„I decided to become a chicken!“
Trevor grins a bit. Thinking about the exciting life as a farm bird for a week is one thing, but speaking it out loud in front of someone else suddenly felt so weird.
Glorietta reacts as if this would be the most normal thing in the world. She fills out a paper while asking him back “Male or female ?”
“A white hen please. I want to take that special offer of your catalogue… for 20% off… ‘hen-weeks’ or ‘chicken-weeks’ or something like that.” Trevor looks around if there’s a catalogue, but it’s not necessary, because Glorietta nods knowingly.
“Oh, yes you mean our “poultry power weeks”. One week “community accommodation” in our common coops. Yeah, that’s a good choice, Sir. But I’m sorry, we don’t have an influence on the color of your feathers. Normally it’s just based on your natural hair color – but it’s hard to predict for bird feathers.”
“That’s okay then.”
Gloria scribbles some more notes on her paper. “Alright… next I’d need your agreement, that every animal product will get into our possession. Referring to chickens, we’re talking mainly about eggs of course.”
Trevor chuckled a bit. “I agree… as long as you don’t mean chicken meat as a product”.
“No, of course not, Sir! We won’t sell our customers! And we even guarantee a well-guarded coop with cameras, completely free from any predators !”
Trevor nods with a grin. “Yeah, I thought so, I was just kidding”.
Glorietta smiles again and makes a check on her paper. “Do you want some extra food, Sir ?”
“What do you mean by ‘extra food’ ?”
Glorietta remarks “Well, that special offer will contain lodging in our common coop, which involves the normal feeding together with our ordinary poultry. And some guests don’t want to fight for every corn with others. So they get their extra feeding.
Trevor thinks for a brief moment. “Well, no, that’s not necessary for me – I want to keep it cheap.”
Glorietta nods and makes another notice on the paper.
“Okay, Sir – then I need a sign there… and there… I will fetch the bottle for your transformation meanwhile. “
Trevor takes a short look before he signs the contract. She then reaches into a refrigerator on the wall behind her and pulls out a plastic bottle. When she puts it on the counter, Trevor notices it has a label with a feather and a silhouette of a chicken in the background pictured on it.
“Okay then,” Glorietta began, “please take this with you and head to one of the rooms down this hall that has the same symbol on it. Once inside, remove your clothes and your backpack and put it in one of the bins in there before drinking the bottle. After the transformation is complete, just wait a bit. One of our farmhands will be on his way to bring you right to your new home.
We wish you a convenient stay here and wonderful new impressions !”
“Thank you !” Trevor smiles and takes the bottle, before he heads down the hall Glorietta pointed out. Plenty of doors can be seen there, all with different symbols – although similar animals are matched together. A mixture of excitement and tension slowly grows when he finally sees the symbol for the farm bird section and enters the door.
“Here we go !”… Trevor shuts the door behind looks around. The transformation room was clearly not meant for a longer stay. Some hay with single poultry feathers lay on the ground and the wooden bench at the side hasn’t been cleaned of bird manure for a while. “Next time I will invest a bit more money” Trevor thinks to himself, before he tries to find a clean spot on the bench, striping off his clothes and putting everything into one of the bins like he was told.
Then he grabs the bottle with the liquid and opens it.
“Holidays, here I come !”… With one brave gulp he empties the bottle completely… now all he could do is to wait until the transformation would start.