UMI was definitely off the hook for Frank, since the magic which had made him unfit for his job was coming from another employee, a case the policy excluded from coverage. But Rebecca still felt responsible and teleported to Frank's location.
"Easy, boy" said Rebecca as the jackass charged her, only to be deflected by her magical wards. "Hmmmm, what's that?" The list Rebecca held said only that Frank would be changed to a jackass, but he seemed to have some sort of magical power not normally held by jackasses. Rebecca pulled her lens of true sight from her bag, and gave the stunned jackass a close inspection.
One of the hardest lessons for the trainee magician, particularly one with a tidy, logical mind like Rebecca's, was that magic doesn't always make sense. Sometimes things just happen, and this jackass somehow possessed the ability to tranform humans into fertile jennies for his pleasure. Something, obviously, needed to be done.
Rebecca gave the wand of changes a desultory wave. Suddenly the frenzied lust and violence departed from Frank, who was no longer interested in anything other than the delicious grass. Slowly Francine, the newest jenny, plodded back to the paddock to be with her sisters.
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The pen wasn't in the office, although a confused Labrador was. Someone with magical abilities had taken it, Penta thought. She cast a quick spell to find its owner and current location.