1 Dark lands, a sapling and a tail.

'Dark

Why is it so dark ? maybe I should try opening my eyes, that might work. '

The first look that I give to the world is one of slight shook.

Although I can´t seem to remember when I went to sleep, I'm pretty sure that some burn to ashes forest site was not my bed.

'Okay... that is weird'

The dirt on the ground is pitch black and ashes seems to still glow here and there, maybe indicating that a fire happened recently.

The sky is gray, clouds spread wide and block the sun that I think is there, somewhere.

The air is humid, and rain is probably coming soon, making things even weirder.

'Well, the weather is nice.

The problem is, where am I ?

Okay, first, I should try to remember what happened last night.

I think I was ... at home ?

Hot water ?

Rain ? none.

The moon was pretty tho.

What else... warmth, and then , cold ?

My head hurts, I think I should stop.'

When I try putting my hand on my head, I see it.

Well, I know I should have seen it before, but the landscape took my attention.

What I saw, you might ask ? my hand was not my fricking hand.

What do I mean ? well, first off, my hand is not a shiny white furry hand, it is a normal hand...

With fingers and stuff.

'What

The

Heck is this ?'

As you might guess, I freaked a little.

As I followed my arm to the rest of my body, I realize that the white furred hand was the least of my problems.

'I am not me

Why the fuck am I not me ?

Well, I am me but... this is not me

Where is me ?'

As I was still freaking out on my head, one thing grabbed my attention.

Even thought the claws are interesting, the fur seems cozy, the long bat ears seems cute enough and the feeling of this backwards feet like thing remembers me of being tiptoeing all the time, there is one thing that humans are not suppose to have, and that thing ...

that weirdest thing of all...

is a white furred tail growing on my back.

'...'

I see it going from one side to the other, wiggling calmly, almost like comforting me.

I try consciously moving it and, it worked.

I first try to do simple moves like up, down, right, left... then i go to more complex ones like curling.

'ha... haha... hahahahahaha'

Okay, I know that that is weird, but try putting yourself on my shoes ,or maybe ... paws now ?

I just woke up on a weird environment, with a weird body and a weird memory of the last thing I did.

I see that I now have a tail, an appendix that humans don´t have.

Of course I´m gonna have fun with it.

What are the other options ?

Freaking even more ?

Crying for help ?

Not really helpful at all.

Plus, that is not my style.

You see, i try thinking of myself as a calm dude that always knows what to do... even if I'm actually freaking all the time.

'What is happening ?'

The only question that sticks to my mind.

I give up on the tail thing for now and lay down on the burnt soil, looking up at the cloudy sky.

No birds to distract me.

'Let´s first calm down, Yuri.

I know you are scared, I´m scared too, but be exalted in a situation like this is not gonna help.

Let´s try to organize what you know so far, that might help.

First, you are not where you were before, geez I can´t even see any sight of civilization...

Not that that would help.

Two, your body is different, you are a furry little tailed creature, which is... interesting ?

I guess.

Scary ?

Sure.

What would mom and dad say if they see me now ?

" hay son, you sure are hairy now " or " oh my, what happened to you? " kinda thing.

They were never the most attention paying parents after all... they might not even notice.

Or might... who knows.

Three, you might me dead... '

Yeah, that thought ran through my mind.

While i was laying down thinking about my situation, I realized something that, now that I think of it, it is way more obvious that the tail thing.

Something that I am pretty sure would kill me if I was still... me.

I am not breathing.

That wins, by far, the contest of the weirdest thing happening to me right now.

I can´t breath.

Which I guess means I can´t talk either ?

Can I still eat though ?

I like to eat, I still wanna eat. Can I please still eat ?

So many questions and nobody to answer them.

Well, as I can´t seem to be able to talk, I don´t think that if there was somebody to answer them here, it would be of much help.

I wish I could sigh right now, but as you may guess...

'Does that mean I am indeed dead ?'

I try sitting straight, but the tail is hard to get used to, so I just get up on my new feet.

giving another look around, I think about what I should do.

I then decide that I should try walking around, but when I give the first steep of this new life ( or life after death ) of mine, I feel a huge pain in my chest.

I then drop on the floor, coiling up.

'THIS '

'HURTS '

'A '

'LOT'

The pain seems to go away as I again try sitting.

This time, though, I get it right.

'For the beards of the duck wizard, what did just happened ?

At least i now know that i still feel pain, which probably means that my health was in danger somehow ... which I guess means that I am alive.

I may be stretching things here, but that helps my mental sanity.

Being alive is good, after all. '

When I try looking for what may have caused my sudden pain, all I see is a little sapling, now hurt, where I was standing.

I give a closer look, and the little plant indeed seems hurt, like, really bad.

'Are you poisonous ?

What a weird and fast acting poison you have... straight to my heart, assuming I have one.

Just to make sure it was you...'

While thinking that, I use my tail to touch ever so slightly the plant and, to my surprise, it did not hurt at all.

It was actually pretty warm and... comforting.

'Weird, if it wasn't you, what caused that pain ? '

My unsure face looks around looking for some explanation, but I am unable to find any.

Again laying down on the floor, I turn my head towards the little sapling that, weird enough, now seems a little better then when I stepped on it.

'So many weird things happening at once, and just the single mind of mine the handle it all.

I again wish I could sigh, just to express to the world that I am tired and wish to go home now.'

Before any more thoughts enter my mind, the sky gives up and rain starts to fall all over me.

The little sapling on my side seems to find it relaxing.

I, on the other hand, only think it is getting cold.

Another oddity that I realize is that I am not wearing any clothes, which is not that odd, considering that I am not me.

'I wonder what it looks down there. Like, I was a man before any of this, but with so many weird things happening all at once, I'm not sure that my gender is still the same.

I should look, shouldn't I ?

ok, one ... two ... three... now.'

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'Nothing. '

There is nothing... I don't mean I am a girl now... I mean ...

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Nothing.