“You know, now that I'm in charge, I think it's a bit crowded in here,” the fox says.
He looks at his left arm and focuses for a second. You crane your “neck” to look at what's going on to see the cat balloon sliding off of the arm like a rubber glove. As it retreats, your old hand starts popping out from beneath it. The cat thrashes and hisses to no effect as the process continues. As the balloon extends off of the last fingertip, soon the knot of the balloon appears, then a string attaching it to the tip of the middle finger. The string continues extending and eventually comes loose. The fox catches it in his new hand and turns his attention to his feet.
The giraffe slides off first, revealing your old foot, still in your shoe. The Elephant follows after, also unable to resist, and soon the fox has a bundle of three balloons clutched in his left hand. Finally, he turns his attention to you.
“Please, don't!” you beg, looking back up at his grinning face.
“Sorry, pal. Afraid I'm not the sharing type,” is all he replies as you feel a strange sensation in your throat and start to slide up the arm.
Like those you just watched, the process doesn't take long. As you move the first couple inches, your neck starts to become numb and your throat feels a bit swollen. Soon, you can't feel anything below your chin, and the swelling in your throat begins to feel like something alien pushing from within. As it subsides, it separates into 4 distinct points that you realize are fingers when the fox starts moving them experimentally.
Unlike the balloons, as you come loose, you don't start floating, and the fox has to lower his arm to manage the weight of you hanging off of it. You feel like you're dangling from something attached to skin you've never felt before, and the alien-ness of the sensations makes it hard to gather what's going on from them. You suddenly drop a few inches before the fox catches you by your new string.
“Whoops, almost lost ya there,” he says as he lifts you up to his face with a toothy grin.
He looks at the balloons in his left hand and back at you with some consideration before saying...