The curtain fell and the inky blackness surrounded Scarlette. The inside of The Mystery Room was as dark as dark can get. There was not a single photon in there with Scarlette.
Scarlette was angry at Skye for pushing herself behind the curtain without her consent. She was going to give Skye a piece of her mind. She quickly pulled back the curtain.
“That wasn’t funny, Skye!”
Skye smirked, “I don’t know about that, but you look pretty funny.”
Scarlette looked back at her misshapen friend with confusion and then surprise. Did The Mystery Room change her in that short of a time? She rapidly looked down and inspected herself. She had, in fact, been altered by the room. Scarlette looked down and saw her new, third leg. She wiggled it’s five, symmetrical toes with the big toe in the middle. Closer to her face, there was a third breast on her chest. Turning around, she saw that her backside was nothing unusual aside from the third buttcheek and she had the normal amount of arms. Her vision seemed a little strange but that wasn’t bothering her. So, Scarlette exhaled in relief. She was relatively normal. “So, I’ve got a third boob and leg. That hardly sounds unusual next to you.”
“Yes and no,” Skye responded to Scarlette. “Yes: I am certainly more stranger than you. But you missed something.” Scarlette cocked her head. Skye, seeing her confusion, pointed with one of her many arms and said: “Go look at yourself in the mirror over there.” Scarlette did as Skye recommended and she walked on three legs to view herself in the mirror. “The Mystery Room is powerful, but it doesn’t give a damn about aesthetics.”
Scarlette beheld herself in the mirror. Scarlette had assumed that something was up with there face. She thought she might have gotten a third eye, but Skye was right. The Mystery Room couldn’t care less about aesthetics. Rather than a third eye, Scarlette had one big eye in the center of her forehead. “This isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. But you shouldn’t have pushed me inside without asking,” Scarlette said.
“You should be thanking me,” Skye said as she pointed, again, with an extra right arm. Skye was pointing at a knob on the wall, next to the curtain. “That knob will determine how bizarre your transformation will be. I turned the setting down with one of my spare hands before I closed the curtain on you. You’re welcome.”
“You could have told me that before you shoved me,” Scarlette said as she crossed her arms. She paused. “So! What do we do now?”
“We can’t use The Mystery Room again until later. We should….