When the card popped out, Drake was a bit hesitant to read it aloud, but it seemed even the card was hard on his actions; so he figured he may as well.
"For one who's name is dragon you don't seem to have much heart,
perhaps what you really need is a fresh start,
a coward's punishment can be really quite mild,
so behold quiet one as you become a child."
There was a sudden flash, no pain, but there did seem to be a flurry of feathers everywhere from his point of view. And he found he was looking up at everyone, and his vision seemed more blurry towards the edge.
"Aww, he's so cute," Babs said.
As Drake looked down, he saw his clothes had turned into some kind of onesie, and his lower half seemed to be padded in something. He could barely reach the coffee table they were all playing around, and he felt incredibly weak.
Nigel played with some of Drake's hair. "Quite think for a child... You might be two at the oldest, but your hair is probably as thick as it was before you changed."
Drake just bit his lip with his baby teeth and pouted like the scolded child he was at this point.
Kristy was staring at the board. "I get the feeling we'll be at this for a long time," she said.
"What makes you say that?" Nat asked.
Tracing her finger backwards along the track, she showed them that the track looped back on itself several times. "Honestly, based on the shape of these tracks alone, the game could keep up playing forever if it wanted to... But even if it gave us the quickest possible route to the end, we'd still be here for at least a day".
Nat suddenly looked quite scared. "Its not going to let us starve to death is it?"
Kristy shook her head. "I doubt it, it wouldn't be able to keep drawing this out if it did... Besides, its a magical trickster game, it would probably be trying to draw this out even if Marcus didn't steal it." She pondered looking at the board for a moment. "Its probably only going to end this when we barely resemble our previous selves, either being something we'd be embarrassed to live as, or as a form that's difficult to live with".
Bab piped up. "You make it sound like its not going to do anything that makes it difficult to play... Like removing our minds, or our hands."
Kristy shook her head. "Actually I think that doing that might count as drawing it out, given we'd have to struggle with that to figure out how to have them make the next turn... I wouldn't be surprised if Drake was..."
Everyone suddenly turned back to Drake, his eyes bawling as he listened, clearly trying not to cry, but his baby body failing him. "I don' wanna be stuck a bay-bay!"
Nigel slowly patted his head to calm him down, and started spinning the device up.
As the card result popped out, Marcus seemed to spit a curse at Nigel.