Old man Peace got to his feet and addressed the new bull.
"It's high time we get out to the back pasture and introduce you to my cows," the old man said.
Bryan shuffled his hooves and snorted. He had thought it over, and he had no intention of playing stud for the old man who had now deliberately trapped him in bovine shape. He refused to budge.
Seeing the bull's stubborn response, ol' Pence scrolled through the Chronivac app. "That your game, is it?" The old guy said. "Don't say I didn't warn you."
Bryan watched with growing unease as Pence hunched over his phone. Suddenly, he felt a strange wave of sensations overtake him and, a very short time later, he felt much, much different. His entire body felt light and buoyant. As he scanned his surroundings, he was awed by how enormous everything looked. He was even more alarmed when Mr. Peace loomed over him with a bit of a clever expression on his Rushmore-sized features before he started chuckling loudly.
"Well, I'll be damned if you don't make a right decent bluebottle fly, boy," the man said, squinting to see to best effect the fly with a bluish tint to its body, six legs, and lots of spikes and tufts sprouting from its body.
No! He didn't! Bryan tried to protest, but he produced only a raspy buzzing sound as he felt his newly-acquired wings spring into action, worked by muscles on his back.
"I'll give you some time to think things over," Mr. Peace said. "Tell you what. You make your way up to my house and fly into my kitchen when you've had enough. I keep the windows open this time of year, so it ain't going to be difficult for you to get inside."
Bryan used his new wings to fly toward Peace's ugly mug. "You can't leave me a bug!"
Peace swung out a hand and swatted the pesky fly, sending poor Bryan spinning toward the hay-strewn floor of the barn. He lost track of the bug, but it was no skin off his nose. It would either make it to his house or it wouldn't. He walked out of the barn, his huge leather boots stepping over the stunned fly.
The addled fly was left to recover in peace and then...