Green Ray

Story by Leo_Todrius on SoFurry

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Written by leotodrius

Commissioned by nuwisha55

When a young man returns home to partake of his bargain bin porno dvd, not everything is as it seems as his PS3 updates to play green ray... and that is only the first of the surprises in store for him.


Green Ray Written by Leo_Todrius Commissioned by Nuwisha55

It was a late May day. The skies were blue and cloudless, the plants were greening up for spring and the weather threatened to deliver the year's first 90 degree day. But, for all the merits of the outside, it was the inside that Cody Alder was hoping to get to. Cody moved quickly along the street, a strange expression on the young man's face. It was one of excitement, and of constant arousal. A bright red baseball cap sat on his head, slanted off at a forty five degree angle, hiding most of his short strawberry blond hair. He wore a white and red sports jersey, his own from the basketball team, and shorts hung down past his knees. His sneakers were spotless, white and red like his jersey. Cody wasn't just dressed for sports, he had a bit of bling, from the gold chain around his neck to the large diamond studs in both ears.

As Cody walked, the shorts slid up and down over his rod, teasing it, reminding him of his predicament. Cody was eighteen years old; his hormones were in full swing. He was horny all the time and he hadn't fucked a girl in months. It was just too much to stand, he was getting blue balls... so Cody had gone to the video store and gone through the curtain. He was still reviling himself for being such a chicken. Once he'd gotten in there he wound up grabbing blindly out of the bargain bin and coming out with a solid green movie case. He assumed it was because adult movies couldn't be advertised as much, but now all he wanted to do was pop it in and go to town.

The door was unlocked quickly and Cody moved into the house, shutting the door behind him. He reached down to palm his package, grunting softly. Sometimes it was a burden to be the school's hottest, most virile jock. Once he was done palming himself, he strode to his room and locked the door behind him, moving to flop down in his gaming chair in front of his big screen television. The chair rocked forward and back as he leaned to turn on his Playstation 3. He opened the green case and found a solid green disc inside. Sighing at its lack of clarity, Cody withdrew the disk from the slim case and put it into the Playstation. As the console prepared to play it, Cody got ready.

His fingers slipped under his waistband and pulled it down, allowing his six inch cock to spring up to freedom. The foreskin had pulled back down around the mushroom shaped head, red from his arousal. His balls were golf ball sized and covered with sparse hair. With his package released, Cody reached down and pulled out his two best friends; lube and a box of Kleenex. The jock licked his lips, knowing he was ready for a long play date. Cody leaned down and grabbed his controller so he could navigate the menu, looking up just as the FBI warnings played, though once they passed, the screen filled with a strange black and green pattern that flashed and oscillated. After a moment, the screen announced his Playstation had been upgraded to play green ray.

"What the fuck is green ray?" Cody muttered to himself. He wasn't sure if he liked the idea of a bargain bin porno changing his PS3, but as the screen cleared, a very high definition menu began unfolding. The left side of the screen filled with little squares, scene selection. There were no titles, no descriptions, just numbers. The first seemed to be a grassy forest, the second a rocky mountain pass, the third a cityscape at night. Cody grinned gently, "Aw yeah, I could totally go for some back alley action with a hot babe." Cody said, skipping the first two segments and going to the third. He pressed play, dropped the controller and leaned back.

The movie began, showing a helicopter view of a city... Tucson or Phoenix most likely. It was night, but the light pollution was thick. The view faded to an alley. Steam spilled out of pipes along the buildings, old orange lights cast a hazy glow onto the bricks and stones that made up the alley. A door opened and a young man about twenty two years of age came out. He was tall, lithe, wearing a black wife beater shirt and jeans, but he had a similar chain and earrings to Cody. His brown hair was spiked up a bit for a night on the town. Cody shrugged a bit. It was a close enough match that he could imagine himself in the dude's place fucking the women. He reached down and curled his fingers around his shaft, idly stroking slowly, just trying to keep his erection ready.

The porn star continued down along the alley, though he slowed. The movie made a point of showing the shadows, ominous sounds. Cody was a bit confused about why they would show such things, not sure what turn the movie was taking. The character in the film seemed just as uncertain about proceeding. He looked around before he turned, but both he and Cody jumped in surprise when the path was blocked by a huge figure, a figure that wasn't quite human. Even in the orange glow of the alley, it was clear the man had dark green skin. His ears were pointed, he had a short black buzzed Mohawk and a long, bushy, unkempt beard dropped down from his face, balancing the yellowish tusks rising up from either side of his under bite.

"What are you doing here, hoomon?" The orc asked.

"I was just on my way home, I... I just need to get by." The human said. Cody was dumbfounded what this had to do with sex. He was starting to hope that the orc was some girl's pimp and he'd fallen in love with a prostitute. Cody reached for his controller but his hand stopped. He looked back up at the screen. He wasn't sure why, but it was like some part of him couldn't look away.

"Hoomon's should know better than to come here, it isn't safe... Dark creatures prey on the innocent." The orc said, backing up the porn star. The human felt his back to the wall, looking up at the towering beast... before the orc leaned down and kissed the human. The human made a show of trying to escape, but it was clearly porn acting. His attempts to dislodge the orc were barely more than caressing his rounded arms, his firm pecs. His attempts to squeeze past constituted rubbing their stomachs together. The camera angles changed, showing different views, from close ups to their rubbing flesh to their lips locked in a terrible embrace. Their tongue sliding back and forth between mouths was particularly lewd.

Cody grunted in disgust, leaning back. He started to realize he'd grabbed a gay DVD by mistake. He knew it wasn't his fault, there was no writing on the case at all, but it certainly was a negative on his manly score card. Cody sighed, looking down, only to realize that he was masturbating seriously hard. His hand was all but a blur, working the foreskin over the tip of his shaft before bringing it down again. Cody's eyes widened in shock, wondering why he hadn't realized he was fucking that hard. He tried to slow his hand, but he couldn't. It was as if it was stuck and had a mind of its own. He reached over with his left hand to pull his right free, but as it got near the cock, it twitched. Cody grunted, watching his hand fight some invisible gravitational force before it slammed around the base of his cock, grabbing on firmly, sliding up and down with the first.

Cody leaned back in his chair, letting out a grunt of terror. He was double fisting himself against his will, all while on the screen, the video continued to play. The orc had reached down to unbuckle the human's belt, letting the pants sag. When he saw the human wore no underwear, he only chuckled and dropped his own pants, revealing a massive, mighty jade green shaft that had to be at least fourteen inches long. Cody grunted in shock, though part of him was starting to grow envious... Rather than inserting himself into the human, he should have imagined himself as the Orc. Strong, tall, strapping... If he was going to be trapped watching gay porn, the least he could do was imagine himself as the man in the relationship....

As Cody thought that, his grip tightened, his muscles started to bulge and he groaned a bit more, his lips curling into a slight grin. He watched the orc force himself against the human, humping and grinding, rubbing his huge hands all over the twink. Cody felt like an idiot to ever think that human twerp was going to be the macho man of the story. Every so often Cody tried to stop his hands, but it was no use. Even his toes were curling and flexing in time with the masturbation. Cody felt strange, trapped, but he hoped when the video stopped he'd be able to release himself...

The human on the screen was flipped around, pressed against unrelenting brick. No doubt it felt uncomfortable to be pressed against it, but the orc was too busy caressing the globes of his ass, feeling up the soft round flesh before he pulled it wide. The orc brought his shaft up, sliding the tip up and down the cleft. Cody let out a groan of disgust as he saw the orc was painting the human's ass with pre cum, slathering it on thick. Cody had never seen costume effects so real; the paint just didn't come off the orc actor's tool...

"Stop, don't..." The human said, another example of bad porno acting.

"When I'm done, you'll be saying that in the opposite order." The orc chuckled before he tilted his hips and began sliding in. Cody was surprised, watching the shaft slide in inch after inch. He thought pornos had to show condom use, but this was bare skinned... Still, it made it more realistic to say the least. The orc pinned the human to the wall, holding him in place as he slid in. The human was skewered, practically impaled, but he let out soft moans. In and out, in and out. The camera showed it from the sides, from beneath, close ups to their faces. It was detailed, prolonged. Cody grunted, trying to look away more, but it kept going... The orc leaned in to lick at the human's left ear, slurping it slowly. The camera zoomed in, showing just the ear lobe and the orc mouth.

"And hoomons never come here... because they don't stay hoomon for long." The orc whispered. The human gasped softly, and as the orc pulled his head away, it was clear the porn star's ear was pointed now. In fact, Cody could see it stretching out longer. Cody's jaw dropped. It was an amazing special effect, it looked so real. He could still see the tiny colorless hairs covering the lobe. The orc started fucking his human prisoner harder and harder, practically distending his stomach with the length of his rod.

Cody gasped in shock as he felt the pressure change on his cock. He looked down to realize his hands had started to manipulate his foreskin, tugging on it as well as masturbating. He looked down, trying to figure out why in the hell he had no control over his own body, but after a moment his head tipped back up, forcing him to watch the screen. The camera angle changed again, showing the human's ass getting pounded. The orc cock slipped in like a drill to the center of the earth, but as it slipped in and out, a soft green coloring began spreading out over the human's ass cheeks, cheeks that grew thicker and rounder with muscle.

"This would be so hot with chicks..." Cody moaned, clenching his ass and releasing it involuntarily, feeling his cheeks tighten just a bit. He watched the video, looking at the orc's mighty beard, the human's frail stature, taking it all in. Cody had to admit, the human looked pretty cool with pierced, pointy ears. It wasn't something he saw a lot of. What Cody didn't realize was that his own ears had started to change. The lobes lifted upwards slowly, rising into points. The outer edge became a bit more streamlines. His left ear tip slid up past the edge of his baseball cap, but his right ear tip hit the tilted brim and bent over a bit. Cody twitched, feeling uncomfortable but not sure why.

On the screen the human was moaning more and more, his cock starting to dribble precum down the brick wall. His ass was completely green and the coloring was sweeping up his back and down his legs, but more than that, his body hair was becoming thicker. A soft fuzz layer covered his ass, growing seamless with his leg hair. Soft strands grew out of his pits and his arm hair thickened.... But most of all, the twink was starting to look a bit more macho in the face. A shadow crossed his cheeks, the shadow of stubble. It looked a bit odd on a dude as skinny as the human had been, but Cody realized he'd been missing parts of the movie. The twink's chest was rounder with muscle, his arms were thickening slowly. Even his legs were wider, but all the while the Orc was thrusting away.

Cody grunted as the orc buried his face into the human's hair, rubbing it around. That beard cascaded down the back of his head like a veil, but as the orc pulled back, the human's hair seamed saliva soaked... and darkening. The brown was turning black, the color spreading down to the roots and then spreading out. It covered his head slowly before even his eyebrows changed color, then his stubble. Cody's jaw dropped in shock. He couldn't believe the detail of green ray. IT really made effects seem more real... He could see individual hairs changing color. He didn't understand how any movie company could spend so much money on effects and then sell the movie for the price of just picking up a camera and filming something once... but he didn't care. If he could find a movie by the same people that was straight, he knew it'd be worth having to sit through a gay film that was puppet mastering his hands.

The human on the screen continued to be at the mercy of his orc master, writhing and moaning. His back widened with muscle, his arms bulked out, his wife beater stretched tight and his waist expanded slowly. The orc cock was sliding in and out of a thick, meaty green ass. It seemed, right, it seemed natural, but Cody started to sense what was next. The camera angle changed, following the spread of green around the human's hip like flood waters, showing it cross over into his bush. The brown hair turned black as the green reached his balls. The skin tightened, turning green, swelling slowly... It covered his waist, surrounding him like skin underwear... but then it reached the base of his cock.

"Oh yeah, turn baby, turn." Cody chuckled, finding himself oddly in favor of the change. Everything else had been done so well, he wanted to see the twink turned into an orc bitch slut. It'd be almost as good as a straight movie, though Cody was surprised he'd even think that. The green went down the human's shaft, covering the hard member, but as it moved, the shaft bulged. The base expanded an inch, then another inch. Each section of converted cock bulged out before it hit the head. The green crept up all the way to the human's urethra before it dove down into it. The human called out in lust as his cock head grew to almost double its original size.

He reached down, grabbing onto the over-sized rod with a peach colored hand, giving it a squeeze and a stroke, then more. He grunted and moaned, his chest tight against the brick wall while he jerked himself off... but soon a huge green hand came around his hip, grabbing onto the rod from the other side. Both human and orc worked the tool quickly as it spilled out of his lap like a snake, growing longer and thicker and longer still. The human moaned, and then Cody found himself joining him. Cody panted hard, not sure why he'd made a noise before he looked down, gasping in absolute terror.

Cody put it together quickly. He had called out because he felt like he was in the film. The reason why... was the disparity on his cock, it felt like he was getting the same double hand job from the movie... because his left hand had grown larger than his right. Cody panted sharply, gazing at his hands. His left had to be almost twice as long and wide, thick... with hairy knuckles.... And it was discoloring. Splotches of green had dotted his left arm like freckles, but they were spreading wider. The reddish blond hair on his arms stood out far more as the green skin expanded beneath, covering the back of his hand, then his fingers, climbing up toward his elbow. Cody was no longer soothed by the hypnotic glow of the screen, he knew he wasn't just being puppeted, he was being changed.

The helpless porn viewer tried to spring up to his feet and escape, but his legs didn't listen. All he managed was a rather vigorous thrust through his hands, hands that were jerking him off more than ever. His giant left hand squeezed his cock further, tugging on the foreskin at his tip, squeezing harder. Cody screamed out in a mix of shock, fear, and lust as the muscles in his forearm grew, then his biceps and triceps. His left arm was bigger all over than the rest of his body... and it was almost entirely green. The discoloration covered him all the way from his finger tips to his shoulder...

"Gotta get help, gotta.... Gotta..." Cody trailed off, feeling his neck moving against his will, his head looking back up. He couldn't stop, he couldn't look away. The movie had its hooks in him. While he'd been having his own crisis, the human's change had continued. His legs were entirely jade green, his torso was as well, and the hand resting on his giant green cock was changing as well. He looked a lot different with black hair and pointed ears... but the rest of his body was starting to jive. The human's grunts were becoming more bestial and animal.

Cody forced himself to look down, seeing that his arms were starting to even out, matching the human on the movie. His fingers elongated and thickened like sausages, hair grew out of his knuckles and across the back of his hand, his palm widened, and his wrist expanded. His larger hands were crowding his cock, but in a strange way it felt less hard than it had before. He felt fully aroused, but it was almost like there was more give. Cody gazed down at his cock and started to focus every ounce of his will power on a single finger, not to release his cock, but to see it. His pinky slowly uncurled from the very base of his shaft and Cody moaned as he saw what was beneath.

His manhood had been alright before, but it almost seemed like a tree limb now. It was as thick as a can of soda, and it had to be over one in length, maybe even too. His hands were so big it was hard to tell... But as Cody focused on it, he looked to the top of his second dist, seeing a light green rounded cock head pushing out from between his fingers. Cody howled in bliss, realizing he was at least double length... The porn movie had doubled the size of his cock, even if it was green, it was fantastic. That pride ran through his brain like a drug and he soon gazed back at the movie, wondering what other gifts it might impart upon him.

On the screen, the camera had shifted its focus to the human's feet. His shoes were stretching and bulging wider, straining as the human's feet expanded. His ankles were thick and hairy, Cody could only imagine what the foot beneath was like, at least until the seams popped and the rubber pushed apart. Cody watched in a mix of excitement and sadness as a $300 pair of Nikes exploded, but the massive feet hat emerged were worth it. They had to be size fifteen or sixteen. The angled slope, the wide heal, the long green toes. Cody wanted to rub his face all over it, to lick it, to...

"What the fuck?" Cody grunted in shock. He'd never had a foot fetish before. Whatever this movie was doing, it was warping him in more ways than one... and part of him liked that. Cody ran his eyes over his body, taking inventory. His arms were green, his cock was green, and he could see the color advancing up under his jersey.... And down past the edge of his shorts. He was becoming an orc, just a bit slower than the human in the movie. His only guess was that it was because he wasn't watching all of it, though before Cody looked back to the screen, he looked back at his feet, at the $200 Nikes he was wearing. They weren't quite as nice as the ones on the movie, but he had a feeling they were going to meet the same fate.

Soon enough, he could hear the rubber strain and stretch and contort. The swoosh bulged out, the heel wobbled. His right shoe popped and the sole sagged, then the left shoe warped before it started sliding off his heel and up his foot before toppling to the floor. Cody watched his toes stretch from size nine to ten, then eleven. His toes elongated, his heels widened. Green freckles speckled his feet before they spread out into splotches, rounding the toes and covering the feet. Cody moaned, watching them grow to proportions so large he wouldn't be able to buy shoes... But as much as Cody wanted to bask in his giant orc feet, the screen drew his gaze back upwards.

The human in the movie grunted and groaned much like the slut twink Cody wanted him to be, though he was looking less and less the part. He had the chest and back of a football player, the abs of a rugby player and the legs of a Greek column. His green chest was covered in a forest of black hair... in fact; most of his body was covered in hair. Even his shoulders and back had a light dusting. The only part left mostly human was the human's head. His ears were pointed and he had a bit more stubble, but for the most part he was just as he had been. Cody swallowed softly, starting to realize what that might imply.

The orc on the screen pulled out of the human and stepped back. The partially transformed recipient panted, his chest heaving, drool leaking from his lips. The camera showed a close up of the seat beading his chest, his arms, even the small of his back. Slowly, though, the smaller man pushed himself off the wall and turned around to face his aggressor. Cody couldn't believe it, but he waited to see what happened with baited breath and anticipation.

"Not a bad start... cock slut." The orc growled, "Now... On your knees." He commanded. The porno made a conceited effort to show the man's eyes, trying to let the viewer guess about his inner struggle. The partial human shuddered softly before he closed his eyes and knelt down onto the ground. The orc growled in bliss before he moved forward, smearing the top of his cock all over the human lips before him. Cody watched, panting softly, not even paying attention to his massive or hands working his thick green cock. He watched the screen as the human's lips fattened and turned a dark forest green before he slid forward, suckling on the cock eagerly.

With the same rhythm and precision of any porn star, the orc started to slide in and out gratuitously from the human's mouth. Cody moaned more, his mouth starting to salivate. He licked his lips, envious of that thick, huge orc shaft on the screen. It looked so warm, so messy, so delicious. He groaned more, unaware that his gamer chair was groaning under his weight, barely able to contain him. The green had covered his legs, his torso, his arms... Just like the human in the porno movie, it was advancing up, though still not as fast. Cody watched in awe as the human on the screen started to grow more masculine all at once.

The former twink's jaw thickened and widened before the stubble pushed out into curly, bushy thick strands of black beard. At first it was short kept but dense, but then it pooled down his front long a pirate beard, moving down inches by the second, extruding from his skin. His lower jaw expanded forward a bit more, giving him an under bite and his brow ridge expanded, making him look tougher than he had been... and decidedly greener. Soft green freckles appeared across his cheeks even as the coloration moved up his neck. His ears turned green, his scalp, even the bridge of his nose as it widened and thickened.

The orc on the screen grunted happily at the general progress, but as the green closed across the human's face, Cody could see even more why he was happy. Tiny white nubs were pushing up from his lower jaw, sticking out past the edge of his lips. The tusks grew in slowly, rising up on either side of the fat cock he was sucking down like guard rails. They passed his upper lips, making it part way up to be even with his nostrils before the tusks stopped growing and the green covered over his face... and, as profound as it seemed to Cody, he suddenly realized what he was watching... gay porn of two orcs going at it, plain as day... and he was ENJOYING it.

Cody looked down at his hands slowly. He could feel that the movie wasn't controlling him any more. He slowly released the fingers of his left hand and pulled it away... then he worked on his right. His hand pulled back to reveal a fourteen inch green member, swaying under its own weight. Every part of himself that Cody could see was green... and horny... and without his hand on his shaft, it felt like he'd stopped prematurely. He glanced back to the screen before he grabbed onto his cock of his own free will, moving his hand up and down. He didn't care what happened to him, he had to finish...

The larger orc on the screen was picking up the pace, obviously getting close. The former twink was a major Bara hunk now, but somehow he still seemed more innocent, even with a full beard. He grunted and moaned, sucking down that meat, reaching down to work his own shaft... much to Cody's delight. Cody jacked off as he went, unaware of the green spreading across his face, his pointed ears, his scalp. His lips thickened, his jaw throbbed and slowly his lower lip began to push forward as his lower canines extended, rising upwards.

Cody's lips parted as the tusks elongated, allowing his grunts to escape easier. His forehead ached, but his cock felt so good that he paid it no mind even as it bulged out, his skull thickening... but all the while his hair remained strawberry blond. Even the stubble on his cheeks had retained its color, the reddish hair standing out against his green skin...and slowly thickening. The hair pushed out more along Cody's cheeks, giving him the most dense, bushy mutton chops of anyone he had ever known... but soon his upper lip grew fuzzy, furry, and then thick with a mustache that connected the two sides.

A soft groan came from the chair beneath the human before it splintered, Cody dropping to the floor, still jerking off. He didn't care, he felt great. He worked his shaft, he grunted, moaning deeply, watching eagerly as he big orc on the v came. He pulled back, spraying it all over the smaller orcs face. The new recruit let himself get splattered before he lewdly and hungrily lapped up the seed before plunging his face around the rod again. He gulped and guzzled the orc's seed down before his own shaft pulsed. So much was going on in the porno that the director had to rely on split screen.

Cody moaned more and more before he grunted in surprise as the big orc on the screen grabbed the smaller and pulled him up. They gazed into each other's eyes for a moment before they came together, kissing. Their thick lips worked, their tusks bumped, their beards meshed. Cody roared louder and louder before he let out an echoing grunt in satisfaction, his cock spasming. A thick jet of yellowish white seed arching up to splatter him across the face and chest. Cody moaned sharply, in shock over everything he'd just done and become, but still he looked back to the Porno.

On the screen, the two new orcs turned, moving off back the way the first had come, disappearing into the night. The camera switched back to the helicopter view of the cityscape, though there was a slow shift of the city lights from orange to green. Cody shook his head gently, leaning back onto his two hands, his half hard cock bobbing in the air. He truly couldn't believe that movie had just been five bucks... It was worth a lot more and he had skipped the first two scenes... but Cody knew he'd be needing more. He was a pretty horny guy, and he knew he was probably going to watch that disc so many times the laser would burn through the DVD. Cody watched the credits on the Porno before he stood up and turned his Playstation off, walking over his old torn shoes, looking around to try and find some clothes to fit better. He had an errand to run.

****

Spring was in the air and Cody couldn't have been happier. He strutted along the street, taking large strides. His green arms swung back and forth, his bare feet padded along the cement. His skin was as green as the new spring growth around him. Cody merely grinned as passers by gawked. Mothers shielded the eyes of their children, girls crossed the street, some boys ran to hind behind their mothers, but the positive reactions were what made Cody feel the most awesome. A few fifteen year olds had moved up to give him a first bump before backing away feeling like tough shit. Cody couldn't blame them. He certainly was bad ass.

He approached the video store without any shame or doubt in his mind. He passed through the front door and walked right past the family and comedy sections before passing through the curtain into the back part of the store. Three bins sat in the center while the walls of the smaller room were covered by the selection of adult videos they had to offer. Cody moved around the room slowly, looking at the videos before laughing to himself. The very same videos he had been drawn to before looked repulsive. The guys looked like sticks and the girls looked like sacks of meat. The only good he could imagine from any of them were turning them into big, green, strong orcs like himself... but that was specifically what he couldn't find.

Cody had made his way almost around the room and was about to try the bins when the video store clerk entered. He was six foot two with brown hair pulled back into a loose pony tail, round glasses and a full, long smooth beard that draped down his thick chest and rested on the start of his huge belly. Cody turned, looking at the man before he growled gently in delight, sizing the man up. He was a muscled god, but there was still a lot of him to love.

"Do you have any more Green Ray movies?" Cody asked, his voice quite deep.

"Oh, I thought I recognized you. You grabbed that one from the bargain bin, huh? I see you liked it, I thought you might." The clerk grinned, yeah, we have more." He said, moving over to open the glass display case, pulling out an eight DVD set, "They're hiring too, by the way... if you're interested." The clerk said. Cody paused before he grinned a bit wider.

"Hiring huh... would they take amateurs like me?" Cody asked.

"You have all the right stuff, and amateurs can act more realistic at times, so it's win win. I'll give you their card." The clerk said.

"How much for this set?" Cody asked.

"Ninety nine." The clerk replied. Cody grimaced a bit, but it was a lot of movies... He shelled out the cash and the clerk bagged it up, dropping the card in. Cody bowed his head and strode out of the back room, disappearing into the day. The clerk watched him go before he reached into the display case, pulled out a single, solid green DVD case and dropped it into one of the bargain bins before locking everything up. He reached up to give his beard a stroke before he sighed happily and moved back to the register, eagerly awaiting the next customer.