Dan took her hand. The two staggered back out on to the cobblestone streets. A roller coaster roared by overhead into a tunnel.
“How about that?” Emily took one look at it and groaned.
“Oh geez, not a chance! Maybe after we aren’t shhoooo drunk!” Dan laughed.
“Good point!” Suddenly the scent of something sweet caught his nostrils and his head turned to look at a hazy area of the park where a lot of people where headed.
“Something smells good.” said Emily smelling this scent too. They moved like zombies until they reached a small, square wooden building, framed by two cigar store Indians. Emily sniffed the air, trying to figure out what that smell was.
The smoke wafting out of it seemed to pull at them physically. They felt the drunkenness fading into a pleasant daze. The inside of the building was filled with a haze smelling of fresh cutgrass, and girls everywhere.
“Cigars!” Dan exclaimed and ran up to an indian statue that was throwing out cigars. He jumped up and tore the box down before grabbing one and sticking it into his mouth.
Emily also took a cigar from the box and smiled at him. One of the island workers came by with a lighter, letting both light up.
Emily took a deep drag on the cigar. The room, already swaying, now began to spin like a top. She giggled and let out a ring of smoke.
Things were starting to blur in the room for Dan, his ears were burning up as he breathed in a deep lungful of smoke. He itched them, and they felt like a mass of warm putty.
The itch wouldn’t recede though so he scratched them harder, and suddenly they grew hairy under his fingers. For a moment he stopped, then grinned stupidly.
“Look at that girl’s ears!” He pointed shakily at a girl nearby whose ears were strangely long.
“Weird...” Emily mumbled as she scratched her own ears. Fresh hair was emerging from under her skin, light gray and very soft. All of this went unnoticed by the very drunk girl who was now getting high on all of the smoke.
“I kind of like them though.” She giggled. “What about you, do you like them, Dan?” She nearly choked on the smoke as she burst out laughing.
Emily had turned to look at Dan just in time to see his ears, now masses coated in brown hair, pull free from the sides of his face and flop up into foot and a half long ears that looked more akin to a donkey than a human.
The outside of the ears were coated in brown fur, and the insides had a messy white mass of hair in them.
“What’s so funny, babe?” Dan said around his cigar, laughing himself.
Everything ’was funny’ right now. “I...I dunno.” Emily giggled. The thoughts just wouldn’t stick with her. The haze of smoke was also distracting her from her own extending ears.
“You look funny though.” Emily laughed and flicked her changing ears, which caused them to extend to a foot. “I can flick my ears. Did you know I could flick my ears?”
Dan laughed raucously as he saw her ears twitch and suddenly extend several more inches and gray hair blossomed copiously over her ears. They waggled and started turning this way and that towards every sound.
“Man this is some good shit!!!” He blinked as he saw several more ears flop up like time lapsed garden weeds.
“Whaahahahahhaawwwwwww!!!” He laughed. “Yes it is.”
Emily mumbled, as her ears finished their growth. She rubbed at them unconsciously, noticing they felt much softer. “I feel like I’ve got animal ears. What is in this stuff?”