Tiffany was human again! She could feel it! No ears...no face fur. No tail! But then...why...why was Tiffany not happy? "I...what?" She was confused. She should be happy right now. She was a normal human girl again. Whatever your name was...I'm confused."
There was no answer. The wind blew, and a dog barked out in the distance.
The street lamps had all but gone out, and the roads were bathed in cold dark abandonment.
"Something...something is missing." Tiffany rubbed her butt. Her tailess butt. Now that it was gone she felt...incomplete??? "What' is wrong with me!? I'm normal now!" But strangely...she didn't feel normal.
She puzzled over her own feelings for several minutes within a dark alleyway of an unfamiliar town.
Then there was her head. The ears. She'd realized just how used to the weight she'd gotten. Now that they were gone her whole head felt off. Her hand went down her skirt to feel her smooth butt over where the tail had been. She was just like every other girl now. "I..."
She slunk out of the alleyway. To her shock she came to a realization. "I miss it...I miss my tail." She said. *My tail.* She thought. *Not a tail. My tail.* It had made her unique. So had her ears. Sure they were strange...but they had become normal to her...and she hadn't realized that until they were gone. She headed down the street, back towards the inn. She wished she could talk to the creature again...
But no matter where she looked, there was no sign. No light, no dot, no faraway hint of her. Not even amongst the mass of stars above. The creature was gone, and naught but a memory. But was it even a memory? Could it have all been just a dream? An illusion? The surreal nature of it was so bizarre it was hard to consider it anything but!
As she walked down the street she wondered if the whole Pleasure Island thing had just been a dream. But it couldn't have been. She was still here. And the memory of the tail and ears was too vivid. But they were gone now, and she didn't feel like herself anymore. She was a normal girl...and she didn't like it.
But the village stretched out around her, the building silhouettes standing there within the dim firelight. This was real all around her, no matter how many times she blinked. If the town was real, then the inn was real. And if the inn was real, then inside it...
"Mitch!" She ran into the inn. It was dark inside, and she tripped a few times before getting up to her room and bursting in. "Mitch I'm back!"