Oh, believe me, I know," she said, grinning again (but also blushing slightly?). "So, uh, um," her ears folded down again and her tail started wagging furiously while the blush actually brightened into clear view. "I think I might be attracted to you too? But that's kinda weird, right? A-anyway, I'd really prefer if you knew what it was like, you know, to get turned into a girl."

This was getting to be almost as weird as the morning after Halloween, Nathan thought. But also, he had a feel for her thought process now. "You wanted me to know what that was like before admitting that, huh."

"Uh, yeah! But since it's the reason why I want you to try it, it's kind of a paradox...soo, I gave up."

Azura reached into a pocket and pulled out what looked to be a wrapped piece of candy that was just small enough to fit in her palm, holding it up in front of her. "Anyway, it couldn't hurt to try, right? From what uh, the candy witch said, the way transformation candy's supposed to work is that it only tastes good to a person who'll actually like, like, looking the way the candy turns them into. So if it tastes really bad you can just spit it out and abort the whole thing!"

"And that's, true for this experimental candy too, huh?" Nathan carefully took the offered treat and examined it a bit more closeley.

"Yeah! Um, actually she's kinda got the 'transformation' part down pat. It's the um, turning back that's supposed to be experimental. But it's more that, she's already done some small-scale testing and just needs a lot more people to try it to iron out any little flaws that're left. Plus, if that part totally fails she has other ways of turning people back."

"You realize how completely insane all of that sounds, right?" Nathan said.

"Uh-uh!" Azura nodded. "But, her magic worked on me. And she's been in business for like two or three years now, and I couldn't find anyone complaining or anything online, just glowing reviews everywhere. Which is almost unheard of, right?"

"Yeah." Nathan peeled the wrapper back a bit; what was inside was a pure white..mint, maybe? It was mostly a wide oval shape, with two triangles sticking out in a way that suggested a head with animal ears. "So what exactly, uh..I mean, I guess this is supposed to turn me into a girl, but also..?"

"That's a surprise!" Azura said. "Um, from me, I mean. Unless you really need to know, first.."

Nathan sighed. "No, I guess it doesn't really matter as long as I can just turn back. This is still completely insane, for the record."

"Hahah, yeah!" she agreed, but still looked eager for him to try it.

So, against all odds, Nathan put the magical piece of candy in his mouth after briefly sniffing at it. It did smell pleasantly minty, maybe a bit like peppermint. And it tasted...well, it tasted really good. Nathan couldn't place why he liked its flavor so much when he was usually just lukewarm about peppermints and candy in general, but of course that also apparently meant he was going to like being a...girl with animal ears? His mind struggled with the impossibility of that even as he began to feel his ears tingle and stretch, and something..pushing its way out slowly from his back.

"Do you, uh, like it?" Azura asked, still watching.

"Mmh..myeah..?" Nathan said, turning slightly around to see what was going on behind him. He saw a thin appendage covered in white fuzz making its way out past the hem of his shirt, and could actually feel air running across the growing tail as it moved. The same was also true of his ears, as they very quickly pushed past his hair and started moving around on their own. "Weird.." he mumbled, reaching up his hands to feel the ears. It was equally strange feeling the warm, fluffy things with his hands and feeling his hands touching them—but also, oddly...nice?

His fingertips brushed against his hair briefly during this, and seemingly in response to that a tingle spread all across his scalp. It progressed in toward his face while he also felt growing locks tickling his forehead and cheeks, and the back of his neck. At the same time, the candy in his mouth started tasting...mintier and sweeter, and both flavors combined made it even more delicious than before. "Mm, w-whoa.." he mumbled, pulling some hair from the side of his face to before his eyes. It was still growing—even faster than before, actually—so it bunched up a bit above where he had a hold of it. And its color was oddly pale, and quickly fading even more before his eyes. At the same time, that tingling was spreading down his neck to his shoulders and beyond, seemingly right alongside the tips of his increasingly long hair as they continued their way on down his back.

Nathan shuddered as the wave of tingling hit his center, and then he felt a sort of pressure against his head and shoulders. Then he began to experience the mildly disorienting sensation of shrinking—the wolf-girl in front of him and the room all around her rising upward, his clothes steadily loosening around him as he grew not just shorter but all-around smaller. He looked down, tugging at his shirt and brushing his hands around a bit to get a sense of what was happening to the shape of his body. His shoulders were narrowing, his waist curving inward, and even his arms and legs were becoming slimmer and smaller. He also now noticed that the hair was all gone from his arms, and a quick check with a still-shrinking hand found his facial hair completely gone, too—the skin there instead feeling pleasantly soft and smooth.

And he...liked it? Even as Nathan looked up to see Azura's face rising past his eye level, he found he was starting to actually enjoy the sensation of being smaller and softer. The tail—now at least as long as one of his arms—twitching around behind him felt just right, as did the way his soft hair brushed against the fur of those ears as they also continued moving around all on their own. Then he was struck by another layer of flavor in the candy of his mouth, the sweet and minty flavors seeming to give way to a more intense version of the original peppermint. "Mmh..mm~mm.." His voice audibly changed as he shuddered once again, feeling a slight tug between his legs. Well...there it was, he thought. Goodbye, old friend.

"Mm~rrh..mmh?" As his manhood began to tangibly shrink shorter and smaller, he heard something odd coming from his mouth. Was that a...purr? He had another chance to hear it at a higher pitch as a slightly sharper tug came from down below. "M-mrr~rRRrh...!" Why did..turning into a girl...feel this good, he wondered. But it was getting more difficult to concentrate on comprehending that as the sensations of the change overtook him.

He caught sight of his height settling just where his face was right across from Azura's chest. The sight of that—plus seeing her face blush a little at where he was looking—made Nathan's own cheeks feel warm. Actually, the sensation of his manhood slipping away was making that happen, but this sight made it even worse.

"Rrr..rr~rrh.." He was still purring up a storm, in a voice that slid higher and higher in pitch despite having already crossed into clearly feminine range—not that he could bring himself to care just now. The candy in his mouth tasted amazing, like nothing he'd ever eaten before, and his diminishing manhood felt even better. And then..

"Rr~rnh..a~ah!" Nathan felt one final, sudden tug, drawing a high, girly soprano from his lips—and just like that, it was gone. "M-mnh..?" Feeling her blush heat up even brighter, Nathan squirmed her legs back and forth. There was a faint tingling down there, steadily building. "Mrr~raa~ah..!" Oh, well, that felt nice. She was vaguely aware of something new gently pushing into place deep in the pit of her belly as her womanhood steadily asserted itself, the tingling building into an unfamiliar yet deeply pleasant fuzzy sensation down there which was unmistakably a girl's..sense of enjoyment.

"A~ah, nn..r~row.." Nathan shuddered slightly and sank down to her knees as she felt something seeming to spread out from down there, first hitting her hips, bottom and thighs and causing them all to steadily puff outward. She gained a wide, round butt and thick upper legs even as her waist slimmed in a little more. Then she—almost unconsciously—swallowed the last of the delicious candy, only to find its sharp, pleasant flavor lingering on her tongue. That something spread the rest of the way up to her chest, causing it to sharply tingle even as it started to puff forward.

"Mew..rr~rrrh.." Nathan purred helplessly as her newfound womanhood continued to broadcast pleasure, especially in response to the budding little breasts beginning to make their way outward, blooming faster and faster and running some unusually sensitive skin across some soft cloth that seemed to hug them surprisingly tightly. "Rr~rooOwrr..aa~ah..!" The growing seemed to stall for just a moment, but Nathan could feel a pressure building in her fairly modest breasts that seemed to keep the pleasant sensation down between her legs going. "Aah, a~AAaah..!" She cried out each time she felt the pressure jump higher, and then, finally, it released.

"Aa~ahnn~nn.." Nathan cried out helplessly as she felt her breasts expanding another cup size or two, growing into a pair of globes worthy of the rest of the generous figure she'd been blessed with. Then she purred again, in her strangely high-pitched voice, and slowly opened her eyes again, panting softly and feeling her cheeks heat up all over again as she saw Azura sitting on her knees right in front of her.

Despite the drastic difference in their heights standing up, the wolf-girl only looked moderately taller like this—and somehow looking into Azura's blushing face was even worse than staring right into her chest would've been just now. Nathan felt spellbound for a long moment, and her roommate seemed unable or unwilling to say anything either, until a quiet meow finally interrupted the mutual reverie.

It wasn't from the just-transformed catgirl; rather, it was from Terry, who was currently sitting closer to Nathan than she'd willingly stayed since meeting him. Now that she was looking at the little black cat, she leaned forward to bump her nose on the catgirl's bare upper leg—which was strange, since she'd been wearing full-length pants before. Nathan turned around, looking down at herself briefly, to find her clothes had been reduced to a tight-fitting sleeveless sweaterish top, a pair of shorts so tight and small as to be hidden by the hem of said top, and a big black ribbon tied onto her tail near the tip. There were panties and a strapless bra under all that, but overall the outfit left her feeling rather exposed.

The cat was still bumping her leg, too, so Nathan reached out a small, delicate hand to put it on the full-feline's head and try rubbing her ears. "Oh, what, this is what it takes for you to like me?" she said. "Turning into a catgirl?!" Terry meowed in the middle of some contented purring, and somehow it struck her as an affirmative.

"Heheh," Azura giggled. "Um, so how do you feel?"

"G...good?" Nathan said slowly, looking back up toward her. Her unoccupied hand ran through her long, soft hair, pulling some locks into view again. She could see it was all the same pure, snowy white as her tail—and, she'd soon learn, her ears also. "It really shouldn't feel this good, but it does. So, really weird too."

"I totally know exactly what you mean," the wolf-girl said, wagging her tail cutely. "See, like, there's no way you'd get this without experiencing it!"

"I, suppose not," the catgirl said. "Um.." Now that their eyes had re-met, both of them were starting to blush again.

"H-how do I..look?" she said, uncertainly. "Ab-about how you expected?"

"I dunno, I just said 'catgirl'," Azura shrugged. "Actually, I'm not even sure how much control that witch has over the specifics. But you uh, look super pretty and cute."

"Um..t-thanks? You too?"

"Hahah!" Azura giggled again. "Yeah, this is weird." But then she leaned forward onto her hands and crawled closer. Terry turned her head to notice the approaching wolf-girl and walked away as if to get out of her way, her back brushing across Nathan's hand one last time in the process.

She pulled back up onto her knees only a few inches away from the catgirl, grinning mischievously with her ears down at the sides of her head and her tail wagging furiously. "Uh..w-what're you—" Nathan started, but was interrupted by Azura suddenly half-tackling her arms around her, grabbing her into an extremely close hug. "Aack!"

"Mmnh." Azura's nose rubbed her cheek in a strange sort of nuzzling motion. Nathan was hit with a sensory overload from the other girl's surprisingly strong arms wrapped around her, those enormous breasts pressed right up against her own soft chest, and that nose..and she just helplessly returned the hug, feeling a purr starting to build in her throat.

"Mnh—mrr~rrh.." There it went. Even though she was intensely confused and deeply embarrassed by both her roommate's actions and her own, Nathan felt her tail curling itself forward, the tip brushing gently down Azura's thick, fluffy tail from base down to tip.

"Y-yip!" The wolf-girl's voice was usually so deep, but her bark came out almost as high as Nathan's own voice. It was..adorable, and it made her want to keep going. She started nuzzling Azura back even as she now twisted her slim tail closer around the wolf-girl's, her purring continuing unabated. Predictably, Azura continued barking and yipping in response, her tail seeming equally eager to tangle itself up with the catgirl's.

And then their hands found each other's ears. "M-mr~rowh..!" Nathan was equal parts startled and delighted at the feeling of those hands gently touching her ears. Azura's further pleased barks in response to her own hands touching the fluffy wolf ears satisfied her just as much, and she found herself giving in to the unbelievably pleasant sensations even more than before.

For a long moment, both of them were completely lost in a haze of animal-like, instinctual pleasure, until Azura finally let go of the catgirl's ears and pulled herself somewhat free—enough for their faces to be apart by a few inches. If Nathan thought the both of them were blushing before, well, that was nothing compared to now.

"Uh, w-wow, heheh! Sorry, I dunno what came over me," the wolf-girl said nervously, seeming to fear some kind of angry response.

"Um.." Nathan was flustered into near-silence yet again.

"I mean, I was j-just looking at you, and I thought, 'wow, those ears look really soft! I wonder what her um, what it'd feel like to..uh, hug..'" she trailed off helplessly.

The catgirl flashed her a smile back. "Uh, that's okay. I've..'wondered' what it'd feel like to hug you for a while, now. Annd, my tail's still kinda caught up in yours." She made it move just slightly to demonstrate, making Azura bark again.

"Yip! O-oh, uh..you're right. I guess..that's, it's okay then?"

"So much better than okay," Nathan said. "We should uh, prolly get up off the floor though." Then, with the reason for it made clear, she felt comfortable gently untangling her tail from the other girl's.

"Rr—rrf! Y-yeah, okay," Azura agreed. It seemed like she was feeling pretty flustered now, too.

Of course, when they stood up their difference in height reasserted itself. It was hard for Nathan to think of a more extreme way to notice how very short she now was than the wolf-girl she'd been a bit taller than before now towering over her. "Uh, so, um," Azura said, taking as small a step away as possible while making eye contact possible. "Did the, 'turny back part', work? N-not that uh.."

"Hmm, I get it," Nathan nodded. Now that she was thinking about it, it felt strangely obvious how to turn back—but not in a way she could've explained in words. "Lemme, test it real quick."

With a fairly simple twitch of her will, Nathan found herself growing and shifting all over again. This seemed much quicker, and less extreme, than the first transformation, but Nathan's cheeks grew warm and the return of his original sex brought a "O~Oh..!" from his lips all the same.

When it was over, he initially thought it had gone off without a hitch; even his clothes felt back to normal. "Um..seems like it worked," he said.

Azura had a rather concerned expression on, however, which prompted him to examine things a little closer. "Y-your uh, um.." she stammered at the same time as he realized it: His ears hadn't turned back to normal and the tail was still there, ribbon and all.

"Oh." Reaching a hand up, he found his hair just as ridiculously long as before too, plus its color hadn't gone back. "Yyeah. Still, part cat I guess?"

"Your eyes're still yellow, too!" Azura pointed out helpfully.

"They..turned yellow?"

"Yeah! Um, I thought they looked great but uh.." she fidgeted nervously. "I guess I should probably tell that witch it doesn't exactly work right, huh?"

"Guess so," he shrugged. "Um..you like it, though? 'Cause I kinda..do."

"T-the kitty ears?" she said. "I love them! But, I mean.."

"Hey, if you can get used to being a wolf-girl then I can definitely get used to these," he said. "But uh..."

With another twitch of will, Nathan immediately began shrinking down again. He—strangely—enjoyed the sensation of his manhood disappearing once more, and before long she was back to being the same catgirl as before. Azura watched this with an increasingly bright blush, and Nathan could feel her own cheeks heating up even more after it was over.

"Let's..go to the couch?" the catgirl suggested, pointing, and started that way—her roommate following like a lost puppy; when she sat down, Azura hesitantly took a seat across from her. She tilted her head slightly. "Hey, what're you doing way over there?" Then she nimbly pulled herself up and crawled up to the wolf-girl.

"Uhm..Well, I wasn't too sure, uh.."

"You wanna pick up where we left off?" Nathan offered, now easily in hugging range.

"Yyy..yes. So much yes," Azura said, nodding emphatically.

Nathan felt a smile hit her lips. "Okay then."

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I didn't want to spoil it at the beginning, but of course, this is also a sequel to Cheat Night! I didn't exactly set out to make another sequel to that series, but when I was trying to come up with ideas for this image, a follow-up to that was what came out, and so here we are.