Hey. I’m not too good with introductions so we’ll just start here.
My name is Matthew Valentine, but everyone here calls me Matt. I was 12 when the changes began, which makes me 19 this year.
The short of it is, I couldn’t defend myself. I vividly remember seeing a woman in front of me turning into a monkey. Her shrinking body, her screams fading away as she just forgot about everything and let the monkey take over her. Scared the hell out of me.
My parents weren’t with me the day it happened. It was so long ago that I don’t even remember where they were, and I never found out. They disappeared in the same way as thousands to millions did. They changed once, changed twice, and most likely changed beyond repair.
That’s what we’re careful about. The ‘beyond-repair’ changes. Which you’ll be surprised to know the real meaning of.
You see, the beyond ‘repair changes’ aren’t necessarily ‘permanent changes’. Some of the people in our group have experienced permanent changes, and they live the same way as we do. Of course they have their disabilities, but that doesn’t make them any less important than the rest.
When I was 14, I went through a change myself (not including puberty). I grew a bunnies tail just above my rear. The group supported me while I dealt with it (it was hard because... well... hormones) and after a year or so it disappeared overnight.
It’s almost impossible to tell if a change will be permanent or not, but it sometimes factors down to how big the change was.
Now that I have you up to speed with my life, I’ll introduce you to the rest of the rest of the group.