Lian broke into a run, the thing swaying behind her heavily as she tried to reach home before anyone caught sight of her and her... tail.
Lian kept having to pull her shorts back up to avoid them falling down and tripping her. They had lost a lot of structural integrity from the growth of her new appendage and they fought against her as she ran. Her face was red and her breath ragged, but home wasn't too far. Now all she needed to do was -
*crack*
*pop*
*creak*
Lian felt the bones in her feet crack and twist. It felt more wrong than painful. But what really had her attention was the fact she had lost balance and was now tumbling forward. She tried to stop herself, but her changing feet could find no purchase.
Lian crashed into a bush in front of her neighbor's house. After a few minutes of laying half submerged in the shrub she took stock of her body. Her feet had grown to a larger size. The heel extended backwards and the toes were stretched out into a claw-like shape with webbing between them. Her smallest toe seemed to have vanished.
Lian was having trouble believing what she saw. Her hands would confirm her fears, though. This was no trick of the eyes - her strangely shaped feet were as real as her tail.
Her shorts and shoes had not fared well. The bush had torn what little remained of the fabric and her large pointed feet had torn through her shoes, splitting them apart. Now she had nothing to cover her lower half. If she wanted to make it to her house, she would have to run the rest of the way nude from the waist down.
Lian started to panic.