Vixen Society
Cycle 14
Angus
walked into the little room on the top floor of the mansion, briefly
surveying it. “So, you need me to say or do anythin' specific?
Recite some chant or somethin'?”
“Uh,
nope. You just stand still in the middle of the circle, and I pump
magic through it..and it's supposed to just, do its thing.”
“A'right then.” He nodded, moving to place his feet about in the center of the glyph, and then stood with his arms loosely out to his sides, waiting.
“A'right then.” He nodded, moving to place his feet about in the center of the glyph, and then stood with his arms loosely out to his sides, waiting.
Olivia
took a moment to gather herself (and slightly tamp down her
excitement regarding what was about to happen), then knelt at the end
of the glyph near the door, placing her hand just on the outer edge
and putting a tiny bit of her magic into it. A small section near the
point of contact glowed a bit more brightly when she did so, which
was what was supposed to happen. So, she slowly and steadily
increased her output, watching the glow spread out along the
complicated magical symbol until it had filled the whole thing, and
then watching the glow brighten until she could feel that the
enchantment was fully charged. Then, finally, she gave it the
faintest push inward, toward the person standing in the middle, and
stood up, brushing herself off briefly, to watch the results.
Angus
watched the glow spread and brighten with the interest of someone who
only vaguely knew what was happening but was impressed nonetheless.
Then he jolted slightly upright at whatever sensation the magic
beginning to enter him produced. “My..ain't that somethin',” he
mumbled as the knowledge of how to cook and clean began to enter his
head. His eyes glazed over with a slightly dazed look as all of the
information poured steadily in, but he was brought back to himself
soon afterward, shivering slightly at an undoubtedly odd tactile
sensation.
The Kitsune watched with keen, eager interest as her older friend began to change, the complexion of his face rapidly softening, his unkempt facial hair vanishing away to leave the skin soft and smooth. The same thing was happening to all the rest of his skin too, evidenced by a loss of body hair visible through the holes and tatters in his clothes. This alone left his face looking a lot younger, but that impression increased even more as it began to reshape a bit, softening and rounding off. “Pretty..curious feeling..” he remarked. “Ain't bad at all, though...pretty nice, even...”
The Kitsune watched with keen, eager interest as her older friend began to change, the complexion of his face rapidly softening, his unkempt facial hair vanishing away to leave the skin soft and smooth. The same thing was happening to all the rest of his skin too, evidenced by a loss of body hair visible through the holes and tatters in his clothes. This alone left his face looking a lot younger, but that impression increased even more as it began to reshape a bit, softening and rounding off. “Pretty..curious feeling..” he remarked. “Ain't bad at all, though...pretty nice, even...”
Angus's
rough, unkempt hair began to change now too, the patchy, rough gray
hairs paling and softening as they filled out and began to grow
longer. Soon his hair had turned a pure, snowy white, gaining some
generous volume and bounce; his bangs grew nearly to his eyes, and
hair made its way down the sides of his face to frame it and make it
look even more youthful..if not positively cute by now. “Saay..”
he mumbled, reaching a hand up to run through some bangs and along
his cheek as the locks in the back made their way down to his
shoulders and only continued to grow. “Somethin' going on with my
hair?”
“Uh, looks like it,” Olivia said, just barely able to keep up a facade of surprise and uncertainty about just what was happening.
“Uh, looks like it,” Olivia said, just barely able to keep up a facade of surprise and uncertainty about just what was happening.
By now,
Angus had the looks of a young man—perhaps even a slightly
effeminate one, going by his soft face and still-growing hair. He
shuddered slightly once more, as the magic the kitsune had pumped
into the glyph continued to rush into him and now got to work on its
next set of changes. “O-oh..?” Right away he began to lose
height, his eye level sinking below Olivia's in a matter of seconds.
Not only that, but his frame visibly narrowed down, his body visibly
slimming from his shoulders and arms down to his hips and legs. His
clothes steadily grew looser and looser around him as he shrank down;
his hands and feet even grew smaller as the limbs they were attached
to shrank shorter and slimmer. He watched all of this with a visible
fascination and curiosity, and fortunately none of the worry or panic
that Olivia had been worried she might have to face. “M-my~yy..”
he muttered as the shrinking slowed, his voice cracking strangely as
it began to rapidly change. “Every~ything see~ems awful big all of
a~a sudden..” It quickly youthened in tone and rose in pitch,
already sounding like a young boy's by the last word of this
sentence.
Angus's
height finally settled with his eyes all the way down at Olivia's
chest level. He had, at some point, reached a shrinking hand down to
grab hold of one side of his pants and keep them on, but the opposite
side was sagging enough to show a bit of his upper thighs beyond
where the now quite overlong shirt reached down to. Alongside this
change, his hair had continued to slowly, steadily stream its way
out, and only now did it finally finish, the tips of those gorgeous,
snowy white locks fluttering around his lower thighs. The glow of the
glyph around him seemed to make his pretty hair and cute face
sparkle; the latter was sporting the slight pink of a growing blush
as something yet more began to change.
“Mm~m..mm~mmhh..”
Angus slowly closed his eyes, his legs squirming forward and back.
His voice continued to shift through the soft hums, taking on a
decidedly feminine tone even as it matured ever so slightly. Olivia
knew full well that his manhood was now withdrawing itself away,
drawing an increasingly bright blush to his cheeks as it steadily
shrank. “Mm~mmnnh..” His lips slowly curled up into an adorable
grin as his voice lilted into a cutely high, yet mature soprano tone,
and then they opened up just as slowly. “Mmm~aa~aah...”
“Aah~,
aa~aaahh...” the girlish voice sang out as Angus's sex began to
fully and completely change. “Aah, oo~oh..rr~rr..” At the same
time, his ears suddenly burst outward and upward, brilliant white
hairs erupting across them as they seemed to unfurl themselves out
into a pair of huge, fluffy triangles. “Rr~rfh..aah, aa~aah...!”
A soft, adorable bark came out of his..no, her lips, and as
she softly cried out again, some of the new girl's teeth could be
seen growing out into some sharp, yet adorable, wolfish fangs.
“Aa~aah..y-yip, yip!” A long, slim line of snowy fur erupted out
from her back, growing half of its length with the first canine yip,
then gaining just as much length again with the second one. Already
the new tail was wagging back and forth happily, the big fluffy ears
twitching around cutely from the sides of her head.
“Oo~ooh,
m-myy~yyyyh...” she murmured breathlessly as her body rapidly
filled out with curves: Her hips and thighs pressed themselves out
thicker, and her flat chest swelled forward into a pair of petite,
yet completely unmistakable breasts. “Mmm~mmh..mrr~rRRFH!” She
murmured again, ending in a cute bark, as her tail rapidly grew
thicker and fluffier, until its girth at the widest very nearly
exceeded that of her slender waist. And—just like that—the magic
had transformed the old gentleman into a small, adorable wolf-girl!
But it
wasn't quite done with her yet, of course; given its original purpose
and behavior, it was hardly surprising at all what came last. The
white glow remaining in the glyph swirled up and around the wolf-girl
now, taking hold of Angus's ill-fitting, tattered clothing and
rapidly rearranging it into a classic black-and-white maid outfit
tailored perfectly to her beautiful, petite new form, complete with a
bright red ribbon tied around the collar and a headdress that floated
up to about her original height in the magical wind before floating
gently back down and placing itself neatly atop her head.
Olivia
watched in anticipation as the new girl slowly opened her eyes,
revealing their color to have changed to a beautiful, piercing bright
red, and blinked them a couple of times, looking around and taking in
her newly lowered perspective—and then down at her new form and
outfit. The grin appeared on her adorable face again then, as she
gently lifted some of either side of the skirt in her small hands.
“Well
now—ain't this somethin'?” she said, then giggled cutely.
“Heheheh..!” After that, the wolf-girl gracefully glided up to
the now-much-taller kitsune, reaching up a hand to lightly poke her
nose. “I'm willin' to bet you knew it'd do all this now,
didn'tcha?”
“Er..y-yeah,
guilty as charged,” Olivia said, feeling some warmth on her
face...her heart going a little faster. Somehow she was a bit
nervous. “It's just—part of what the glyph does. But I figured,
you know, it uh—it's no problem for someone with my powers
to turn you back if you don't like it. The rest of the enchantment
wouldn't be affected.”
“Turn me back? Are you kiddin'? I ain't felt this fulla energy in decades, missy!” She hopped backwards a couple of times and twirled. “Plus, I've never been a lady before, for sure! It's pretty nice, eh?”
“I-it sure can be, at least,” Olivia admitted, the slight giddiness and blush not leaving her.
“Turn me back? Are you kiddin'? I ain't felt this fulla energy in decades, missy!” She hopped backwards a couple of times and twirled. “Plus, I've never been a lady before, for sure! It's pretty nice, eh?”
“I-it sure can be, at least,” Olivia admitted, the slight giddiness and blush not leaving her.
“Anyhow,
maybe you'd be more comfortable with a fellow young woman livin' in
your house instead of an old man, wouldn'tcha?”
“I
definitely don't have any problem with that,” the kitsune
said.
“Heheh,
perfect then! And hey,” she raised a hand to point an index finger
at the side of her head. “Since my brain's all full'a recipes and
how to use 'em now...Anything particular you want for dinner,
'master'?”
“Not
re—uhh, what was that last part?”
The wolfish maid titled her head innocently (and very cutely). “'For dinner'?”
The wolfish maid titled her head innocently (and very cutely). “'For dinner'?”
“No,
no—you said 'master'?”
“Oh, well—” She put her hands on her hips. “I just thought, since I look like a maid and more'r'less work as one, maybe I'd act the part a little, 'sall.”
“There's not uh..you don't feel compelled to call me that, though, or anything, right? You can still say my name?”
“'Course I can, miss Olivia.” She crossed her arms. “What's got you so worked up?”
“Oh, well—” She put her hands on her hips. “I just thought, since I look like a maid and more'r'less work as one, maybe I'd act the part a little, 'sall.”
“There's not uh..you don't feel compelled to call me that, though, or anything, right? You can still say my name?”
“'Course I can, miss Olivia.” She crossed her arms. “What's got you so worked up?”
“Oh—nothing.
It's just—there's supposed to be some...bad effects that'd
force someone to obey me and stuff that were removed from the magic
circle thing. If they..weren't, I'd totally have some
complaints.”
“Ah, well,” she waved a hand dismissively. “You got nothin' to worry 'bout there, then! I'm only doin' what you say 'cause you're payin' me to!”
“Heheh..th-that works..anyway um..since you're the one who knows what all you can make now..feel free to surprise me?” Olivia shrugged. “I actually—maybe should take a shower or something, since I went looking for you straight from the gym.”
“Alrighty then!” The wolf-girl rubbed her hands, her tail wagging eagerly behind her. “I'll fix you somethin' that'll knock your socks off, master!”
“Ah, well,” she waved a hand dismissively. “You got nothin' to worry 'bout there, then! I'm only doin' what you say 'cause you're payin' me to!”
“Heheh..th-that works..anyway um..since you're the one who knows what all you can make now..feel free to surprise me?” Olivia shrugged. “I actually—maybe should take a shower or something, since I went looking for you straight from the gym.”
“Alrighty then!” The wolf-girl rubbed her hands, her tail wagging eagerly behind her. “I'll fix you somethin' that'll knock your socks off, master!”
As Miles
turned the key in his dorm room's front door, Kiara heard the sound
of some paws skittering around inside. “You got a pet, or is that
an intruding squirrel I hear?”
“Ah..gawh, sorry. I shoulda mentioned, yeah—I have a cat,” he said, leading the way inside. “Beeeth! Beth?” The feline in question seemed to be hiding; if the Neko wasn't mistaken, it sounded like it was under the bed. “Well, anyway, she's just the prettiest little white kitty you've ever seen! But she's uh..I guess kinda shy about strangers.”
“Ah..gawh, sorry. I shoulda mentioned, yeah—I have a cat,” he said, leading the way inside. “Beeeth! Beth?” The feline in question seemed to be hiding; if the Neko wasn't mistaken, it sounded like it was under the bed. “Well, anyway, she's just the prettiest little white kitty you've ever seen! But she's uh..I guess kinda shy about strangers.”
Meanwhile,
Ella was already hard at work going around the apartment, trying to
locate the origin of whatever it was she'd detected before. She
prodded or picked up one item after another, only to shake her head,
set it down, and move on. This carried on for more than long enough
for Kiara to get bored and go sit in their host's computer chair,
pulling up a game on her phone once again.
Eventually
she couldn't help but ask: “Sooo...not finding anything?”
“It's
not that, it's just—whatever it is, it's all over in
here,” she complained. “It's like I can't pick out any one thing
as having more of it than any other.” She reached up and pulled on
her ears, a frustrated expression that only Kiara could really
see—with the fox-girl's illusions hiding those traits from Miles
still. “Rrgh, maybe I'm just not experienced enough with this
stuff...”
While
Ella went over to the opposite side of the room, a small white cat's
head poked out from under the bed, looking briefly back and forth
before fixing its eyes Kiara's way. What happened next was rather
strange: The Neko heard the cat meow, in a perfectly normal,
cat-meowing kind of way—but she also, simultaneously, heard
speech. In a rather strange sort of way, she didn't hear a
human voice, yet understood some words anyway. It was more or less
the sense of “Hey, you.”
“Uh..” Kiara looked down at the cat, unsure whether that had been real.
“Uh..” Kiara looked down at the cat, unsure whether that had been real.
But it
happened again, making it rather difficult to deny: A sort of
half-hiss came out of the cat next, conveying to Kiara a meaning like
“What's this fox doing in my home?”
Miles noticed the white cat's head poking out at this point, and went to kneel in front of her. “Oh, hey Beth! You wanna come out and say hello?”
Seeming to be coaxed out by his voice, Beth strode out and (in Kiara's impression of things) permitted him to pet her a couple of times. She purred, and it sounded like the meaning was “Hello, my human.” Then she went around him to sit in front of Kiara and meow-hiss again. “Fox. Here. Why?”
Miles noticed the white cat's head poking out at this point, and went to kneel in front of her. “Oh, hey Beth! You wanna come out and say hello?”
Seeming to be coaxed out by his voice, Beth strode out and (in Kiara's impression of things) permitted him to pet her a couple of times. She purred, and it sounded like the meaning was “Hello, my human.” Then she went around him to sit in front of Kiara and meow-hiss again. “Fox. Here. Why?”
“Uhmm...”
Unsure what else to do, Kiara tried meowing back at the small white
cat, trying to say something like 'can you understand this'?
Beth replied: “Weird accent, but yes.”
“So like..I can understand what she's saying or something?” Kiara reported. “Weird—I can't understand any other cats.”
“What, really?!” Ella came up excitedly, and the cat fled back under the bed, hissing. “Oh..whoops.”
“Uh, look—go outside for a minute. I don't think she likes you for some reason.”
“Awwh, okay,” the Kitsune shrugged and went out. After that, Beth poked her head out cautiously, then came out to immediately hop onto Kiara's lap.
Beth replied: “Weird accent, but yes.”
“So like..I can understand what she's saying or something?” Kiara reported. “Weird—I can't understand any other cats.”
“What, really?!” Ella came up excitedly, and the cat fled back under the bed, hissing. “Oh..whoops.”
“Uh, look—go outside for a minute. I don't think she likes you for some reason.”
“Awwh, okay,” the Kitsune shrugged and went out. After that, Beth poked her head out cautiously, then came out to immediately hop onto Kiara's lap.
“Whoa,
hey! Wow, I guess she really likes you..”
Miles said. “So you can understand her?! Does she like how, I mean
uh..gaah...”
Beth meowed: “What is human so worked up about?”
“Umm..mrrowh.” Kiara tried with a few more feline noises: 'He wants to know if you like how he's treating you.' Then: 'Also, he's surprised I can understand you? I am too.'
Beth meowed: “What is human so worked up about?”
“Umm..mrrowh.” Kiara tried with a few more feline noises: 'He wants to know if you like how he's treating you.' Then: 'Also, he's surprised I can understand you? I am too.'
“You
are human-cat, of course you can understand. If I didn't like
it, I would leave.”
“..Okay,
she says if she didn't like how you were treating her, she'd
leave.”
Then Beth hissed again: “Why is fox?”
Then Beth hissed again: “Why is fox?”
“Um...mrowh?”
'Fox detected some kind of power near your human that he might want,
and was looking for it.'
Beth
replied: “Power? Only me here.” She stood and turned around in
Kiara's lap to meow at Miles: “What does my human want with
power?”
“Okaaaay, this just keeps getting weirder. I guess Beth is claiming to be the source of whatever Ella was sensing, and just asked me what you want.”
“R-really?!” Miles fell back to sit on his bed, looking a little shocked. “C-can you..tell her what I want? To uh..to look cute? Instead of scary?”
“Okaaaay, this just keeps getting weirder. I guess Beth is claiming to be the source of whatever Ella was sensing, and just asked me what you want.”
“R-really?!” Miles fell back to sit on his bed, looking a little shocked. “C-can you..tell her what I want? To uh..to look cute? Instead of scary?”
Kiara
shrugged, and tried some more meowing. “Your human wants to turn
into a cute girl instead of looking big and scary like he does now.
Are you saying you could do that?”
Beth turned her head back. “Change my human's look? Easy. Will do it later.” After that, she stretched and hopped across onto 'her human's' lap, meowing up at him to pet her. Miles at least seemed to understand this command without translation.
Beth turned her head back. “Change my human's look? Easy. Will do it later.” After that, she stretched and hopped across onto 'her human's' lap, meowing up at him to pet her. Miles at least seemed to understand this command without translation.
“She
said that's easy, but she'll do it later,” Kiara said. “I guess
whenever she feels like it. You know, just..cat
things.”
“W-well, that's okay! I had no idea you were some kinda magical cat, though, Beth...I thought you were just a normal, adorable kitty cat!” he said, scratching under her chin.
“W-well, that's okay! I had no idea you were some kinda magical cat, though, Beth...I thought you were just a normal, adorable kitty cat!” he said, scratching under her chin.
“I get
the impression she likes it that way,” the Neko said. “You
probably shouldn't go parading her around; she might just
leave.”
“Oh, yeah, I know. S-still though..if she can help me look cute, then...!”
“Oh, yeah, I know. S-still though..if she can help me look cute, then...!”
Tory was
rather popular at work, of course. It was just as much fun teasing
some of her coworkers as it had been teasing her friends the night
before! But...all of it was just playing around. She'd picked
her favorite mark already, and was quite eager to get back to work on
him...or her, if she had the opportunity to make that happen.
Between that and, well, actually doing her job, she didn't
have much time to try to figure out why she'd been able to
turn Den into an adorable dog-girl until after work was over and she
got back to her house.
Carter,
as it turned out, didn't know what had happened. She revealed in a
few rounds of texts that she had really only intended the curse to
turn Troy into a wolf-girl, with no specifics on appearance..and it
wasn't strictly speaking a curse anyway, something Troy had
more or less suspected from the start. Kitsune weren't necessarily
incapable of cursing people, but Carter was actually a pretty
low-power one with just one tail, and had borrowed some power from
elsewhere to just make a slow-transformation enchantment, all while
calling it a curse just to scare him.
That was
all well and good, but it meant that Tory knew even less about
what had happened than she thought she did. But fortunately, the
blonde Kitsune shot back a little while later with a suggestion: Tory
could ask the people who'd lent the power to change her in the first
place. Apparently, their point of contact was, of all things, a phone
app that supposedly gave out free advice. But it also let whoever was
on the other side detect magic or something? Well, it was worth a
shot, anyway, and unless Carter was playing an uncharacteristically
mean prank, she wouldn't let Tory install an actual virus on her
phone or anything. So the wolf-girl installed the app, and opened it
up.
Welcome! What kind of
help are you looking for today?
Okay,
that sounded pretty generic. It might even not be a real person on
the other end yet. Well—whatever, she could probably get someone by
answering in a way no bot would know how to reply to.
hi, im carters friend,
she said you might know why i was able to turn someone into a dog
girl?
There at
least wasn't the kind of instantaneous answer Tory might've expected
of a bot. However, the pause was long enough to make her a bit
impatient, and she'd gotten up to do something else when the phone
pinged with a notification of a response.
Can you tell us anything
else?
Any details about how it happened exactly?
Any details about how it happened exactly?
She
tilted her head briefly, then shrugged to herself. A little more
information couldn't hurt.
so like
carter said she'd given
me a 'canine curse', right?
which is why i look how i
do now.
and i thought i was just
'sharing' and 'unsharing' that
since she did a little
rhyme to curse me,
it felt right to do a
little rhyme to share it
and undo it too
A rhyme, huh?
Then, a
different anonymized name from the one Tory had been talking to
chimed in: I think we've got a witch on our hands.
a
witch? Tory asked, headtilting a bit.
but i'm like
a wolf girl.
That doesn't prevent you
from being a witch
Yeah,
I agree, the first one to answer said. Witches only display
their potential while female.
Warlocks are the other
way around.
Both can use existing
spells, or sometimes just 'make up' spells with whatever feels right
to them
And even if you have
physical animal traits,
you're still "fully
human" as far as magic goes.
If that makes any sense.
Either
way, you're very
powerful!
the second one came back.
and it sounds like you've been having fun with it, too.
so like
is
that bad? Tory wasn't really sure on the rules when it came to
witches using their magic to transform other people...or whatever.
No no no, it's great!
Keep it up!
Yeah! the first one came back again.
A
witch...? A wolf-witch. Canine witch, even. Tory kind of liked
the sound of that. Even though she still very much had her sights set
on Den, it...wouldn't be bad at all to change a few of her other
friends into pretty canine-girls, if they were willing. But aside
from that, it gave her some assurance that her managing to transform
him and then turn her back hadn't been a fluke. She could pretty much
do that to Den whenever she wanted!
...Whenever
he wanted, she quickly corrected herself. But her tail didn't
stop wagging anyway. She could turn him into a dog-boy too, if they
wanted!
Olivia's
new "maid" was already doing amazing work, judging by the
delicious scent she picked up coming out of the shower. It was hard
to say whether she could've smelled it all throughout the house
without an enhanced sense of smell, but she enjoyed the anticipation
either way. She hadn't realized how hungry she was before now...but
she waited patiently for it to be ready rather than going to the
kitchen to pester Angus anyway. Thankfully, the wait wasn't all that
long.
"Dinner's
ready~!" the wolf-girl called out. Olivia was tempted to
teleport straight there, or at least come running, but restrained
herself to just a brisk walk. The dinner in question was already
served up onto two plates by the time she got there: Pork tenderloins
wrapped in bacon, along with some accompanying sides, all in the kind
of visually appealing arrangement Olivia had only seen on TV, on
those "cooking contest" type of shows, before. The Kitsune
was more than happy to dig in, and so too, it seemed, was the chef.
Once her
mouth was no longer full for the first time, she said, "This is
amazing!"
"Mm-hm!" Angus swallowed. "I did what I could with the ingredients around. You oughta take me along next time you're grocery shoppin', though—then I can really make some fancy stuff. By the way—I found myself cravin' meat an awful lot more'n usual." She ate another bite, then pointed at one of her fangs. "I get the 'maid' bit, but you know where all this came from?"
"Uh, from what I read—the magic circle's not necessarily supposed to do that, but it can have..side-effects like that depending on the person. Apparently the guy who originally made it was really annoyed by stuff like that, and kept trying to make it not do that, but never managed it. Do you uh...I mean, it's also nothing I can't undo if you don't like it."
"Pff, I'll keep 'em. 'Least for now. It's kinda exciting!" the wolf-girl said.
"Mm-hm!" Angus swallowed. "I did what I could with the ingredients around. You oughta take me along next time you're grocery shoppin', though—then I can really make some fancy stuff. By the way—I found myself cravin' meat an awful lot more'n usual." She ate another bite, then pointed at one of her fangs. "I get the 'maid' bit, but you know where all this came from?"
"Uh, from what I read—the magic circle's not necessarily supposed to do that, but it can have..side-effects like that depending on the person. Apparently the guy who originally made it was really annoyed by stuff like that, and kept trying to make it not do that, but never managed it. Do you uh...I mean, it's also nothing I can't undo if you don't like it."
"Pff, I'll keep 'em. 'Least for now. It's kinda exciting!" the wolf-girl said.
"'Nother
thing. Since I'm lookin' like this and all...you mind introducin' me
as 'Angie'?" she asked, smiling across the table at her
'master'. "Feel like it fits a cute young thing like me much
better, is all."
"Uh, n-not at all." Olivia's heart rate had gone up again. "I mean, I changed my name when uh..this 'fox spirit' stuff wound up making me a girl." Angie was a very cute name indeed...was it her imagination, or was all that white hair and fur sparkling in the light of the sunset?
"Uh, n-not at all." Olivia's heart rate had gone up again. "I mean, I changed my name when uh..this 'fox spirit' stuff wound up making me a girl." Angie was a very cute name indeed...was it her imagination, or was all that white hair and fur sparkling in the light of the sunset?
"Heheh..didn't
feel like my place to say so before necessarily, but Olivia is
quite a pretty name."
"Uh,
th-thanks."
She
waited a little bit longer, then asked: "Um, if you..want some
more clothes that fit that, new look. I can kinda make or alter
clothes at will. I mean—I'd just, give you money to shop for your
own clothes, but my money's still kinda mostly tied up right
now..."
The wolf-girl giggled softly, grinning. "Heheh..how 'bout you take me shoppin' anyhow, tomorrow afternoon, say? I can point out what I like best, then you make that happen when we get back. I ain't picky how my duds are made, anyhow."
"That works," the Kitsune nodded. Something about the idea of going out shopping with her cute maid made her feel rather happy all on its own, too...even if they weren't technically buying anything.
The wolf-girl giggled softly, grinning. "Heheh..how 'bout you take me shoppin' anyhow, tomorrow afternoon, say? I can point out what I like best, then you make that happen when we get back. I ain't picky how my duds are made, anyhow."
"That works," the Kitsune nodded. Something about the idea of going out shopping with her cute maid made her feel rather happy all on its own, too...even if they weren't technically buying anything.
Once
they were through with their meal, the wolf-girl grabbed the plates
and quickly took them over to the sink to clean up. "You just go
'head and relax now, master~," she said cheerfully. "I got
a few little things to tidy up, and then maybe I'll take a nice long
bath m'self. Ain't had the opportunity in a good while, even if the
magic thing went and cleaned me up already."
"Sure.
Um, did you already have time to look around the entire house?"
she asked, curious.
"Oh, nah. It's just—'sides teachin' me how to take care of the place, I got this sorta sixth sense in my head," Angie explained, pointing at her forehead with an index finger. "I can also turn things on 'r off without needin' to even be near 'em. Watch." She pointed at an adjoining hallway, and the light there turned off and on a few times.
"Cool!" Olivia was sure the detailed description of the glyph's effects had covered this, but it had probably been in the part with more technical language she hadn't fully understood. Either way, it was sort of like her house had one of those 'smart assistant' devices now...who was also a cute wolf-girl.
"Oh, nah. It's just—'sides teachin' me how to take care of the place, I got this sorta sixth sense in my head," Angie explained, pointing at her forehead with an index finger. "I can also turn things on 'r off without needin' to even be near 'em. Watch." She pointed at an adjoining hallway, and the light there turned off and on a few times.
"Cool!" Olivia was sure the detailed description of the glyph's effects had covered this, but it had probably been in the part with more technical language she hadn't fully understood. Either way, it was sort of like her house had one of those 'smart assistant' devices now...who was also a cute wolf-girl.
After
Miles was ambushed by a catgirl and wound up having girls in his
room, things seemed to calm down again for a couple of days. It was
kind of surreal, after being told that not only was his long-time pet
some kind of magically powerful being, but she was also going to turn
him into a cute girl like he wanted...for everything to just abruptly
go back to normal afterward.
Well, it
wasn't entirely like it had been before. He stopped staring at
the two of them from a distance, as promised, but they
actually came to check up on him at lunch the next day, and
Ella at least spared him a hello the day after that. It made him
feel...just slightly better, that he'd made a couple of not-hostile
acquaintances despite his own crushing failure at going to meet up
with them normally. But...
The fact
that nothing had happened yet had Miles questioning things more and
more. The way things had played out...it wasn't impossible
that Ella and Kiara were both playing a trick on him, pretending Beth
was some kind of powerful being and that the catgirl could
understand her. From every angle he looked at the pretty white cat,
she seemed perfectly ordinary to him. He fed her, pet her, and
changed her litter, and nothing much else seemed to change.
The main
things that lent credence to that whole story were: Kiara had seemed
genuinely surprised and confused to have understood the cat. She had
meowed back, and Beth had moved and reacted in a way that strongly
suggested—to Miles at least—that his pet cat was saying exactly
what the catgirl reported her to be saying. It was a little difficult
to explain, but—even though he couldn't understand words
from Beth's feline sounds, he did feel like he often
understood a little of what she was thinking simply from the way she
acted. He'd just...known her that long, he guessed.
So: If
it was a prank, then either Ella had somehow fooled both him
and Kiara, or Beth was in on it. He didn't think there was any
way for that first part to be true; while Ella seemed to have some
kind of powers she wasn't willing to openly share the nature of,
surely they wouldn't result in his own cat acting differently from
how she liked to. Plus Ella just didn't seem like that cruel of a
person to him, based on everything he knew. And the second was
absolutely impossible; Beth would never betray him this way.
As
bizarre as it would've sounded to anyone else, Miles knew with
absolute certainty that his cat was his friend. Sure, she was a
little standoffish as cats were wont to be, but she showed her
affection and gratitude often enough for him to know how she really
felt. If she'd really said that she'd change him when she felt like
it, then she was definitely going to do it. It was just a matter of
waiting for her to be in the right mood, right? Besides, maybe she
was just covering for needing to build up the energy to make a change
so drastic, with her pride making her not want to admit to not even
being able to do it right away. To Miles, that sounded
very much like something Beth would do.
Through
this line of thought, he convinced himself not to worry about it one
time after another over those few days. He went to bed that Friday
night after convincing himself once again that it could happen any
time now. Beth would take good care of him; the timing just needed to
be right for her. Maybe tomorrow...
