ReliaRobot

Impressions of Detail: The dark around you rustles, crackles, splits under your exploratory hands — the inside of a cocoon?

My head felt fuzzy, like I'd just barely woken up and could drift back off to sleep at any moment. I tried to turn over, pull the blankets up around me and burrow back into bed, but something stopped me. It was like I was lying on top of the blanket I was trying to move, or trying to turn while lying on my own hair. No matter how much I tugged at it, it wouldn't come free. My arms felt weak, entrapped, like I was still dreaming and half sleep paralyzed.

I tried opening my eyes - usually that dispelled any leftover dreams I was having - but found that it was still pitch-black. My first thought was It's too early for this. My second thought was Wait, where's the power strip light?

More awake now, I tried to get up and look around, but bonked my head on something that made a soft crunching noise. I didn't hit it very hard, but now there were two spots on the top of my head that throbbed in pain. I tried to reach up to hold them, but my arms were blocked by the blankets.

I twisted and turned, trying to free myself, and felt my chest squash against that same crunchy material, way further out than my chest should have been, which prompted a whole wave of pain through my body. I cried out, but my voice sounded weird too, distorted and strange. I scrabbled at the blanket-stuff, now desperate to get out of whatever was holding me here. I felt like I was barely making any progress, weak and tired as I was, but eventually there was a sharper cracking noise, and a seam of light appeared.

I dove desperately for the light, pushing and straining against the material, and I finally pushed out and fell facefirst onto the floor. My chest still felt strange, more squashed than it should have been, but there was a new sensation coming from my back, a cold feeling that made me shiver, but also a weight, like I was still covered in a blanket. Had the thing I was in fallen on top of me?

I staggered to my feet and whipped around, nearly falling over in the process. Everything felt off balance, and parts of me wanted to keep moving after I'd stopped. A soft, silvery light filtered into what I recognized as my bedroom, but on the wall was a great, dark mass of... something. The crack on the surface of it proved that it was the thing I'd been trapped inside. I blinked, still off kilter, and shivered; I was naked. I tried to pull the blanket that was wrapped around my shoulders around me, but tugging on it hurt. I settled for wrapping my arms around myself, only to feel a strange, sort of fuzzy sensation. Armwarmers?

This was all too much. I went to pull the curtains aside so I could see better, and found the full moon looking down on me from the night sky. I was entranced. I'd never seen it this bright. It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

"Mrphgl," came a soft voice from behind me. I jumped, tried to spin around, and shouted as I overbalanced and fell down in a heap.

"Babe??" came the voice from the bed. A feminine face peeked over the edge at me, full of concern. "Oh, wow! Look at you! You're beautiful!"

I tried to focus on the face, and then suddenly it popped into focus. "Allie? What's going on? What's happening to me??" She'd know. She always knew what to do.

"Oh, Noelle, you're all discombobulated, huh? Let's get you up on the bed." She helped lever me off the floor without standing on whatever was attached to my back. "Whoo, they came out big, huh? I know you were excited, but these might be a little unweidly."

I looked over my shoulder to try to see what she was talking about, but couldn't turn far enough; I only saw some kind of sparkling silver material. Allie laughed. "Those are nice, yes, but I was actually talking about these, goofus."

I followed her finger to my chest, where... wow. Those had definitely not been there before. I cupped my new breasts in my hands, enthralled by all the new sensations, but after a moment I tried to count how many fingers I saw. Four... eight... twelve... sixteen?! I looked up at Allie, who was smiling ear to ear. "Now you have enough hands to hold all your girlfriends at once!"

"I- I need a mirror!" I ran downstairs at full tilt, painfully slamming my hips into the banister as I rounded the corner. I limped into the living room and finally saw myself, for the first time.

A soft, silvery fuzz covered my arms and legs, with a larger ruff of it around my neck, like a scarf. My waist hadn't slimmed much, but my hips and chest had expanded dramatically, and I'd lost something in my nether regions that I absolutely wouldn't be missing. I'd lost a finger on each hand, but gained two whole additional arms. I reached up to feel my new antennae, nestled in amongst my newly grey hair, and shivered at the ticklish sensation. And then I spun, and my huge, silvery wings fluttered on my back, and my eyes went wide.

Then, Allie turned on the light, and I went totally blind. "Agh!"

"Oops, sorry!" She flicked the light back off, but I kept my eyes covered for a moment anyway, sparkly after-images of the living room trailing in my vision. "We'll have to get you some sunglasses, girl."

Hearing her call me girl made me feel like I would never stop smiling. "Girl. Girl! Girl girl girl!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!" I jumped up, narrowly avoiding falling over again, and clasped her hands with all four of mine. "Am girl!!!!!!"

Allie laughed and smiled with me. "ARE girl!!" She reached out to touch my antennae and I shivered again. "With some very fun side benefits! I gotta say, this is definitely the fastest I've seen anyone transition."

My stomach grumbled loudly.

"Of course, I suppose there are some detriments to not eating for two whole fucking months. Come on, let's make you some sandwiches and then we can take some pictures for our girls."