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Girthful 'Gator

...Actually, maybe you first impressions were wrong. Your leathery skin has small, hard bumps forming on it, which rapidly spread to overlap each other. Scales? You still have arms and legs, but you can feel them shrinking, twisting in odd ways. Those thick nails are elongating to claws. And your body is still bulking out!

You waddle to the mirror in time to see your face shifting. If it feels unpleasant, watching it makes you feel 20 times worse. You turn away, and look down to see your skin changing colour, darkening into a lustrous green, almost irridescant in some places, mottled with black and all shades between. There's a tingle at the base of your spine, a bit like when your leg falls asleep. Is something growing there? A tail?

So some kind of reptile then.

A lizard?

An alligator! Your thoughts crystallise into a horrible certainty, and you whirl to look in the mirror.

You try to whirl.

However, you have gained a lot of weight in the last few minutes, not to mention a tail, so you trip and topple onto an unfamiliar, but undeniably large belly. When you finally get up your fears are confirmed. From the tip of your tail to your gleaming teeth you're a big, tubby 'gator.

You freeze, your mind totally numb. What do you do now?


Written by Lupine

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