"Oh," I said. I took the receipt and read over his information. "Thank you. I don't— I've never had help from anyone but my friends." It felt . . . kind of weird, but also kind of cool, to have someone offer their outside help. Even if I didn't ask, even if he wasn't serious, it was nice.
I wasn't entirely sure where to stick the paper just yet, though. My morphing suit didn't really have pockets, after all! I set it on the floor. "Um, one second," I said.
I focused on a fresh morph, something that I was familiar with. In a moment, my mouth and nose sort of melted together and pushed outward. My upper lip curled down into a ripping beak, and my fingers began to stretch and flatten into primary feathers. While this was happening, my feet started to change. Some of my toes shrank back and vanished, and the remaining toes lengthened while the bones of my feet shortened. My toenails grew black, then elongated and curled sharply, becoming ripping, gripping talons.
As my body continued to change, my skin sprouted white and brown feathers that unfurled like fresh spring leaves.
And then I began shrinking. Fwoom! I wasn't moving all that fast, but it felt like I was falling off a building! The world grew bigger as the ground drew closer, and if my insides hadn't been squishing into new shapes and sizes, my stomach might have flipped.
The morph was nearly complete. My eyes changed from chocolate brown to bright gold, my beak became hard and black. As my tail feathers unfurled and fanned out, I could feel the familiar osprey instincts bubble up under my own mind. There.
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I wasn't entirely sure where to stick the paper just yet, though. My morphing suit didn't really have pockets, after all! I set it on the floor. "Um, one second," I said.
I focused on a fresh morph, something that I was familiar with. In a moment, my mouth and nose sort of melted together and pushed outward. My upper lip curled down into a ripping beak, and my fingers began to stretch and flatten into primary feathers. While this was happening, my feet started to change. Some of my toes shrank back and vanished, and the remaining toes lengthened while the bones of my feet shortened. My toenails grew black, then elongated and curled sharply, becoming ripping, gripping talons.
As my body continued to change, my skin sprouted white and brown feathers that unfurled like fresh spring leaves.
And then I began shrinking. Fwoom! I wasn't moving all that fast, but it felt like I was falling off a building! The world grew bigger as the ground drew closer, and if my insides hadn't been squishing into new shapes and sizes, my stomach might have flipped.
The morph was nearly complete. My eyes changed from chocolate brown to bright gold, my beak became hard and black. As my tail feathers unfurled and fanned out, I could feel the familiar osprey instincts bubble up under my own mind. There.