You walk in the door to find it quiet in your home. You hang your coat and keys up, and walk into the master bedroom. You see your wife laying on the floor with a shirt on, but she is out of view around the backside of the bed, she looks over at you and smiles.
"What are you doing back there sweetie? Are you ok?" you say with a chuckle and slight grin.
"Well, I'm afraid we have a problem." she replies with a slightly concerned tone.
Before you can get your next sentence out she slides into full view. You see longer tentacles, but don't quite understand until she lifts 3 tentacles up.
"Your legs!?"
"Yeah..." she says in a shy tone, but noticing by your expression she knows you're concerned
"Please don't freak out! Its fine I promise..." she says, but you catch a hint of worry in her tone.
"We can get this fixed!" you say as you reach for the phone, but she persuades you otherwise. You both know there is no going back.
You run over to her and sit down with her, you stare at the 8 ropes of flesh that used to be legs, and look at her, noticing how clear and fresh she looks despite the circumstances.
"I know, I know... its a lot different from yesterday, but I think there are much worse mutations that has happened to people recently" she says through a small clenched grin as she makes a weird shape with her new "legs" in the air for you to see.
"Well why are you in the floor?"
"I haven't quite learned how to really use these things, much less stand, and the bed was a little too high to get up onto" she says as she lifts a tentacle for you to see.
You pick her up, and immediately notice that she seems much lighter, and almost elastic feeling.
"Hold on, lift me up higher" she says as you lift her almost over your head.
She wriggles her tentacles, and spreads them all out wide, almost like a big stretching motion in all directions. You let her down lower as if she is going to try and stand. She plants all 8 tentacles on the ground, and stands for a few seconds. You catch her as she falls over and set her on the bed.
"Well, these things are much stronger than my normal legs, but it is going to take some major adjustment" she says with some enthusiasm.
"I'm glad your taking this so well" you exclaim as you lean in to give her a kiss on the forehead.
She smiles at you and flops back on the bed in a giddy manner.
"Let me show you something. I think these actually might be better than legs once I figure out how to use them properly" She says as she begins to show you what she can do.
She reaches in a pocket with two tentacles and pulls out all the contents in a quick motion. You can tell she still is a little clumsy with them, but are impressed by the dexterity. She folds all of them up under her in a compact little ball, and then spreads all of them wide. You are impressed by how quickly she has adapted to these things.