Getting his wish granted, Lucas took the gray crayon and drew over his brother's face, giving the donkey body a long neck. He then drew the head of a donkey at the end of that longer neck, and redrew the ears. This time, even larger than before. Lucas was giggling at how obnoxiously huge he drew those ears. He drew the head pretty large too. But those ears! Taller and wider than they should have been. Twice as tall and wide as they should have been. The skull and snout were also longer and broader than they should have been.
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"I wish I wasn't such a freak with a human head on a..."
I wasn't able to finish that sentence. My throat grew sore and extremely irritable. It felt like I had swallowed a giant hairball, and I tried coughing it out:
*Cough cough cough* I started wheezing for breath as my neck also felt like it was on fire.
*Coughhehheheeheheehhaawckockockhheeehehehehehhaawwwkk!* I was only half aware I was making my very first donkey noises. I was much more preoccupied with obtaining my next breath.
Then my airways suddenly cleared, but then I was getting a headache. A massive one! My teeth started hurting, with growing sharp pains like cavities. My head felt like it was going to explode, as my gums burst with a bunch of "clattering" sounds on the tiled floor almost like the sound of falling change.
I had to keep my eyes clenched tightly closed and held my breath. It didn't last very long. A little longer than one of those brain freezes when eating something too cold too quickly. And more intense than that. But the horrible pain did subside and go away.
"Eerrgghh haaww" I said, letting out my very first donkey bray! Unable to speak!
"Eeerrrrrrggghh hhhhhhhaaaawww" i said again, trying to say "uuuhhhhh oohhh!"
I can't speak! I can only bray like a true jackass! I couldn't force a single word past my lips, no matter how hard I tried. Even trying to bite the air and roll my much thicker and clumsier tongue.
""Eerrrgghh hhhaaww EEERRGGHH hhhaaww" was all I was ever able to muster.
My braying was actually on the deep side. A deep-throated gutteral braying like a large male donkey would make.
"eeerrgghhh hhhaawww" I said again out loud, trying my new irritating unintelligible voice once again.
"Great! I can't speak now! But I wonder if I could use my hooves to write something out, as I started looking down towards my right foreleg. But upon opening my eyes and craning my much larger, longer neck, everything was in blacks, whites, and mostly grays! And I noticed right away I had a very large blind spot directly ahead. I began to gaze down and to my right anyway, and the white floor and my black right hoof looked further away than before.
"HHHHAAAWWWW!" I exclaimed in consternation.
That was also when I noticed my face and mouth felt funny. It felt...longer. And my mouth tastes sour. Very sour. I then felt my huge slab-like donkey teeth with my new donkey tongue.
"Eeerrggghh hhhhaaaww!" I said out loud again, forgetting I can no longer speak. "Uuhh ooohh," was my intention of saying.
I wandered back towards the mirror, but as I did so, I heard something "crunch" under my big clumsy useless left hoof.
*CRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCH!* I heard in rapid succession like the sound of stepping on broken glass when I stepped with my right front hoof.
I took a few more tentative steps, my human sensibilities cringing with each crunch. I was thinking I must be breaking the tiles beneath my much heavier frame. But I wanted to check myself out in the mirror.
As I approached the mirror again from the side, I saw the profile of the head of an animal. A donkey, to be precise! A donkey with HUUUUUGE ears on top of its large head. It was nearly of comical proportions. I would have found it kinda funny, if I knew those ears and that head weren't now mine. And that made the dread of having such things even worse. I had really, really big ears! Even for a donkey! How humiliating is that? "EEERRGGHH HHHAAWWW!" I guffawed.
The ears naturally flattened. Or, almost flattened. They are too large even for that. They could only go half way down onto the top of my donkey-shaped skull, the base of those things were so wide.
"Great! I can't just be a dumbass donkey! I have to be one with such stupid ears! Wtf!?"
"Eerrgghh Hhhaaww," I brayed out of pure frustration and humiliation. Shadows on the ground will always remind me of what ears I have, mocking me for what I am now.