Most of Cat's friends (Josh didn't have any friends, so no use asking them) would have agreed that she had the greatest personality change from the Great Change of anyone they knew. They would all have been wrong.
Josh's greatest secret was that he was a sissy. From a child he dressed in bright colors, loved having long hair, and liked to play with the girls. His father noticed, and set about "beating it out of him." Josh learned that the only way to avoid his father's fists was to act the way his father wanted him to act, and that his father was a bully and mostly admired other bullies. He learned to be a bully, and his first target was himself.
Of course, it never entirely worked. Puberty brought not only muscles and broad shoulders, but nightly dreams of joyful submission to hairy, muscular, dominant men. Day saw more efforts to please his father by beating his sissyhood out of himself by beating other boys.
So when the great change happened, and muscular Josh became small, soft, ultra-feminine Cat, it was not a curse but a liberation. Of course, the hairy, muscular men were gone, and Cat had to adjust to a new gender and sexuality like much of the rest of the world, but this was a small price to pay. Hannah was bigger and stronger and dominant enough, in and out of bed, to satisfy Cat's secret love of being the gentle, passive, supportive partner. She would never forget the intense thrill she felt the first time Hannah had had to open a jar for her.
There was still one problem. Ophelia. Ophelia wasn't quite the macho bully Oliver had been, but in some ways she was even more disturbing. Midnight meetings with mysterious and scary strangers, chants at odd hours of the day, and moving from dominating Josh's life to ignoring Cat, not because she had grown more tolerant but because she was more wrapped up in something she was trying to keep from Cat but which still gave Cat the creeps.
Maybe she should find out what Hannah thought she should do.
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Excellent, thought Ophelia, these are just the sort of chumps who won't realize their role at the ceremony is to be the sacrifice until its too late. Although I definitely want to bang the one in the yellow dress a couple of times first.
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Yes, Regina thought, there it was. The tiny rip in the fabric of the universe that could, if widened, admit a demon army. Unfortunately, closing it wouldn't be as simple as patching a hole in a sweater, particularly since forces both within and without the universe were working, still very slowly, to widen it.
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Aziza soared on the currents of magical energy existing in the world of chaos between the universes. Her mission was to locate the demon world and gather information on it. Aziza was more scared than she had ever been before in her life, and also more intensely alive than she had ever been in her life.