James ducked behind a chimney, where he felt fairly well obscured from the view of those below, and took a moment to assess his situation. On the plus side he wouldn't be spending the rest of his days as a winged rat, on the minus side he was stuck naked on top of a building near his work on a less than sunny afternoon.
He reminded himself to stay calm, think logically and avoid the temptation to try and wish his way out of this. Looking round he noticed a hatch, the cover of which had been painted in a way that had initially camoflaged it from him. James crawled over and, to his relief, it opened to reveal a rickety ladder leading into darkness below. With no better option likely to present itself, the nude young man carefully descended the ladder.
James then found himself in some kind of attic. There were voices below, but clearly he was alone. If he waited it out here he might just be able leave the attic when the office workers left, find something to cover himself up with from lost property or wherever and make his way home. It wasn't a perfect plan, but it was a vast improvement on being a pigeon and he was just allowing himself to feel a little optimistic when suddenly..
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"I've got it!" Nicola realised suddenly "I didn't say where James should reappear. He's probably naked in the street or in Timbuktu or something"
"Perhaps" Meredith conceded.
"Well that's easy enough to fix. I wish James was here in this shop now!"
Nicola looked down at the pile of clothes in front of her but it soon became clear her friend wasn't about to rematerialise in them.
"Ugh, this is pointless" Nicola groaned "Nothing happened again"
"Are you sure?" Meredith asked.
"Well can you see him?"
"Perhaps. You didn't specify whether he should be human or not."
"For fucks sake, I said that before!" Nicola had lost her patience now "This is a joke, I'm going to find James"
And so Nicola left the shop leaving James behind. Unable to communicate with Nicola and her alert her to his wherabouts a despairing James was, stuck for now at least, as..