Mary can only look on in horror as Michelle's form shrinks in front of her.
"Mary, help..." she says softly as she begins sinking to the ground. "I'm feeling... weak..."
"Hold on!" Mary yells as she frantically tries to remove the tangled tails, but not only are they stuck, the air escaping into her begins to push her belly outward. As she moans in pain, her belly finally swells to the point where she can barely reach the tails with her fingers.
"Mary... I..." Michelle sighs as the last of the air escapes from her into Mary's now beach ball-sized abdomen, and the now deflated tail slips easily out.
"What am I going to do now?" Mary thinks, staring at the lifeless skin of her new friend on the floor over the mass of her belly.