Nicola looked at James purposefully, smiled and muttered some nonsense sounding words at him with a wicked glint in her eye.
James looked terrified as she finished the spell.
"Hah! The look on your face!" Nicola grinned "You really believed that was going to.."
Suddenly James let out a belching sound. He raised his hand to cover his mouth and to his shock immediately noticed the webbing between his fingers. And the skin on the back of his hands was turning a dark green, with that colour quickly making its way up his arms.
He fell involuntarily into a squatting postition and, looking up at the two women, the genuine shock and disbelief on Nicola's face immediately confirmed to him something was very wrong. Meredith just seemed to be smirking.
Then so many things started happening so quickly so quickly it was hard to concentrate on any one of them; His facial features, particularly his eyes seemed to be changing, his body was readjusting itself into a new position and everything around him was growing as he fell into his clothes.
Once the changes had finished Nicola looked at the pile of her friends clothes then at Meredith in a state of confusion. The old witch laughed and motioned for her to examine the results of her attempt at magic.
Nicola squattd over her friends discarded work clothes with a mixture of concern and fascination. There was something moving under them
"James?" She asked with both fear and excitement as she began discarding them, eventually revealing a regular looking frog that would have looked completely at home in the pond at the back of her garden.
"It worked" She looked up at Meredith with a whole new respect she wouldn't have thought possible a few minutes earlier. Meredith nodded sagely, curious as to what the girls next move would be.