Did I hear a cute little donkey braying here?", appearing out of nowhere the Coachwoman spoke from the hallway where she could see Annetta and Andrea inside the room, one standing on both feet and the other on all fours.
“Oh, Miss! Please! Please! You gotta help us!” Annetta shouted as she finally acknowledged her presence. “I woke up with these ears. Then appeared this tail. And now, my face and body are gone! I look like a donkey!”
“Easy, easy, don't get excited, sweetheart.” The Coachwoman said with her softly voice and with an eerie calm. “So, did you woke up with that long ears?" the Coachwoman asked smiling and holding fingers on her head like donkey ears.
“Yes! I’m scared, Miss! What do I do!?!?” an increasingly exacerbated Annetta shouted as she ran up to the Coachwoman, grabbing her by her black dress coat. “I don’t wanna be a donkey!”
"Sh sh sh sh sh sh.... calm, pretty", the Coachwoman whispered while she stroked her hairy head. "And you say that the tail grew later, right? And you can move it? Can you feel it?"
"Y-Yes," Annetta said blushing and embarrassed.
Then, the Coachwoman directed her gaze to Andrea who was smelling a broken plate on the floor with traces of chocolate cake, apparently she no longer liked it as she immediately moved away from it. Andrea was still searching for grass.
"And your friend, it seems that she enjoyed her stay at Pleasure Island more than you, don't you think?" The Coachwoman smirked. "She still has human parts and already behaves like a normal donkey foal, she doesn't even like the taste of cake anymore."
"What?" At that moment, Annetta remembered the words of the dormouse: Girls who are lazy, and who do not go to school, or obey their parents, and who think only of themselves sooner or later end up as donkeys.
"You knew this, right? You did this to us? You monster!!!" Annetta yelled angrily at the Coachwoman, pulling away from her.
"Me? No, my darling, you've always been asses, this island only show you your real form. You thought only of amusing yourselves. Boys and girls who are lazy, greedy and selfish always end up as real donkeys." explained the Coachwoman. "But I prefer to take girls to the island. When they turn into donkey foals, they are more docile than the stubborn boys. And when they grow up, they can give donkey babies and donkey milk."
Annetta was stunned with terror. She, her friends, and all the girls on the island had been tricked into becoming beasts of burden.
Suddenly, a tearing noise was heard. It was Andrea who, desperate to find no grass to eat, tore a piece of wallpaper from the wall with her front teeth.
Seeing Andrea with the piece of wallpaper in her mouth, the Coachwoman giggled and approached her.
"Hello my beauty, are you hungry?", The Coachwoman smiled at her and rubbed her back. Andrea was motionless, her eyes on the floor and chewing the wallpaper. "Don't worry, right now I'm going to take you and your friend to a place full of bales of hay and green grass."
The Coachwoman raised her index finger to the ceiling and with a flash she and the two donkey girls disappeared from the room.