"You heard what she said, we can't stand out" Nicola answered unsympathetically "It's not like I want to get dressed up in some revealing costume"
"Then maybe Noelle should - gribbit - shrink you too?" James suggested sulkily.
"Come on guys, we don't have time for this" Noelle chimed in quickly "Now, stand still a moment please Nicola"
"You'd better not be.." Nicola began to protest as Noelle waved her arms in her direction, but it was only what she was wearing that changed.
"Huh? No way!" Nicola looked down first in amazement and then embarassment at her new attire. Brown leather boots reached up as far as her knees, but her thighs were entirely exposed while the shortest of mini skirts just about covered the thong she could feel underneath it. The top she was wearing felt like something a medievil serving wench might have found herself forced to wear and seemed entirely designed to accentuate her large boobs. Her hair had been braided into pigtails, giving her a cute and innocent appearance she didn't want.
"Hey, stop staring!" An embarassed Nicola snapped at James, who couldn't seem to help but gawp at her pleasing new image.
"Right, my turn" Noelle continued as she quickly gave herself a similar look to Nicola, though her curly, medium length hair remained untouched.
"Ok, now him!" Nicola nodded smugly at James as Noelle prepared her third spell.
"Wait, isn't there -gribbit - some other..." James began to complain as his surroundings began to get bigger quickly and dramatically until he was the size of an actual frog.
"How long is this -gribbit- going to take?" James asked nervously, but there was no answer. He wasn't sure if the girls could even hear him at his new size, way down on the floor by their feet.
"Ok, now lets go!" Noelle smiled as she waved her hand one more time.
The trio quickly found themselves transported to what looked like a fairly ordinary path by the side of a fairly ordinary looking river. It could easily have been the Thames.
"Are you sure this is it?" Nicola asked, almost dissapointed by the lack of any real difference to what she was used to seeing.
"Shh, keep quiet a moment" Noelle answered "James, hide. In the long grass there!"
James briefly considered arguing, but something in Noelle's manner told him this was serious and he did as he was told.
"We were seen arriving" Noelle whispered across to Nicola as she looked at someone aporoching them purposefully "This could be tricky. Let me do the talking and if you have to speak, act dumb. You are a little exotic looking for this place so just pretend you don't understand maybe?"
"Fine" Nicola nodded nervously as the strangers approached. It was...