Sophie was beginning to panic. This was no better than before - now she was free but Laura was in the cage and, worse still, believed she was supposed to be a monkey girl ready to be auctioned the next day. The auctioneers would be back soon and Laura could be taken away and left in that form forever.
Sophie couldn't allow that. She had to get her friend out of there and find Lucy and Annie before it was too late. The only option was the spell book which by luck she was still holding. Unlike the book from the shop these spells clearly worked, but unfortunately she had no idea what any of them did. But she had no other choice now but to experiment.
"*ook* what are you doing?" Laura was crouched defensively in the corner of her cell as Sophie prepared her spell. She was happy being a monkey and didn't want to be changed.
"I'm sorry but you have to *ook* trust me" Sophie replied as reassuringly as she could manage as she began the incantation. When she had read the last words Sophie closed her eyes, afraid to watch what she had done to her friend. There followed a few moments of nervous silence that were eventually broken by Laura's distressed voice.
"Oh shit! What have you done to me?"
Sophie blinked and looked across into the cage. It seemed to be empty at first, then she looked down onto the floor. Laura's voice had come from a lizard - not a human shaped reptile woman, an actual lizard.
"Why did you do this to me? Turn me back now!" Laura complained.
"Look, you can get through the bars now!" Sophie suddenly realised, though that had hardly been her plan. Laura did as suggested and soon was free again, and with her memory fully restored. If she wasn't a reptile this would be perfect.
"Come on, we have to *ook* find the others quickly!" Sophie instructed her lizard friend.
"Wait, you're leaving me like this?" Laura sounded horrified "You can't be serious!"