After “fox” slapped her Raelynn felt something in her entire body. Like energy coming in and out of her resonating with bones and muscles, she heard ringing in her ears and her vision got blurry. Raelynn dropped on knees, her entire body felt like submerged in oil while that energy was flowing in more and more like it tried to fill her body. Energy inside wasn’t distributed uniformly, bones and muscles slowly started adjusting to it. Raelynn could feel changes how limbs were getting shorter, the elongating skull, pushing on the backside from within her.

Her entire skin got warmer, she felt like muscles are trying to push out fur from beneath skin. Her entire body shrunk, none of her bones or muscles were at the original length. Her perspective changed, the world around became brighter, image became sharper, she could see more surrounding with wider field of view and everything had colours she haven’t seen before nor could describe them. Leaves were no longer black, fox like creatures weren’t purple anymore.

All of the senses were overwhelming, everything became louder as her ears moved around in all directions whenever she heard any sound. New kinds of smells appeared, very flowery, sweet and the stench of rotting flesh. Raelynn felt tingling in her feet, palms and cheeks.

She shrunk enough to get covered by her own clothes. Raelynn felt the weight of shirt on her back and new appendage on backside. When shrinking stopped she crawled out of clothes, very confused she looked at herself with her wide field of view. With paws, fur and tail she looked like those “foxes” who were standing at attention also dumbfounded at what just transpired.

- I… uuh… what? - Raelynn was speechless – Did you do this to me?

Raelynn turned towards nearest “fox”, he looked at her inquisitively and the rest came closer to inspect Raelynn. In total there were 10 of them who surrounded and sniffed her. After they were satisfied they went past her like nothing happened while Raelynn was sitting trying to comprehend her transformation. After critters went about 10 meters they stopped and looked back at her. She felt little uncomfortable not sure what they want from her.

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- What do you want from me? Go! - She yelled while they didn’t budge.

One of them sneezed, Raelynn somehow could sense they’re becoming impatient looking at their body language.

- You want me to go with you or something? - She looked at herself and then forest around - It actually might be better idea now that I’m weird ass fox. It would be better if one of you gets eaten instead me if anything happens…

She stood up still overwhelmed by all sensory inputs, picked up necklace with her mouth and tried to walk forward towards the group. She fell flat not being used to walking on all fours.

- This is so weird, nothing is in the right place. At least I don’t have 1000 legs like some millipedes. – She mumbled.

She got up and constantly thinking about how to walk she got over to the group. It was easy to figure how to move around however it wasn’t intuitive. While walking Raelynn started to adjust to new senses, with wide field of vision she could observe surrounding without turning head, with moving ears she could easily point at which direction specific sounds came from. But so far the weirdest senses were smell and sense of touch. Using chemotaxis by moving her head into different directions Raelynn could smell where scents were weaker and where they were stronger allowing to more or less know from which direction smell came from.

Navigating through terrain wasn’t an issue at all, she had better understanding of terrain and general shapes thanks to whiskers. Raelynn was fascinated by how she could physically feel her surrounding and doesn’t need to rely on sight as much. She could also feel slight vibrations in ground from group moving forward.

- That’s trippy, you can learn all these things about animals but it don’t reflect in the slightest how it feels. Now I kinda wish humans would have whiskers.

While she was walking and exploring new sensations before it got really dark group arrived at their destination, Raelynn smelled strong scent of species she was part of now. She saw more of those “foxes” where about half of them were young pups.

- Finding civilization might be hard. Especially in this state – She remarked while yawning – Maybe this will fix itself when I wake up.

Raelynn dropped necklace and tried to use her paws to pick it up, she hooked one of the rings with her claw and managed to put it on her neck then she curled up under a bush for a little bit of cover and went to sleep.