"Mom," he managed to say, "It....It....It's still you?"
He looked up and for the first time, he did not see a monster, but the loving face of his mother.
"It's still me." She said softly as she gently lifted him up in her embrace
It took him a moment to process this, and he hung his head and continued to sob against her chest.
"My fault...all....my fault." his mother heard through his choking cries.
"Shhh...." She gently cradled him like she used to so many years ago
"You don't need to blame yourself." She said in a soothing tone.
He stopped for a second and looked up
"But...the package.....arrived this mourning....thought they were yours.....and now you....now your...." he got no further
The mother carefully set her son down, then took a small step back so she could kneel and look him in the eye.
"Can you tell me what happened, start to finish?" she asked her son patiently.
He nodded, wiping away his own tears.
"So this mourning I found a package...." he retold her his entire story of what had happened just then.
".....and then I came into the kitchen and you were...you know...."
"Ohh." She said, as the details finally became clear to her "I understand now."
"Please forgive me mom, I thought they were-" Caleb started to apologize
She put one finger of his lips, "Shh, there's nothing to forgive, you made an honest mistake sweetie." She said in her usual diplomat tone of voice.
Well, Lauren thought to herself, this is definitely a strange way to start the day
She sighed, and then stretched to her full height, feeling some joints crack along the way
For the first time, Caleb got the full view of his mother's transformed figure. As he had noted beforehand, she was huge, currently standing at a towering 7'8, with similar body proportions that had been blown up to amazonian levels. She was covered in a soft light brown pelt (which Caleb just now noticed matched her hair color), and stood on gigantic digit grade paws. All her muscles were very large, but at the same time rather lithe, and Caleb noticed she had maintained a feminine build in her musculature. Her hands/paws were a strange mix of both, and both were proportionally huge to her body, yet she clearly maintained her delicate touch and light stance. Her head closely resembled that of a wolf, but on closer inspection, she still had many human features, and while her eye's were now a deep gold, the shape was the same as it had always been. As he had heard, she had a slightly deep, resonating, but still very feminine voice, which he instantly recognized as her own.
In fact, he thought, looking over her now, she was kind of beautiful, in her own, beastly way.
He then realized that she had ripped out of her pajama's and was naked. He blushed and was about to turn away, but then realized that her "private parts" had completely furred over, and that she looked completely natural in her current form.
"So...mom." he said somewhat awkwardly as she stretched in front of him.
"Hmm?" She replied, turning her head in his direction
He was once again shocked by how similar her facial expressions were, even as a....
"So how long were you...you know.... you? After you transformed I mean." He asked with a curiosity in his voice.
"Well...that's a good question. Let me think..."