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(Erotica / Drama, TF, BE, Anthro Cow, Cat, Wolf, ????)

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Chapter 0 : Sunrise

Chapter 1 : Demi-Problematic

Chapter 2 : Wolf's Out Of The Bag

Chapter 3 : Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk

Chapter 4 : No Face

Chapter 5 : Revelations

Chapter 6 : The Will Of Gods

Or, if you hate stories and character development and just want to skip to the sex CTRL+F;

-N&Q- (Nelly and Quinn)

-Q&A- (Quinn on Avalyn)

-N&A- (Nelly on Avalyn)

-N&A&Q- (Threesome)

Chapter 0 : Sunrise

Quinn stepped out in front of his house and shivered, his fur bristling. The sunlight is quite warm but it is early enough in the morning that the air itself is still cold from the night. The grass of people's yards glisten from the early morning sun catching in the drops of morning dew. Half the sky is dark blue the other half light blue with a glowing pink trim as the sun fully wakes itself. This is the town of Lochview; a quiet place generally. Not large enough to attract many outsiders but not particularly small, either.

Quinn in contrast is quite unusual. Aside from his eyelashes he hasn't a strand of hair anywhere on him- instead he is covered in a coat of powdery soft white fur! Quinn is an anthropomorphic housecat! His face is completely that of a cat- though where his eyebrows would be is marked with the only black fur on his body. He has the tail of a cat and the bottoms of his feet and insides of his hands are marked with soft, smooth black pads of skin but the actual shape of his hands and feet is still entirely human. His digits are all capped with small but very sharp claws- not hooked or retractable like a cat's would be though due to the bone structure still being human. Though human sized his genitals are feline as well- a common question from curious girls in his High School days.

His days of High School have ended now however. After graduating and a year of rest to get his future plans in order- Quinn and his friends are about to set out on a grand adventure today.

Quinn took out his cell phone and opened up his contact 'Rainbow Streak'.

>You even awake yet Nel?

There was a pause as Quinn started to walk slowly toward the meeting place, before he seen she was typing a reply.

>ofc, u think I would sleep in during a day THIS big??

>You just didn't go to sleep last night, right?

>I went 2 sleep, sort of.

>I was in bed with m eyes closed.

>I don't know how much actual sleeping I did.

>Nervous, y/k?

Quinn has exactly two friends, and neither of them are normal, either. You see, somewhere out in the cosmos is a God Of Wishes, flicking shooting stars empowered with a fragment of its own abilities to grant wishes to anyone out there in the universe the star crosses. Their world was crossed by two such wishing stars. The first time someone wished they could turn their pet into a human, and as a side effect now anyone can gain that ability, creating what is known as 'inverted pets'. The phenomenon has existed now in their world for so long that even people who have no knowledge of its origin think it's perfectly normal and just assumed that is always how it was. The second wish however...

Though good intentioned; the second wish was for people to have anthro, feral, or hyper forms. The wish originated from a man simply seeking to abolish the unnecessary ostracizing of people with... unique tastes. Unfortunately his wish was severely lacking in limiters and he did not foresee the ramifications. In only a week's time he nearly ended the entire world. It transformed everyone- everywhere, whether they wanted to change or not. Planes fell out of the sky across the globe because their pilots were turned into beasts that could not fly them! Vehicles plowing into buildings, people becoming trapped in their own homes unable to operate the doors or even move at all in some cases. Theoretical cannibalism even broke out because of one person turning into a feral predator and another into a feral herbivore! Society immediately collapsed, and the anthros gathered together in the ruins to try to build a new, temporary society. Luckily a brave few remnant humans made a dangerous trek to the original wishing star and used it to track down the point of origin. They used magic to gain council with Astrelle herself, the God Of Wishes, and were then able to wish their way back out of the cataclysm and save the world.

That was 22 years ago. The unwishing restored the people, and a new wish restored the carnage and death that happened as a result. Though still a bit traumatized by the memory of the events- the world was able to go on as it had before Astrelle's tampering. Except for a few people... like Quinn and his friends.

Quinn is an anthro cat because of the Second Wish, but it wasn't a DIRECT result of the wish, so unwishing it did not fix him. He was not even born yet when it happened! The problem is that his parents were transformed when he was conceived, so his genes were tainted with the power of Astrelle. He is a result of that conception- not directly the result of the wish. Everything else went back to normal but Quinn was still born cat. Since their world contacted Astrelle directly before- they still have the ability to make wishes, and Astrelle will grant them indefinitely. Since it is technically a personal problem though- anyone born demi-human has to personally wish themselves human. That is where Quinn plans to set out for now- the city of Atallia where Earth has tasked a council of judges to determine if a wish should be allowed or not.

Quinn's eyelids were still heavy as he wandered the streets- a bit creeped out by how quiet the town is this early in the morning. He made his way to an empty lot that was on the way to his old high school and seen his girlfriend Nelly sitting there waiting for him. She actually managed to get to the meeting spot before he did; an old wheel-less car sitting in a patch of uncut grass in the middle of the empty lot- absolutely covered in spray-paint from years of graffiti. It was a nice meeting spot because it was sort of in the middle of everything, and you can sit inside the car if it is raining out- since the driver side door fell off long ago. Nelly's cellphone cover almost looked like the car- absolutely caked in layers of half worn-off stickers. A red Among Us keychain figure and a Silver Lining charm dangling off the bottom corner.

Nelly is a petite woman, about a full foot shorter than Quinn who is average height. Unfortunately; Quinn does not actually know what Nelly looks like. Almost no one does. Nelly is a shapeshifter... which is a mystery unto itself. Her non-human traits came from whatever her parents were turned into during the cataclysm... so her shape should be pre-determined by that; static. She shouldn't be able to freely transform like she does. So she is a mystery within a mystery. Today she has gone with the bob cut with bangs- a favorite of hers she used in school most of the time. Her skin mocha toned with very small, very dark freckles across the middle of her face and the tops of her breasts. That at least remains unchanged- Quinn has never seen her take a human form that did not have freckles, no matter what she changes her skin color to. Her hair is a very dark brown- but that could change at any time like the rest of her. She is barefoot and wearing a pair of faded red jean shorts with a very baggy sky blue T shirt. Nelly glances at Quinn over her phone when he gets close enough and she grins.

"Well, crack of dawn and you're already dressed in dusk."

Quinn shrugged. "Complement through contrast."

Quinn's outfit was almost all black against his snow white fur- and also an odd choice. Though Quinn identifies as a male and has a masculine personality in most aspects... his clothing is decidedly feminine. His cool black nose is connected to his right ear by a thin chain linking two piercings. He is wearing a sleeveless crop-top with disconnected sleeves. They are mostly black but fade to dark purple at the bottoms and are trimmed in hot pink. He is wearing a short pleated skirt and has a red ribbon loosely twined around his right leg and a spiked anklet around his left leg. Quinn loves how loose and flowing women's clothing is, so almost his whole wardrobe is clothing for the opposite gender. He feels confined in stiff men's gear.

Nelly plopped down on the ground off the roof of the car but the moment her feet touched the ground they seemed to spread and grow like watching a loaf of bread rise in fast-forward! Her feet turned to large paws and her entire body quickly grew as fur raced up from her paws to cover her! Her hands expanded to be half-paw as well and her face fully transformed into that of a feline! A long narrow tail spiralled out from her shorts as if it was part of the clothing rather than part of her. Her freckles expanded greatly and then yanked outward, stretched into stripes as her white fur was intersected by black stripes completing her look as she turned into an anthro white tiger in the span of only a half-minute. Quinn glanced down her form and smirked at the two rows of red-pink teats on her midriff exposed above her shorts and below her top before making sure to make eye contact again.

She took him by the shoulders and brushed her cheek against his in an act of feline scent-marking. "Mrrrow~ like this you mean? Black on white, am I doing it right?"

He hugged her, but also brushed his fingers slowly through the soft fur, even knowing its existence was just an elaborate illusion. "We should get over to Avalyn's place, right? It is quite far out isn't it? Would sort of make waking up this early pointless if we don't actually head out right away. Did you check what bus we need to take?"

As soon as Quinn let go, Nelly's form quickly reverted to the human shape she had before, regressing her height back as well. "Oh, no she is meeting us here too." Nel laughed. "She lives in the country; it would take forever getting to her place!"

Quinn blushed, but his fur concealed it luckily. "Well I don't know! I have never been to her place before. We never even formally met, really."

Now Nelly blushed a bit. "R-right. Well that will change today. Sort of awkward but... just relax. Avalyn is a really great person, and hot."

"Yea, you keep mentioning that part whenever you bring her up..."

"Well she is. I don't want you to think you have to avoid looking at her thinking I will get jealous or something."

He crossed his arms giving her a side-glance. "It seems more like you are trying to sell me on her."

"No! But like... like I mentioned before... y'know. We are sort of a set... you play with one-"

"Alright, let's focus on getting this show on the road first. We will have plenty of time to discuss whatever we want when we are on the road. If I remember right; Atallia City is a very, very long ways off."

"Yea we might be out for two weeks or more if there is traffic or construction slowing us down. I think we could get there in under one week if there are no bumps in the road- so to speak. If we ride from morning to evening anyway. Might get there in three or four days if we just say fuck it and drive through the night."

"For four days? Yea that sounds safe."

Nelly let out a half-laugh. "Well obviously swapping drivers."

"You don't know how to drive! Only me and Avalyn can swap."

"I know how to drive! I just don't have a license!"

"Same thing..."

The two of them climbed onto the old car to hang around till Avalyn arrived. Quinn has only been Nelly's boyfriend since halfway through the last year of high school- so roughly a year and a half now. Avalyn and Quinn however have been friends since they were little kids... and secretly lovers since early high school. Just because Nelly is with Quinn now doesn't meant she has quit Avalyn however- a fact Quinn has awkwardly agreed with thus far.

Nelly's hair randomly changes color as they wait, and eventually she takes out her phone and starts watching an old archived gamer stream from her favorite streamer- Silver Lining. No surprise there- Silver Lining is actually Tulia Gardith... Nelly's mother. And unsurprisingly her father Richard Gardith is a professional manager, for online creators, like Tulia. They met through business but quickly became more than business partners- though both maintained their jobs even after getting married.

On the outskirts of the town, Avalyn is finishing up loading her luggage into the car, making sure to load it into the trunk carefully and tightly together since two other people needed to fit their luggage in after her. Nelly is a good bit below average in height but Avalyn is considerably over the average. Not just bigger than other women, just, bigger than most anyone. She is a bit over a foot taller than Quinn is, which makes Nelly look like a dwarf in comparison. Avalyn isn't really big, just, extra tall- and most of that is because of her leg structure. To her ankles she has the legs of a human, but then she also has the cannon bone of a bovine, and the cloven hooves to match. The cannon bone easily adds a foot to her overall height, which makes her stand out like a sore thumb in a crowd.

Avalyn looks almost perfectly human usually, so if it wasn't for her abnormal height thanks to having hooves, she would actually be able to blend in rather well. If you ignore the hooves the only part of her body that seems bovine is her tail. She has a tasseled tail like a cow, but the body of her tail is both abnormally long, and has much more muscle control than any cow should- this is thanks to her father actually having been a snake during the Second Wish. Avalyn's ears are long and pointed, making them look elven- they mixed bovine and human together so they don't quite look like they belong on either species. If you pull her shirt off you'd see she has a cluster of diamond shaped black splotches on the skin of her upper back, but that is it. The entire rest of her is perfectly human.

Avalyn is wearing worn-in blue jeans and a beige cable-knit sweater today. Her legs are too long, so the bottom portion- the cannon bone- is never covered no matter what she wears. Having hooves, she also has no need of socks or shoes because her hooves would just wear a hole straight through them anyway. She has straight shimmering raven hair on her head and tail- the hair on her head hangs low enough to tickle her own butt. Her bangs are long enough to hide her eyebrows but not obscure her vision.

She is very nervous about setting out on this quest, and her father chuckles at her, offering reassurances. Avalyn doesn't own her own vehicle, so the ride she was given is her father's viper convertible- the vehicle he jokingly named 'Midlife Crisis'. Not only is it a very fast car to be driving, she is deathly afraid of it even getting scratched. The paint is in pristine, polished condition- lipstick red in the front and fades to royal purple in the back, the grill and rims has a gold finish to boot so the car sparkles from head to toe. Her father- Jim- loves tinkering with it and putting more upgrades on it, but he is a retired trucker, so even with Midlife Crisis in Avalyn's hands; he still has his six-wheeler. During the Second Wish; Jim had been turned into a half-man half-snake. His wife Amanda was affected but had not transformed yet, and encountered the very people who ultimately ended up saving the world! Unfortunately she started to transform just as she found them, so they were unable to help her as she turned into a strange mix of cow and crane- that is where Avalyn got the lion's share of her traits from. Luckily skipping the avian part.

Amanda came out before Avalyn finished loading up the trunk and the three of them exchanged hugs as Avalyn got in the car. Avalyn was stiff from nervousness, Amanda had a tear in her eye watching her 'little girl' go off on her first big road trip with her friends, and Jim just mildly amused trying to calm both of them down. It is just a road trip- Amanda would have her girl back in a week or little more. And if Avalyn blew the car up he would just rebuild it. He don't give a damn what she does to his ride- as long as she stays safe he will just fix whatever she breaks. She did need to immediately adjust the seat back- her long legs needed room to get to the pedals. In its default position the chair was so close her knees were shoving up into the underside of her E cup melons.

With a final nervous wave Avalyn veeeerry slowly drove out of the lot onto the open road. Their driveway was nothing but compressed dust, and the roads this far out of the town are pretty dirty too- so if she floors it half the car will be buried in dirt. Unsurprisingly, they live on a dairy ranch. Jim suggested they buy the lot- having seen it on his rides in and out of town when he was still a trucker. So not particularly surprising their daughter turned out half cow with more blue jeans than skirts in her closet. Heck even the cows themselves considered her their extended family.

Avalyn picked up the pace as she got onto the cleaner roads. At the very least there was essentially zero traffic at this hour. She got a message on her cellphone but wasn't going to check it while driving- she knew it was either Quinn or Nelly anyway, asking if she is on her way probably.

They both smiled as Avalyn pulled up in the posh car.

Nelly immediately hopped into the front passenger seat. "Oh my gosh, why don't you pull the roof back? It's a convertible!"

"It's... also early in the morning."

Quinn sighed as he plopped into the back seat and closed the door. "It is chilly out, with the roof down the wind will freeze us."

Nelly shrugged. "Sooo, Avalyn, this is my boyfriend~ and Quinn, this is Avalyn."

They exchanged glances in the rear-view mirror before Avalyn looked at Nelly. "We... already know each other. Did you hit your head this morning?"

"N-no no, but like you've never really... uh... mingled I guess is the word? Is mingled a word?"

"W-well yea, that is true. I wouldn't say I have really mingled with anyone really- not even you, heh. Not in public anyway. B-but, shush- I am driving."

"Oh you're too tense. You drive fine Av, you don't need to be THAT careful."

"Mmm."

Quinn chuckled at Nelly. "At least she isn't reckless like you."

"I am not!"

"Didn't you nearly kill Tim once throwing him across the room?"

Nelly pouted. "I still don't know how his tail was there."

Timothy is Nelly's ex-boyfriend- and also a demi-human. A mouse unfortunately; who got his tail caught in a paper ball Nelly was trying to smack someone with and she unintentionally threw him across the room with it. That wasn't the reason they broke off, but it was certainly harrowing for the tiny man.

Avalyn stopped in front of Nelly's house and the little woman immediately jumped out to dash in and get her things- she was already packed obviously but needed to get it into the trunk. She did not even bother to close the car door behind her- Quinn sighed and was about to reach around the seat to do it but seen Avalyn's long prehensile tail snake its way over and close the door without having to move in her seat at all.

Quinn cleared his throat softly. "So, uh, how did you two meet originally?"

"Playground, when we were little." She leaned over to look at him around her seat rather than use the rear-view. "I was off on my own. I was too afraid to use the playground where other kids were, but there was at least one other kid pretty much everywhere, so I kinda just froze up and didn't do anything but stand there."

"Kids picking on you? You look so... human though."

"Oh, no. I mean... maybe they would have- but I was too afraid to socialize in the first place for that to even be able to happen. Without actually being outcast I sort of always knew I was different and didn't quite... belong. I am pretty shy too I guess. Anyway- one of the kids ran up to me and took me by the hand and practically dragged me along with her- of course it was Nelly."

Quinn smirked. "No one can tell she was demi-human."

Avalyn nodded. "Because she never uses her true form. She will look like whatever she needs to look like to fit in anywhere she goes. She mirrored my cow traits whenever someone looked at me funny because of it."

Quinn nodded. "She often takes on feline shapes around me too. Usually when-" He blushed. "Er, well. Never mind."

Avalyn blushed now too. "Did... she... talk to you about doing any...thing?"

"You mean suggesting a threesome? Y-yea."

"Ah."

They both went silent and sat back straight in their seats for a bit, both red in the face.

Nelly dashed up to her father on the front porch of their nice house. "Waiting for mom again?"

Richard chuckled softly. "Sorry. You sure you packed everything? Kitchen sink?"

"Had a sinking feeling about bringing kitchenware so I left that out- this time."

He mussed up her hair as she dashed past. "That is my little goofball. You tell your mother you are leaving?"

"Yup, before I left to meet with Quinn."

"Hmmm. I am still not sure about that boyfriend of yours. Bit of an oddball."

She flashed him a sarcastic glare as she passed him again going the other way with her luggage. "Dad- we are all freaks. That is the point- that is why we are going to the city in the first place."

"Mmm. Fair enough."

Richard followed her to take the remaining bags for her so she did not need to make a second trip. When they loaded up the car, he had them all get out and line up at the edge of the yard to take a group picture before they set off. If all goes to plan- they will return as humans, so this will be their last memento of what they were. He was not too keen on Nelly altering her body permanently but... well, it is her body. She isn't a girl anymore- she is a woman who makes her own choices. Her first choice was to basically pack everything she owned for a single week road trip. He is pretty sure the only things left in her room are her bed and all the Silver Lining merchandise lining the whole room. Back when she was still a streamer- Tulia had almost five million active subscribers, so she had a lot of dedicated fans.

Avalyn watched the sun hovering over the horizon and the early morning clouds that seemed to glow orange and pink in the low sunlight. Quinn just stood patiently with his arms crossed to keep some of his body heat in. You'd think he would be warmer because of his fur- but he has always had the fur, so his body adapted to always being much warmer than others, so he ends up getting cold just as easily as anyone else. Nelly had to go over and help Richard work her phone- her icons were an absolute mess and he was using her phone to take the picture.

When they stepped into place, Nelly teasingly pinched the edge of Quinn's skirt and started to lift it, startling him. Richard accidentally took the picture early while trying to adjust his grip on the phone, and took the photo with hilarious timing. Quinn was about to protest to Nelly who was holding his skirt up- and he took a step back which because Avalyn was looking off at the horizon- put his right leg between hers, causing her to look back over her shoulder toward the camera just as the picture snapped. Their comical incoordination somehow seemed to make the picture all the more appropriate, so he did not even take a second one- he showed them that one and they laughed and kept it.

Next stop was Quinn's much more modest house. It was a bit run-down looking but looked after anyway. It is a really old house in the suburbs, not very big but not tiny, either. There was no one waiting for Quinn outside as he dashed in to grab his stuff.

Avalyn quietly spoke to Nelly. "So... why does he wear girl clothes? I mean, it looks good on him but..."

Nelly sighed. "He is more comfortable in it, both mentally and physically. Feels trapped in guy stuff."

"But his old man hates him for it... is it really worth it?"

"I guess so, to him. Maybe that will change when he turns human? His dad is kind of a dick anyway, not really the warm and cuddly type to begin with. And his mother doesn't help things. She supports Quinn but only when his father isn't looking. They are sort of an old-fashioned type couple y'know, like, man of the house sort of deal where the dad says whatever he wants and the mother just falls in line, more like a pet than a partner."

"Ouch. Sounds like you got as much of a bone to pick with them as he does."

Nelly blushed, looking surprised. "Whe-no! I mean... sort of? I am his girlfriend so I kinda get pissed off about it through him."

Avalyn laughed at her reaction. "No, its fine. It is cute. And it certainly sounds like they do have issues. We are all demi so we have our share of issues from the normies already. Don't need our own families poisoning the mood too."

Nelly laughed. "Normies?" Avalyn just smiled and shrugged. "Well, at least his old man is flipping the bill for us. Remember- he is the one giving us our travelling funds for this little adventure."

"Probably just because it will 'fix' his son."

"Mmm."

The car bounced lightly as the trunk closed, causing the two women to quieten down as Quinn returned to his seat. "Alright. Let's hit the road!"

The sun continued to rise and the cold of night melted away real quick. Nelly got what she wanted- the top rolled back and her and Quinn ended up switching seats- without stopping the car. Quinn was nervous as hell but as usual Nelly doesn't take 'no' for an answer and convinced him to do it anyway. With the entire back seats to herself she could sit up on their backs instead of in the seat itself and throw her arms open to the warm wind blasting past! Avalyn picked up speed since they were on the highway now, and there still was no other vehicles within sight. Lochview did not have much draw to it, so there was never much traffic coming or going regardless of the time of day.

Avalyn glared at Nelly through the rear view mirror- noticing that her shirt did not react to the wind at all, even though her arms were spread out catching as much wind as possible. "Nel... are you naked right now?"

Quinn quickly looked back at her, confused a moment before he too noticed her clothes ignored physics. "Wow, even your outfit is an illusion? I cannot wrap my head around how you can do something like that with barely any thought."

Nelly shrugged. "If I actually thought about it- I would be able to simulate the winds effects on it, heh. And NO, I am not naked! You think I am so bold as to set out on a big road trip like this in the NUDE?"

"Yes."

"If someone dared me, sure. I am wearing a sports bra and yoga pants though." So she is dressed- just not in what it looks like she is.

"Hmmm, alright." Avalyn glanced briefly at Quinn, not wanting to take her eyes of the road for more than a second even on a straight flat. "So, you know how I met Nelly- but how did you two meet?"

He glanced away. "W-well you probably heard about the paper bag incident..."

She smirked. "Yeeeaa... I seen it too. The bag anyway- didn't see what you had going on under it."

Nelly spoke up with a big grin. "Unlike you Av; Quinn did his best to fit in, but tried just a wee bit too hard. Last year of high school- frustrated that he could not grow any facial hair-"

Avalyn shook her head, furrowing her brows a bit in confusion. "Wait, wait. Your entire body is nothing BUT hair?"

Quinn sighed, crossing his arms and slouching into his comfy white leather seat. "No, I am head to toe FUR, not HAIR. All the other guys were talking about finally getting facial hair or chest hair, and by then some of them were trying different styles of facial hair and then I am sitting there literally incapable of growing any- ever. I don't know WHAT I was thinking. I was just frustrated and high school was going to come to a close soon so... I..." Quinn trailed off, muttering too low for either woman to hear him.

Nelly spoke up for him. "He shaved a mustache and beard shape into his facial fur!"

Avalyn's eyes went wide and she leaned forward a bit- her face turning red from trying not to laugh imagining what that would have looked like.

Quinn blushed brightly, sitting up rigid again. "Yea and I looked hideous- big surprise. Wore a paper bag on my head to school for two weeks while it re-grew. I think a lot of people assumed a bully did it to pick on me, but no... it was self-inflicted. At least it helped me quit smoking; I never cut a mouth-hole for the bag."

Nelly nodded. "I was just impressed he still went to school at all. The paper bag kinda drew its own share of attention but he just kinda rolled with it. I was attracted to his boldness!"

Avalyn tilted her head. "But that was the last year of high school... you guys never met before that?"

She shook her head. "Yea, but we did not directly interact really- just like you and Quinn. You saw each other before and talked briefly but that was about it. Till the paper bag thing."

Quinn shrugged. "Not like there are a lot of demi-humans walking around so I probably would have approached her before but, she was with Timothy."

Avalyn nodded. "Tiny Tim. Good guy, always nervous I am going to step on him though. He was only what- nine inches tall?"

"Yup."

Nelly smirked. "He knows because I told him Tim was only as big as his cock."

"S-she didn't need to know that!" There was a long awkward pause before he spoke up again. "Well? You two don't have anything to add?"

"To what?"

"C'mon, I had to share an embarrassing moment, now you two should chip in. Being demi must have made for an embarrassing moment for you two as well at some point... right?"

Nelly hummed in thought, crossing her arms. "Mmm, not really. I am always in disguise."

"Never chose the wrong appearance for the situation on accident?"

She shook her head. "Not really, no. Not to the point where it actually caused a problem. Only thing I could think of is this one time I was helping a girl out by stealing the appearance of one of her boyfriend's friends, and infiltrated their friend group. They kept talking about horny stuff, and then starting talking about what they liked about girls and what they would do to the girls if they had them... myself included- because they didn't know it was actually me. That was pretty embarrassing." She spoke up again after a brief pause. "Oh! I just remembered when I was really little I took the form of a boy too, to try to get to know some boys better. They kept talking about girls being so weird and different and having cooties and I got really mad and yelled at them, but they were really confused because they thought I was a boy and I ended up outing myself, haha. Oh gosh- I forgot about that."

Avalyn stiffened a bit- trying to pretend she was too concentrated on the road to notice the others were looking at her, till Nelly poked her in the shoulder and asked her directly.

She groaned and tilted her head. "I am easily embarrassed so there may be too many moments to pick. How about being the only kid with breasts?"

They all blushed, but Quinn was the one to speak up. "Y-you already had breasts when you were still a kid?!"

Avalyn nodded without taking her eyes off the road. "Started lactating before I was a teen too. By the time I was an actual teenager my boobs were larger than my head. As you can imagine; this made all the other kids have some awkward questions for their parents- what are boobs? Why does Avalyn have boobs? Where does milk come from?"

"...yikes."

"Yea. Probably one of the reasons I never had an urge to try and fit in with other people. I didn't have any more answers then they did back then and just didn't want the added attention in the first place, so I just kept to myself to avoid it altogether."

Nelly squirmed her way up between the front seats and turned the radio on after a bit and all three of them immediately laughed as the very first song they hear playing is 'Strange Animal' by Gowan, which seemed serendipitous. With the radio blaring they raced down the empty highway past the rolling hills around their home town. The sunlight glowing, the wind whipping past. These were the sort of moments you always see in TV shows or movies but so rarely get to enjoy in person. They fought their way through school, had a year to cool off and let the information sink in. Now it was time to get the human bodies they were never given at birth. This was the start of the rest of their lives- a new era!

Being demi-humans all three of them had their share of problems. It is not their fault they were born that way, so obviously badgering them about it is publically frowned on, but that doesn't really stop anyone. Kids often outcast anyone slightly different than them- so being part animal definitely goes above and beyond that criteria. Many adults also frown on them, because it reminds them of what once was. Unlike the kids- the adults lived through the Second Wish and many do not want to remember those times when the world nearly ended. Some of the people alive today DIED during those events and only returned to life thanks to its undoing. The wish was well-intended, so there are a rare few people who actually enjoyed what happened to them... since it was not willing- most did not enjoy it. The adults do not openly hate on the demi-humans, but you can feel the tension in the air. The joy get drained from the room when a demi-human enters. They do not want to be the herald of bad memories.

Avalyn was not picked on that much, but that is only because she never felt like she could fit in to begin with, and thus never tried in the first place. She avoided everyone else her age except for Nelly- which is why the two cannot be fully divided ever. Avalyn would be embarrassed to admit it, but she has always felt she belonged more with the actual cows. They are always friendly to her, and gentle. Her mother is always quick to apologize for unintentionally being the cause of Avalyn's woes... but that unintentionally also makes it a bit worse. The speed at which she apologizes for Avalyn's body only serves to underline that her body is viewed as being WRONG. Her father on the other hand was very laid back. Jim told her to not be ashamed of her body. If it upsets someone- that is their problem to deal with, not hers. Though she never picked up on any of it, he always let her help with his vehicle tinkering, and talked to her about random useless facts, and was always there to talk to. Amanda is loving too, but in a way that may lean on the doting, smothering side of things. Amanda is the parent everyone needs- Jim is the parent everyone wants.

Quinn was the exact opposite- he has always tried his hardest to fit in despite his situation. His sheer tenacity has won people over, and his willingness to jump through hoops to do it has earned him shallow friendships with people amused by making the cat boy do tricks. Unfortunately this caused him to take up smoking, trying to fit in with the cool kids- earning the disappointment of both his parents. When he was younger still he would come home with bruises and cuts because he kept taking whatever the other kids dared him to do- no matter how reckless the idea. When it came to his clothes he chose his for comfort, and because he was already an outcast- so rather than try to fight a fight he cannot win, he leaned into it and tried to make it his 'thing'. In all honesty though; his confidence in even that is exaggerated. Deep down he knows this look isn't his either- but it is closer to his own than the default. He managed to drop his habit of smoking- though he has relapsed briefly several times. The urge still haunts him.

Nelly fit in perfectly with everyone. Almost no one ever even mentions her being demi-human... because almost no one realizes it in the first place. She can turn into anything which means she can look like a boy to fit in with the boys, or a girl to fit in with the girls. She can turn into a dog and fit in with someone's pet! It doesn't matter what situation you throw her into because she can just turn into whatever the hell she wants at the drop of a hat. Her transformations are actually two-stage. She can transform her actual physical body, but that is limited; she cannot alter her size much, and she cannot grow additional limbs or extreme alterations like that. Whatever she cannot do with actual transformation though, she makes up for in her ability to create extremely realistic, elaborate illusions around herself. And since she is powered off of Astrelle- it does not require mana. It cannot be dispelled. Why would she want to turn human then, if she can already look human whenever she wants? Because it isn't her. All the 'friends' she made along the way, her glowing reputation in school? Doesn't really mean anything, because they didn't like her, they liked the illusion she presented them.

Chapter 1 : Demi-Problematic

As the day went on they passed from the grasslands around Lochview to a large forest- the road getting rather windy and slopes in several parts. It made Avalyn a bit more paranoid about her driving. With many turns and the road being cut through rock at several points- she cannot see what is up ahead around the corner, and since there is forest around them; an animal could jump out onto the road potentially. There are many stone stacks at the side of the road from hikers coming through the area. Rivers, mossy rocks and tall trees made for a great view for Nelly and Quinn. Nelly pointed out several animals as they passed- spooking a few unintentionally in the process.

In the front seat Quinn had a second view to contend with however- Avalyn. He was trying not to stare but every time he glanced her way; he could swear her breasts were a little bit bigger. And they are E cups by default already which is by no stretch of the imagination small. The cable knitting of her sweater was the easiest comparison- the largest her breasts grow the further outward the sweater's fabric bends. He already knew about her problems with lactation but never seen it first-hand before. Her shyness makes her take extra close care of it normally- but stuck behind the wheel of a car she has no way of tending to it now.

At first no one can notice it but Avalyn herself; her breasts become firmer, then rounder. As they approach maximum capacity the skin starts to blush pink from internal tension. Unlike a normal cow Avalyn lactates for no reason at all- she lactates all the time no matter what. It is part of her altered form, so the lactation is produced via Astrelle's power- which means it completely ignores conservation of mass. Even if she ate nothing to make milk from- she would still make milk. Which in theory makes it impossible for her to starve to death; she could live indefinitely off her own milk. That is just the tip of the iceberg of her problems however. She is mostly human when she is EMPTY. Her body changes more to keep pace with the milk production... so if she doesn't express herself, her body starts to evolve.

Her breasts are already done filling- now they are actually GROWING. That is why Quinn was able to notice it- she is actually getting larger as she fills with more milk. Her sweater is very large on her and made of an easily stretched fabric, but her breasts are also getting closer and closer to the steering wheel. Their round sides bloating further out to the sides and brush her arms every time she tries to turn the wheel. And her bosom is starting to struggle to contain it all, so she can feel moisture building on the inside of the shirt from unintentionally leaked milk.

They passed the other side of the vast forest by late afternoon; the sun was starting to get heavy in the sky. They were getting nervous about their gas too- Lochview is so far out into the middle of nowhere there isn't even any gas stations they were able to see, at least not on this particular highway. By now they could see a tiny collection of homes and shops in the distance- a community barely big enough to qualify as a village. There was an actual town only a few miles off from it as well but they did not want to test their luck- they might run out of gas before getting that far. They had to stop so Quinn could piss off the side of the road while the women averted their eyes, but when he returned to the car he offered to swap with Avalyn. She was nervous about anything happening to her father's prized car, but she gratefully took the offer immediately because her breasts were very quickly becoming too much. And gently brushing them with her arms unintentionally was likely going to speed up her production.

Quinn did not even know the full extent of it. Her biology is a dangerous balance- once she starts to slip it speeds up and once it hits a certain threshold the dam just outright explodes, and then no one is going to stop it.

Nelly leaned forward. "Hey uh... I could... take some of that?"

Avalyn blushed and shook her head, lightly holding the sides of her swelling girls. "N-no. Not... here! We are almost there, just... find a room, fast."

Their first stop was the first gas station they encountered at the edge of the town. Just a mom-n-pops sort of place; the town isn't big enough to have any major chain shops. Still had a row of payphones hooked up in front of the store- most kids don't even know what a payphone booth even IS these days. The station did not even have a sign or name. Quinn got out and started filling the car back up since he was the one driving when they stopped.

Nelly looked at Avalyn concerned. "You should dash into the restrooms and express a little to take the edge off."

Avalyn shivered at the thought. "Look at this place- no way I am using the bathroom here. Probably cockroaches and centipedes covering the floors. All gas station bathrooms look cursed."

"Yea but- hrmm.... yea."

"I am pretty sure I can hold out. I think I can see a motel up the road from here anyway, I can fix myself there." She groaned a bit and opened the door. "I am just going to stretch my legs a bit. See what those vending machines have."

There was several flatbeds parked here and a group of truckers gathered between them laughing and talking. This is the only stop for them for some distance so all the trucks that have to pass through here inevitably stop here. Avalyn's hooves against the pavement make the same sound as the click of a high-heel shoe does, so the truckers immediately turn to look at her thinking they were going to see a well-dressed woman. As soon as they see the sound came from the hooves of a demi-human their expressions darkened. Likely the only thing stopping them from saying anything was her now immense breasts catching their attention with every wobble.

They started at E cups... now it was anyone's guess what cup size fit them- if any even existed. Each breast was as large as a medicine ball, or small beach ball. The tension of the fabric being stretched around their curvature- including cupping the undersides tightly- greatly helped her carry them. Her size can fluctuate too easily for her to ever bother wearing a bra, so if they hit this size and she wasn't wearing a top to contain them, she would be forced to bend forward because of the weight. They wobble instead of jiggle- moving in whatever little room they could make in the shirt with every step she takes.

Avalyn did not look directly at the truckers but she heard their conversation immediately drop off and got chills from the disapproving stares. She did not see them looking but she could FEEL them looking. Unfortunately the vending machines were lined up on the corner of the building that faced the truck lot. The machines were grungy from the dirt the tires kick up and the glass is all scratched up, the image on the buttons started to fade off at the edges from wear. The entire side of the building they were on is covered with the corn corners of old posters and ads that had been taken down- but the corners remained taped to the wall. Nelly watched her carefully, ready to transform and rush in the moment trouble started to get her friend out of there.

Quinn did not notice- he was occupied by the gas. He wandered into the store and shivered a bit from the AC being on making a steep contrast to the warm air outside. He slapped the money on the counter and motioned to their ride outside.

The bristly man behind the counter nodded, taking the money but also not taking his eyes off Quinn. "Was almost 'bout to tell you 'no masks in the store'."

"Heh, yea I guess you don't get too many cats walking through your door." He motioned to a pack of gum to buy with the extra change he gave.

"Don't get many crossdressers, neither. Boys 'round these parts don't much take a liking to them, if you get my drift." The man flopped the pack of gum down on the counter for him.

"...right. Well, just passing through anyway."

"Better pass fast if you know what is good for ye. I don't keep no weapons in my shop so if someone decides to start something- I ain't gunna stop 'em."

Avalyn got a chocolate bar for Nelly and a can of pop for herself and was hustling back to the car- though could not go too fast at risk of her tits sloshing their way out of their cloth prison. One of the truckers finally spoke up and shout over to her 'the nearest dairy farm is a mile out thataway, Bessy'. Without turning to look at him or slow her pace; Avalyn held her hand up to flash him the middle finger. His face went red from being flipped off by a woman and looked like he was going to rush over to her but the other truckers held him back.

Quinn got out of the store as Avalyn plopped back down in the car and tossed the candy bar over her shoulder for Nelly to catch. Two teenagers approached Quinn from the opposite side of the store- the same side the sun was setting on, making it hard to see their faces with the dusk light at their backs.

"Yo, this stray knows how to fucking walk bro."

"Why you wearing women's clothes? Did you owners get you fixed? Haha!"

Quinn sighed, continuing to walk. "Hah yea, hilarious. Stay in school- you won't cut it as comedians."

One of the teens flicked their hand out of their pocket quickly, revealing a switchblade. "The fuck you say to me, cat? That is a funny sounding meow."

Avalyn appeared behind them so fast it looked like she teleported. She wore a feline form like Quinn but her freckles once again repurposed into the hide of a Cheetah. Her clothing in this form turned to a white T shirt and black short-shorts. Before the two teens even realized she is there- she swept their legs out from under them, striking their knees from behind as she grabbed them by the hair in either hand and then yanked them head first to the ground!

"Trying to pick a fight with something for simply being different- how original! Also real rich coming from a pair of bald apes like you."

Quinn only paused on seeing her attack, and quickly got to the car anyway- knowing she would be able to catch up easily as a cheetah. He started the car up and Nelly dashed after them, catching up to it and scrambling up the back of the car into the back seat without using the door at all. If someone tried something like that back home- their friends and loved ones would have raised hell. That cannot be said for any of the places they are going to be in now. The three of them are on their own. A tiny place like this is pretty isolated from the rest of the world so they are not used to change- if something is a little bit off it immediately gains their hatred. And the three of them are really not normal. In fact- they aren't even normal by the standard of most other demi-human, because all three of them technically have the ability to transform into an alternate shape. No one turned the radio back on, so the car was deathly silent as they rode to the next location. The mood had definitely been dragged down.

They approached the motel Avalyn spotted just up the road. Looked like it had tiny apartments, just a two-level building shaped like an L bordering a swimming pool. Looked about as classy as this town is going to be able to offer. All three of them piled out of the car to enter the lobby. There was a few guests looming outside of their rooms chatting and having a smoke- they reacted the same way the truckers did at their last stop. They immediately stopped talking, and scowled at the demi-humans. Nelly remained in her cheetah form and clung to Quinn's arm as if to somehow shield him from the glares. The man behind the counter in the lobby kept a straight face, but he also seemed to avoid direct eye contact with them, typing on the computer, pretending to check something.

Quinn walked up to the counter. "Any rooms?"

"Yup, still three open. 75 a night- two of you would need to share a bed though, unless you rent two rooms. We have no three bed suites."

Quinn shrugged. "That's fine." Nelly furrowed her brows and muttered 'that is super pricy' from behind him.

The man behind the counter muttered under his breath. "Oh I bet you'd be fine with it." He typed something into the system then glanced at Avalyn and did a double-take, furrowing his brows. "Hey- don't be leaking on the carpet!"

Avalyn's face immediately went bright red and she clutched the front of her shirt feeling the damp spots- she is starting to leak! "O-o-oh no, I- no it... I will be okay, I just need to get to the restroom." The milk is the same temperature she is, so she did not notice it.

The man's face twisted in disgust. "Look, I can't have a liability like that in our rooms- we have standards in this motel. If she is going to be damaging the bed, sheets, and carpeting with her... excretions, I am going to have to charge you 100 for the night instead, and any damages she manages to cause."

Avalyn squeaked in embarrassment, shrinking away while trying to cover her enormous tits the best she could. Quinn's brow hardened immediately. "No fucking way your rooms are good enough to be worth a grand for a single night."

The man shrugged. "Then don't stay in them- it is that simple."

Quinn took Avalyn by the shoulder to usher her out. "Then fuck this. C'mon Av."

"B-but we..."

Nelly shook her head, following close behind. "We will figure something out... just... hold on a little longer."

They got back into the car, even more depressed and desperate and took off again. Given how small the town is... that might be the only motel that even exists in it. Small homes all around, a few scattered shops and a single mall at the heart of things. There wasn't a single building in the entire town that had more than two floors. The street lights yellowed with age clicked on as the sky darkened. Avalyn rest her head back to look at the sky and try to get her mind off her still swelling breasts. A few of the brightest stars were already visible. Her shirt does a great job at absorbing runoff but the fabric is starting to get heavy from all the milk collecting in it. Her nipples are enlarging too, making her breasts look a bit cone shaped because of how the fabric is being tented. Her nipples are starting to tingle and almost itch from built up pressure wanting to get out. It really ramps up in strength as she mutates- she went over half the day with zero change and then started spiralling down fast.

They ended up driving through the whole damn town- not that it took particularly long- but luckily there is an inn on the opposite end they quickly stopped at. They saw one man at a vending machine outside who fumbled his entire wallet and did a double-take when Avalyn walked past with her barely contained milk blimps. The look on his face was just utter shock.

The man in the lobby has a scruffy beard, and was leaned back in a chair watching a Vtuber on a laptop set up on a desk. There is a bell attached to the door so the moment it opened he heard and spun around in his chair, wheeling it up to the counter before standing and leaning onto it.

"Other motel was booked?"

Quinn cocked his brow. "Huh?"

The man motioned back with a nod. "Most people end up staying at the motel because it has a pool." He typed a few things onto a computer to bring up the room registry and huffed. "I bet most of the people don't even use the pool, they just like the idea that it is there." He thumped a hand on the counter with a timid smile. "Well; I have an ice machine on either end of the inn- and I actually see lots of people USE ice, so, pick your luxuries." He chuckled.

"R-right. How much for a room?"

"50 for a night, plenty of vacancies, if you need more than one room? I only have singles and double bed rooms, nothing with three."

"Doesn't matter."

The man reached under the counter and then tossed a key up into the air at Avalyn; seeing she was clearly desperate to hurry this up. She snatched the key, read the room number on it and dashed off ahead of the others to race to the bathroom before she really explodes in size.

Quinn handed the man his card and the man started typing into the computer again to register them. He glanced at Nelly when she took her cellphone out a moment to check what time it is, and then pointed to the Silver Lining charm she has dangling from its case.

"What are you doing with Silver Lining merch? They don't make that stuff anymore- haven't for a long time." He chuckled again. "Were you even born when she was still streaming?"

Nelly smirked and crossed her arms. "No, but I am still her biggest fan."

"Oh, BIGGEST fan huh? A young'un like you?"

It was only now that she noticed there was stickers and a few items of merch from several different streamers semi-hidden around the room.

"Yup, no question. Try me."

He hummed in thought a moment, scratching his beard. "Oooh- this one's a bit cheap because there is no way you'd know it. What was her original online handle?"

"Bronze Lining. Before she found her optimism." She answered with absolutely zero hesitation- she did not even need to think about it.

The man just blinked in bewilderment a moment before answering. "Shit. You are a real one. She never once mentioned that on any of her streams, the only way you'd know that is if you went through all of her old archived tweets." He finished typing into his computer but hesitated to scan the card. "Why you two look so down? Long trip wearing you through?"

Quinn motioned back toward the motel. "Other place basically threw us out because of our... because we aren't fully human."

He shook his head. "Idiots allergic to business then. Lots of people like you come through here- on the way to Atallia City to wish themselves human. Aside from the truckers; they are the most common visitors this nowhere town is going to get. Besides that being just downright offensive." He handed Quinn back his card. "Shame the demi-human are so eager to be rid of their bodies. Flocking to the city to turn into something else."

Nelly motioned to herself and Quinn. "We aren't exactly well liked as we are."

The man grumbled, plopping back down into the chair. "They're just jealous."

That startled Quinn. "JEALOUS?!"

He shrugged. "Sure. Lots of folk spend their entire lives looking to be unique like you. When we are kids we are compared to our parents- oh you got your father's hair or your mother's eyes. One day you get sick of it. You don't want your parent's parts, you want your own parts. Everyone is an individual, so we all try to express ourselves and let the world know that we are unique, we are ourselves, not anyone else. But it isn't always about just simply being different. You need to function too, make a living, have skills, learn, live. You three on the other hand... you were born unique. No one is going to mistake you for anyone else, so you never need to worry about expressing yourself as loudly as everyone else, you just need to worry about living- and that is considerably easier to do." He shrugged, turning back to his laptop. "Something to think about anyway. Oh-" He turned back a moment and motioned to Quinn's card. "Your card was rejected by the way. By me. It will be a cold day in Hell before I charge the daughter of Silver Lining to stay at my inn. You all stay for free."

Nelly blushed in surprise. "D-daught...er?"

He smirked at her reaction. "Thought so. She stopped streaming when she was pregnant with a daughter. The timing seemed about right that you'd pass through, on the way to Atallia."

After thanking the man and finding their way to the room- Avalyn had already managed to empty herself out into a sink and had a shower. She would have milked herself in the shower but the water would make her teats too slippery to hold onto. Avalyn peeked into the room as the other two flopped into the beds, exhausted. She put her pants back on but crossed an arm over her breasts because she is still topless.

"Uh, i-is it okay if I don't put a shirt on? I washed the milk out of my sweater in the sink but it's still damp and I don't really want to unpack another shirt till tomorrow..."

Quinn blushed. "Uuuh... y-uh, n-no, it is fine."

Avalyn sighed and let her arm drop, exposing her large nipples. She walked over to Nelly's bed, her large breasts wobbling around on her chest. Her nipples are as thick as Quinn's thumb and a third as long. Her breasts are huge but they jiggle and wobble with every little movement, indicating they are a lot lighter than they were- the skin is much softer and looser; empty. And to think... even when they were still full- that was only a tenth of her maximum size.

"Don't you... shrink back to normal?"

"Y-yea, but it takes time. It will probably be around ten or fifteen minutes before they regress completely to normal size."

As soon as she sat on the bed, Nelly sat up and grabbed her tits from behind to dig her fingers into the soft boobs. "Extra plush~. I will massage the skin to help them relax."

Quinn had to turn the TV on low volume to distract himself otherwise he would not be able to avoid staring at them. Avalyn was pinned to the bed and the comparatively tiny Nelly on top of her kneading the huge boobs like baker's dough. The two of them are an inseparable item- but they have never and will never DATE one another. So Nelly is just dating Quinn, but Avalyn is still an open sexual option for her, and thus supposedly also for Quinn.

Avalyn had gone to sleep and Quinn had turned the TV off to try and sleep for a good while but was still awake thinking about their trip. He was also thinking about what the man said earlier. Trying to find yourself. With how many different people there are in the world- it is hard to express yourself in a way that won't immediately be misinterpreted as mimicking someone else. Was that all his fashion choice was at the end of the day?

Quinn drifted to sleep so gradually he did not even notice. His dream just a black void, so open and empty, but a place he has imagined many times before, so he knew to look for him. The other Quinn. He seen the glint of its eyes in the darkness and as soon as he was found- the void inverted to a bright white space, making Quinn almost invisible against all the white, and completely exposing his counterpart- the tall wolf. It circled Quinn slowly with a judging stare.

"All your 'style' amounts to is a little boy loudly shouting nonsense to be as different as possible."

"Yea, well it is different. And it is me, so call it whatever you want."

"It isn't you. I am you. Sort of pointless being unique if it is just a mask, huh? What is the point in it?"

Quinn wanted to shove him back but woke up after loosely smacking his arm across his own chest in his sleep. His eyes had a hard time adjusting to the light, noticing Nelly's cellphone projected onto the smart TV across from the beds.

Nelly nervously looked at him then frantically flicked around in the options screen trying to turn it off. "Ack, sorry, did I wake you up? I accidentally hit the comcast thing."

It was easily to tell Quinn was awake- like a cat; his eyes are reflective. If there is even a little light present it will look like his eyes are glowing. His eyes are mostly green, but have a thin edge of brown around his pupils.

Quinn chuckled quietly so they did not wake Avalyn. "Maybe if your UI wasn't such a clusterfuck you wouldn't make so many accidents." He sighed softly spotting the file 'TT.jpg' and immediately knowing what it was. "Still have his picture right on the home screen, huh?"

"What? Oh. Well... yea. Me and Tim didn't break up on bad terms, you know. Him letting me go kinda fucking wrecked me for a while. We are still friends but that is it... there is no reason for you to be jealous."

Timothy was the one to cut the relationship off- seeing it was starting to advance and having the foresight to see it had nowhere to actually go. They could never interact sexually because he is half mouse. His entire body is only nine inches tall total- there is no way for them to be sexually compatible. Unlike the others, he had no intention of turning human either though. He had custom mini keyboards and came from a pretty well off family so he just got his tiny clothes custom tailored. He made a reputation for himself as Tiny Tim, and was willing to put up with any hiccups to keep it.

She managed to break the link to the TV, but Quinn had the remote to turn it off after. She turned her phone down and clicked open a VOD of one of Silver Lining's old streams and started watching it to help her go to sleep.

Quinn was closing his eyes to try and go back to sleep too, but heard her whisper 'fuck' and looked back- immediately seeing her tears glistening in the dark from the light of the screen. She only played a couple of seconds of the video before pausing it.

Quinn immediately sat up, reaching through the dark to the other bed. "Nel..."

She shook her head, wiping her tears off on a sleeve. "N-no, I am... fine. It isn't this it is just..." She chuckled sadly. "I don't even think the guy at the counter knows. But it isn't that! It... it's everything! My nerves, those idiots at the gas station and motel and the whole situation and the anticipation and then my mom's fan at the counter... it's everything. I am overwhelmed."

Quinn quickly went over and knelt beside her, wedging his arm under her and holding her up to hug her tightly, brushing his soft fur against her to comfort her. "It's okay. Just take it one step at a time. We are just resting in the inn for now- don't worry about anything else. Those fuckholes at the last place are behind us, Astrelle is ahead of us. All you need to think about now is in this room."

"Y-yeah." He continued to hold her close, and after a few moments she lightly hugged back. "I am so sorry."

"For what?"

"This is supposed to be a happy adventure. The start of our new lives, a new era and here I am bawling like a damn baby. Dragging the mood."

"Don't be an idiot."

"I also know why you hate Tim so much."

"I never said I hated Tim."

"I know. You hate that he knows what I am."

Quinn, like most people has no idea what Nelly actually looks like, or what she truly is behind all her transformations and illusions. Ironically she could have shown him her true form and he never would have known because she so freely takes any shape and no one knows what the real Nelly looks like to recognise it even if they did see it. But her ex- Timothy knows what her true form is. So does her father, obviously, and Avalyn knows the real Nelly as well. But Quinn- despite dating her for over a year now- still has no idea. They have had sex many times; every time she is in a different body, and every time it isn't hers. Sure being able to tell her a random erotic fantasy and having her be able to turn into it whenever they want is real fun in bed... he would still rather look his girlfriend in her actual eyes.

He smirked. "Easy way to fix that."

"Mmm, easy for who?"

"Still not going to show me?"

"Not now, no. I will show you just... when I am ready. I hope. I don't want to keep it secret but it just... I can't yet."

"Well at least your personality isn't an illusion."

The next morning Avalyn was the first to wake up, glancing over when she realized the other half of the bed was empty. Nelly had swapped beds and was the little spoon over on Quinn's bed. She just let them sleep for a bit, getting a large, flexible navy long sleeve on as her top for the day and then wandered down to the sandwich shop built into the inn. It is run by the son of the man behind the inn counter. Avalyn ordered three subs fresh made for their breakfast. They had all skipped dinner- too tired to leave the room last night to go get food so Nelly and Quinn will be real hungry when they get up too. Thanks to Nelly- Avalyn already had an idea of what Quinn would like. And it is not surprising. For the cat- a salmon sandwich; seafood is his favorite. Avalyn got a very green-heavy sandwich and loaded it with green olives which she loves so much she can be seen walking around with an olive jar eating them straight, as her comfort food. Nelly's favorite food is anything sour- which doesn't really complement a sandwich, so she just got a sub with a bit of everything instead.

The two lovers were awake by the time she got back to the room with their breakfast. It was still really early in the morning but they should not idle for too long either- there is still a long way to Atallia City. Nelly turned human again, but this time with large breasts and long strawberry blonde hair tied into a pony tail. She wore pale rosen hued flesh today and dropped the illusion on her clothing to reveal what she is really wearing- black yoga pants and a black sports bra trimmed with grey. She smirked at Quinn looking at her change and bent over to show him how the pants hug her pert little butt- when she bent over the fabric wedged into her firmly enough he could even see her pubic mound through it easily.

Quinn changed completely but unlike the women- he actually went to the bathroom to do it privately. Today a thin, form fitting black long sleeve with one of the sleeves completely removed. It had torn, and Quinn just removed it entirely- mending the seam himself so it isn't all frayed at the shoulder. He wore a slightly longer but still above the knee black skirt, and then to complement the asymmetrical shirt- he wore a black legging on only one leg; the leg opposite of the arm that is clothed. He put in a spike stud earing in his hear above where the chain links and a thin dangling golden rectangle earing in his other ear. He has two piercings per ear- so one hole is still empty. He swaps them around pretty frequently. Quinn also packed a sewing kit- finding women's clothing to fit a man isn't always easy so he is actually a pretty good tailor. He custom modifies his own clothing frequently to make it fit.

Once they were clean, fed, dressed, and fully awake they piled back into the car, rolled the roof back and hit the road again. The warmth of the sun and the cool of the air mixed and washed over them as they ripped down the open highway, helping to wake them up.

Chapter 2 : Wolf's Out Of The Bag

You could tell they were getting closer to their destination by the frequency of civilization. More gas stations, scattered shops, and small communities as they pass. The towns getting larger and will eventually turn to cities acting as satellites around the massive Atallia City. The ground was getting progressively more featureless though as well, so there was less nature to observe. The hilly flatlands around their home town flattened, and the forests surrounding those behind them. Now the grass thinned entirely- there is a badlands ahead of them that they will need to pass through to get to Atallia, though still a good bit ahead of them. They likely will not make it quite that far today.

Avalyn is most comfortable behind the wheel when she is utterly empty- so it made sense for her to drive the car first and swap in Quinn later if needed. She and Nelly karaoke'd to the radio for some time while Quinn took advantage of having the back of the car to himself and just laid himself out across both seats with his feet up on the door since the top was down. He watched the clouds rolling past above them. The clouds here were scattered but very fluffy and dense looking- they are very tall clouds; great for trying to spot shapes in them. Eventually the girls started talking about foods and when Nelly remembered Jones sodas, she immediately started to scout out gas stations and stores they passed trying to spot one that looked like they would stock the soda. One of the only non-alcoholic beverages that still use glass bottles, they have the favorite flavor of both women; Green Apple.

They were actually making great time today, because the speed limit on the highway out here is very high. There are no turns in the road and the ground is completely level so much less risk when you slam the petal to the floor.

Quinn propped himself on his side with an elbow to reach into the compartment between the front seats and grab a stick of gum, but brushed something. He furrowed his brow a moment and tried to grab the invisible object but it disappeared, and Nelly shifted a bit in her seat. A tail? But he cannot see it- which means there is an illusion up to HIDE the tail... which means it must be part of her REAL body.

He seen her glance at him briefly too. "A tail huh?"

"Uh huh... and? I go with a tail often..."

"But it's hidden, which means it is part of the real you."

Nelly huffed. "Or just a second layer to my appearance. I use transformation and illusion, remember. Just because the illusion is no tail doesn't mean the tail isn't a transformation."

"...really?"

Avalyn sighed, not taking her eyes off the road. "She has a tail."

Nelly blushed and sunk into her seat a bit. "Ouch, out me like that, huh?"

Quinn looked at Avalyn. "If I were to guess what she is, would you tell me if I got it right?"

Avalyn groaned, tilting her head a moment. "N-no. She... needs to do that herself."

Nelly crossed her arms and nodded confidently. "Av would never betray me!"

Avalyn glanced at her a bit annoyed before back to the road. "It is not even about identity at this point- Nel clearly has problems and just guessing what she is without her input won't help them."

The thing is that it would be impossible to guess anyway. She has two parents- if they were both transformed during her conception then she has traits from two different demi-humans, so you'd need to guess what combination of what two animals out of any animal in the world. Not only that- there is no guarantee her parents were not hybrids themselves! Nelly could be a jumble of any number of animal traits! Without at least knowing what her parents were, there is no way in hell you could even begin to guess what SHE is.

Nelly grumbled but then quickly leaned far over the car door to point ahead of them. "OH- that place! I bet they sell it!"

Avalyn sighed at her changing the topic quickly, but stopped the car at the shop she pointed at anyway. It is at the edge of a real small town, but the shop looks quite nice and probably has a pretty good selection. Nelly dashed in on her own while Quinn and Avalyn remained in the car.

Avalyn turned sideways to look back to Quinn. "Sooo... have you seen any of Silver Lining's streams?"

"Of course- you can't avoid them if you are around Nel. I haven't watched any on my own, but I think I must have seen over half of all her VODs by now anyway. Her handle is appropriate- woman's enthusiasm is radiant."

"Yea- Nel definitely gets her energy from her mother. She also got the lion's share of her traits from her."

"...so what was Silver Lining transformed into?"

Avalyn smiled sadly. "Sorry, no easy answers."

Quinn sat up and let out a long sigh. "Better sit up, sun is starting to cook me laid out like a patty on the grill. Nice with the wind rolling by, but once the car stops the heat really catches up fast."

Avalyn nodded, looking a bit concerned. "Wait, can you even sweat?" Quinn shook his head. "Oooh... you know there is a badlands up ahead?" Nelly started to run back to the car, holding up several packages to tell them she found stuff; Avalyn nodded to her but continued to talk to Quinn. "You might want to consider wearing something especially skimpy for tomorrow. Even I am going to switch to shorts and I have no fur."

"What about Nel?"

"She is already barely dressed."

"I meant does sh-"

"I know what you meant."

"Hrmm. Well. I am not sure how skimpy I can go- not like I have a swimming suit or anything. Skirt and no top would look especially odd."

Nelly furrowed her brows as she got into the car. "Wait, you have no swimwear?"

"No? Why?"

"But the huge lake at Atallia! You aren't going swimming with us when we are there?!"

"I... didn't think about it. I was slightly more absorbed into the whole 'permanently changing my body' thing to think about sightseeing..."

"Ooooh, we should go clothes shopping! Get you swimwear! I could find a nice new outfit to imitate too, hehe."

Avalyn agreed- a shopping trip would help lift morale from yesterday's run-ins and they were making good distance today anyway and could afford to stop early if they wanted. Nelly handed Avalyn a green apple flavored soda- she found them after all! The shop had some local made confections too though, so Nelly got herself a neat little treat- a cube of white chocolate encapsulating a puckerberry! Puckerberry look similar to raspberry but are white or blue, and isn't made up of a cluster of segments- the segments are just a texture on the outside skin. The berries range from white to blue and can actually be used to test the PH balance in the soil, because that is what determines what color the berry is- the higher the PH balance the more blue the berry... and also the more sour the berry. Nelly's white chocolate treat contained a deep blue one, so extremely sour in the middle of the smooth, creamy chocolate. For Quinn she handed a similar treat- a roasted almond encased in a cube of maple fudge. He did not even need to chew the fudge- he just let it sit on his tongue and his saliva melted it down, then the almond left a nice earthy aftertaste to cleanse the overwhelming sweetness.

Nelly used a map on her phone to chart their route- and their best bet for the night was a pretty big city coming up. Lydia- the woman who saved the world from the Second Wish actually originally lived in Talissian City. A fact the city made sure to openly advertise at every opportunity. Though not very wide; the city is very tall. As soon as they drove into its borders the car was cast in half-shadows. Extremely tall buildings touched the sky all around them, but were all metal and glass so they reflected the sunlight at multiple angles so even in the shadow of the immense structures it was rather bright. They also reflected the blue sky against their surfaces, making most of the city look blue-tinted or silver depending on the weather.

Compared to the open road it was extremely loud in Talissian due to the traffic and crowds. They ended up having to stop and wait at every single set of lights, but Quinn and Nelly did not mind- it gave them more time to take in their surroundings. Overpasses connected buildings at various levels looking almost like a web when viewed from far below.

Looking carefully enough- they even spotted some demi-humans here and there. During the Second Wish the people's instincts were louder than their conscious thoughts as animals and so they had zero restraint when it came to their sexual urges. Then the people who became hyper endowed... well; when the majority of your body is reduced to sexual features, there really is only so much you can do. Even people who kept their thoughts straight still ended up having sex just because they thought it was the end of the world and the last chance they would have to experience it. Anyone born as a result of those flings came out demi-human. They are not nearly common enough to be considered normal anywhere, but... they are also far from rare. A lot of the people from this area are most likely also just stopping through on the way to Atallia to 'fix' their non-human features with a wish of their own.

Nelly even blushed brightly and motioned to the other two to look when she spotted a woman who was a bit... extra endowed. She has a moose knuckle in her pants so big it looked like she dumped an entire fruit bowl into her panties and her breasts were the size of beach balls- thought a bit torpedo-shaped. Her parents must have been hyper endowed- and she ended up with male and female bits!

They also spotted a very large man with a head shaped like a great white shark's! He still had perfectly human skin, and he has nostrils at the end of the anvil-shaped head that a shark would not, but it's definitely not a human shaped head, and he has gills on his neck! That made the three of them wonder if they would still want to undo their bodies if they had his ability. He can breathe above and below water. Would they want to turn completely human, and give up the ability to breathe underwater? There are probably avian demi-humans who can fly as well. Would being pure human be worth giving up the ability to fly?

Avalyn's breasts were starting to enlarge and thanks to her shirt today being flexible but having thinner fabric- her enlarging nipples became immediately noticeable. But she insisted she was still fine for a while. She lasted till evening the day before- it is still middle of the afternoon today; they have time. The three of them had to stick really close together to make sure they did not get lost, even the mall they chose was many floors tall. Avalyn and Nelly stood on opposite sides of Quinn, but occasionally he could feel their tails brush against his. Avalyn's tail is abnormally long and has more control of its actions than a bovine does- and because she is a shy person by natural her tail has a habit of reaching out and coiling onto whatever is close by for comfort. Nelly and Avalyn were holding tails behind themselves. It would probably look weird to anyone behind them, because Nelly's tail was still currently invisible, so Avalyn's tail would just be hovering sideways.

Nelly looked at Quinn, pausing a moment before approaching a clothing shop. "Wait... are you getting women's clothes with me, right?"

Quinn paused in thought for a moment. "Actually... I don't know. Maybe I should go with guy clothes for swimwear. Obviously I can't rock a bikini top with nothing to put in it."

"Ouuuh... are you going to be okay to find a shop and get back here though? What if we miss each other?"

Avalyn held up the car key. "You could take the key and just meet us back at the car?"

Nelly laughed. "No trust me- we will be done shopping before he is."

Quinn shrugged. "That works though-you two go back to the car and hang out there, and I will just go there. I am sure I won't lose the exit."

Avalyn ended up just browsing- Nelly was the one trying things on and pondering buying a few items even though she did already have swimwear with her. Avalyn can't fit into most 'normal' clothes anyway because her bust is large by default and impossibly gigantic when maxed out. Never mind clothing- an entire queen sized bedsheet couldn't cover her bust when she is full. Pants are never long enough in the legs, and skirts are not really her thing. Her tail would unintentionally flash her panties if she wore a skirt anyway. Quinn ended up buying some dark navy shorts, but of course it took him over a half hour to settle on that. He also caught quite a few sideways glances from other customers since he was in a men's clothing store, wearing women's clothing.

He kept thinking of his other self, always badgering him in his dreams. He confidently wears his unique look and even custom modifies his clothing into his own unique style, but at the end of the day... he still doesn't know what his style IS. The man at the inn said most people spend a good chunk of their lives trying to make themselves unique... was that all Quinn is doing? He is already unique by default, so there is no reason his look needed to be too. So it should be about what he wants and what he is comfortable in. In terms of feel- the loose, flowing fit of women's clothing was more comfortable for him physically... but was he mentally comfortable in it? Men's clothing has more pockets and generally more utility, but is it worth it to feel imprisoned in the stiffer, more confined clothes? He modified many of his skirts to have pockets. He was increasingly frustrated with himself, feeling like he was telling everyone a lie every time he dawned an outfit. But it was as close to a real answer as he had, so there was no alternative.

Eventually he met back up with the girls and they decided to look for a place to stay next in Talissian. The next town is into the badlands so trying to reach it today would be a stretch, and they did not want to rely on finding an inn or motel along the way that may or may not exist. It was best to just settle here early. The first place they found however was all booked up already... and the next place. Most of the inns toward the heart of Talissian were booked up with business folk from out of town trying to stay as close to the job as possible while in the city. But this was also a tourist attraction thanks to the sorceress Lydia having been born and raised here before moving to Atallia, and anyone from the south looking to go to Atallia to get a wish also stops through here. There were dozens of inns and hotels all over the place, but every one they encountered was already booked full!

They started looking mid-afternoon and it was once again evening and Avalyn was starting to get dangerously milky again and they still could not find a room! Plenty of places to stay- but nothing available currently. The sun was starting to get heavy again and the city lights starting to click on to take its place- they were starting to worry there would not be a place to stay in Talissian. Which seems wild given how large the city is. They also did not exactly have a map of all known hotels- Nelly was doing her best to navigate for Avalyn using a map on her phone. They eventually found their way back through the center of the city making a sweep back to the other edge and found a massive hotel with several vacant rooms finally. Unfortunately... it is also very expensive.

Quinn walked back to the women who were pacing around in the lobby behind him, looking at all the art pieces on the walls. "Good news and bad news." He tossed Avalyn the room key so she could dash ahead again to milk herself. "The good news is we have a room."

Nelly tilted her head. "And the bad news?"

"As you can probably guess from the look of this place- its reaaaally expensive."

"How expensive..?"

"Expensive enough that I actually have no idea how we are going to budget the rest of the trip."

"Whaaat?! Well... don't get a room then! We can't call the trip off just to stay in a swanky place!"

"Avalyn was starting to bloat up, she needed a stop. I already got the room anyway, too late now. We won't call the trip off, we just have to... ration. A lot. We can cover gas, and I guess we will just have to look a little harder in our next stops for a really... really cheap place to stay."

"And dinners?!"

"Vending machine sandwiches?"

"Uuugh."

At the very least- the room was great. Extremely bouncy, firm beds with very fluffy pillows and blankets. Soft carpeted floors, large shower. Dinner and breakfast came packaged with the room- and there was apparently an underground club below the building that guests have free access to. The hotel is eight floors high so they definitely needed to use the elevator- which apparently makes Avalyn's boobs tingle when it's moving.

When they had dinner- they definitely felt out of place in the fancy restaurant. Place is so swanky there was a live harpist playing music for everyone the whole evening. The other guests kept glancing over at them. Not only are they demi-human... they don't look the type to be here. All the other guests were in fancy clothes or business attire. They were not the only demi-humans at least. Near the other side of the restaurant was a half-sea turtle woman who was getting plenty of looks herself, but seemed entirely oblivious to it.

Since it is free admission anyway, they decided to check out the club below the hotel that night. Quinn glanced outside and seen the nearly full moon and put a black jacket on over his outfit. The jacket weighed like twenty pounds thanks to over a dozen buttons and pins stuck in it, making it the clothing equivalent of a cork board.

Nelly looked at him getting dressed more than usual and then out the window at the night sky. "You... going to be okay? We have to go around the outside of the building to get to the club."

"Yea I know. Yea." He paused a moment before reaching up and undoing the chain on his piercings. "Uh, better take this off, just in case."

He put a baseball cap on as well, trying to shield himself from the moonlight. Like Nelly and Avalyn- Quinn has two forms, but moonlight is the catalyst for his change. The more moon, or the more he exposes himself to it- the faster the change. Since they are going to a club Nelly changed her look again- her clothes to a long neon pink skirt with white hem and a white turtle neck with pink hem. Her freckles expanded and shoved apart, multiplying as they spread across her and a fine pelt grew in. Nelly giggles as her feet stretched and bulk up into hooves and her entire body grows taller and taller! In a matter of moments she became over seven feet tall and her freckles became the geometric spots of a giraffe!

"There- this way you can't lose me in the crowd!"

Avalyn was already tall enough by default that no one was losing track of her. She also did not milk herself completely empty. She deliberately left her breasts a bit bigger than normal so that they would re-fill and let her empty completely tomorrow morning instead, which would prolong when she starts to engorge tomorrow evening. Avalyn wondered if she should swap her top out since her nipples are very easily seen pressed into the fronts but figured it would be darker lighting in the club anyway- people will be looking at the stage, not her. Hopefully.

The city definitely had a different look to it at night. Still a lot of people out and about but it was a lot quieter now- Avalyn and Nelly's hooves clacking on the parking lot echoed off surrounding buildings. Neon lights illuminate every street side and cars appear and disappear out from under the spotlights of the street lights. When they got to the back of the building, Nelly glanced at Quinn and noticed the fur on his legs was starting to turn grey and moved a bit faster. The club would be hard to spot if it wasn't for the hotel pointing it out- the neon sign marking the entrance isn't that big. They went down the stairs and hear the dull thump of distant base. Once the opened the door they could already hear the music- minus the treble which was blocked out by the final door in.

The place was packed- the club is not exclusive to the hotel. Up and coming bands play live on the stage while everyone else is packed in like sardines head bobbing and screaming along. Nelly had to duck to fit in the doorways but the roof in the club itself was high enough for her to move comfortably in. They heard Avalyn squeak quietly in embarrassment a few times as people brushed by her large breasts without even realizing.

They once again spotted the sea turtle woman- people had made a bit of a clearing to observe her- though due to her shell she was not especially mobile and her dance moves were kept simple. Most of the people who circled her were men- likely because she is topless. Thanks to her shell no shirt will fit her anyway, but her breasts also lack nipples and areola. They are not functional- her breasts are literally just spheres of fat and the same yellow-orange as the plastron that encase her abs, making her look much more muscular than she actually is.

Nelly tried to convince Avalyn to dance but she was too shy, so she started to dance with Quinn instead. As soon as people seen the towering giraffe woman, they cleared a small circle for them to dance in too. Her hooves clack loudly on the floor but it's still drown out by the music. One of the bands even dedicated their song 'to all the real party animals with us tonight', looking to the demi-humans in the crowd. There definitely isn't any places like this back in their home town. Or hotel rooms like that, for that matter. Even besides their objective; they are glad they were able to set out on this adventure. Even gladder they had each other to go with- none of them would have made this trip on their own.

A bit later a man and his buddy even approached Nelly. "Hey hot stuff. Damn, those are the best damn legs I have seen in my life and there is a bigger helping of them than on any other woman to boot. Don't tell me you heading to Atallia to ruin 'em?"

She smirked. "Maybe."

The man motioned to Quinn. "What is with the getup? You here to party, because it looks like a homeless man walked in."

Quinn sighed, nodding sadly- the cap and jacket is a bit off in here, especially in summer. "Yea... sorry, wardrobe was a bit limited because of the road trip."

The man looked back to Nelly. "So, how about a dance?"

"Uhm..." She motioned to Quinn. "My boyfriend is literally right there."

"Pfff, seriously? Man, you can do better."

The other man looked a bit drunk and approached Avalyn- she tried to slink away but there is too many people around to move around easily in.

"H-hey, damn, you br-*bruup*-brought the whole damn dairy with you."

She blushed brightly and crossed her arms the best she could over her fat nipples- they look erect outwardly just because they are so large; they aren't actually stiff. "I- I am with them. So."

"Then I wanna be with them too, hehah. You got... you got real pretty hair too. Hey you make milk? Can I have a taste, gimmie a shot, just p-put it in my glass 'ere." He held up his mostly empty beer mug.

Quinn stepped forward and tried to slap the guy for embarrassing the hell out of Avalyn, but the first man caught him by the wrist and held him back. "Now, now. He is just a little tipsy so he isn't eloquent with his words at the moment. Why don't you take a seat, kitty cat? Promise I will bring your girl back in one piece. Heh. If she wants you back."

Quinn yanked his hand free, huffed and stormed off to the exit. Nelly tried to stop him but the music was too loud for him to hear her from more than a foot away, and the crowd closed back in between them.

The man shrugged, reaching to take her hand. "See? Left you on the dancefloor, not very gentlemanly at all."

"Ugh, get bent."

The other man stumbled forward almost tripping into Avalyn as she tried to back up. As soon as he got his balance he reached up to cup her enormous breasts from below and a security guard grabbed the back of his shirt collar.

"Excuse me sir. If you'd really like the bovine experience..." He held up an electric baton around his side. "I can show you how this cattle prod feels shoved up your ass, if you touch that woman without permission."

Avalyn seen Nelly turn to leave and quickly moved to her side. The first man left his partner to the guard and followed the women close behind. "C'mon, seriously? I could show you both a good time, are you really that adverse to fun?"

"We were already having fun. With my boyfriend."

"Keep your options open, don't miss opportunities just because you don't want to hurt someone else's feelings."

He followed them out into the hall leading back to the stairs out and tried to catch up to them but their legs were longer than his and they could cover more ground than he can with each step. He reached out and grabbed Avalyn by the tail- the closest thing he could actually reach. She yipped in surprise and halted immediately, since her tail is rather sensitive. Nelly lifted her extremely tall legs and immediately put a hoof onto the man's chest.

"I will step on you."

He smiled, letting go of the tail. "Promise?"

"Ewww, I am SO done."

The two of them quickly dashed out but the man insisted on shadowing them. He managed to grab Nelly's hand because she had to slow down to duck to get up the stairs to the parking lot again.

"C'mon. I don't take no for an answer. What is it going to take for you to let me show you a wild night?"

Quinn grabbed the man by the face and slammed his head into the brick wall so hard he almost knocked him unconscious. The man's vision was an explosion of colors for a moment from the impact and the pain rang through his head like it was a bell.

"If her idea of a wild night is attending your funeral- you're already there."

Quinn now stood two feet taller than before, and his entire body is covered in jet black fur. A huge bushy tail slowly swished behind him, occasionally twitting upward in agitation. He is no longer a cat- he did not abandon the girls, he exposed himself to moonlight to deliberately swap forms, so he could pulverize this guy. The reason he took the chain out earlier is he has the full head of a wolf in this form as well- which means his face is considerably longer, which would have torn the chain out if it was still in when the shift happened. The jacket and hat is now the only thing that really sits on him properly- his other clothing is yanked so tight it could burst completely off if he makes any sudden movements.

During the Second Wish; his father turned into a werewolf, while his mother regressed into a house cat. Which... really makes you wonder how that went. They had to both be transformed in order to pass those traits to Quinn, but there is no way the phallus of a giant wolf is going to fit into a tiny house cat, so they must have been having sex WHILE transforming. Something Quinn himself has thought about before- unintentionally.

The man squirmed in his grip but he just lifted the man higher off the ground- pinned between the wall and Quinn's hand. His claws were much larger in this form ironically than as a cat. Nelly told him to drop it after a few moments- afraid Quinn might actually seriously wound this guy. They did not need someone's blood on their hands in a city they aren't even from. Quinn just curled his lips to flash the man his fangs before turning and throwing the man to the parking lot ground.

The three of them quickly evacuated the area.

Nelly looked at Quinn. "Hey... you okay?"

"I should be asking you that."

"I am sorry you had to transform for us. I will have to think of something to reward our brave hero~"

Avalyn paused, holding the other two back with her arm and motioning across the street from the front of the hotel- a gas station. She directed them all over to it, suggesting they stock up on liquids for tomorrow. They would be going through badlands tomorrow so it is going to be very hot- and she is especially worried about Quinn because he is completely covered in fur, and is incapable of sweating. The gas station is open at all hours of the night so they might as well grab something while they are out here already. It is already very late night- they will not be waking up at the crack of dawn tomorrow, that is for sure.

Quinn and Avalyn went in, but Nelly remained outside just looking over the city. The buildings were black against the deep blue of the sky. The moon is so bright its glow fills the entire sky- tapering off slowly to the horizon hidden behind the city. There is only one or two stars in the entire sky that Nelly can see- both the moon itself and the city lights make star-watching possible. The daytime is filled with the murmur of a million voices but the night is the soft whoosh of distant cars and the quiet tapping of footsteps all around. She can also hear the large moths hitting their head against the light over the gas station door.

Quinn comes out first, hands shoved in his pockets as he looks around a bit nervously. Nelly furrowed her brow a bit at him. "What did you get in there?"

"N-nothing, just looking around."

"What's in your pockets?"

"Nothing!" He backed up when she approached.

Nelly quickly lurched forward and grabbed his arm, pulling his left hand out of his pocket revealing the pack of smokes in his hand.

"Quinn!"

"Whatever, it is just one for the road."

Nelly quickly snatched it out of his hand, turned and threw it as far as she could. The moment she turned back he smacked her across the face- the sound echoed in the dark. Avalyn came back outside a moment later, just in time to miss the hit but see both their startled faces and Nelly's reddening cheek. Quinn looked horrified and was frozen in place, looking at his own raised hand like he did not know what just happened. Nelly just smirked.

"I... am so... so sorry." His hand was trembling now.

"I'm not." She turned and started walking back to the hotel.

Avalyn looked quite concerned. "Whaaaaat the FUCK did I just miss?"

"...a new contender for first place, on my long list of mistakes."

Nelly did not slow down, so they had to hustle to catch up to her- Quinn carried the bags of drinks for Avalyn at least. Back in the room Nelly hopped into the shower and Avalyn and Quinn flopped into the very plush beds. Quinn glanced over at Avalyn squirming and seen her taking her top off, quickly averting his eyes.

She smiled, having seen him look. "Sorry. I am not empty and I don't want to risk leaking in the bed by putting more pressure on them than I need to." She glanced over at him before she slipped under the blankets. "You just have... two nipples, huh?"

"W-what? Uh, yea, why?"

She blushed. "Oh! I was just wondering- because both dogs and cats have six to eight, right? Are you like... trapped in that form now? How does your charged form work? I quickly regress when I empty my milk, but you obviously aren't charged with milk."

"Sunlight. Moonlight empowers the wolf- sunlight kills it. So... I am stuck like this till dawn. I will turn back to normal pretty quickly if I get out of the moonlight before I completely turn, but once I am fully transformed; it's stuck."

"Hrm. Well, goodnight."

She slid under the blanket and flopped over- facing the windows. Their room is on the 6th floor so they have a pretty good view of the streets. Avalyn was already asleep by the time Nelly got out of the shower but Quinn couldn't sleep, or stop thinking about what happened tonight and questioning his identity still. He was on his way to change himself into a new shape and he still hasn't properly figured out his first shape. Does he just tell Astrelle to give him whatever human appearance? How can he direct her on what his appearance should be if he doesn't even know?

-N&Q-

He could not even look Nelly in the face as she left the bathroom, but she did not give him much of a choice. As soon as she flopped onto the bed she crawled on all fours over to him- she never put her clothes back on after the shower so she is moist and nude. Her body started to compress and shrink back down, but then her spots darken and her hide lightens. Her spots stretch suddenly into hundreds of thin stripes all over her, turning her into an anthro zebra! Her hair was pulled back and out into a Mohawk mane behind her, and a petite charcoal colored udder crowned her crotch even though she still has human breasts.

"Hehe~ time to reward you for saving us from those big bad drunks!"

Quinn turned away. "I hit you Nel. I can't fucking believe that."

"Ouf, so what? You were in a messed up place mentally- shit happens." She sat up- but was still straddling his hips with her thighs. "You said before that you are more aggressive in wolf form anyway."

"But it doesn't... alter my mind. It is just this shape... frustrates me. And it's so much more masculine than my other form that it... I dunno. Changes how I think I should act?" He covered his face with his hands, rolling them around. "Uuuugh, I feel like I am not even ready to see Astrelle. I don't have my shit together in the slightest. I don't really know who I am, or what I am trying to do. I am like a child chasing a butterfly because it looked pretty."

"You think I am any better? No one knows who I am, or what I am. I don't even have the balls to show you- my boyfriend. What kind of shit girlfriend hides something as basic as her own appearance?"

"YOU know who you are though."

"Yea, but I don't know who I will be tomorrow. I don't have much more direction than you do- but you aren't going to find it by looking backwards. We just take life one step at a time and see where we end up." She reached back behind her butt and squeezed his soft fluffy sheath through his skirt like she was honking a clown nose. "Now, how about you show me what this big boy is right now? I only rode the wolf twice so far still."

While most of Quinn converts wolf- it isn't a complete swap. His white fur turns black- his black brows turn white. But his eyes remain the same including their reflective iris, and his phallus adopts the added size and features of a canine cock, while still keeping the size and features his feline dick already had. He is already very well endowed for a feline- in this form he is extraordinarily large.

Her squeezing the sheath woke up his dick fast enough and caused the sheath to fatten as the contents grow. Nelly lifts her hips a bit, just long enough to shimmy his skirt and underwear down- he still wears men's underwear below the women's clothes, because panties could not contain what he is packing. Nelly teasingly sat forward a bit more and then rocked her hips back so the sheath was being dog-dogged between her enlarged equine butt cheeks. This also angled her black pussy forward so Quinn had a nice view of her ping-pong ball sized clit as it rhythmically popped out forward, engorging tight and then slipping back inside over and over; exposing the soft pink inner folds in short flashes. He also notices her udder bouncing a bit lower with each gentle rock of her hip against his fat sheath- she is growing her tits for him. Since Nelly can transform whenever she wants- it is sort of like having his own personal succubus; her body can reflect whatever his desires currently are.

Quinn's erection slid out of the sheath steadily- the end impacted slightly with a projected urethra like a canine phallus. The shaft gets progressively thicker the further out it goes, giving it a club-like shape to it, but the last third of it is also covered in a forest of small erect flesh barbs like a feline penis! As it emerged it filled Nelly's butt crack and prodded the underside of her tail. Ten and a half inches long with the girth of a tall, narrow can. There is a subtle bulge in the sheath still- a growing knot that will add another inch and a half once it forces its way out and scrunches the sheath down to make room.

Nelly grew the udder segments till they were the size of a cantaloupe each and wobbled up and down with the movement of her hips with incredibly elastic skin. The teats are wide but not long, and rotate around wildly as the fat behind them shifts wildly with any movement. She plaps the udder down on his lap, putting her hands on his chest and then moving her hips back; ready to sit again. The projected urethra of his tower of meat drags down over her hooded clit before flicking into the looser cleft between labia, then down the moist cleft till it hooked on the bottom loop of ebon skin. Nelly then lowered herself so his shaft dragged on the bottom of her vaginal passage as it entered, to make it easier to aim. His sheath fattened even larger; his knot swelling bigger. In this form; his balls are the size of a baseball each- and a canine's knot is generally the same size its balls are.

When she lowered herself on his shaft her fat udders slapped gently on his abs and wobbled violently from the impact. Her huge neon pink clit clenched and popped out every time on the downward stroke, causing her to bow forward slightly so the clit drags across the exposed shaft till it is re-swallowed by her hungry pussy. The barbs grip her inner walls and bend and flick across the muscle ribs, causing the inner walls of her pussy to undulate wildly, trying to swallow the cock deeper. Nelly grinned and suddenly all her stripes changed colors- and continued to change in pulses from her hooves to her face! They fluctuated an entire rainbow of colors and even glow with a dim light, giving him a pretty light show to watch while she rides him!

His knot swelled larger, straining the flesh of his sheath, so when Nelly's thick black labia press down to kiss its opening she pushes the sheath back a bit further down; and the knot prevents it from sliding back up. With an equine vulva she would have no problem taking his knot at all- she had to be careful of her form taking his wolf dick normally, because she is by default a very petite woman and his knot would absolutely destroy her if she didn't alter her shape. Nelly had to angle herself back, and Quinn lifted his legs up to help prop her up with his upper legs. In equine form the underside of the base of her tail is actually naked flesh- and the fluffy fur on his ballsack is unintentionally tickling her there, making her giggle a bit. She shifted her hooves forward and he held her ankles with his padded hands.

Nelly grunted and shoved forward onto his knot, creating a quiet squelching sound as their mixed genital lube was forced out around the bulb of hard flesh to make room for it. Once he was halfway inside the curvature caused it to abruptly pop the rest of the way in and her engorged labia wobbled as they collapsed back together around the back of the knot. Quinn groaned from the surge of pleasure- trying to muffle himself so they did not wake Avalyn; though she is really, completely out. The knot is engorged so large that it pulls all of the nerves taut and close to the surface making it extremely sensitive even compared to the rest of the cock- the underside of the knot especially. So the highest pleasure spike is when he is completely hilted inside of her and she just starts to pull off- the air-tight seal causes her labia to suck on the knot as they pull up to about the halfway point before she shoves back down and swallows it back in, never completely breaking the vacuum seal around his dick.

She shoved her tail onto the bed beside his- between his legs and leaned even further back pulling a bit further, teasingly sucking the knob of his dick and surprised them both when she broke the seal- creating a brief loud sucking sound and causing a shock of pleasure to fire through both of them! The shock was too much for Nelly, and caused her to shudder in orgasm, but that took the strength out of her limbs and caused her to heavily slam back down onto Quinn and ram his dick as deep into her as it could go. His sheath squashed under her fat labia between them and her bloated ebon udders sloshing forward across his gut. The underside of her udder felt so warm against him. Her pussy shuddered and rippled wildly in orgasm, which caused an unrelenting tide of pleasure on Quinn as the flesh rippled around his shaft and sent him into orgasm only a moment into hers! He yanked up on her hooves, pulling her down tight against his crotch, making her squeal, and causing a spritz of lube to escape her pussy. In orgasm; all her stripes stopped their color shift on pink and flashed bright enough to dimly illuminate the entire room in neon pink before burning out and returning to dormant black.

Depending on how you look at it, that was one advantage of having demi-human sex; they never need protection. There is no other person in the world with the exact same traits as they have, and thus no one in the world is genetically compatible with them- they can't get pregnant, even though they are technically still fertile.

They were both too tired to get cleaned up- Nelly did not even climb off his cock, she just sat up and then flopped forward onto him, squashing her breasts and udder into him.

"Hmmm~ my big bad wolfy."

"Do you like riding the wolf, more than the cat?"

She smirked but did not open her eyes again. "I just like YOU, silly." There was a long pause. "Wanna know a secret?"

"Mmm, hit me."

"That little light show?"

"Yea?"

"That wasn't an illusion."

Wait, what?! That was her REAL body? Her true form has bioluminescent stripes? Or, wait, not necessarily stripes. When in human form they are freckles- so she has bioluminescent freckles? What the heck creature did those traits come from? As fast as that made Quinn's thoughts spin- exhaustion was stronger and he fell asleep quickly regardless, with Nelly resting on top of him.

Chapter 3 : Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk

The next day Avalyn mentioned having some oddly erotic dreams- Nelly had a good guess as to why but didn't mention that part. Luckily the couple still woke up before her so they could get cleaned up- because Avalyn needed to milk herself as soon as she woke up thanks to her plan to switch her schedule. She woke up with a huge tit depressing the bed on either side of her torso- having grown too large to sit on her chest; they were sitting beside her rather than on her. When she sat up they clapped together loud enough that Nelly heard and laughed.

They all headed downstairs for their huge breakfast in the fancy restaurant. This stay blew a hole straight through their budget, so this would be their only taste of luxury. Given how Quinn's father isn't too impressed with him to begin with he reaaaally does not want to have to call home and try to negotiate more money... but technically if they get in REAL trouble- that IS an option. The sky was matte white today in the city, and Quinn decided to take the wheel for the majority of today to give Avalyn a bit of a break- since she won't be bloating up huge till the evening when they would stop anyway, she can swap in later now. Nelly was willing to take the wheel too- since the odds of encountering the police out in the middle of nowhere is slim but the other two refused. Never mind the police- Avalyn doesn't want her father's prized ride to get totalled.

It was cool out without the sunlight; the wind on the open road made it too cold to keep the top down, but once the entered the flats they had to drop the top immediately- the clouds were heading south, they are driving north. The moment the car rolled out into the sunlight again the metal shell of the vehicle started to drink in the heat.

Avalyn is in the back, wearing a very stretchy black sleeveless crop top with yet another pair of jeans- but these have been torn to make short-shorts. She has a few bracelets on her tail today too- though her tail is not nearly thick enough, it is mobile enough for her to bend it in a way where they cannot slide completely off. She swings the end of her tail in a circle, rolling the bracelets around to amuse herself.

Nelly has dark red-brown skin today to resist the sunlight, and her hair is dark red with a cyan streak on either side of her face. She looks like she is wearing a short white pleated skirt, and sleeveless crop top like Avalyn- but what she is ACTUALLY wearing was anyone's guess.

Quinn wore his baseball cap again so the sun doesn't cook his face- the bill of the hat keeps it off his cat muzzle. Problem with things that are white is they do not hold heat like black does, but they heat up much, much faster than black. He needs moonlight to turn into his charged form so it isn't like he can trigger it for his convenience. He has a black T shirt on with a white vest on over it so his arms are almost totally bare. He has pale blue jean shorts on down below, and has no socks on below his shoes.

Nelly hummed in thought while looking at her phone. "So, I guess technically these are not wastelands or badlands. The map calls them 'scablands'."

Avalyn shrugged. "Guess that makes sense- we are on a pretty steep incline right now- the whole area is pretty high over sea level."

"What the heck are scablands?!"

"Didn't pay attention in geography class? Basically a giant rocky area that was scratched clean by ice as it melted from the last ice age. It is solid rock below so plants cannot grow here because their roots can't pierce solid stone, and the ice scraped off all the nutrients that was formerly in the soil. So you have this craggy, desolate, deadzone."

Because of a lack of tree to block the wind and catch seeds from other trees and plants- the wind blasts almost anything that would have settled in the area. Since the ground is mostly solid rock; rather than absorb rainwater, it all just runs off, forming deep veins in the stone making the ground almost look broken here- webbed with deep cuts. All those crags do still collect dust and wandering seeds, which eventually decay and create harvestable soil- so the area is not completely devoid of life. There are birds in the sky, hardier bugs and reptiles on the ground, and smaller plant life that forms bountiful clusters dotted here and there. The flat rocky ground radiates the heat of the sun back up and creates a sweltering heat however. Even with the top down- the fast moving wind ripping past as they drive is even hot.

Quinn started to slow the car down, groaning after two hours.

Avalyn looked at him in concern. "You okay?"

"Just my eyes- the sun off the road is cooking my eyeballs."

"Oh- I have a pair of aviators in the glovebox."

Nelly kicked the button with her knee to pop open the glovebox and handed Quinn the sunglasses, but also found a harmonica and handed it back to Avalyn. "Oh, look what I found."

Avalyn huffed, taking it. "Might as well- the radio keeps cutting out. We are too far from any radio towers out here."

Quinn glanced over to see what they were talking about. "Oh, you play the harmonica?"

Avalyn just nodded, and started playing an extended version of 'hit the road, jack' on her harmonica.

Nelly looked at Quinn. "She is really good at drawing too." Nelly's face darkened a bit as she slumped back in her seat, looking at her phone. "Today is going to be rough though. From the looks of the map- there are no stops. The next closest town is... NOT close. Probably because the desolate wasteland is unlivable, so all the populated routes go around it, not THROUGH it."

Quinn sighed. "But that would take at least an extra day to go all the way around. And our funds are already questionably low for how far we still need to go. Plus we need to make the return trip..."

She nodded. "Well, maybe there is some tiny nowhere places to stop that aren't even on the map. But from what I can tell- there is absolutely nothing till the other side, which will take us the entire day to reach so... buckle up."

And there really was nothing at all. No sign of human life other than the road itself. No side roads, no power or phone lines, no buildings, not even any other vehicles on the highway with them- absolutely nothing. Avalyn played a great harmonica rendition of 'Turn The Page' as well, before switching to just free-playing random melodies as she went. By the afternoon their water bottles were mostly empty. Being covered in fur- Quinn was really bad off, and the other two gladly let him take the most water, reminding him to keep drinking constantly, afraid he was going to pass out on them. He insisted he was alright- but because he cannot sweat, his mouth was open constantly breathing heavily to get rid of heat from evaporated moisture on his nose and mouth... which naturally made him thirsty, fast.

Nelly started to check her phone more often to update them on their position on the map- and told Quinn to book it over the speed limit a few times. There are no cops out here- even if there was; they would be able to see the police from three miles away because the ground is so flat and empty! It was late afternoon- their water supply was dwindling and the car was starting to run out of gas! It is a sports car... it's not really meant to be fuel efficient.

Nelly put the remaining three bottles in the middle of the two front seats so Quinn could reach them. "Here- you finish off the rest. We will take care of ourselves."

"W-what? You guys need to drink too!"

"We have our own supply."

Nelly unfastened her seatbelt and squirmed her way over her seat to the back. As dangerous as that sounds in a speeding vehicle with the roof down- Nelly does not easily lose her balance. She can actually walk up walls, so her hands and feet lock to whatever surface she grips- you can't break her grip. Quinn was still going to protest, wondering what she was even doing but found out soon enough in the rear view mirror.

Nelly climbed up onto Avalyn and poked one of her bloating tits. Avalyn blushed and seemed to shrink back, but after a few moments she decided it was fine- there is clearly no one around other than Quinn to see them. Avalyn rolled her shirt up over her breasts and Nelly immediately lifted one tit up and latched onto a fat, slowly growing nipple and started sucking! Avalyn's milk production ignores the conservation of mass- she is a limitless faucet of liquid. Milk isn't nearly as hydrating as water obviously, but if the supply has no end to it, they can just keep drinking till they are hydrated regardless. Avalyn would already be bloated giant by now on other days, and is only holding on because she milked herself in the morning instead. Having Nelly drinking from her would regress her a bit and allow her to hold out even longer. The remaining water goes to Quinn which helps him last longer. That just leaves the car. How long can its gas hold out? If their car dies out here they will REALLY be in trouble.

It was a bit distracting for Quinn though. He kept seeing movement in the rear view and glancing back instinctively only to be reminded the only thing moving for miles around them is the girls in the back seat. The breasts were so soft and bouncy Nelly mushed her whole face into the boob, cradling its sides gently to usher the milk forward. The milk tasted good, and it gave her needed hydration but also knowing that the fluid was made by her best friend made it even sweeter- she was filling herself with her friend. Avalyn's breathing became heavy and her face flushed and ears heated up, but she tried her best to remain straight-faced, knowing Quinn could see them with a glance in the mirror.

Nelly's ravenousness turned her on. Being used as a milk dispenser was embarrassing. Being exposed in the open and so close to a boy was embarrassing. But being able to provide so much milk, and being so eagerly enjoyed filled her with an odd sense of pride. Nelly's suckling created a soft pleasure around her engorged teats, but the jets of milk tickled the inside of the nipple as it surged out- scratching an itch that could not possibly be touched any other way. It makes being milked awkward sometimes, because it feels very sexual even when it's not and you are trying to make it not be. It would probably help if she were milked by anything that wasn't an adult already. Nelly giggled and kissed her on the lips a few times, catching her by surprise and REALLY making her blush hard- she could taste her own milk on Nelly's lips.

They were getting real nervous by the time the next city came into view on the horizon. The car's fuel gauge was already at E. According to the car, it was already out of fuel, but still running somehow. The gauge must not be completely accurate. Avalyn was started to bloat up a bit even despite Nelly's drinking, but she could not drink any more or her gut might pop. They finally rolled into the shade of the buildings of this city and sighed. This city is Orlod; not as large or as modern as Talissian but still big enough that you should be able to find anything you need. The sky was already turning purple by the time they got into Orlod. Nelly told Quinn to give her the card- there was a motel and a hotel within two blocks of each other nearby a mall so they decided to split up. Quinn and Avalyn would go to the mall to get supplies since they drank every drop of water they had getting here. Since they are relatively close together- Nelly would go on foot to the hotels to get a room. If one doesn't have a room the other hopefully will- they are both within walking distance to the mall anyway.

The two groaned when they entered the mall- immediately seeing most of the shops had the metal grate down over them already. It was so late the mall was already closing- they were going to have to go fast. Avalyn had to go to the bathroom, so she dashed to the nearest bathroom while Quinn ran around trying to find a shop that sold beverages that was still actually open. He heard the grate closing on several more shops as he scurried around but nothing was open.

He grunt in frustration, mussing the fur on his head. "Fuck, everything is closed already." He took out his own phone to check the time. "Wow, half past ten. What a day. My body temperature is still cooking..." There was an electronic buzzer sound and then a clack as all the lights turned off. "UUUUH, what?!" He looked around to see if he could see any guards or something. "HELLO? We are still in here."

The actual mall shutdown sequence is only manually activated- the shutdown itself is automatic to make sure no one forgets a door to lock. By the time he tried to yell out to someone- everyone was already out of the building. He just got into the city so he had no idea what time it was or when the mall closed... normally this sort of thing isn't a problem, so the guards don't generally linger longer than they have to. Everyone else cleared out just as Quinn and Avalyn entered- so they managed to get inside after the guards did their final sweep of the mall, but just before the doors locked. Avalyn heard a quiet beep from the bathroom door as she opened it, which was odd because it did not beep when she entered, and then as soon as the door closed behind her, it beeped again and clicked. She tried to re-open it but the handle didn't move. Now that she is outside; it auto-locked for the night.

The two of them looked at each other for a moment before both groaning at the same time. They dashed to the exit but seen no one who could open it. They tried to run to the other exits to see if they could spot a guard as they are leaving but could not even get to the other exits. There are steel grate partition walls that close off the major hallways as well as the individual shops, so they only had access to the main hall on a third of the overall mall. They can't get out... the only way to leave the mall is to wait till it is re-opened... tomorrow morning.

Quinn called Nelly to tell her the bad news. Nelly also had a bit of bad news- both places had rooms but thanks to their last stop; the rooms are a bit out of their price range. Quinn told her to only get a single room- he and Avalyn were trapped in the mall till tomorrow morning, so obviously they did not need a bed. Nelly was worried and asked if she could do anything but there wasn't anything to be done. If they can't get out from the inside; she sure as hell isn't getting in from the outside. They would have to rely on their cellphones to keep them entertained and... sleep on the mall benches. They would need Nelly to round up an extra big breakfast for them tomorrow because they also can't get dinner. Heck- they can't even get back into the bathroom, so the janitor is going to have to clean out one of the mall planters tomorrow too.

Nelly wanted to stay on the phone with them, but Quinn told her to go get comfortable. She is the only one of them who can. He could see behind her that she was still wandering around on the streets, and did not want her to get jumped by some weirdo or stay out all night worrying about him. There was only some distant light from signs of other shops that bled into the large hall from the exit doors- beside that, the mall was pitch black.

Quinn sighed after a while of pacing around aimlessly. "Can you even see anything? My eyes adjusted, but my irises are reflective..."

Avalyn shook her head. "Just faint outlines." She gently rubbed her breasts with a worried look on her face.

"Starting to fill, huh?"

"Yea, and nowhere to milk myself." She looked at him but as soon as he seen her looking he realized where his own eyes had been and averted his gaze. "S-sorry about Nelly bringing up the whole... threesome idea."

Quinn chuckled, crossing his arms and shrugging. "She has always been wild- you don't need to apologise for her."

Avalyn's face reddened and she lowered her head. "Th-that... wasn't her idea."

Quinn looked at her confused for several moments before finding his words again. "YOU suggested a threesome?"

"No! Well... sort of." She whimpered, her eyes getting a bit watery from the sheer embarrassment of it. "I am all messed up. She only suggested that to try and save me. I am not even sure wishing myself human from Astrelle will even solve anything..."

Quinn plopped down on the bench beside her, still quite confused. "What do you mean? You seem the most composed out of us three... although I guess that isn't setting the bar very high."

She was too ashamed to actually look at him, she just hugged her breasts softly for comfort. "Nelly is the only person who ever became my friend and it's only because she is so stubborn, and broke through to me. If I ever lost her... I wouldn't even try to look for a new friend. I would just be alone. I got a little panicked when she got a boyfriend, thinking I was going to lose her. Her solution was a threesome... try to somehow balance a three-way relationship."

"What about when she was with Tim?"

Avalyn shook her head. "He is too by-the-books, she never suggested it to him because she knew the idea would fall flat. But Tim knew about us... that we were still sort-of together."

"But... what do you think about the threesome?"

She squeaked in embarrassment. "I don't know? I am not against it, I guess? I don't want to suggest it either! 'Let the chips fall where they may'." She shook her head. "She shouldn't need to wedge me into her relationships in the first place. I should be able to get my own frie- fuck!" She looked down startled as her breasts jostled abruptly on their own!

A seam burst below her arms on either side, creating a gap in the fabric! She is outgrowing her top! Too big for human clothing to contain.

"Your changes speed up the more full you get."

"And my milk production speeds up too, so I fill faster. That is part of the issue! I am all over the place! I don't want to be a huge, leaky mess of flesh!" She looked at him with pleading eyes. "But I want to be big. I want to be milked..." She squeaked again as another few threads snapped.

Her body was reaching its limit and the fact she has been petting her boobs for the last twenty minutes did not help the situation at all- massaging them speeds up her production. She did not want to speed it up, but also instinctively squeezes her own tit flesh for comfort.

Quinn furrowed his brows trying to understand. "You... like being milked, but don't want to be? Is it because of what other people think? You milk yourself in private anyway- no one needs to, or should know what you do on your own time, so it should be fine?"

"Hnngh... eeh-it is... worse than that. I... haah. S-sorry, I can't hold it in! There is too much."

She took her arms away revealing the growing wet spots on her shirt and arched her back. The moment her back bend the seams shredded all the way up! The sides of her shirt burst easily, but then the sudden shift in pressure exploded forward as her breasts surged out of their prison and then re-caught. Because the pressure shifted so quickly it created enough force from the motion to split her collar and the front of her shirt tore down the middle to the halfway point, causing her boobs to billow out on the sides and up out of the top. This gave them enough room to sit comfortably- for the moment.

"Couldn't... breathe. I am... sorry. I want to say I am not a pervert but I think that's a lie." She gently touched her breasts and moaned as a lazy stream of milk erupted from her fattening teats strong enough to filter straight through the fabric of the remnants of her shirt. "When I was a teen... I think I was fifteen at the time... I deliberately let myself go. I waited till my parents were out for a few days and I refused to milk myself. I was afraid of what would happen, because I already get so big. I... wanted to erase myself." She is breathing heavily now, the pleasure nerves in her breasts keep stretching longer which causes a mild but incessant pleasure to glow in them.

"What..? How?"

"I become progressively m-mo-ooooh..." Her ears grew much wider and cinched at the base, gaining mobility as they fully turned to large, leaf-shaped bovine ears and flopped over, no longer able to hold up their own weight and she pointed to them. "I get progressively m-moore bovine in my charged state. I get along easier with cows than humans, I was tired of wondering what the hell I am. I wanted to turn com-m-mpletely into a cow."

He did not have to ask her what happened to that idea. She didn't turn into a complete cow. Her charged state doesn't go that far. Even completely mutated she is still a decent bit human. She can't be completely human nor completely cow, she will always have a bit of one or the other.

"You can milk yourself into one of the planters since we can't get to the bathrooms." She shook her head. "I... can help, if you need?" He was struggling to figure out what to do in this situation. Quinn wants to help her but a woman's breasts are a delicate matter, so he can't just reach out and grab them abruptly.

"N-no. It is too late. Just let m-mme go."

"Av..."

"I... no. I want it, let it out. Hnnngh~" Her shirt collar started to slowly rip lower and lower, her breasts still bloating out at an uninterrupted speed. "That is the problem. It feels too good to fight."

Her breasts became so large that she curled over to rest the bottoms on her lap. Quinn remained beside her and quiet, letting her talk. Avalyn is breathing heavily and her thoughts swimming because of her body assaulting her with pleasure, so she spoke with long interruptions. She likes to draw, she likes to play music, and she likes being with Nelly. She even enjoys being with Quinn- even though their trip has had several bumps along the way she has really been enjoying her time. Those are all human things. But she gets along better with cows than any other people, she likes being milked, and she sometimes even imagines herself as an animal. Being simple minded, being milked by someone else while just lazing about without a care in the world. It was a harmful fantasy though. What you want in the heat of the moment isn't meant to persist all the time, nor would it be good for you even if it could be sustained. It was a fantasy for her sexual arousal, for her charged state... not a wish for reality. But she cannot help but be conflicted.

Even her breast size... she was very young when she first got her breasts years ahead of any other girls. They were like a curse then, a constant embarrassment and they are always jutting out in front of her- she cannot hide them, they are always visible. Those early days left scars on her emotions, she cannot forget that embarrassment.

But when she matured, her breasts brought a very different set of emotions. Now men dropped to their knees for them. She could reduce them to brainless drones by swinging her breasts around- abusing their hormones to manipulate them however she wanted. It isn't in her nature to abuse that sort of power... but the fact it is there at all is... intriguing. Other women were jealous of her suddenly. She was producing milk! She could MAKE food, endlessly. Suddenly her breasts were a source of pride, power, and... pleasure. But being so beautiful also attracts attention even when she does not want it; this Quinn has seen first-hand at the bar the other night. Avalyn is a very shy person normally, so she only likes attention in very small doses. She has to build herself up to socializing, she can't just get tossed into a social situation randomly and hope to survive. And she has all the usual problems of people not liking demi-humans simply because they are different. Treating her like a diary animal, a sub-human.

-Q&A-

As she talks to Quinn her breasts get fatter and fatter, billowing out the sides because that is where the most room was created but the tear in the front advanced as well. Quinn was getting nervous about how far she wanted to let this slip, but also wouldn't dare touch her without her explicit permission. It seemed like she wanted to go all the way. Whatever her fully charged form is.

Her teats dripped milk constantly now whether she touched her breasts or not. Her shirt finally exploded open and she straightened her back- her breasts never left her lap. They are so large she can sit up fully and they're still resting on her thighs. Her nipples are now so large they look like chubby fingers.

"I don't know anything, Quinn. What should I be? Animal or human? Should I force myself to go find new friends or keep clinging to Nel?"

"Look- do what you want to do. It is your life. It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to be either black or white. You aren't human, but you're not a cow, either. You are Avalyn."

She moaned and shuffled herself around- she had to lean back now to make room for her growing breasts so she climbed up onto the bench onto all fours to rest them onto the other side of the bench itself.

She grinned weakly, her body still flinching slightly from pleasure jolts as she continues to grow. "My charged state is absurd. But m-mu-my shirt is ruined already, and there is no one around to even witness it, except you. I think I have seen enough... to know I can trust y-yoou. This form shouldn't be let out if I can help it but it feel so good, like a satisfying stretch that keeps going and going~"

Her nipples sprayed in several directions, very thin streams, but also one larger stream forward. Her areola bloated out into their own curvature separate of the rest of her breasts- because she had milk cisterns in her, like an udder would have. Her breasts swelled enough that she placed her hands on their sides- still leaned forward. Her breasts were holding her up off the bench on their own. And still bigger she grows. Her lips turn from diffused red to pink, and her nostrils start to slowly enlarge. Her nipples are now larger than shot glasses! Like a drop of food coloring landing on her, several black splotches appeared on her skin! They started as pin pricks but exploded in size very quickly- they are mostly black, but surrounded by a border of blue-silver, and unlike the splotches on her upper back all the time- they do not have a uniform shape. They stand out quite sharply against her pale peach toned skin, since she has no fur even fully charged.

Quinn motioned to a large spot forming on the top of her left breast. "Are there any funny shaped splotches? Like a birth mark shaped like a bird or something?"

She chuckled. "Weh...w-we'll see. They are different every time I transform- the spots on m-m-my back are the only ones that stay the same, because I have themm-mm even when I am empty."

"The uh, mooing... that part of the actual transformation or are you-"

She shook her head causing her big ears to flop back and forth. "It... m-my voice stays the same but... it's... a m-mooental tick. It gets hard to think."

There are bulges on her forehead over her temples now- horns starting to grow in. She suddenly lurches forward as her breasts grow too large and force one another off either side of the bench, causing her to collapse forward, and her breasts to hit the floor on either side! Thanks to not being able to keep her own hands off her tits; Quinn could see her nails are starting to turn grey and enlarge as well.

Milk was forming a large puddle on either side of the floor now under her, her breasts starting to lift her again even though their bottoms were on the floor and she is on a bench! Her nipples as big as a soda can each! Avalyn shoved her hands into her tits and arched back with a sharp cry as her hands clicked and cracked rapidly changing shape! Her thumb regressed in size and her entire hand stretched out- her nails turning from grey to black as they enlarged massively! In only a minute her thumb was entirely gone, her outer two fingers folded back and regressed in size and the two middle fingers grew massive! Her hands transformed entirely into cloven hooves... which means she is incapable of milking herself past this stage, because she can't grab anything!

More splotches erupted into existence across her skin at random and still her breasts grew larger and fatter. Even if she had hands- she would not be able to reach her own teats around the curvature of her breasts anyway, and she contains so much milk it will probably take over a half hour to empty again! She lows several times like a cow- but her voice is still perfectly human, so it just sounds like someone trying to impersonate a bovine. Her horns only grow large enough to draw the skin back off themselves- they are neither long enough nor sharp enough to actually penetrate anything; they don't get any bigger than that. In the empty mall the sound of more milk splashing down into the massive puddle echoes.

She panted loudly a few times, trying to catch her breath a bit. "So w-what... do you think of them-mmmuh?"

"Huh?" Well that seemed like a loaded question.

"Nel loves them... her oOOUwn chest is flat as a board so... and yoOou're a boy. I bet... yOOUUU- hm. Mmm..."

He blushed a bit, glancing away. "W-well. They are impressive and... I guess pretty amazing but, frankly I am more concerned about you."

"Mmm~ hmhm, they won't hurt me." She was starting to forget her embarrassment a little bit, her conscious thoughts sunken too low in the mire of arousal.

"Yea but... you know what I mean, right? They're obviously a problem for you, and you can't even stand up right now... and you're still growing!"

"I ammm-MUH! I... mmooo. Avalyn safe. I trust you... we will fix this before anyone finds us." She face-planted her own cleavage. "There is a threshold of emMMbarrassment and worry where you just burn out. It's fine, whatever. Just enjoy the ride~ I am too burned ouUUt to worry anymoOOore."

Avalyn is now propped up partially in her own cleavage even as her boob s spread horizontally further due to her weight on them. She motions for Quinn to come closer with a hoof- he is standing in the milk puddle already anyway, it fills most of the huge hall.

"Y-yooOOu can t-touch, if you want. It's okay."

He blushed. "W- er, I mean, it's..." He reluctantly reached forward- the look in her eyes told him she wanted him to.

Her breast felt so hot, and astonishingly firm for how grotesquely huge it is- though they are also bloated full with milk. Her nipples were still growing too- now insanely large. Her nipples are the same girth and length as his entire upper arm! You can't even touch your fingers and thumb together around its girth without squashing the flesh in on itself! That makes it difficult for ANYONE to milk her. You can't get a nipple that big into your mouth, unless you have the largest mouth in the world.

Her nostrils flare larger and the pink of her lips spreads across them, forming a perfect square of moist, textured flesh as her skull starts to let of pops and cracks of its own like her hands had. The bridge of her nose expands massively and her jaws start to push out, pulling her entire face longer! Her tongue grows massive inside of her mouth- her teeth grow huge but remain the same human shape.

Avalyn let out a mixture of whimpers and moans as her face deformed into the shape of a cow- though it did not grow so far out that it forced the rest of her skull to reform, so even fully transformed there was still a bit of human in her head. Her eyes still faced forward, and she still has her long shimmering black human hair. Quinn had to inch back twice as her breasts continued to enlarge. He gently massaged the surface, making her moan and the milk to flow from that tit faster than the other. He could see and feel the flesh pulsing- her pores pulling perfectly smooth and making the skin look wet before relaxing again.

Avalyn really started to low, breathing very heavily with a bit of a desperate look on her face, making Quinn speak up in concern. "A-are you okay?"

"Aaaaah~ n-naah, moo- I mmmean...nngh. Too... much."

"Is there-?"

"Just give m-m-mmmoo a minute!"

Quinn took another step back and stopped rubbing her, looking worriedly at her breasts. Avalyn herself cannot even see what she looks like in the dark- all she can see is the dim light from outside reflecting off the moist surface. Quinn however seen how vibrantly pink her skin tone was becoming, which thanks to her growing sort of made it look like she was approaching critical mass- about to actually explode. It is actually the coloration of her teats- the edge of her areola is fading further and further out, turning the rest of the boob pink. The color only advanced to a third of her tits before stopping- but that is still a lot of surface to cover. It also now had such a gradual fade to her normal skin color that it was extremely difficult to even perceive the edge at all even if the area was lit. Her nipples seemed to bloat thicker rapidly now, making them look oddly shaped and they started to release milk automatically in heavy pulses, making a wet slapping sound as the milk hit the floor.

"H-h-here it c-comes~"

Quinn wanted to ask what was coming but she was too breathless to reply anyway. She would have screamed from the explosion of electric, almost itchy pleasure as the pressure in her magnified, but she is so out of breath it only came out as a desperate squeak. Her breasts surged in size but the growth was toward the base- making her breasts look almost tear-drop shaped, but... facing the wrong direction; the front was the pointy end. There was a sound like two wet surfaces peeling away from one another and from the base outward- her teats started to divide!! As soon as the divide went through the tip the bloated mass of her obese tits wobbled back into a spherical shape and equalized and the two teats flicked away from one another, wobbling erratically and scattering a mist of milk drops into the air. Now each breast had TWO nipples as thick and long as his upper arm! They are spaced apart by about five inches; the space created in the final surge.

With a deep burbling sound her growth finally stopped after about an hour and a half total. The final surge that peeled her nipples apart was the last of her growth. This is Avalyn's fully charged state- she doesn't get any worse than this. Though still technically breasts; her mutated mammaries outwardly resemble a giant udder better than anything a human would sport. Her breasts are so colossal that fully resting against the floor the tops of her breasts are level with Quinn's neck. And since their weight causes them to squash out further horizontally than vertically- they are over five feet in diameter. Quinn cannot even begin to guess how much they weigh. If they were on the second level of the mall they may have just fallen through the floor.

"Muh- mm-moo." Avalyn furrows her brow, knowing that isn't what she was trying to say but cannot think of the words. "Muhuu-mmmmummou." She leaned against her breasts heavily, pressing her own face into the cleavage and rolling her cheeks against the bloated curve of either tit.

She reached forward, like she was trying to grab him across the tops of her ocean of tit flesh, but it was hard to tell because she has no fingers. Quinn leaned across taking her hoof, and then she pulled him forward catching him by surprise! She hooked her other hoof on his other arm and pulled him into her! She forced him to stumble forward and wedge himself into her cleavage, then just put a hoof over either of his shoulders and held him there a long moment.

She blushed so brightly it almost looked like she burst a vein. "I am-mm so shy, heeelp."

"H-huh?"

"Please... just... touch me?" Her voice was tiny but there was no other sound in the empty mall so he could still hear her fine.

Quinn managed to pull his arms up out of the fat wobbling tit flesh and put them around her shoulders, then hugged her to drag himself the rest of the way through her cleavage and to her actual body.

"Mmm~" Her ears wiggled happily. "I am a really touchy sort of person."

"Well I see how Nelly gets real feely around you- and I guess she knows you well."

"Mmm~ but I am so shy. Having a randommm person or somm-mmmeone I don't know intimately doOOO that would be SO embarrassing. Another contradiction. I won't want to be approached but I want to be held. I am such an idiot."

He let go of her a bit to lean back but their eyes met and they just looked at each other a long moment, before Avalyn slowly inched closer forward. Her eyes are quite beautiful- deep ocean blue but fade to seafoam green around her pupils. She kissed him lightly but then shoved him back slightly with her hooves, surprised by her own actions- though he could not fall backwards thanks to her tits literally surrounding him.

"Oh Gods, I am sorry! I shouldn't have done that!"

Quinn chuckled, leaning back on her cleavage. "Even I don't know what to do anymore. Nelly wants us to have a three way. I love Nel and I want to be loyal to her..."

"But what do YOU want? I don't want toOU put words in her m-mm-mouth, but I am pretty close to Nelly... and I think she foOOlishly wants it both ways- like m-me."

"But it feels like cheating..."

"But she is the one whOOU suggested it in the first place. She still has sex with m-mm-me on the side, and yoOUU don't accuse her of cheating. I can't take you frommm her- at the end of the day, you'll still be hers... but what do yoOUU want?"

"...I don't know. I guess there is only one way to find out."

He leaned forward and she leaned back, then looked surprised a moment as her solid hooves slipped on the wet floor! She fell backwards in slow motion- her breasts could not be moved easily so she could only fall as fast as her breasts lurched back to allow her. Her cleavage closed around Quinn and bumped him forward forcing him to fall over her, and then the breasts parted around them and wobbled to a stop on either side of her- leaving a very thin gap between her tits where her body rests on the floor now, sitting in her own milk.

She chuckled in embarrassment. "I have so much flesh... don't let it go to waste."

Avalyn fumbled around to undo her own shorts- it is both pitch black and she has such a narrow window to see from through her own cleavage. She sure as hell can't reach AROUND her tits, so her arms have to go through her cleavage too, and then without fingers she has to catch the zipper and button in the crook between hoof segments in order to manipulate them without being able to hold them. It seems a black splotch has covered Avalyn's butt cheeks making it look like it is heart-shaped from behind, but also wraps around to the front covering her crotch. The black of the splotch only seems to highlight the neon pink of her pussy in contrast- her clit standing out of its hood on its own in erection.

Quinn is on his hands and knees and has to shove his way in over her properly, causing her monstrous boobs to wobble violently out of the way. He opened his own pants and used his furry white nuts to hold his shorts down. His sheath flopped forward on its own; unlike on a proper beast his sheath isn't adhered to his underside, it only connects at the base. Though most felines have quite small genitals for their body size; that is not the case with Quinn. Even without the enhancement of his wolf half, his dick is still seven inches, and it is shaped like a chubby cone, so it's also quite wide. The last third of the shaft is lined with a forest of barbs still. Soft violet veins pulse toward the base where it emerges from his sheath and the shaft is more of a diffused, powder red- less vibrant than when it has canine mixed into it.

Usually when you get a tit-fuck it is your penis between the breasts, not your entire body. This is technically Avalyn's first time with a male as well! Er, a real male anyway. Nelly can take the shape of the opposite gender to give Avalyn a helping of cock. The plush dark pads of his hands felt good when he holds her sides to brace as he thrusts in slowly. She starts moaning almost immediately- the barbs of his penis gently drag into her. She made a mix of bovine lows and moans, unable to think of human words again and no longer trying particularly hard to. Her ears wiggle giddily at the sides of her head and her hair fans out on the tile floor- though also becomes increasingly saturated with milk.

Avalyn's nimble tail curls up and her tassel plays over his fuzzy balls and taint. Unlike Avalyn- Quinn actually hates having his tail touched, so his own tail is held high in the air behind him. He had to be very careful thrusting into her till their lube mixed and spread because he could hurt her with his barbs because of how tight of a fit he is. Her pubic mound is quite pronounced and her mons already engorged from arousal her growth itself inflicted- but her actual vaginal passage is quite tight. She is very rarely ever penetrated. Once Quinn worked himself up to speed and they were well lubricated, his thrusts were echoed with a long, gradual splashing sound. When he thrusts in her body is jarred up, but her breasts slowly roll up to match her, causing her mega-nipples to erupt milk like a garden hose! He is unintentionally milking her while fucking her! In this at least; her multiplied teats greatly help her. They are all too big to be used properly, but having four does still greatly aid in emptying her out, because they are still technically breasts. Which means there is only two bodies to house milk in, but four ways the milk can get out.

It was an insanely erotic experience; thrusting into a beautiful tall woman, lowing like a cow while he is surrounded by wobbling, wet breast flesh on all sides. She is leaking constantly while they rock, wobble, and jiggle so beads of milk are scattered around the entire surface of her breasts, getting everywhere. They do not separate far enough to not be touching Quinn on his sides and even clap together lightly across his back when they wobble, so his movement is jostling them around too. Avalyn has hooves for hands so her arms were just curled up over the top of her breasts uselessly, looking a bit like a begging puppy. The milk pool spread further and further, coating the entire floor of the immense hallway. The two lovers were almost entirely soaked by now from fucking in it and having it splash with their every movement.

Avalyn hit peak first. "AHH- m-mMM-MOOOOUUU~"

Her entire body started trembling and her legs bent and her back arched several times, squirming from the shockwaves of pleasure. Her pussy squirt too- adding more lube to the lake of liquids on the floor already. Her shaking caused her breasts to jiggle violently like someone slapping a jelly mold and her nipples tightened, compressing in, and then REALLY erupted milk regressing her size a good bit! Though... still nowhere close to giving her any mobility. The erratic shuddering around his cock and her pussy clenching hard and trying to draw it further in bent the barbs of Quinn's dick over and over, triggering his own orgasm.

He leaned forward when he climaxed and tried to put his hands on the floor beside her but immediately slipped on the milk and fell completely into her! Avalyn caught him off guard with a kiss, gently holding him to her with her hooves on his back. He was not expecting her tongue- not only did she use tongue during this kiss, but in this form her tongue is large enough to fill his entire mouth!

They sat together in the warm pool of milk for a while, catching their breath. Quinn chuckled to break the silence. "Kinda wish they left the AC on in here."

"Heh. Sorry-" She nudged a giant boob with her hoof. "They are really goOOod insulators, so heat builds up fast."

He leaned back a bit and looked them over. "They look a good big smaller."

"I lost a lot of milk. Once the teats are small enough to get your hand around, can you m-mmilk me back to normal? Mmmm~ actually, you should drink up. We never got dinner."

He blushed lightly. "Is that okay?"

She laughed loudly. "Uh... yea. That is what m-mm-my tits are for. That is like, the best part about having them. Well... one of the best parts."

And there is more than enough for both of them. She got Quinn to grab a teat and pull it up while she compressed the top portion of her breast to try and fold the front far enough up that she could latch onto one of her own and start sucking hungrily at her own bounty, and then Quinn suckled at another huge nipple. Her body doesn't produce the milk normally so it's not like drinking from herself is a resource loop- she's creating new resources from nothing. Quinn was perfectly fine with having her for dinner; what cat doesn't like milk?

Slowly but surely they work her down in size. Her added bovine features apparently remain till she is completely empty again- they are the last thing to grow in when she fills but also the last thing to go when emptying. As her breasts first start to shrink down, the twin teats gradually come closer together and then in an automatic surge of expressed milk, they regress far enough that they fused back into one teat on their own, once they are already touching. The pink around her breasts starts to regress and the edge becomes more defined till it recedes to the edge of the curvature of her actual areolas.

The rest of her altered features remain till she is completely empty and then change in a sudden rather violent shift. Avalyn insists it does not hurt in the slightest, even though all the crunching and popping bones certainly sounds like it could be painful. The faster, larger changes are overwhelming though- she cannot think or reply to anyone when it is happening; her brain is in complete overload. Although the shift into her charged state was well over an hour total, that is still pretty insanely fast considering she can go half an entire day without outwardly showing any changes whatsoever. It is exponential- so once she starts to slip; she falls fast.

Avalyn laughed softly, just looking up toward the roof- she could barely see anything in the dark anyway. "What an absolutely nutty day."

"Sorry. Supposed to be a fun adventure but we keep running into trouble."

Avalyn shook her head, looking toward him with a sympathetic smile- she could see Quinn easily silhouetted against the outside light filtering through the front doors far behind him. "I will remember today for the rest of my life."

"Y-you enjoyed today?"

"Yea. I was nervous and scared coming here- thought we might cook to death out there in the scablands but... that made it kinda thrilling. And you were driving so Nelly kept smothering me with kisses and playing with my tits- which was SUPER embarrassing because of how open it was but... that also made it thrilling." She motioned around them. "Felt like we had been tossed in prison when we first got trapped in here but... the darkness makes it feel more enclosed than it actually is and-" She shrugged. "Kind of cozy, actually. Just us in here, alone in the dark, nothing to look at, just the sound of our voices and feel of our flesh~"

He tapped his foot, making a splashing sound against the floor. "We are also in deep shit if we don't get out of here the moment the security gates open. You drown a third of the entire mall in milk."

"Well I look quite human again, so as soon as the gates start moving, we slip out. I don't think explosive lactation is a common thing around here, so the guards will mostly just be confused when they first see it. But they will still stop us if they see us being here when we shouldn't be."

"Hrmn. And we will have dried milk all over us- since we have nowhere to get cleaned off."

"I hear bathing in milk is great for your skin though." They both laughed at that.

After a while they rung what they could out of their clothes and Quinn took his shoes off to try and air them out too. The two of them curled up together to keep each other warm through the night- it was again an extremely late night for them.

Avalyn spoke up in a whisper as they got comfortable together. "My boobs are a blessing and curse I guess, huh? They often make me feel objectified... and, sometimes I like that, but... it usually isn't in the playful way. I feel grateful that my problem half is relatively easy to control though. Kind of feel a bit bad going to 'fix' it with a wish. Better than being so back and forth with myself all the time though."

"Is that your cow traits though?"

"Hmm?"

"Will becoming human straighten out your feelings about yourself? Some things aren't meant to be sorted out. Sometimes you need a little chaos."

"Hrrmm. You must think of me as some sort of horny, or needy slut though, right? I mean honestly- don't sugar coat it... what do you think of me? Some big boobed woman playing with your girlfriend on the side because she doesn't know how to let go, and then I make you fuck me too. Ugh... what am I doing."

Quinn huffed. "Well, like I said before; I think you're the most composed of the three of us. You are usually the first awake, you drove the car like a pro, and drove further than me so far on the trip. You are the one to coordinate us in the mornings and make sure everyone gets out the door at a reasonable time. I think it sounds like you are trying to fit into a 'normal' role in life, but your heart just isn't feeling it. You aren't human, so fuck what the humans think is normal. You do you, you do 'Avalyn'."

"I guess... I should know that. I can't help but feel like I might be doing something wrong, you know? I don't mean to seem whiney, or high-maintenance or whatever... I go from enjoying myself to drama-queen a minute later." She furrowed her brows and shook her head lightly. "I am sorry, these aren't even that problematic, I just make them out to be..."

"It isn't easy for us demi-humans. It isn't like you have many options of who you can talk to about this sort of stuff- it is fine. We are all pretty confused. I know you are shy, but any time you need to talk about it, I am here to listen. Like Nelly."

Avalyn hummed, settling down but then lifted her head and gasped again. "Is that a security camera?!"

Quinn followed her eyes to a blinking red light in a corner of the roof. "No, it is a fire alarm. Malls don't put security cameras in the main halls- the individual shops have to buy their own. There isn't anything to steal in the halls so there is no point putting a camera there."

Her phone chimed and she looked at the screen a moment and smiled, though had to squint because the sudden existence of light in the darkness almost blinded her.

Quinn glanced at her. "What is it?"

She turned to show him the text message. "Nelly says goodnight." She shook the phone, knocking a drop of stray milk off the corner. "Good thing this phone is waterproof up to ten meters..."

"Heh. Guess today was pretty alright after all, eh?"

Chapter 4 : No Face

Nelly brought the car around to the mall doors after a while. The parking lot was empty now and Quinn and Avalyn are going to want as short of a run to the car doors as possible. The prices in the hotels were pretty standard, but they spent so much on the last place that they can no longer afford 'standard'- at least not when viewing the bigger picture. They have to make an entire return trip as well. It also seemed like a waste to rent an entire hotel room for just herself, so after some deliberating she just... didn't. She planned to sleep in the car. She packed a beach towel for when they get to Atallia that she could now use as a blanket, and then just used a duffle bag of clothes as a pillow. Not like it gets actually cold out at this time of year.

She looked at the mall longingly, wondering what her friends were up to in there. They were only forty feet away from each other technically. Nelly did not want to call them though, at risk of waking them up if they managed to force themselves to sleep already- because falling to sleep while imprisoned in an empty mall probably isn't easy. Nelly double-checked that she locked the doors and then flopped back across the back seats and turned on another VOD of Silver Lining to watch her mother back when she was a gamer. She incorporated her user name into the title of every play through- so this one was 'Portal 3 has a Silver Lining'.

Tulia leaned back in her chair with a look between disappointment and shock at the 'game over' screen. "Ouf... sorry guys, looks like we are not finishing this stream after all. But hey- I guess that makes the next stream a double-feature, right? I will be playing two different games in the same stream when I start the next one!"

She closed the game and just maximized the stream chat in its place. "You know, a lot of people have been asking me how I am always so optimistic. I wasn't always. I dunno; I always just think of the law of odds. Yea, maybe tomorrow will be crap- but maybe it won't be. Maybe it will be bad, but I will find a way to enjoy it anyway- or it will benefit someone else and I can be glad it happened regardless. Even if it is totally bad, there is still the day after that. Life is full of so much potential, so even when I am in a dark place; there is so many things that could happen that I would enjoy, that I hype myself waiting for the next thing to happen to me. If where I am is bad, then I just look forward to something else. Like Christmas day- sure some of your presents will probably be lame but that doesn't kill the hype for the awesome ones! Even the lame ones still serve a purpose." She nodded mostly just to herself. "If it is bad for you- it might be good for someone else. The world is too small for anything to be utterly cut off from everything else; everything effects everything else. If it's good for you, it might be bad for someone else. There is a dark side to every light, but every dark cloud also has a silver lining." She stuck her tongue out at her self-insert.

She sighed, closing chat and opening her stream interface ready to end the stream. "Anyway. I will see you all next time, we will wrap up this game and get started on the next- still don't know what the next will be, so who knows; it might be YOUR favorite game! Bye all~"

The video automatically closed when it finished, returning to the playlist. Nelly had a smile on her face but tears in her eyes. "Bye mom."

Watching her mother Tulia's inspirational speeches often brought a tear to Nelly's eye. Tulia was such a shining beacon of hope and happiness. Her silliness as she had fun playing games drew in around five million people to subscribe to her- never mind how many watched her content overall. Those speeches held a lot of power. She could not touch her fans, she did not see her fans. She just shared her smile with them and some kind words, but that was more than enough for some. People thanking her for making their day a little brighter, people who just listen to her voice in the background to help them go to sleep, or people sinking into darkness- who were made to see the light thanks to her kindness. Sometimes something as simple as a friendly smile can mean the world.

Tulia never finished that game on stream. That VOD was the last recording before the Second Wish. The next video after that was over a month later. Then there was only a few videos after that- scattered further and further apart. She announced she was pregnant, and thus going to need some time to step away from streaming to have her daughter, and then likely wouldn't return to streaming for a year or more, so she could give her daughter her full attention at all times. Nelly's thumb hovered over the last video on the playlist but her heart tightened in dread and she closed the playlist entirely. She has watched every one of her mother's streams many times over- but she has never watched the final video. Because then, it would be truly, and forever over.

Most people assumed Tulia retired from streaming because of her daughter- stepped away long enough to realize she didn't really want to do it anymore. So thankfully most people do not realize that Tulia is dead. Nelly has no memory of ever seeing her mother; the streams Silver Lining left behind are her only interaction with her mom. Because Nelly was born demi-human there was complications with the birth and Tulia became deathly weak after. She was never able to return home with her daughter. Tulia spent eight days in the hospital with the newborn Nelly, before she died.

When Nelly told her mother she was going on this trip- it was to her gravestone. Her father still sometimes stands outside, waiting around like Tulia once did for him, just trying to imagine what was going through her head at the time, what she was experiencing. While her father was at work; Nelly was looked after by her grandparents. Nelly's survival became the silver lining for the remaining family.

Nelly was woken up the next day by a security guard tapping on the window. He told her she can't just sleep in the parking lot like that, and told her to get out of there if she isn't shopping for anything in the mall. Nelly started the car but remained where she was- watching the mall carefully as the guards turned the security off and all the metal bars sealing the place up started to lift. Quinn and Avalyn dashed out of one of the side doors and looped around; spotting the car immediately in the otherwise empty parking lot. Quinn is now shirtless- Avalyn is wearing his shirt because hers absolutely fucking exploded. Nelly raised a brow looking at how dishevelled they looked. Avalyn's hair and Quinn's fur was matted thanks to milk drying in it.

Quinn opened the driver side door and shooed Nelly out of the driver seat. "You shouldn't have driven the car here!"

"Pff- you're welcome."

"You're lucky you didn't get arrested, you don't have a license."

Avalyn sighed loudly as she collapsed over the back seats. "I am SO glad I gave you the spare key just in case."

Nelly grinned, shuffling over to the passenger seat. "I actually just slept here the night, so we were not that separated after all." She glanced between them as Quinn already started to pull out of the parking lot. "So uh... what... happened?"

Avalyn cupped her breasts from below and wobbled them in her palms. "You know what happened."

Quinn's ears lowered. "Something else happened too..."

Nelly paused a moment before gasping and looking quickly between the two of them. "You did? It? Together? How was- er, did you enjoy yourselves?!"

Avalyn glanced away in embarrassment. "It was my fault. We... had fun, I guess. It was awkward but... yea."

Nelly looked at Quinn who refused to take his eyes off the road to look back. "Soooo~"

He shook his head, holding his index up at her. "Not another word out of you."

Avalyn told them to stop at the next decent looking gas station. Nelly can go into the store and brouse or pick up a few small supplies while Quinn and Avalyn go to the bathrooms with a spare outfit in hand. They can try to wash some of the dried milk off in the sink and then swap outfits before returning to the car.

Avalyn blushed at Quinn. "Your shirt... is probably going to be a bit stretched out..."

Orlod at least was the end of the scablands. The burning wastelands are behind them now- at least till the return trip. Orlod is actually considered one of the satellite cities of Atallia itself- so Atallia is close enough that they could technically reach it by tonight but that would REALLY be pushing it. This area was webbed with rivers and dotted with small tree groves. The land between the great cities is filled with a lot of wildlife. They spot many deer in the area and even a fox that quickly dashes out of sight when they pass.

Quinn glanced at Nelly looking at the map on her phone. "So... now that all three of us are acquainted... plan on revealing anything?"

She blushed and slunk back into her seat. "Nooo..."

"Nel, c'mon. I almost feel like I know Avalyn better than I know you now! Avalyn knows what you are, heck Tim knows what you are."

"I kn-"

"What does Tim have that I don't? What do I have to do, to get on Tim's level?"

"N-no! It isn't like that!"

Avalyn bristled a bit. "H-hey. Let's keep the punches above the belt."

Nelly shook her head. "No, it's okay. I need this."

"Hmm?"

"I... it's pretty obvious by now that I can't make myself do it, so someone else has to force me to." Quinn glanced at her and she timidly looked back. "I want you to keep pushing me. I need you to. I don't want to be this way... to hurt you like that."

There was another ten minutes of silence before Quinn glanced at her again. "So your spots... what was your dad transformed into?"

That surprised her. "How did you know those were from my dad?"

"Avalyn said most of your traits are from your mother. Freckles are a pretty minor aspect even if they are amazingly unique. So I assumed those were from your dad."

She huffed with a weak grin, leaning her arm on the edge of the open window a moment before answering. "A slug."

"Your dad turned into a slug?!"

"A bioluminescent sea slug, yea. Don't worry- the glowing dots are ALL I got from him, heh. Looked more like an alien than anything. He couldn't talk when fully transformed so he used his lights to emote for him and try to communicate. Since my mom had lots of video recording stuff around- there is actually a video he made while transformed trying to give like a last will sort of message, thinking the world was going to end."

Quinn nodded with a somber chuckle. "Well the world did end- it was just wished back." He motioned out across the scattered woodlands and rivers around the highway. "Just imagine- this road would be clogged with mutated animals and weird sexual abominations and the thousands of abandoned vehicles they tried to escape in. Trenches dragged across the land leading to downed planes that fell from the sky trying to return to the airport in Atallia..."

Avalyn nodded. "It is no wonder communication with Astrelle is strictly guarded by the Wishing Council. A single well-meaning wish ended the world. If anyone is allowed to wish, the wish must be judged and approved first."

Quinn hummed in thought. "I wonder how long we will be waiting in queue to wish?"

"Probably not THAT long, because our parents called in advance to reserve our slot. Also the council prioritizes people according to how far they had to travel to get to Atallia in the first place. So by not being residents of Atallia City, we are already ahead of a bunch of people queued. It is also one wish per person, so no one stands in line twice."

"Wonder how many people stand before Astrelle and ask for something mundane like cash?"

Avalyn laughed. "At first, probably everyone. I don't imagine there are that many people these days dumb enough to wish for money. Making money appear out of thin air damages the global economy- the wish would be automatically denied. No free rides. Just like you cannot wish the dead back to life, or wish yourself immortality. You can wish a sick person healthy again though- or wish fertility into the land to create a farmable plot out of any patch of dirt. Us turning human is a no-brainer, they won't even have to consider it; it will immediately be allowed. It is a wish that only affects us personally, AND our current body is an indirect result of a previous, recalled wish."

There were a lot of small, scattered communities in the shadow of Atallia, so they passed homes, shops, and gas stations, but Quinn and especially Avalyn turned down stopping at the first few. Gas station bathrooms are almost always a rancid place to be, so she did not want to strip naked to change outfits in one if it looked grungy from the outside. They stopped at the fourth station, topping off what little gas they burned through already. Nelly went into the store to see if there was anything small she could buy while her friends stripped in the bathroom to get new clothes on and try to wipe all the dried milk off- considerably harder for Quinn to do since it's in his fur. Their skin did feel extra smooth today though thanks to the milk bath.

Nelly hears some commotion at the front of the store and dips behind one of the shelves to peek out and there are two teenagers at the front counter- one of them has a gun! The store is being robbed! Her heart was pounding but she could not let this go. Nelly is sure she can stop them herself, but she has to move fast of they are going to escape. Without making an actual sale, the cash register actually cannot be opened even by the clerk, without entering a complex code, so there is a bit of time before they can get the money. Nelly opened the freezer at the back carefully so the door didn't make that sucking sound when you open it normally. She grabbed a plastic milk crate at the bottom and put the milk into the freezer so she could overturn the crate itself on the floor and use like a stool.

Nelly climbed onto it and then hopped up, managing to tag the roof with her hands! Her fingers stuck to the roof! She cannot stick to glass, so she had to basically run her legs up the glass of the freezer while her hands anchored her to the roof, and then kick up when she was as high as she could go to get her toes to cling to the roof too. Now she is crouched upside-down on the roof! Her actual outfit is just a short skirt and a tank top so like usual she has no socks or shoes on to prevent her from climbing up surfaces.

This would be insane for a regular person to even try... it is probably insane for HER to try this too, but she feels like she has to. No human can do the stuff she can- it would be such a horrible waste to not use her powers for good at every opportunity she gets. Her body seemed to ripple a moment before vanishing from sight entirely- cloaked into the roof itself. It isn't a perfect disguise- if you were to look at her when she moves, you can still see where she is. Her illusion lags a bit behind her movement, so you can see what looks like violent ripples in the air when she moves.

The old man behind the counter finally got the register open and started to hand out the stacks of bills to the two teens. It is mostly small bills... it is just a gas station at the edge of their community... how much money did they really expect to be able to get here? Is it even remotely worth the trouble? She quickly re-appeared before the clerk finished handing the money off, transforming herself to have a giant snake tail! Her tail fell between the two teens and coiled around the legs of one, yanking his legs up, forcing him to fall face-first into the counter hard enough to break the skin open on his forehead and knock him out!

Nelly transformed her arms from the elbows down into bird claws, falling off the roof onto the teen with a gun, grabbing him by the face and slamming his head into the floor! The teen shot the gun on accident out of surprise, but he was already falling when the gun went off so the only thing he shot was the roof.

Nelly tightened her grip on his head, digging into his scalp with her talons. "Why did you do it? What is wrong with you?!"

"I-I don't know, I needed fucking money man!"

She motioned to the clerk behind her. "So does he! But he is working for his money."

"My mom is working hard too but she can't afford the new gaming console, I couldn't ask her for that shit man."

"A GAME console?! You almost took someone's life, just so you can play some fucking video games?!" She started crying a bit, which made the teen even more afraid of her, thinking she is unstable.

"I wasn't going to shoot man, I swear!"

"You had a loaded gun. You shot it right now on accident. It doesn't matter if you planned to shoot it or not- you introduced the possibility. You gambled with a human life, and it wasn't even your life to gamble." She gripped his head even harder, causing thin trails of blood to gather under his hair before releasing her grip entirely. "FUCK. Piss off. Get the fuck out of here."

She yanked the gun out of his head with one taloned hand and wiped the tears out of her eyes with her other arm as the teen got up and ran out the door, abandoning his still unconscious friend. Nelly handed the gun to the clerk by the barrel. The clerk nodded, using a napkin to take the gun from her- making sure not to wipe the fingerprints off the handle.

"I hope that was long enough that the security camera got a good look at his face."

"It did. Thank you greatly miss. You are a real life superhero with those powers."

She laughed, returning to a completely human appearance. "Y-yea, sort of."

Quinn emerged dressed in black jeans and a dark purple t shirt- with a spiked stud choker and bracelet on either arm. Avalyn is now in another flexible sweater; navy blue this time, and a pair of stretchy black pants. The two emerged from the bathroom rather abruptly when they heard the gunshot. They were both baffled by what happened. Quinn was having a hard time believing she wasn't playing a prank, but the police car arriving two minutes later convinced him. Avalyn believed it, but didn't want to believe it.

"Nel holy shit, he had a gun. You know even if he could have defended himself the clerk is legally not supposed to do anything. Because trying to play the hero isn't worth it to anyone to get your brains blown out!"

Nelly waved her hand dismissively. "I am fiiine. They never seen me coming, they can't shoot what they cannot see."

Quinn started the car back up, shaking his head. "Unbelievable. You were such a tryhard in school too! You would complain that you were not ready for a test and then get 95% on it, while I think I am doing fine and skid by with a cool 67%."

Avalyn sighed. "It is because of her grandmother."

Nelly half-nodded. "Well... I guess. My grandmother always used to tell me it doesn't matter than I am a demi-human, because a person's worth is determined by their actions, not what they look like."

Avalyn nodded sadly. "Which Nelly interpreted as; she needs to overachieve to earn the right to exist as a demi."

Quinn glanced at Nelly. "Seriously? That is why you always try so hard to please everyone? Because you aren't human?"

"N-nnno. Well... no. Sort of. Subconsciously, sure, probably. But also I just want to make people happy because I believe I can. I have these weird-ass powers, I might as well use them for something, right? And my mom always brought people smiles... I wanna do that too. Follow in her footsteps, best I can anyway."

Avalyn crossed her arms. "Admirable. But you can do that without risking your life. Your death won't make anyone smile. Let's just... forget about it for now. You did a good job back there, you saved a life."

"Hmm~"

As the day wore on however- they came across some construction, and were forced to take a fork in the road, which brought up some problems. The road this far out of the city shifts a lot when the temperatures change, so it had become a craggy mess- they were re-paving the entire thing so they had to detour. Their detour however took them away from what was going to be their next stop. They cannot get to the town they were originally going to stop at for the night.

According to the map, there wasn't really any stops on their new path... till Atallia. But to ride all the way to Atallia now would mean they are driving till dawn tomorrow, which seemed like a bad idea. Especially since Avalyn milked herself last in the explosion of cream at the mall last night, so by early evening today she was already becoming large again. Her top is very stretchy, but it's still starting to pull tight around her small beach ball sized melons. If they do not stop to milk her fully- the car might not even be able to take her weight. If she becomes fully charged she might CRUSH the car.

Nelly shook her head, flicking her thumb across the screen to scroll the map up while zoomed in on the highway. "There is nothing. The next closest place along this route is technically in Atallia's city limits. We would have already passed one by now if we were on the original route- the main highway. But this way has jack shit." She turned to look at Avalyn in the back seat, cradling her growing tits softly. "How long do you think you have before meltdown?"

She shook her head, creating long waves through her raven hair. "I don't know exactly. It is progressive so I mean... I am already bigger than I am comfortable being in public. If I nudge them I might leak a bit. I don't think I am going to explode in size for a bit still..."

Nelly grumbled. "We should have got you a hand pump for the trip."

"Huh? For milk?"

"Yea." She made a squeezing motion with her hand. "They have those little one-handed milking things for pregnant women."

"Oh. Don't think I ever seen one. I have only ever been around the milking machines for the cows."

"Hmm." Nelly only half turned before abruptly turning around to face her again. "WAIT. Have you used a milking machine for cows on... yourself?!"

"Y-yea. Of course, heh. I am part cow."

"Wuh- how... how did it feel?"

Avalyn lowered her brows. "Anything related to my boobs feels good. Well, anything physical anyway."

Nelly looked ahead seeing a car and van, but quite some distance ahead of them still. She would not be able to see them at all if their lights were not on. The sky was turning a dark blue by now and the stars were starting to come out. Though the sky was still relatively light- the contrast made their immediate surroundings look even darker. She looked behind them and seen a transport truck and unfastened her seatbelt.

"Hey, Quinn, pull into the other lane- let the truck pass. I am going to take some of the edge off Av."

Avalyn blushed frantically looking around to see who all could potentially see her. "W-wait not here!"

"Yes here, we have no stops left to stop at. You let me drink or you're going to blow up like a water balloon again. Which personally I am not against, but I am guessing you are."

"Hrnnnngh..."

Nelly climbed over to the back seats and Quinn put the roof up to cover them all since the air was getting cool now anyway. Nelly rest her head into Avalyn's lap and Avalyn blushed and pulled her shirt up enough for one huge breast to tug itself free by its own weight, plopping down at Nelly's face to drink from a fattened nipple. Avalyn's long tail coiled around Nelly's wrist while she drank. Avalyn lolled her head forward and just closed her eyes, focussing on the feeling of the warmth flowing out into Nelly. The magic of being able to feed her friend from her own body.

Quinn started to get stressed over driving as the light vanished. The street lights out here were few and far between, and you could not see ANYTHING outside of the car's headlights between them. Nelly told him to slow down and her and Avalyn carefully scanned the sides of the road, pointing out a clearing for him. He was not keen on off-roading because the car certainly isn't built for it, but he drove slow and they slipped off the highway entirely. Nelly slept in the car just fine the other night... without anywhere to even try and go; they would all have to sleep in the car tonight. They rolled into a clearing and then around the far side of some trees to try to hide the car from the road as best they could. This would have to be the place they sleep tonight.

They all got out to stretch their legs, and Quinn flopped his arms and chin over the roof of the car, mentally exhausted from the last bit of their drive. He was so tense the whole time, not being able to see basically anything. Every little leaf or rock on the road that entered their headlights; his heart jumped thinking a small animal jumped out and he was about to flatten it.

They all stood around the car, leaned back against it and just took in their surroundings. It was a bit spooky being here but also beautiful. Unfortunately the moon was already elsewhere in the sky, not visible to them tonight, so it is extremely dark out. Far enough from the cities that the light pollution did not hide them- every single place in the entire night sky was taken up with a tiny spot of flickering light. Each one an immense, perpetuated explosion of flame and host of a whole other slew of planets and moons. And even with all those stars visible to them tonight, it is still only a minuscule fraction of a percentage of the indescribably vast universe, which in turn is only one of a literal infinity of alternate universes.

The land and trees in contrast to the glittering sky simply looked like a solid black silhouette. Since she had been chugging milk- Nelly needed to take a piss after a few minutes and got Quinn to toss her his lighter so she did not sprain her ankle stumbling over something in the brush, or killing the batteries in her phone. His lighter ironically had a small red and white 'no smoking' sticker on it and in permanent marker on the other side he wrote 'never knows best'; a reference to a show he likes.

Quinn looked across the roof of the car to Avalyn on the other side as she looked up into the sky. "Beautiful isn't it?"

"Yea. So uhm... how we dividing the car?"

"Front seats, back seats... trunk, I guess. Who gets trunk though? Want to rock-paper-scissors it?"

She smiled and shook her head. "Nelly gets trunk. She is the only one small enough to easily fit into it. I like being sandwiched so I will take the back seat between you two, you get front."

He shrugged. "Works for me."

Nelly made it back in one piece and helped take out some of their luggage, both to make room for her to sleep in the open trunk, and also to get stuff out to use as blankets and pillows for everyone. A few moths came fluttering by, attracted by the light spilling out of the car windows across the tall, untamed grass of the untread field. Further out from them, fireflies danced in the dark. The light spilling from the car cut far into the night in five pillars. The radio was playing but the windows and doors were closed so it was muffled and mostly only the bass carried through into the night.

Quinn eventually groaned. "I wanna take a piss before I go to sleep... maybe I will just wait till morning."

Nelly looked at him. "What, why?"

"It's so dark... and creepy. What if I startle some wild animal and get mauled?"

"You absolute baby! I already went and I am perfectly fine! There are no predators in there, it's just a bit of brush, there isn't enough wooded area."

He crossed his arms. "Still creepy..." He looked back at her. "Weren't you scared?"

"Yea. Even right now, just standing out here in the middle of nowhere is making me kind of nervous but... I know nothing is going to happen. It is like going to a haunted house- it is a fun sort of scary." She reached across the hood and shoved him toward the brush. "Just go. You have your lighter."

"Hrrm."

Quinn had to be extra careful where he steps- the grass is so tall it could easily be hiding things. Dead logs or twigs, rocks... small animals. He freezes in place when he hears movement around him just as he enters the treeline. Further from the car- his eyes are able to pierce the dark unlike the women, so he scans the surroundings but sighs when he spots an owl above him. The sound he heard was the owl landing on a branch. Then another sound filled the air... a harmonica. Avalyn was playing her harmonica again, and since she is outside of the car the sound easily travels further. A smooth blues type melody from the car.

Quinn looked at her as he got back to the car after. "Thanks, Av."

"Hmm? She tried to act confused but he just smiled and then she caved in and smiled back. "just one last late night jam."

Nelly smiled at her and whispered 'told you'. Avalyn played her harmonica to calm his nerves, and guide him back to the car.

Quinn went into the car and turned the lights off, going to sleep first. Driving in that last stretch really drained him. Nelly flicked a fat nipple through Avalyn's shirt once Quinn was asleep.

"If I don't empty you, your size stays in flux."

"Hrm."

Nelly turned so they faced one another and slipped her hands up under Avalyn's shirt- though she had to force them up to get them between the fabric and the fronts of her boobs, because the shirt was once again stretching.

Avalyn glanced nervously back toward Quinn in the car. "Wait- not here!"

"Why not?"

"Quinn is-"

"Asleep."

"We are out in the open!"

"With no witnesses other than fireflies and stars."

"Buh-mph!" Nelly kissed her, cutting off her excuses.

Avalyn weakly lifted her arms to push back on Nelly, but Nelly just took her hands and tangled their fingers together. She caused Avalyn to slip and tumbled over onto her into the soft, cool grass.

"So... what form would you like tonight?"

"How about... vanilla." Nelly made a pained expression. "Even though I already know what you look like..?"

"Yea. It is bad, Av. After Tim broke off with me... I guess I never thought about it till then, that... relationships end. People I am friends with now can turn against me, or go away. Tim never told anyone what I really look like, but... it was a possibility I had not considered before then. The fear caused me to sink even deeper into my own illusions. I rely so heavily on my powers that I don't know how to function without them anymore."

"Yet you can see the lights of Atallia on the horizon. About to wish yourself entirely human- which will remove all of your powers."

"Another crutch I have been leaning on."

"Wishing yourself human?"

"Yea. In my mind I am like 'oh well its fine, when I wish myself human I will be forced to reveal myself anyway'. But that isn't... me. I mean, it will be but... y'know? Like, at that point I cannot reveal who I am to him or anyone else, because I have deleted that version of me from existence. So if this body doesn't exist anymore to reveal to him- that means it is technically always going to be a secret I keep from him. Even if I tell him afterwards it's still not really good enough. And like- sure he will know who I am after that point, but even then it wasn't because I opened it up to him. It is because I literally cannot transform anymore, I was FORCED to show him."

"Which means you are on a tight deadline, because we will be in Atallia tomorrow."

"I know. Help me Av. Shove me around- pin me down and interrogate me or something. I need to show him before the wish is made, I procrastinated for too long. I am out of time, and I have been tormenting him with this for far too long already. Quinn deserves better."

-N&A-

Avalyn used their locked hands to shove Nelly up, and then rolled over- reversing their positions to pin the much smaller woman down. "How about a bull for me to ride for now then?"

"Moo~"

The two started to strip each other slowly, never breaking eye contact. In the process they flipped over several times, but Avalyn still forced herself back on top. Their size difference made it easy to overpower Nelly.

Nelly's freckles exploded in size, scattering across her body to form base brown spots and the color drained from the rest of her skin, turning it almost completely white in contrast. Her face pushed out into a half-muzzle and her ears became small and leaf shaped. From her chin to her collar bone her skin seemed to ripple, expand and then layer itself, forming soft dewlaps- rolls of empty skin off the underside of her neck. Her feet quickly morphed to cloven hooves and her abs and pecs swelled out, making her look quite muscular; though she retained her D cup breasts.

Nelly smiled and thrust her hips up as her clit jut out of its hood. It very quickly started to grow into a neon pink thorn, then a cone, a pointed tower of throbbing stiff meat, and still bigger. It is mostly illusion- Nelly's transformative powers are not strong enough to invert her gender. When she gains a phallus- she is actually using her tail overlapped with optical illusions. So it's still her real body- just not the part of her body you think it is. The clit became so massive and long it dragged the clitoral hood longer, and bulked it up into a sheath- giving her the long tapered phallus of a bull. Her labia looked like they knit themselves together in the middle as two ostrich-egg sized testicles popped out into them, stretching them with their weight into the low-slung balls of a bull.

With her hips thrust up, the cock grew up past Avalyn's butt over her, sliding through her butt cheeks. Once it was ready to use, Nelly plopped her hips back down and Avalyn repositioned herself over the tip of the dick, licking her lips. She had her hands locked with Nelly still, using her raised arms to balance as she slowly eased herself down the long shaft. Unlike a proper bull- since the dick is partially just an illusion; as soon as Avalyn bottoms out on it, it shifts proportions inside of her to completely fill her width as well! A bulge became visible on Avalyn's lower gut, marking where the large cock is stretching her out from.

Avalyn let go of her hands and put her own hands into the grass on either side of Nelly's chest. Her knees above and to either side of Nelly's hips, rocking her own hips forward and back as well as up and down slightly to milk the shaft. She dropped herself onto it hard, loving the feeling of being stretched out to maximum. Quinn definitely did that the other night with his huge knot. Avalyn started to pant softly, making a few stuttered moans occasionally- cutting herself off when she remembers how close Quinn is sleeping to them. Her breasts bobbed around energetically in front of her, dipping low with weight but wobbling back up with their elasticity. They are taut and full- beads of milk escape when they spring back up. Her nipples are only an inch and a half long so far but as thick as a silver dollar. Nelly deliberately only milked a bit out of her, so she would swell up again not too long after. Keep her needy so she is forced to return for more.

Nelly chuckled softly and her own breasts seemed to start swelling rapidly. Since her body is controlled by what she wants- her transformations do not follow a roadmap of a copied form, or a set of specific transformative runes. Which means she doesn't need to take a form that already exists; she can turn into whatever nonsense she wants. As her breasts swelled her nipples widened, then seemed to impact in the center! They expanded and suddenly opened! Her nipples were gaped- revealing a growing pit inside of her breasts! The fat insulation was being shoved aside as they grew- so their overall mass actually was not changing at all, her breasts are becoming progressively more hollow! What remained of her ridiculously stretched nipples fattened into a pair of human lips and closed again, both smiling.

Avalyn's eyes rolled back in her head at the absurdity. She was too breathless to comment on it, and did not slow her grinding on the custom cock, causing her pussy juices to run down the shaft and mix with Nelly's own. The fake dick grows out directly over her REAL clitoris- so whenever Avalyn shoves the dick in, the shaft shoves back against Nelly's clit. Nelly shook her chest, almost breaking into a laugh at the giant wobbling orbs. Even bigger than Avalyn's current breasts, if only in how round they are. Instead of nipples the areola are crowned with mouths, and they wasted no time at all, latching onto Avalyn's engorged teats and sucking them in! Nelly's tits were sucking on Avalyn's breasts! She is drawing the milk out of Avalyn and putting it into her own chest! The space in her own boobs is completely hollow at the moment, waiting to be filled.

The lipples on Nelly's bust were so large she could suck half of Avalyn's entire breasts inside of her own! Avalyn's arms gave out from the pleasure of having her enlarged breasts sucked by such giant, plush feminine lips, so Nelly's thirsty boobs were holding Avalyn up by her own breasts; her arms just hanging limp at her sides. Nelly had to reach up and cover Avalyn's mouth with her hand, giggling softly at how she could not contain her moans, even at risk of waking Quinn. Little did either of them realize that Quinn hasn't actually gone to sleep yet- he could hear the entire thing. He just also knows how easily embarrassed Avalyn is, so at risk of causing her a small mental breakdown- he just pretended to be sleeping.

Avalyn was breathing so heavily she was almost hyperventilating- she could not escape the assault of pleasure even for a moment. She climbed on top thinking she would take control of this fuck, but Nelly easily stole back control. Nelly thrusts up, penetrating her and sending a shockwave of pleasure through her lower body, causing her to rock forward only to get sucked into the lipples and send a shock of pleasure through her upper body, forcing her to roll back the other way trying to escape the intensity. Nelly was just rocking her back and forth, sucking and fucking.

Nelly herself had several smaller orgasms along the way- since her faux phallus is a direct assault on her clit, and a sharper, more targeted pleasure than she was giving Avalyn. Nelly wished she could give her lipples tongues too, but that would be too much change for her to concentrate on at one time. Avalyn's breasts and nipples shrank as she emptied, till her entire breasts were sucked inside of Nelly's mutant boobs! Nelly was sucking on her ENTIRE breasts by the time Avalyn tensed up, curling her body a bit trying to edge herself back but failing as she squeaked in a muffled cry of pleasure and climaxed, hard.

Nelly resumed her regular human shape almost instantly, causing the shuddering cowgirl to collapse onto her, and she hugged Avalyn tightly, petting her pussy gently from behind with her hidden tail. After a bit, they got dressed again and slipped into the car to sleep. They could all watch the starry sky over them from where they lay to go to sleep to. Nelly was in the trunk so the most exposed- though even if it started raining the open hood would still keep her dry. It was a clear sky regardless. It IS a miracle she survived the night without any mosquito bites though.

Chapter 5 : Revelations

The three of them had a rough time waking up. A bit stiff and still tired- the sun was already full out and warming them. Small birds chirping all around them, the gentle wind rippling the sea of grass like waves on the ocean. None of them set an alarm to wake up, so Nelly ended up waking up first on her own, then nudging Avalyn awake and finally Quinn. Unfortunately while their stay in the car last night was not that bad for getting rest- it meant they were nowhere remotely close to a place to eat breakfast. And Quinn and Avalyn's dinner from the night before that ended up being their breakfast the following morning instead, so they were especially in need of a decent meal. Today, Avalyn insisted on taking the wheel again.

They turned the radio on low, pulled back the roof and let the wind whip their hair and fur as they raced toward their final destination. Atallia was already visible in the distance when they took to the road today. More and more traffic appeared on the highway with them as other routes converged into theirs as they get closer to the super city.

The buildings already look like they are towering over them before they even reach the city limits, and the city has multiple levels! Not only home to modern technologies; Atallia is a mecca for Magi as well- the survivor of the Second Wish herself is a Sorceress. So Atallia is filled with towers of glass and metal, webbed together with overpasses, but it also has multiple floating islands with still more towering buildings on THOSE- piercing the lower atmosphere, so the top floors are above cloud level! The floating islands are powered off mana conduction to transmitters in the uppermost level which is not even visible from the ground. The mana passes through reactive stones that invert gravity with a force equal to their mana charge. Since it isn't an actual spell doing it, the effect never ends because the mana isn't being converted into anything, it is just circulating through. The islands orbit the outer city so the city isn't cast into a shadow by its own upper levels. The only exception is actually this party's destination. The Wishing Council is in the Cloister Of Stars, which is a tower that floats at the very outer edges of Earth's atmosphere, so far into the sky you cannot see from the ground. The only way to reach it is a teleportation rune in the center of the city on ground level.

Avalyn breathed a heavy sigh as they passed under the shadow of the islands, entering Atallia City limits. "Anyone else suddenly VERY nervous?" Quinn and Nelly just nodded silently. "I am surprised we got here so fast... wasn't this Nelly's original best-case-scenario time frame?"

Quinn nodded. "It is because we took the scablands route, which basically no one else does. We also drive from dawn to evening every day so we just cover a lot of ground."

"Is it... okay if we do a little looking around first? Sight-seeing? I... REALLY don't feel ready to make a wish."

Nelly nodded. "Seconded. We are going sight-seeing and need to get a hotel room and all that while we are here anyway- it doesn't matter what order we do it in. I originally planned to see the city as a full human but... kinda wanna do that last now that we are here."

Quinn nodded. "It has been a strange journey but I am kind of sad we are already at the end. We ran into a lot of hitches along the way but overall it has been an amazing time."

Nelly looked rather somber at the photo her father took of them on her phone before they left. Three weird goofballs, about to step out on a journey to change their lives. It sort of feels like those three goofs already changed. She doesn't feel the same as when she left that day at all.

They found their hotel on the first try- fairly close to the city center as well. Thanks to magic and technology; their facilities function smoothly with less effort from any direct human contact, so they can afford to have much lower prices for much better rooms than anywhere else. Which helps- because Atallia gets a LOT of tourists, coming to make a wish. For that same reason- there are a lot of demi-humans all over the place. Anyone who wants to turn human ends up here; this is the only place it can be done. Conversely; anyone who wants to stop being human ends up here too. Remember that the Second Wish was originally made by a man who wanted to be part animal, and did not feel at home in his human body. From people wanting more muscle than their biology physically allows, sex workers looking to attract a more exotic audience, or just people who never felt right in their own skin even though they were born human; demi-humans can be made intentionally.

Nelly remained rocking out in the car bobbing her head to the radio while Quinn and Avalyn went in to rent a room.

Avalyn looked around the large well-lit lobby with mostly glass walls. "You know Nelly has a mana crystal from that last swanky hotel we stayed at?"

"What?!"

"They had a complementary mana crystal for magi that stay there, and she took it- it is in the glove box. I think she is going to try to google some spells she could cast with it... make sure she doesn't blow her hand off or something, ya?"

Quinn laughed nervously. "Yea I don't trust her with magic."

There was a bit of a pause before Avalyn spoke up again, though a bit quieter. "And thanks for the other night. It really helped." Her cheeks turned bright pink. "T-the talking part I mean! I mean the other stuff was nice too b-but-"

He chuckled. "I get it."

"I don't really know what I want from one minute to the next, and I don't know how I would describe myself to anyone. But I am the only 'me' in the world, so I don't need to fit any pre-conceived titles. Just... do what I feel in the moment, and be true to me. I have already been doing what I need to be doing, I just need to stop worrying about it. There is no real right or wrong. I don't need to worry about whether or not it is 'normal'."

"Yup. I am glad I could help, you're a great person and it wound suck for you to be so needlessly hard on yourself."

"Yea. My problems aren't really problems in the first place, I just get in my own head about it. I don't talk much to other people so the only person I usually bounce my thoughts off of is myself... which creates a hazardous feedback loop."

"Well you have me and Nelly, and your family. Maybe that is the next step you take- expanding your friend's list."

"Mmmmm- we'll see about that one."

The floor vibrated subtly with the footsteps of a demi-human walking past them, smiling at them and pausing. "More beautiful creatures among the bland humans. You two coming or going?"

The woman is as tall as Avalyn but probably weighs four times as much. She is dressed in only a white cloth tied around her chest to hold her breasts together and conceal enough of them to be in public. She wore a long white half-skirt tied to her hip by a long beaded chain wrapped several times around her hip that clacks together when she moves. Her legs are very thick and her feet have no visible definition against them- her legs have a stumped end with the only visible part of her toes being her massive blocky nails around the outside of the stump! She has a large but firm belly and meaty love handles. Her breasts look bigger than Avalyn's, so around a K cup or greater, since Avalyn was not entirely empty at the moment. Her arms are thick at the top but taper off and her hands have only two fingers and a thumb- each digit very girthy and tipped with a giant, blunt nail. Her neck is abnormally long and cone-shaped; the skin on it is so thick that it droops down, partially overlapping itself like armor plates. Her head is entirely that if a Rhinoceros; though the cranium is the same size as a human head, so her head is only larger than a human's because of her muzzle and horns. She has no hair or eyebrows but her eyelashes are long and thick. Her skin is a very soft, pale grey but has randomly placed, dark grey spots. An anthro rhino! Very heavy, but still quite beautiful.

Quinn spoke up after a moment, realizing he had taken an awkwardly long pause to look at who he was speaking to. "O-oh, uh, coming. Just arrived."

"Aww, so you two looking to become human then?"

Avalyn nodded. "Yea. Why, did you used to be human?"

She nodded, lifting her arms and doing a bit of a twirl. "Brand new body. Have to stick around to get my name legally changed too... it is currently Rosco." So not only a body change- a gender change too, she was a man a short while ago.

Luckily Nelly was too distracted jamming out to the tunes on the radio to notice how long her friends were taking in the hotel. Rosco talked to them a bit; clearly excited about showing off her new body and enjoying life in a whole new light. Quinn and Avalyn warned her about the troubles they encountered coming here and just with life in general. Being demi-human was not easy, by transforming herself; Rosco has put herself into the crosshairs of a slew of troubles. On the other hand, now everything was different for her. Her entire body is different and that is the body she lives in- so nothing she does is going to feel completely the same as it did before. So even though it's the same old world she has been living in- she can now live it in an entirely new way. Every experience is a new one now, even if she just returns to her old schedules. She was also gay as a male, and had constantly been struggling to find a 'cure' for her masculine body even though her boyfriend loved her in any form. But now he can love her in a body SHE is comfortable with too.

Like Timothy back in their home town; some people just don't care what the rest of the world thinks about them. They are comfortable in a demi-human body, so that is the form they choose in spite of all the discrimination and sideways glances they may get as a result. People get picked on sometimes for their skin color even if they are completely human. Sometimes it is gender. Sometimes it is just the people you spend your time with or the place you were born in. The people who discriminate are just shitty people- it doesn't matter who or what you are, they will find a reason to be assholes regardless. Everyone has the potential to be outcast somewhere, by someone, so it that really a reason to not be a demi-human? If someone made fun of you for being short, would you get surgery to stretch yourself taller, or would just you just flip them the bird and continue on your merry way? If someone has a problem with who you are- it's their problem, not yours.

When Rosco left, they returned to Nelly and headed out to the beach- the one place they all already knew about and wanted to see at least once while they are here. Quinn went dressed in only his new shorts- even taking out his many piercings for the first time in a long while. Nelly looked like she is wearing a bikini but she is actually wearing skin tight shorts and no top at all! She is completely topless, and just using an illusion to look like her breasts are covered! Avalyn has a black and white cow-splotch pattern bikini on, but tied a white shirt around her bust as a little extra cover just in case- since her bust size fluctuates perpetually.

Nelly transformed her hands into mole claws and was making a massive pit while Nelly and Quinn slowly shaped the sand she was upheaving into a sand castle. The sand at the beach is here is very fine grain, feeling silky smooth on your body. Avalyn had the foresight to pack a beach umbrella and Nelly had beach towels she had been using as blankets when she slept in the car.

Avalyn sighed happily, looking across the growing castle to Quinn. "First time I saw you with no piercings. I have thought about getting piercings too, but... eh."

He cocked an eyebrow. "Afraid of the pain?"

"N-no. My body changes, remember?"

He thought for a moment what that had to do with anything, then nodded in sudden understanding. "Oooh- you can't have piercings in your ears when your ears change shape. I take my chain out when I go wolf because if I didn't; it would tear itself out. But your transformation is slow and kind of constant... you're always changing, a little bit."

She nodded but also blushed, looking a bit bashful, speaking with a lowered voice. "A-and the piercing I wanted to get most would be nipple."

"Oh." Now he blushed too.

"But it would interrupt the milk flow, and my teats REALLY change shape, often. It would never be able to work."

"Isn't that a myth? That you can't lactate with nipple piercings?"

"Well no, the milk can still get out just fine- but with a clear hole through it; it would flow out differently, and when my nipples become more teat-like, it would cause me to lactate heavier, sideways." She motioned to him with a nod. "This is the first time I seen you in regular men's clothing too, it is almost unusual seeing you in it. Ah- n-not that it doesn't look good!"

He smiled timidly. "Yea, and it feels fine in this scenario. I guess I am like you in that sense... I just sort of flip flop between two contradicting styles. I have nightmares about it pretty frequently too."

Nelly popped her head out of her massive hole. "Yea- he dreams his wolf half is insulting him about his style choices. Because he views his wolf half as, like... the masculine side of himself."

Quinn nodded. "Well, that will all change soon enough. I am done wearing women's clothing." Both women looked at him in surprise. "And I am not wearing men's clothing, either. Been thinking about this for a long time, but seeing Nelly's struggles to come out of her shell of illusions and Avalyn struggling to figure herself out and what she wants- I finally came up with the answer. Clothing can be a form of expression, or even a form of art, but it is never your identity. The clothes don't make the man; the man makes the clothing. Women's clothing can be hard to find a fit, and can be too feminine. Men's clothing is too stiff and boring. I have a sewing kit- heck I even brought it with me on this trip just in case. I have been modifying clothes to fit for ages, there is nothing stopping me from just making my own! I don't need to find my perfect fit to be myself. I have always been myself." He pointed to Nelly. "What do you like best about me?"

"U-uh, your confidence! When we first started dating- your paper bag incident. You shrugged off a really embarrassing moment without losing momentum. And you were never afraid to wear what you wanted, even if it made everyone else question you."

Quinn raised his hands. "Exactly! I am a complete idiot. I fuck up so often, even I lost count. But I never once in my life let that stop me. I learn. I fuck up, I learn, I continue a little smarter and stronger than I was before. THAT is who I am. Not the clothes. I already had the answer, I was just too distracted to see it."

Quinn revealed he even had plans to try and open an online shop to see if anyone else shared his fashion sense once he gets home again and starts making his custom fit. Loose and flowing like women's clothing, but with a gender-neutral look, and the utility of men's clothing. Even Quinn had no idea what the final look will end up being, but it didn't matter. He could experiment and find his way there. What matters is that he found himself somewhere along the long road to Atallia City, and like Avalyn now; he is confident in himself. They were both so worried about how to fit into roles or titles that other people made. But they were always themselves- the only people they ever needed to be. They don't need anyone else to be able to identify them- THEY tell others who they are. Quinn is Quinn, Avalyn is Avalyn, and that is all they are. There is no one else who can fill their roles.

After their trip to the beach, Nelly got them to drop her back at the hotel. Apparently sleeping in the trunk was not nearly as comfortable as on the back seat, and she wanted to rest a while. Quinn and Avalyn treated themselves to a feast of a lunch to make up for several missed meals now. Now that exactly half their journey was over they could better budget out the return trip's funds to know exactly how much they can afford to drop at each stop without worrying about running completely out before they are home. Quinn's father put exactly as much on the card as they would need, but that was assuming everything went to plan. Staying at a luxury hotel was not part of the plan, nor was being able to stay at an inn for free, so planning things out has been a little tricky.

Nelly paced back and forth at the window of their hotel room. The fluffy white clouds took on strange shapes around Atallia and wove themselves through the city above between the islands and back out. The heavily controlled flow of mana from the city up to the Cloister Of Stars not only holds the islands afloat but also directs the cloud coverage so no matter what- Atallia is never completely overcast. It rains around the city but never IN the city. So when the clouds hit the mana flow, it causes them to condense, spiral and then get drawn between the islands in narrow pathways and re-directed back out of the city. Their hotel room is on the 22nd floor, so her view of the city is very nice- there is still almost as much city above her as below though.

Nelly knew she was running out of time. She needed to show Quinn her true form before they make their wish, or the gesture will lose all value. He loves her, it isn't like seeing her is going to drive him off. Avalyn already knows what she looks like and she could not even use her true form when she had sex with Av the other night! There is no reason to hide, and she knows that, so then WHY? She smiled a bit when her phone pinged her as Avalyn sent her a photo of her and Quinn's lunch.

She flopped over on the bed and opened up the playlist of her mother's streams. Her mother was so optimistic about everything in her streams, but even Silver Lining had her dark moments. Tulia originally went by 'Bronze Lining', a name made to poke fun of the user name she would eventually settle on. She thought of herself as second or third place. Not a bad person, but never anyone's first choice. But she still powered through and once she had Richard at her side, she found her radiant optimism. She stormed through the darkness and found her light on the other side. Nelly wondered what she would do. Tulia had almost the same form Nelly does, for a while anyway. She never had the option to wish herself back, but what if she did? Would she? Or would she just find a way to make it work. According to Richard; Tulia only used her power to hide to go get them resources without risk of being hurt. If she encountered a predatory creature, she just took the same shape it had so it would not attack. Her illusions were not used to fit in- she did not burry herself under layers of deception.

Her thumb scrolled through the playlist of all her old streams and paused at the end and her heart tightened. The final video was never opened. The one even Nelly has never seen. Nelly accidentally brushed her thumb over the icon and played the video- quickly tapping the screen to pause it. Her chest tightened so much it almost hurt, but after several long moments she unpaused the video, and let it go.

There was no gameplay in this stream- it is only forty minutes long. She answered questions about how she was streaming less frequently since the Second Wish and what was happening on her end. By this video she was VERY noticeably pregnant. Not only were her breasts larger and heavier- her stomach was huge. She talked briefly about encounters she had during the Second Wish, in all the chaos and death created by it. In this final video; demi-humans had been discovered. They were starting to be born into the world, unintentionally bringing a reminder to everyone the apocalypse they try so hard to forget. Tulia had an ultrasound done on her... she knew her own daughter was not human as well.

But as usual... Tulia did not look at that side of things. She viewed it as an opportunity. A wish could be made to turn them back, but as long as they are demi-human they will be born beautiful in a totally unique way. Not a reminder of the destruction of the world but... the exact opposite. Babies are not born to death, they are not raised by chaos. They are spawned from love. In all the havoc and destruction- faced with their utter annihilation people still found one another. People still experienced love and pleasure with one another in even the world's darkest hour. These children were conceived DURING the Second Wish; they are a testament to human resilience. They are a living sign that the night is darkest just before the dawn. Love blossomed in the harshest climates and survived even through its reversal. The Second Wish ultimately took back the destruction and chaos- but even it did not revoke the bonds and love that came from it. The demi-humans are not a reminder of the destruction- they are the love that transcended it.

"I am going to be having my own very unique daughter soon, so... this will be the last time any of you hear from me in a long while, chat. Oooh, I know. Oh gosh, I don't think I have seen that many crying emoji in one place, my chat window is raining, heh." She gently rubbed her large belly. "I hope she enjoys her body. With the carnage aspect removed from the situation, there is no reason not to enjoy whatever strange powers she ends up getting as a result. Maybe I will let her show you on a future stream~ hehe. Oh gosh... just had a weird thought. All these VODs are going to be sitting there, and she can access them too. Eh, I guess it is a modern equivalent of passing down a journal to your kid, right?" She pointed directly at the camera. "So you all stop posting those embarrassing compilations. Sure it is real easy to take stills of someone when they are reacting and make them look like a crazy person!" She blushed. "And all those times I was jumpscared and fell completely over- till I got this new chair. Gamer chairs really are just, terrible for gamers. It is so mind-blowing. Get yourself a mesh-backed office chair, my dude. So much better and cheaper."

She stood up a bit awkwardly because of her gravid belly, placed a hand on her mouse ready to turn the stream off one final time. "This isn't goodbye, it is just see you later. And listen all... you too, my beautiful future daughter." Nelly's eyes stung with tears, and she had to squint to see through them. "Stay optimistic when I am gone, okay? I know you can do it. If I can do it, so can you~! The world is a beautiful place no matter what form it takes, and you are all beautiful no matter what form you take." She pointed at the camera again. "I love the shape of you."

Tulia ended the stream. The screen went black before blinking off and returning to the playlist. That was it. The end. Nelly watched every single one of them... there were nothing left of her mother now. But she still wished she had watched that final video sooner. Tulia was practically talking directly to Nelly through it, like a final will and testament.

Quinn and Avalyn got back to the room and Nelly immediately collapsed into Quinn's arms before he could even step fully through the door! She was crying into his shirt!

"W-woah, what's wrong?! Are you okay, what happened?!"

"N-noooo, I'm not okay." She started sobbing loudly into his chest.

Avalyn walked around and gently pulled her away so they could actually try to talk to her. "Nel, what happened? Talk to us."

Her chest was heaving from sudden gasps of breath between her sobs as she shook her head. "You're gunna hate me... fuck. You're going to be so mad... I fucked up, I fucked up so bad."

"Well you didn't blow the car up, because we just got out of it."

Quinn took her by the shoulders and backed her up to sit onto the edge of the bed and then flopped down beside her, and Avalyn took the other side. "I fuck up all the time- people get over it, trust me. What happened?"

"I don't... I can't wish to be human."

Quinn and Avalyn were silent for several moments, exchanging glances before looking back to Nelly. "You had a change of heart?"

She nodded, pointing to her phone for a few moments before she settled her crying enough to talk properly. "I watched my mother's final stream. She wanted me to be happy the way I am, and... and she thought the demi-humans were great, and symbols of the resilience of love! And... and I don't hate being me. I hate what I did with my powers... because I used them to hide me. But I don't hate me. Like at that gas station! I can save people! I can climb walls, I can transform to please whoever, I can hide when I don't want to be seen and be seen louder than anyone else when I want to be heard! Demi-humans get hated on and have a lot of problems... but because I can shapeshift; none of those problems actually affected me. If I think of reasons I wanted to turn human specifically, it was to fix a problem I created for myself... and that turning human would not have properly solved. So I personally don't actually have any good reason to turn human. And... I don't want to throw away the body my mother died to give me."

Tulia had no way of knowing what would happen in the end, but she could have turned Nelly human herself. She could have come to Atallia and wished her daughter human while she was still in the womb. She chose to birth a demi-human, to leave Nelly's fate in Nelly's own hands. She died from birthing complications because it was not a human coming out of her. She literally died to give Nelly control of her own fate.

Nelly looked at Quinn and Avalyn who were oddly quiet all of a sudden. Avalyn had a look on her face that immediately told Nelly she was hiding something.

"Av... what is it?"

"N-nothing. I was just thinking- spaced out."

"Thinking about..?"

"Turning human. I... dunno. The closer we got to Atallia the more nervous I got about it. I don't go out in public much y'know? So I don't really get made fun of. Sure my figure might attract some perverts, but, is having to avoid them worth taking away my own pleasure? This body is wild and embarrassing... but it also feels good, and is kind of amazing too. Wishing myself human when I am already so human by default kind of seems like a waste." She shook her head. "I didn't want to bring up my uncertainty before, because y'know, you two put up with me on this long journey. The further we went the ruder it seemed to bring up." She looked startled a moment when she realized what that must sound like. "Eh, but if you don't want to turn human- you shouldn't! Don't do anything you don't want to. Especially when it comes to your own body!"

"You can't tell ME that and then do the exact opposite for yourself!"

Quinn spoke up, resting his chin in his palm and elbow on his knee. "Well... allow me to throw another wrench into the works- I don't really feel like becoming human, either."

"R...really?"

"All of my problems have been with me trying to fit in, trying to force friendships instead of letting it just happen naturally. Isn't... isn't that exactly what turning myself human is doing, too? I am changing my body permanently, to fit someone else's taste better. If I am going to make friends, I want them to like me for being me, not for being human. There are people here who deliberately became demi-human because they hated being human! Grass is always greener, I suppose."

Avalyn laughed weakly. "Well. This certainly creates a bit of a problem. All three of us are here and none of us want to be."

Nelly tilted her head. "Well... I wouldn't say that. We all had a ton of fun coming here. I got a little sad when we pulled into the city because I didn't really want it to end. But... the original reason we came here was to make a wish to Astrelle, and now none of us want to do it... so what do we do??"

Quinn shrugged. "We don't. Same plan, minus the wish. We have a spot in queue, so we might as well wish for something, but, just not to change our bodies. If we change our bodies, it HAS to be because we want to, not for anyone else."

"But your dad's money..."

Quinn scoffed. "Oh fuck him. I will work and pay him off myself. Shit happens... we learned stuff about ourselves on this trip and we had to change plans. Simple as that. We didn't make this trip for nothing. We had a ton of fun, we struggled, we partied... we found ourselves. It is just that the 'self' we found, isn't human."

The rest of the afternoon the three of them remained inside, bouncing on the springy beds and watching television- there are a ton of stations available here they cannot get back home. They even decided that they would take the long-way on the return trip, going around the scablands instead of through it again. They were in no rush to get home. As time went on, Avalyn expanded again, having to move to the foot of the bed, closer to the TV so she could let her tits flop off the end of the bed and not be squished under her. Eventually she had to sit up because a drop of milk fell through her shirt, indicating she was getting too full to contain herself.

-N&A&Q-

Nelly grabbed her shoulder before she could get off the bed to go to the bathroom. "Mmm, where you taking that milkshake? Nelly thirsty~"

Avalyn blushed. "Not in front of Quinn!"

Quinn looked over at them and shrugged. "I don't mind- not like I haven't already seen it before."

"W-well yea, but it might make you... uh... n-never... mind." Her blush deepened even more.

Nelly got a sly smile. "Maybe he wants to join in~?"

Quinn raised a brow. "Huh? Helping milk Avalyn?"

Nelly lowered her brows. "Sex, dummy." He sat up to say something but she cut him off before he could. "Think about it, we are all comfortable with ourselves now, right? That is BIG. I mean it might sound like a small thing but it's not. We came a long way and we achieved something great here. Why not have a romp as celebration? All three of us."

Quinn glanced at Avalyn. "What do you think? I know you are shy... don't let us pressure you into anything you aren't comfortable with."

Avalyn softly shook her head. "N-no, I trust both of you. I mean... we kind of already did it already... just not with all three of us at once."

Avalyn slowly took her shirt off so she would not accidentally express milk. Her breasts are already so large that when she pulls her shirt off they flop down low enough on her torso to cover her belly! Without the shirt to compress them you could easily see their sides from BEHIND her. Her nipples are as wide as shot glasses and a little bit longer than that- but her other bovine traits were not manifesting yet. She got up and went to walk over to Quinn's bed but Nelly hooked a finger on her shorts from behind and yanked them down as she moved. Nelly only had to slip her shorts off- her top was just an illusion anyway. Nelly stood up but seemed to freeze up a moment in thought before approaching the other bed. She let Avalyn go first.

Avalyn plopped down beside Quinn. Avalyn grabbed his shorts and he pulled up out of them to get into a sitting position. He went to look at Nelly but she had vanished. She was using illusions to disappear entirely- so he scanned the room trying to spot the slight differences. She was on the wall however- behind him. She crawled along the wall and down the headboard of the bed, plopping down on the pillow directly behind him and before he could move she put her hands over his eyes from behind.

"Gotacha!"

"You little gremlin..."

"Sooo, what will it be this time? Cheetah girl? Oooh, chubby tanuki woman?"

He chuckled. "How about... mmm, I dunno, YOU?"

"Okay."

The flat tone of her voice when she replied immediately froze his heart. Wait... what? He heard Avalyn gasp and as Nelly slowly took her hands off his face he could see the shocked look on Avalyn; frozen in place, not knowing how to react or what to say. Quinn slowly turned and Nelly just looked at the bed, lowering her head a bit in embarrassment. She didn't have an illusion this time. She isn't transformed as anything.

Her eyes are bright pink with pupils shaped like vertical slits, and as usual she has constellations of freckles dusted across her forearms, the tops of her breasts, and from one cheek to the other across her nose that start to glow a diffused red in embarrassment. Her skin is now quite pale pink, and her hair, eyebrows, and even her eyelashes are bizarrely stark white! Because white contains every other color. Her hair is straight and hangs to the bottoms of her breasts- and can easily hide them. Her actual unmodified chest only has A cup breasts- shallow hills of soft flesh that are almost unnoticeable when she lays down. Her nipples are aggressive and stand in attention often- they are pastel pink with small, solid edged areola and are a perfect cylinder shape. Her entire body is bordered with tiny round scales that do not project far out- making them feel like subtle smooth bumps of skin more than actual scales. They are white but can shine both teal and magenta depending on how the light reflects off them- they are pearlescent!

Nelly's hands and feet look mostly human with one unusual exception- her thumb and pinky finger on her hands and her largest and smallest toes are almost twice the size of her other digits- of equal size to one another, and tipped with a claw, while her other digits have regular human nails. In front of either temple, jutting straight forward is a fair sized horn- about seven or eight inches long, narrow and curve very slightly upward. Her nose is a bit wide for her face, only so that it can host a third horn right on its end.

Nelly has a giant tail compared to the size of her body. It is easily twice the length of her entire body from toe to hair, but is almost always kept rolled up in a giant spiral behind her to keep it out of the way. Her scales only cover her back, sides, outer arms, her outer legs, and the edges of her face- trailing down her forehead onto the bridge of her nose, and her entire tail. Everywhere else is normal human skin. Nelly is a three-horned Chameleon. That is why she can make herself look like anything she wants... disguising as other things is an inherent trait of the creature!

She slithered around Quinn, deliberately uncurling her tail to rub against him. Her voice was extremely quiet. "Haven't felt this naked in a loooong time."

She cupped the still stunned Avalyn's breasts, pinching the teats between her index and middle fingers and then shoved her forward down onto the end of the bed before climbing up over her. Her tail slithered around Quinn, rubbing the soft, smooth scales over him before the end ran off his chin, wiggling the tip at him to invite him forward before her tail rolled itself back up. Nelly raised her rump to him, presenting her plush little pussy to him, already blushing powder pink like her cheeks. Her anus is triangular in shape because one side of it is squashed against the base of her tail. Her default size was never a lie- Nelly is a petite woman, so REALLY tiny compared to Avalyn who is considerably above average size.

Nelly rolled her hands on Avalyn's breasts, making her moan. She flicked the teats softly with her fingers, smiling at how the rubbery skin wobbles back and forth, barely able to contain the milk within. Quinn's feline member emerged fast and was already pulsing with an almost achingly hard erection from Nelly's true form. He took her hips and gently guided his cock to her rather petite pussy, making sure to go in slow. The barbs across the front of his dick tickled her labia on the way in, causing her clit to throb. Once he was fully in, she rocked her hips back against his to make sure he was hilted, and then uncurled her long tail, wrapping around his left shoulder, under his right arm, and around his midriff twice before running out of length! She held him tightly in the warm coils as he started to thrust back and forth now that he knew he could fit the entire thing without getting her to modify her size. She is a very tight fit.

Once Quinn was working her up from behind, she let her hands slide down Avalyn's toned belly, smearing milk off her hands till she took Avalyn's thighs and parted her legs a bit more. She bent down, shaking her head once to clear the hair out of her face since her actual hair doesn't have bangs like her illusions usually do. Nelly then kissed Avalyn's pussy several times, till her clit engorged enough to peek out, and then he kissed the clit directly making Avalyn squirm. Smiling at her reaction, Nelly then opened her mouth a bit and her tongue came out, pressing against Avalyn's pussy, then into it, then deeper and deeper, and deeper still. Fully extended; Nelly's tongue is longer than her arms or legs are. She could wrap her own tongue around her head several times over! Waving up and down its length, Nelly dug deeper, tasting Avalyn's pussy before reaching the absolute bottom. Her tongue then doubled back- shoving even more of its length inside! She stretched Avalyn around her amorphous tongue, undulating it to make Avalyn squeal breathlessly, clutching the bed under her as she writhed.

When Quinn started to thrust more aggressively into Nelly, he shoved her forward enough that the base of her nose-horn shoved against Avalyn's clit. Avalyn's breasts rolled up and down her torso- large enough to almost threaten to fall off her torso over her shoulders when they roll up, and her teats flop with their own rhythm entirely. Nelly isn't nearly big enough of an obstruction to interrupt Quinn's view of Avalyn's huge flopping tits while banging Nelly. Her moans started to sound like she was impersonating a cow's lows. It was her default sound when she let go of all other thoughts. Her own tail coiled around Nelly's right arm unconsciously just grasping for something. Nelly held her trembling thighs to hold both of them steady.

Nelly's deft tongue could pet every inch of Avalyn's entire vaginal passage while the smooth surface of her horn rubbed the clit and her lips kissed the outer labia, so Nelly was able to bring Avalyn to several orgasms. Nelly knew all her weak spots by now. Quinn's dick brought Nelly to a small orgasm quickly being wrapped around him so tightly, but she was approaching a second by the time he went over the edge himself. He pulled almost completely out of her thinking he might be able to edge himself a bit longer, but when he realized he couldn't keep it in, he slammed fully back into her. Nelly rolled up Avalyn's crotch- luckily she has the foresight to bend her head down so the tip of her horns don't roll forward enough to puncture Avalyn. She cries out in pleasure around her own tongue- quickly rolling it back into her body out of Av. Nelly straightens her legs and then shoves back, knocking Quinn onto his butt and slamming her own butt down onto his lap because her tail is still tangled around him. Slamming down onto his spasming dick fired her sharply over into her second, more powerful orgasm. She cupped his furry clenching balls with one palm and shoved her clit down toward his shaft with her other and rode held till both orgasms completely tapered off.

They all went to sleep quite satisfied that night, all on the same bed tangled together. After Nelly and Quinn helped suck Avalyn dry that is- or she would have overflowed the bed in her sleep.

Chapter 6 : The Will Of Gods

The next day they all dressed in their best attire in preparation to see the Wishing Council. Quinn dressed in a thin, stretchy white turtle-neck sweater, with a long ruffled white skirt with deep royal purple hem and patterned trimming. A stark contrast to his usual outfit, matching his fur color instead of opposing it. He wore a gold spike stud in all of his piercing holes but no chains. Around his neck a simple chain with a small padlock hanging in the front like a pendant.

Avalyn wore tight, flexible black pants and black leg warmers- allowing her entire legs to be covered by letting the leg warmers cover what the pant legs could not possibly reach. She wore several rings, including a gold ring with an amethyst thorn on her tail. Finger rings are not big enough to put on her tail- but thumb rings fit fine. Her top is a cream colored thin but flexible long sleeve, but it has a huge diamond cut out on the back and a small diamond cleavage window in the front. This means you can see her splotches through the back 'window', and her sweater puppies have breathing room no matter how big they swell while in the shirt. She also tied her long hair back into a ponytail, slightly to the side so she could hang it in front of her shoulder.

Nelly defaulted to quickly trying on several illusory outfits, but Avalyn was quick to convince her to put on REAL clothes. At least for a little while- chill on the illusions entirely. Nelly packed tons of outfits, but she has never had to coordinate them with her REAL look before. She went with candy colors- white and pastel pink sneakers and teal knee-high socks, candy pink pleated skirt, sky blue t shirt. Her own colors are nearly all white so the only way to match it is with very pale colors- though she could also match it through contrast and go all black like Quinn usually does, but she doesn't own that much black stuff. She had to make a conscious effort to keep her tail a bit lower than usual- because it lifts her skirt in the back. Quinn promised to modify her some skirts with a tail-hole when they get back home. She is used to just transforming her hair to whatever she wants- but it's long enough that her ears can help hold it off her face for the most part.

On the way there- since their sizes are such polar opposites; Nelly skittered up Avalyn's back and rode on her shoulders. Normally Nelly is over-confident, but in her true form and facing such an important moment in her life; she is very nervous today. Avalyn is always shy so in a high-traffic place like this she is especially sheepish. Nelly riding her let them both reassure one another. Avalyn held Quinn's wrist loosely with her tail to make sure he was never more than a step away from them too.

There are two different teleportation runes for the Cloister Of Stars- public and celebrity. The name is partly thanks to it housing the Wishing Council who in turn speaks to Astrelle out in the cosmos, but also because this is a gathering hub for famous people. Nelly's mother once stepped into the Cloister Of Stars to arrange a collaboration with an up-and-coming pop band. The cloister did not exist before the Second Wish though, so Tulia was already slowing down on streaming by the time it existed, so she only ever visited it once. All the mana in the entire surrounding area is gathered up through here to help with their communication to Astrelle. The God Of Wishes can communicate with anyone regardless of distance with no effort at all, but it takes some exceptionally powerful magic on the behalf of humans to be able to contact her.

Astrelle's body is so colossal that she cannot even approach our solar system, or it would kill us all. Astrelle is not even inside of the Milky Way. She is so large that coming even remotely close to our system would yank all of the planets out of their orbit and toward her own body unintentionally. The shooting stars she empowered with wishes before were chunks of dead planets she broke off and flicked into space, like a child plucks petals off of a flower. Astrelle was born outside of our universe- between two different universes in the void where nothing is supposed to exist. If enough paradoxal energy leeches into the void, it can coalesce into a God. Ironically in the void where they are born- they have no powers whatsoever. But only nothing can exist in the void, so as soon as that 'nothing' becomes 'something' it is rejected into one universe or the other. Thanks to conservation of mass however- their existence inside of a universe they do not belong to causes the forces of balance to react to them... and that is what fuels their power. That is why the power of the Gods knows no limit- it isn't really a power at all, it is a reaction to them existing where they should not. So their 'power' lasts as long as they continue to exist. There is no place where they actually belong- they are orphans of fractured timelines and universe that no longer are.

There is a lot of security at the city center- especially because it is also effectively city hall on ground level- so the mayor of Atallia works in the base of the structure, where the runic arrays are. In a world that knows magic- there is no need of pat-downs or metal detectors. You stand before the guards and with arcane eyes they see everything you have on you at a glance and know if your intentions are ill or not, and judge you worthy to proceed. Of course- only one person can stand before the council at a time, so even if the three of them are together; they can only enter one at a time. There is a large waiting room larger than small aircraft carrier hangers, made entirely of crystal where they can wait for each other. There are no lights inside of the waiting room itself, but because it's entirely made of crystal both the light from the inner rooms and the sunlight from outside filter into it and reflect through the crystal walls to paint the room in glowing rainbow.

The Wishing Council is made up of 14 members- seven men and seven women. They are arranged around the chamber in a circle behind a continuous countertop- the runic array to teleport people in and out is in the very center. The Cloister Of Stars is so high off the ground that there can be no windows in it- instead thick crystal veins in the walls below, and the entire Wishing Council chamber is made of crystal, allowing you to see the glowing surface of the earth far below and the twinkling stars above, regardless of the time of day.

Avalyn stood before the council first. She was too shy to speak up so there was an awkwardly long pause before one of the council members motioned for her to speak.

"O-oh. Uh... well, originally I had come here to wish myself human again... but I realized that was not what I really wanted. I know you cannot allow for a lot of common desires because it would disrupt the world as a whole. Whatever I wish for can only affect myself, correct?"

One of the elder men nodded. "That is correct for the most part. Wishes that could even effect many people as a potential, is still too dangerous to allow because it can cause a cascading effect."

Another council member spoke up. "Yes, and to allow a cascade effect is to allow control to slip away, however momentary. One well-intentioned wish already nearly ended our entire world... we cannot wish carelessly ever again. Astrelle's power has no limitations- so our wishes must be the limit."

"Th-then I will keep this small and simple. I just wish for some jewelry, just, simple earrings and... nmnn.." Her voice lowered too far for any of them to hear her.

"Uhm, could you speak up ma'am?"

"...nipple rings." She pointed to her elven ears. "My body transforms itself at a slow and constant rate, so I cannot wear normal jewelry. Which means it would need to have ethereal properties- it needs to look like a piercing without actually piercing me, and it needs to be able to change its proportions to match my own."

The Wishing Council did not even need to hold a vote- they simply looked across to one another and nodded, before approving the wish. The radiant golden light that hovers at the top of the tear-drop shaped chamber is actually the active communication node to Astrelle. Astrelle does not know any human languages, so she does not rely on what you say to her- she can hear your thoughts directly. Of course, most people also think in the languages they know- so wording absolutely can still mess a wish up.

Avalyn gasped as she was startled by a tingling feeling of the jewelry materializing already ON her body! Under her shirt the outline of large rounded rectangular metal links appeared on her teats. Three bronze studs appeared near the base of each ear. They act like a normal piercing but when she pulls it out- the hole it's in also disappears. This means she can change where the piercing is- she can put one on her nose and it will adhere to her if she wants.

Quinn seen them next. "I have thought about this for some time... I know it is one wish per person only. I originally came here to wish myself human... but the trip here made me realize that was not really what I wanted. Instead- I simply wish to build on what I already have. I wish I had human hair. Er... specifically on my head. S-see how I sort of have eyebrows? I want black hair to match that- which means when I turn into my wolf form which is black, my hair would then turn white, because my eyebrows do too."

Again, not a wish they had to deliberate on, it was granted right away. His hair is quite soft- only slightly firmer than his fur. It grew in at a perfectly even length down low enough to touch his collar bone. Now that he has it, he can choose to let it grow longer or cut it however he wants, it is part of his body now so it will grow and react like normal human hair does.

Quinn swung his head around, chuckling at the feeling of hair swinging about his head now. This will help him capture his long, flowing style he wants to start building up. An unforeseen perk he would not realize he has with his hair yet is that it reacts separately to both forms. The hair in his wolf form is separate from his cat hair- so he can cut his hair in two different styles and swapping forms will also swap the cut.

Last was Nelly, the most nervous of them all. Her mind raced as fast as her heart, trying to scan her desires for a wish worthy of the long road they travelled, but her mind kept going back to one thought.

Nelly appeared before the Wishing Council and took a slight bow, looking a bit like a reprimanded child before them. "I... I am sorry. I was well prepared to wish myself human on my way here but-"

"Your journey here changed your mind? We have been seeing a theme with these last few wishes. Go on."

"I... it's really embarrassing but I don't... really have a backup wish. I mean, there are lots of things I could wish for but... there is also a lot of wishes that are off limits, like money and stuff, right?"

One of the women spoke up. "Yes. While we do not openly encourage it- it is also possible to revise a wish as well. You are limited to one wish only, but altering an existing wish is not making a new wish. The only limitation there is you cannot recall your wish and make an entirely different one- the two wishes would have to be in some way connected. If you changed your appearance for instance- you can change your appearance again. But you could not change your appearance and then try to wish someone healthy later on- the wishes are not related to one another."

Nelly smirked and stole the council woman's exact appearance for a split second. "I don't think I need to change my appearance with a wish- can kinda already do that whenever I want. I have one wish I really... really want. But I am almost positive you won't grant it." She took a deep breath and let out a heavy sigh. "I wish my mother was alive again. Silver Lining- the famous game streamer."

An old man shook his head. "Absolutely not."

Another nodded to him then to Nelly. "Reversal of death is extremely disruptive, and cannot be allowed."

The woman who spoke up before hummed in thought though. "But it is just one woman. She was a famed streamer, no? She affected many people in a positive light when she was alive, would her revival not be more beneficial than harmful?"

Another woman shook her head with a furrowed brow. "And widely seen! Then what do you tell to the several million people who come here after her, also looking to revive a family member? We weigh wishes, not lives, it is neither our place nor anyone else's to judge whether someone is worthy to be dead or alive."

One of the younger men on the council shook his head, leaning back in his chair. "Conservation of mass- ever heard of it? Physical mass can be broken down into energy but you can neither create nor destroy energy. So if she died, where is she now? You can't destroy the mass that made up her body, you can only break it down into energy. Energy that is no doubt circulating in the ecosystem again. To revive her you would need to rip that energy back out of the ecosystem, potentially killing several other beings who had already recycled said energy into their bodies."

The man beside him looked at him with a mix of confusion and loathing. "We are asking this of a God who CAN create matter from nothing, remember?"

"Can and should are two very different concepts, my friend."

The woman on his other side chimed in. "He is right- because of the universal conservation of mass, creating new matter would be a paradox... the same energy that created Astrelle herself."

The old woman across from her leaned forward. "The amount of energy required to rebuild a human, compared to the amount of energy required to create Astrelle is like comparing a skin cell to the sun."

"And it all adds up. Once it is there it cannot be taken back."

The council bickered with one another, but the overall vote was still easily counted. Of the 14 members in the Wishing Council, 3 voted for Nelly, 3 remained undecided, the remaining 8 voted firmly against. They asked if she had anything at all that she wanted besides that- it seemed a shame to come all this way and stand before the council and leave with absolutely nothing, but Nelly very sadly claimed there was nothing else, and thanked them for their time.

Nelly was very somber when she emerged again to see her friends, but said she would be fine, and did not really want to talk about it. She did not really have a wish for them, and felt silly for wasting their time, but it was okay. The three of them ended up staying not only the rest of the day in Atallia City but also the entire next day as well! They found a circular road around a small park where ALL of the buildings around the circle were spray painted with murals of all the demi-humans who came to Atallia to wish themselves human. Though no names given so it's anyone's guess who they are now- their original forms are immortalized in the street of murals. The three of them counted themselves lucky that their own faces did not end up here.

Lydia- the woman who ended the Second Wish was stuck in a broken elevator for over a day when the event originally happened, and apparently there is a theme park ride based on the elevator breaking, so they all rode on that! They met up with all sorts of other demi-humans both coming to modify themselves and leaving as newly created demis, and even got the contact info from a few of them to stay in touch when they return home.

They had a lot of fun and covered quite a bit of ground in the giant city, making a lot of good memories. Originally Nelly had just planned to take a before and after picture of them, but now that they were staying demi-human; she was taking lots of pictures with her phone to remember these moments! A magic movie theatre with three-dimensional holographic screen! A Second Wish based theme park! Lots of sight-seeing! Avalyn ended up getting vertigo when they walked the balconies on the edge of one of the floating islands- Nelly ended up wrapping her tail around her hips afraid she was going to stagger over the railing.

They even looked forward to the trip back! They were half longing to see their family again and tell them what happened... and also half afraid of the reaction of their families when they walk back through the door still demi-human. They took the long way around the scablands, passing by a huge forest that frames the side of it. It was quite a contrast of scenery- one one side flatland giving in to craggy broken dry land, and on the other side of the road a wall of trees so dense that the forest floor is perpetually dark because almost no light can get through the canopy of leaves. Tree trunks so wide you'd need seven people to link arms to make it all the way around the base of the tree, caked in moss and mushrooms trying to leech off its nutrients but still too small in comparison to actually harm the tree.

The fun they had leaving home came as a gradual realization, taking them a bit by surprise. On the way back they had newfound confidence in themselves and fully enjoyed themselves at every turn. The sideways glances were ignored.

Avalyn returned home with a timid look on her face. Amanda looked horrified at first and ran out thinking something had gone wrong and her wish had somehow been denied. Jim on the other hand smiled brightly like this is what he had hoped for all along. Amanda did not quite understand why Avalyn would want to stay part cow, but was happy to have her back, and happy that Avalyn was happy with who she is regardless. Jim was proud of her for sticking true to who she is. And getting his car back without a scratch on it. That is a long ass drive and she handled it like a pro!

Quinn returned home to her mother looking quite pleased but also staying rather quiet, letting his father talk to him first. His father Andis looked his son up and down, shaking his head at him still wearing women's clothes and still human, after all that.

"So remind me again- what did I give you that money for? You went there, didn'tcha?"

"Yea. Decided I don't want to be human. I am planning to start making my own outfits, maybe opening an online shop to sell them, so I can pay you back."

Andis shook his head. "Flip floppin' again?"

"No. Decided to stop listening to what others think. This is me now, and I live on my terms only."

His father huffed, surprising Quinn by offering his hand to be shaken. "Then put 'er here, and make it a deal."

"H-huh?"

Turns out his father wasn't disappointed in his style choice in the first place- he was disappointed in how he wore it. His lack of confidence, him flip-flopping around, and getting into trouble to fit in and follow someone else. But Quinn returned a different man than he left. He returned with confidence, declaring who he was instead of asking himself what he is. That is something his father can respect. He will support his son in whatever he wants to do- but only if he is sure he wants to do it.

Nelly returned home to see her father waiting outside for her- where Tulia used to wait for him as always. He stood at the door and got her to pass her luggage to him so he could put them inside.

She smiled weakly. "Well... I didn't wish for anything after all. It wasn't for nothing though! We had SO much fun, and I have so many pictures!"

Richard smiled. "And you are in your real body for once."

She blushed. "Y-yea, that too. I guess I relied too heavily on my powers and sort of lost myself under all the layers. I love my powers and I think I can do a lot of good with them, but, they shouldn't be used to hide or alter who people think I am."

"Yea..." He was still smiling but almost looked like he was going to cry at the same time. He held his hand on her shoulder, preventing her from going inside the house.

"W-what's wrong?"

He just shook his head. "Nothing, sweetie. Nothing in the world is wrong." He hugged her tightly, confusing her for a moment. Till she seen who was standing behind him in the doorway.

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The council settled back down after Nelly left. "It is never easy to deny a wish..."

The council woman pressed the rune that would summon the next wisher, but it did not activate. She pressed it again with a furrowed brow... the teleportation rune wasn't working, but glancing over the counter she can see it is still charged and active- an outside force is blocking it.

Astrelle slammed into the center of the room in a human avatar, formed from the globe of golden light that had been at the top of the chamber. Its skin black as tar marred with thousands of cracks letting out an almost blindingly radiant light as the fragments of its outer shell undulate- barely able to contain even a crumb of her overall power.

"YOU HAVE BEEN OVERRULED." Her eyes seethed with power as she looked into the hearts of five million people.

All tethered loosely to Nelly... all the fans of Tulia. So many people desired for Tulia to return. Astrelle's power exists solely to fulfill the desires of others- she is incapable of granting her own wishes. She searched five million hearts and minds in the blink of an eye and heard the same wish resonate across the entire globe, longing to be granted. But most of all, she seen an extremely important fact the council had clumsily overlooked.

"TULIA GARDITH DIED OF COMPLICATIONS GIVING BIRTH, COMPLICATIONS RESULTING FROM HER DAUGHTER BEING A DEMI-HUMAN. DEMI-HUMANS EXIST AS A RESULT OF THE SECOND WISH- A WISH THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN REVOKED! YOU WILL NOT DENY HER WISH, I WILL NOT ALLOW IT."

The energy within the human avatar exploded outward, phasing through the council and its walls, exploding outward across the land while the shell of the avatar was reduced to vapor by it, leaving the council stunned silent. They can govern who makes what wish, but they cannot tell Astrelle what to do. She is a God, and large enough in size alone to simply crush their entire planet into dust if they somehow anger her.

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Tulia smiled timidly at the daughter she hasn't seen since she was only eight days old and opened her arms for a hug. "Welcome home, sweetie."

Nelly immediately started bawling and lunged into her mother's arms with so much force she almost tackled her to the ground. Tulia was so tempted to open her stream again and blow people's minds- but made sure to hold off till she seen her daughter first. If anyone seen Tulia's return first, it needed to be Nelly.

Tulia had unknowingly helped Nelly make that journey to Atallia. Helped her in all of her dark moments, when she felt alone. It was Tulia's recorded words, etched into the chaos of the internet, unknowingly planted for her daughter to find, even after Tulia herself could not reach her. Now Nelly had her flesh and blood mother back. She had friends she would trust with her life, she had photos and memories of a great adventure, a beautiful early summer, and a confidence in herself.

Nelly, Quinn, and Avalyn all gained so much from their long trip, even if none of it was what they were expecting. It wasn't about being demi-human, or being human. The best form for you to take is always going to be the shape of you.