Omega Wolf

 
Decided to try white text with black background, since the character's hair color is white and that tends to be how I determine text color for a caption..and just to be a bit different. It turns out that simply making a big white region black is actually much easier in MSPaint (the Win98 and such version, not the version that comes with 7) than in programs designed for Serious Image Editing.

A Choose Your Own Adventure!?

Alright, so. I've been really really busy with real life lately, and that is almost the entire reason why there have been practically no updates here. I'm very sorry, but responsibilities that help me to survive are generally more important than this. Anyway, that's not really what I'm here to talk to you about.

I had an idea about a week or two ago, and like a foolhardy nearsighted bull, charged into action without really thinking too hard about it. All the same, I think the end result will at least be enjoyable for someone. You see, a very long time ago (very long in internet years at least), a TG-anime-centered site known as Mashiro's castle (or something like that, the exact spelling escapes me) had a link on the Japanese side to a link-managed TG choose-your-own-adventure sort of thing. I don't know Japanese, and Google translate was no help in comprehending what was going on in that, but I've always thought it was a pretty neat idea. So I decided to start work on one of my own. I've set up a brand new "blog" which is actually just one post and a bunch of linked pages to handle this idea. So here's the URL to it:

http://whatevr89532adventure.blogspot.com
LATER EDIT: The above link is deprecated. See the tag "adventure" on this blog to find links to all of the adventures.


As of this writing, I've only written 13 pages, including 4 endings (which are basically fully-written second-person changes), but I mean to expand this greatly, with a huge number of choices. I might even eventually make another adventure based on a different theme or something if I get a good idea for it. (I'd rather have a good amount of pages for this first adventure before I even think about doing that, though)

Anyway, go on ahead and check it out, see if you like it and stuff.

Intelligence

This is certainly one of the longer captions, but it's not the longest. The image is so tall because the source image was so thin, and I felt I had to keep the caption at most thrice its width. Apparently that caused blogspot to reduce its size considerably when I uploaded it. If you are having trouble reading it as-is, here is a text+image form:

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Remus knew his friend Kell was the kind of guy who would take any advantage he could. College applications were very competitive to the kind of schools he wanted to go to. Remus stuck to the more traditional method of improving his standardized test scores--studying. Kell studied too, but he looked for anything else that could give him an edge.

One day Remus was hanging out with Kell at his house when a package came for him. He didn't pay much attention until Kell pulled out a pair of red-rimmed oval-shaped glasses out of it. "..Glasses? You don't need glasses."
"No, but these are special. They were being sold on E-bay for cheap," said Kell. "Supposedly they make whoever wears them smarter."
"Another lucky charm, then."
"Yeah. Why not try, right?"
"Well, for one thing, those look like prescription glasses, so they'll probably just mess up your vision and give you a headache. And for another..why do they have that strap thing on the back instead of ear hooks, like normal?"
"Huh?" Kell took a closer look at the glasses. "That part wasn't in the picture. No big deal though, I can still put 'em on." Kell put the glasses on, and waited.

"Well..I don't feel any smarter."
"It's probably just someone's prescription glasses they didn't need anymore or something, and they knew they could get a quick buck out of 'em."

"Yeah...they don't seem to be doing anything but making it hard to see," he said. "You might be right. But I still don't get the strap thing. Why would--whoa."
"What?"
"I just had a small cranial affliction," he said, rubbing his head.
"..What again?"
Kell blinked a couple of times. "Uh..I had a brief headache. It felt as if something exterior was entering and accommodations had to be made."
"Oh. Why are you talking weird?"
"I..do not know. When I attempt to communicate I find myself spewing excessively polysyllabic terminology. Wait, that's not what I--"
"Oh! You're talking smart. That means it worked, doesn't it?"
Kell thought for a moment, not quite noticing the hair showing up on the sides and top of his peripheral vision. "Well..I am not certain. I mean, vocabulary is not exactly a yardstick for intellect."
"Yeah, but just knowing all those words is sure to..uh..wait, what's up with your hair?"

"What do you mean?"
"It's turning green!"
"Huh?" Kell pulled a strand of his hair over to his eye from one side, and he could clearly see that it was getting a greenish tint to it, and getting brighter. "Wait..it is lengthening, as well!"
"Maybe you should take it off."
"Yes, of course." Kell quickly lifted the glasses off his head, strap and all, and handed it to Remus; the whole time his hair's color continued to brighten, and it slowly grew until it was framing his face, just short of his shoulders.

"Wha.." Kell looked around for a second. Everything far off looked blurrier than usual. "It..made me nearsighted? I wouldn't want to wear it again, however..I suppose I could afford a prescription--" He stopped short, and did a double-take. Remus looked a little taller than usual.
"What is it?"
"I--I am diminishing!" As he spoke, Kell's body rapidly lost height, the whole room rising up around him. "But..my apparel..?" His shirt, hoodie, and pants both seemed to be getting tighter on him, especially the pants. He put a hand up against his stomach, and observed, "My girth is decreasing, as well.." He looked up as the shrinking came to an abrupt halt to find that he was now a full head shorter than Remus. "I..I do not think removing the spectacles halts their effect," he said.
"But..what are they doing?" asked Remus, looking at the glasses.
"I--cchkkt!" Kell sudden feeling of choking brought Kell's hands to his neck, and they found what seemed to be a collar. Yet, it didn't feel all that tight--he could breathe just fine again after the first second.
"What happened?"
"Some kind of...mm!?" Kell's eyes widened in surprise at his voice--it sounded much higher than before. He cleared his throat, and even that sounded strangely high. "My vocalization was altered! I sound..I sound like..oh."

"Oh, what?"
"I think I understand the purpose and end of the effect.." said Kell, while his jeans suddenly turned all to cloth, splitting at the thighs. Below, it turned white and squeezed tightly against his legs, seeming to push them in as it did. His upper legs seemed to grow as a direct result, and to push back and apart at the top, widening his hips; the upper part of the pants turned black and began to shrink still tighter, especially between his legs. "They make one at least appear more intelligent by altering one's vocabulary, but..they also alter one's physiology, to an..an extensively effeminate end."
"Um..so you're..they..?" The bulge between Kell's legs rapidly shrank into nothingness, allowing the shorts to fit snugly, as well as some underwear that he hadn't even noticed changing underneath.
"Yes! They alter one's sex," said Kell, with some resignation in her voice. Then she suddenly could feel her ears, seemingly stretching out on their own. "Oh..is that not all?" she said, tugging at one of her ears. It was growing, and felt fuzzy to the touch.
"I guess not," said Remus, staring at the ears. "It looks like..cat ears!"
Kell could feel something pushing its way from her back, through the bottom of the hoodie and shirt, just above the shorts. "And..a matching tail, I presume."

She managed to maneuver the tail, as it came close to its full length, so she could get a hand on it and look at it. It was bright green like her hair now was. This is a..dubious bonus--I was only expecting.." Her eyes widened again at an odd, pushing feeling from her chest.
"What?" said Remus.
She unzipped her hoodie, and got a look at two small bumps up against the inside of her shirt. "M-mammaries," she said, blushing, as another push expanded the bumps. "R-rather sizable ones, at that," she added, feeling another, bigger push, and watching them grow still larger.
"Um..when did your eyes turn green?" said Remus, trying not to stare at her growing breasts.
"I..d-do not know," she said. There was one last push, completing the rapid filling out of her figure, and she had a brief, strange sense that it was 'done'.

She looked up, into Remus's eyes. They were both silent for a few very long seconds. A small smile crossed her lips, along with another blush. "I..think it is over. And..it must have completely altered my gender as well."
"W-what's the difference?" said Remus. He was starting to blush, too.
"If I were sexually female but male in gender..I, do not think I would feel much attraction toward you."

A moment of awkward silence passed. "Well..I suspect the spectacles have done all they will to me, and I am still nearsighted. So. I could probably use them."
"S-sure." Remus handed Kell the glasses, and she put them on her nose, pulling the strap over her feline ears (which she had enough control over to fold them flat against her head).
"I suppose we at least know the purpose of the strap. But..why create glasses that transform their wearer into a female feline hybrid, and alter her speech into excessive verbosity? Are the feline parts meant to create some sort of stigma?"

"I dunno. I think they're cute."
"And my irregular communication?"
"It's kind of cute too..even if I don't understand all of what you're saying."
"Hm. Is there anything in which the glasses curse me with some disadvantage?"

"Well, you're not a guy anymore, so I guess you aren't as strong.."
"I was not particularly athletic to begin with, though."
"Well, I don't know then. You look great, I mean, I bet you could be some kind of model if you wanted.."

"Perhaps I could try a sensual pose to test that hypothesis?" She adjusted the glasses with her right hand, putting her left hand against her hip (which felt oddly natural), and licked her lips. 

"Okay, wow. Y-you are officially the hottest girl I have ever seen," said Remus, blushing.
She laughed. "That was..m-merely meant as a jest. I would rather not display clothing for a living, I think. Would you care to join me for daily sustenance?"
"You mean..lunch?"
"..Yes."
"Sure."

This was something I needed to finish before the story idea mentioned off to the right, in case you were wondering.

Midas Journal 13

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Entry: Apr 16

Part 2

Okay, now the real reason I'm writing this is because of what happened this afternoon. Before today, Aden and I hung out a couple of times, on Tuesday and Thursday. I introduced him to Carla at lunch, and he flirted with her a little bit. She didn't mind, and I was glad to have her not teasing me for once. We talked a lot, and at the lunch table, and I got to know him pretty well. He's into gaming..pen and paper RPGs, that kind of thing. And apparently Tina's also in his group that meets every other weekend, which I guess means Tim was before. There's a lot more stuff I found out about his interests and all, but I don't want to go into too much detail about all that stuff.

So. This afternoon. Aden offered to buy me some ice cream at a local-run shop, he said it was really good stuff, and it was. We got the ice cream, and we were on our way to his house because he wanted to show me some stuff. He had barely started his cone, he finished a story he was telling from one of his games, and then he said something. He said, "You know, Kael, sometimes I really wish I could do magic. I mean, I know it's not real and all, but it would be so cool to be able to throw around fireballs or make crazy elaborate illusions. What about you?"

"I kind of like magic not being real," I said. I was being perfectly honest about that.

"Aw, c'mon, I'm sure there's some power you'd love to have, just to play around with for a little while," he said, and gave one of those friendly fake punches to my arm with his free hand. "Huh?"

I looked at him, and I noticed it at the same time he did. Well, he noticed some kind of black material wrapping itself over his knuckles, and starting to grow. I noticed that all of a sudden my sense was telling him he would turn into a girl if he touched me. Oh man, was all I could think. Now what?

The material quickly wrapped itself around his hand and up his wrist a little bit, ignoring the outer half of his fingers. "Well, this feels weird," he said, and I saw the material squeezing his hand and fingers into a much smaller, skinnier shape, and even the exposed parts of his fingers shrank. Two things that looked like miniature belts appeared on top of the wrist of the, gloves I guess, and then from the wrist up his whole arm started shrinking, the hair on it disappearing. His t-shirt's sleeve pulled in until his shoulder was exposed.

"Scratch that. This is weird," he said, looking at his arm and turning it around. "Whoa.." Then he started to lose height, and his shirt started to get tighter and longer at the bottom. I could see the middle of the shirt separating, buttons appearing to hold it together, and the collar growing and folding itself over. And then his other sleeve pulled in to match the first one, and his arm started shrinking too. For some reason he put the ice cream cone in the already-changed hand, and watched the one that was changing as the same black material as before showed up at the edge of his wrist and grew down the hand into a matching glove.

"Huh..wow," he said. I could hear his voice starting to change now. He looked down at his lower body, moving his head back and forth to try and get a better look at what was going on. Thanks to the tight shirt I could see his stomach shrinking in and his hips growing, and now his pants split at the thighs, the top part turning white all at once while the bottom turned black. The top part shrank up a few inches and started getting vertical creases on it, and some kind of straps made their way up from the leggings, which were now squeezing his legs into a very slim shape. "So I'm gonna..?" he started, in a voice that still sounded like a guy's, but barely, and paused, getting a weird look on his face. "Oh. Yes, apparently." His, or I guess her, voice rose into the girl range now.

"Whoa," she said, and I looked up to see Aden's face quickly shrinking and shifting, his hair suddenly turning from dark brown to bright blond and growing out, covering his forehead in the front, framing his face on the sides, and reaching as far as his waist in the back. He blinked once, and suddenly his eyes had turned this bright yellow color. Then a red tie appeared in the middle of his shirt's collar and grew down to about the middle of his stomach, and the motion drew my attention to two small bumps now on her chest, still growing and stretching the tight shirt farther out. Or, I dunno, maybe the shirt was growing there.

"Oh? Wow," she said. Her voice was really high now, even for a girl, almost at risk of being squeaky and annoying..but not exactly that high. And then I noticed her ears. They were getting big, and growing fur, like Rhia's had, but not in exactly the same shape. The fur was the same color as her hair, except for a white tip on each. There was some motion in my peripheral vision, and I looked down to see a big, bushy tail in the same color, with the same kind of white tip. I have no idea when that appeared. And by the time I looked up again there was some kind of blue hat on her head, sitting awkwardly behind the big triangular ears, and her boobs looked pretty much full.

"Phew, is it over?" she said, looking over herself again, taking the tail in one hand and looking at it for a second or two. She got an excited look in her eyes. "Man, that was crazy! Look at me, I'm a fox-girl! Huh?" She paused a couple of seconds, and I'm pretty sure I knew why. I could feel another copy-of-memory thing happening, and suddenly I knew she was Adena, knew I had met her under the same conditions and all but as a girl, with the same animal ears and tail. Since I'd only really met her this week, my memories weren't all that effected, but I knew it was a pretty big deal for her.

Finally, she said, "...Okay, wow. All of my wow. Did you do this?" She seemed mostly amazed about it still, but kind of happy.

"..Err, sort of. Not on purpose. I can explain somewhere more private."

"Okay, c'mon!" She grabbed my hand and started half-running in the direction of her house. I was glad to find out she wasn't super strong like Lue, but I followed her anyway, and in a couple of minutes we came to her house and she led the way inside.

"Okay..I'm pretty sure my parents aren't here, so this should be private enough," she said, closing the front door and moving to the middle of the living room. "So, I have powers now. Like, awesome powers. Check this out!" She put her right hand out, palm-up, and a yellow-colored fireball appeared hovering over it for a few seconds.

"Uh..maybe don't do that around flammable stuff."

"I know, I know! It's just so cool. But--so you said you did this somehow?"

"..Yeah. About, a month ago was my eighteenth birthday, and since waking up that morning I sometimes turn guys into girls when I touch them. I don't really understand how or why it works, but I thought I'd at least learned to sense whether that would happen or not..."

"I was about to say. You've touched me plenty of times, what makes this one special?"
"I don't know. When I first met you it didn't 'feel' like anything like that was going to happen. And for some reason it seems like everyone it happens to is just really happy about it. I don't get that, either. I mean, I can use the power on myself to go back and forth, but as far as I can tell it's just..weird switching genders."

"Hm..yeah, you're right. It is weird. But the reason I'm happy with this doesn't have anything to do with being a girl. It's because it came with awesome powers. Like, watch this." She made a tossing motion off to her left, and suddenly she was standing over there. I did a double take to see that there were apparently two of her. The original went over to the 'new' one and waved her hand around inside it, and it shimmered like some kind of movie hologram. Then the copy disappeared. "Actually..hey. I think I get it!"
"You do?"

"Yeah. Your power grants wishes!"

"Uh.."
"No no, hear me out. Just before you changed me into what I looked like now I was talking about how I'd like to be able to do magic. Specifically fire and illusions. Right?"
"Yeah.."
"And when I turned from Aden to Adena, what kind of powers did I get?"
"..Oh."

I sat down and sighed, hand on my forehead. She came up in front of me and leaned forward a little. "What? What's wrong with that?"

"Okay, look. The other thing I've noticed about my power, other than what I've already told you, is that every time I've turned a guy into a girl they..act kind of attracted to me. Especially at first. Meaning if you're right about my power granting wishes..the trade-off for granting someone's wish is supposed to be getting turned into an attractive girl, and..ugh, I don't even want to think about it."

She sat on the couch next to me, but not uncomfortably close. "Well, I didn't feel especially attracted to you. I mean, you're pretty good-looking but I still don't really feel like we need to be more than friends, you know? What if it was just a rush of hormones or something?"

"Okay..but if you were coming up with powers, and made up a power that could grant other people's wishes while making them girls, why else would you do that?"

"Well obviously nobody came up with your powers. You sure didn't, right?"

"Yeah, but for something as specific as this I get the impression somebody must have made up all the rules."

"Eh, maybe." She got back up again. "I think you need to relax a little, take your mind off that stuff for a while. C'mon, I have some old cards to show you."

So, long story short: I tried to make a new male friend, I ended up turning him into a girl, too, and finding out more terrible things about my powers. I just hope I can get them under control soon so this kind of thing won't happen anymore.

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Alright, so. Here's the deal. This is a story that I've never had any particularly solid long-term ideas for. I think it up, and write it, in a one-scenario-at-a-time kind of format. And I'd really like to have some more scenario ideas to work with. So, as of this entry, I am taking suggestions for what should happen next in Midas Journal. If you have a suggestion, please post it in a comment to the most recent one (which of course is this one as of this writing). There is no guarantee that suggestions will be used, but if I do use yours I'll be sure to credit you up top for the idea.

Dream Fox

Midas Journal 12

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Truth is, this has been written for a long while, but I only just now decided to split this entry into two parts upon seeing how long it was getting. It's the second part I've had trouble finishing.

Entry: Apr 16

Part 1

Saturday afternoon, Lue showed up at my door. I'd barely opened it before she said, "Hey, you wanna go shopping again? Actually bring some money along this time?"

"Uh..why?"
"Well, if you can be a girl you might as well enjoy doing something girly properly right?"
"..Um, I did tell you my parents don't know about the weird power right? I'm lucky they aren't here right now.."
"So you are! I'll try and be more careful next time. So, you gonna go on and get changed? Find your wallet or purse or whatever?"
"..Look, would it be okay if we hung out for a while without me turning into a girl again?"

"Oh, sure! If you like." She grinned wide, and I knew she was about to lay a trap. I was pretty sure I knew which trap it was, too. "I sure wouldn't mind hanging out with someone as big and strong and handsome as you, anyway!"

I sighed, and started changing my form. "I'll be right back," I said, and went back to my room and picked up my wallet and some random bag while my body was still changing. The bag turned into a purse, which I put the wallet into; my jeans turned into those pants that reach down to the calves, and my shirt turned into a sleeveless top that I was grateful didn't dip down in the neckline too much. By the time I got back to the front door my clothes had changed completely and my body was catching up. Then I was a girl again, and my boobs grew back out to their usual size. And all of a sudden shopping at the mall, trying on clothes, talking with Lue about random stuff, all seemed a lot more appealing. I was grateful to whatever magic messed with my mind to make things like that, and scared of it at the same time. But for now I just went along with her.

It was similar to the last trip, except that this time I actually tried on some different clothes and even bought a few, even though I had no idea what I was going to do with them once I got home and turned back. I insisted on not wearing a skirt, though, that was going too far. I came back that night and hid the clothes I'd bought (which didn't turn into guy clothes when I turned back, unfortunately) as far back in my closet as I could, and that was that. I haven't seen Lue since then, as of today, but I bet she'll show up again soon.

Anyway, on Monday I decided to try something. I wanted to make a friend who was a guy, and who would stay that way even if I accidentally bumped into him or something. So I looked around for someone I didn't know, who I didn't get that 'gonna-become-a-girl' sense about, who looked pretty friendly. It wasn't all that hard, there was this guy who sat in front of me in math class all year and looked like sort of a friendly nerd kind of guy. So I looked for him at lunch time and sat down across from him. "Hey," I said, "I'm Kael."

"Oh, I know that. You sit behind me in math class, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, if you don't know, and I wouldn't be surprised, I'm Aden." He put out a hand to shake, and I shook hands with him. "Nice to meet ya." He was happy to start a conversation with me, and I was relieved to have this confirmation that I wasn't going to turn him into a girl by accident. We talked all through the lunch break, and he said we ought to get together, hang out some time outside of school. I agreed, and suggested that afternoon, but he said he was busy then.

I decided that afternoon might be a good time, instead, to show Rio that I definitely wasn't crazy. I managed to catch her in the hallways not long before the end of school, and asked if she could meet me back at my house. I said I'd figured out what went wrong the last time I tried to show her using my power on myself. She agreed to meet me around 7.

So, she came, and we were in my living room again. "Okay, so first of all, that alternate universe thing is apparently really real. And somehow a file on my computer is also on that Kayla's computer, and it's the same file, and she was able to talk to me through it. I'm not even kidding. And..she suggested I try making myself a girl just physically and mentally, instead of trying to fully change myself, which apparently moves me into a different dimension."

She looked like she was thinking for a minute or two, then she nodded. "...Uh-huh. That makes sense, actually. If your power can do something like that it would try to go to the most accurate and literal interpretation of what you told it to do, so if becoming Kayla includes having everyone else recognize you as Kayla that's the only way it can make sense."

"Okay. So I tried what she suggested, and..it works. I'll show you."

"I thought you were worried about your clothes turning into underwear?"

I had already started changing. "Well..the last several times that didn't happen. So it should be okay." As I started to get shorter, and my hips started loosening, I expected my jeans to get tighter, like usual, and pull upward in between my legs. This time they did something very different. First, they split at a little below my thighs. Then the lower part started rapidly getting softer and pulling tight against my legs, changing them, like the first time I changed. But at the same time, the upper part also become softer and more cloth-like, and the part between my legs started to fall down and get looser everywhere except right around my waist. I wasn't prepared for that; my boxer shorts had already lost most of their leggings so I was starting to show a little bit of skin now as the leg-holes in my opens opened up so much they combined, and finally the whole thing spread out as one big hole.

By now I was a girl down there, and it felt like there were no clothes surrounding my panties, like the first time I changed. But I was also aware of this piece of cloth loosely touching my legs from all sides. I could feel heat in my cheeks while my chest started loosening and growing out.

"You're blushing.."
"Well, my pants never turned into a skirt before now, is all."

She giggled. "Oh, is that all? It's not that big a deal, trust me. Anyway, it looks like it works just fine. You make a really cute girl, too!"

I didn't know how to respond to that for a second, but something told me it was definitely meant as a compliment. "Um..thanks? Anyway, uh, I also found out the other day that I can actually make certain kinds of changes to this form. Like, I can actually change my age..but I'm not going to make myself seven years younger again."
"Hmm."

"And I was able to do other small changes, like hair length or color."

"Interesting. So in theory you might be able to change the nature of the changes you've made to other people if you want to. But I wonder just how much you can change by will, though.."

Rio seemed to be thinking for a moment. Then she said, "Say, you know how Rhia's a neko? Cat-person?"
"Yeah."
"How about you try to make yourself one of those, and then go back to human again if it works. Just to see if it does."
"Um, okay.." I thought of trying to turn myself into a neko..a person with the ears and tail of a cat and whatever else came along with being one. And I immediately felt my ears growing, and something unfamiliar falling down behind my skirt, growing longer. I twisted around to get a look at it and saw a cat-tail, like Rhia's, but in the same color as my hair. By now my ears were twitching, and I swear I could hear stuff all the way outside with them. "I guess it worked?" I said, and Rio nodded.

"Yeah, so it looks like you can at least imitate changing your race entirely. That's pretty impressive. Now I wonder..try to make yourself a werewolf."
"Um..okay." I tried to turn myself into a werewolf, thinking be a werewolf, and the cat ears and tail went away. And I looked like a human again. "I don't think it worked."

"Don't jump to conclusions, werewolves are easily able to look entirely human. Try turning your hand into a werewolf paw without letting your usual power work, if you can."
"Okay.." Every time I'd changed something so far, I'd poked myself somewhere. This time I didn't, willing my right hand to turn into a fur-covered part-wild-dog paw-like thing. And to my surprise that was exactly what happened. I jumped at it at first, then stared at it for a minute, turning to the front and back to get a good look. Then I turned it back just as easily.

"See? It looks like you can actually completely change someone's magical race if you wanted to. Werewolf to neko, elf to human, all sorts of things! That's a pretty big power if I ever saw one. Then again, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising, considering when you changed me it gave me a whole bunch of magic potential that definitely wasn't there..."

"Should I be happy or worried about this?" I said, turning myself back to a definitely-really-human.

"Well, as per our discussion earlier about giving people new superpowers, I guess this means you technically can do that, so you should probably be careful. But you can make of it whatever you want, really. Now I have one more thing I want to test out. Would you mind moving your age back just a couple of years, and going back to being a neko for a moment?"
"Um..sure?" I did that, and she nodded once I was done.

"Now try turning back to a guy, without losing those two changes."

I tried that..and immediately felt myself growing again, the tail pulling back in and disappearing, the ears shrinking back to human size and shape. And I was Kael again, normal human guy.

"That is odd," she said. "I'm not sure if it's because you need more control over your power or because it simply doesn't cover that...too bad, really. It means if you wanted to give yourself magic powers you don't normally have you'll have to turn yourself into a girl first, at least for the moment."

"..That's fine, I think just the one bizarre uncontrollable power is enough for me."

She laughed. "I thought you'd say something like that. Anyway, thank you for telling me about this. Sorry I couldn't be more help in figuring out how your power works and stuff, but I am still just an apprentice, after all."
"It's fine."

Fashion

A classic example of writer's block has been going on all summer. It might have also effected the quality of this one. So, sorry about that.

There's something new off to the right, if you'll take a look. EDIT: And I just figured out how to get rid of the image lightboxing that was making it impossible to read a caption just by clicking on it.