Vanessa decided the best way to get away from modern technology was to go back to a generation where there was almost no technology. Not just smart phones, cars, computers, and all the minor annoyances of today. She wanted to be free of housing, farming, the wheel, and fire for a complete de-tox. That puts her destination before Homo Erectus. However, she couldn't go too far back. As much as Vanessa would love to be a rodent or lizard watching dinosaurs, if she was too small/slimey for the necklace it would come off instantly. She also didn't want to be at the complete bottom of the food chain for the obvious reasons.
"Africa 2 Million Years Ago... Homo Habilis female of b-breeding age."
The time vortex instantaneously engulfed Vanessa in a dark blue light. It was rough to see but everything around her was changing. Her world was going back through the eras so fast she could barely keep up. Vanessa's apartment had become what looked like something out of the 1900s and was changing by the second. She turned to her mirror to find herself a little shorter and in colonial style dress. In the blink of an eye she shrank just a little again to see herself in dirty peasant wear of the medieval era. Vanessa's mirror disappeared and a puddle was where it once stood. She squatted and gazed down to see herself with much longer hair, slightly darker skin, and wearing something she saw in a museum exhibit on ancient Sumerians. She watched her skin turn darker, her height decrease, and her clothing turn into sewed together animal pelts. Vanessa felt around her face as her brow slowly jutted out, and saw her skin darken to something closer to a modern African. She felt a breeze hit her body and noticed she was left wearing only a loincloth. Vanessa’s nose was starting to flatten into a more ape like shape, and her breast looking more like saggy A-cups. She itched herself as hairs started to appear all over her now nude body. She touched her jaw feeling morph less pronounced ape’s muzzle. The hair on Vanessa's head receded almost entirely into her skull. She could feel her toes becoming little longer and more flexible. After scratching herself she instantly noticed her arms were now a longer as well. Vanessa was now covered completely in a light layer fur save for her hands, feet, chest, stomach, and butt.
The dark blue haze that surrounded Vanessa vanished.
“I-I Wo-ohh”, Vanessa covered her mouth remembering that it was long before speech evolved. She sipped from the puddle before her and started to admire her reflection. “It really did work!”, Vanessa thought to herself. She felt the cool breeze past her body as she struggled a bit to stand up. The breath-taking prehistoric Savannah surrounded her. Mountains way off into the distance with tree spread far and wide in between. Elephant like creatures refreshing themselves at a far-off watering hole. All made the more amazing by the scale of herself now. Vanessa looked down and figured she was only about three and a half feet tall now. She could hear her troop not too far behi- OH HER TROOP! It suddenly hit Vanessa that she was supposed to be scouting out a tree up ahead. She looked around herself remembering the one piece of technology she did have left. Vanessa picked up her branch and began advancing towards the tree. Only a few minutes back in time and evolution, she was already enjoying herself!