Now what neither the vampyres or Clare knew was the connection between kobbolds and the Great Western Dragons they created.
From the kobbolds point of view once Clare had grasped that cursed gold chain her ghostly body had been supernaturally transmuted into that of a Great Western Dragon
and they were the midwives who would help the human soul achieve her proper mind and body as Lady Charne.
Clare didn't know that at the time or she likely would have jumped
into the nearest Light to step into.
Alas the cunning kobbolds sweettalked her into going to a space big enough for the remaking job the kobbold had planned for her.
There was a human drunk nearby but the kobbolds figured once Clare was remade there'd be one less witness
around on where Great Western Dragons come from.
So slowly the kobbolds began spraying a fine mist of something over the human spirit
who was invisible to everyone but a kobbolds eyes.
The mist a silvery gold substance sank into Clare's ectoplasmic flesh and she became
less invisible.
The kobbolds waited patiently for the substance to have its effect
which occured when the startled human soul,who previously had felt no fear
suddenly felt lots of fear as her intellectual part
of her soul demanded she get on all fours
like a
beast
and the now visible shade found she needed to get on all fours
She tried to get up on her two legs
but the surrounding kobbolds pressed down on her back to
keep her in the footed posture.
One kobbold backed to her front and began painting face paint dragons teeth on her face.
With a slight very soft "scrunch" the painted teeth sank into her gums and Clare
began to cough violently and gag as she spat out objects that she realized
weree her ectoplasmic human teeth.
She tried to keep her human shaped jaws clamped closed
but the kobbolds began to paint along her human shaped neck and along her human sized and shaped
jaws and her nose and nostrils
with another of the body altering face paint.
Clare ke[t her jaws clamped closed as the pressure in her ectoplasmic bones
intensified
and with another
louder "scrrritch" her face began to push out as her jaws lengthened and her
nose flattened and widened.
She now sported the beginnings of a dragons snout
and she screeched as her neck began to lengthen.
So intent had been Clare on that stretching face of hers Clare hadn't noticed the kobbolds painting the transmutative body paint on the rest of her ectoplasmic body.
Barely had the emerging Great Western Dragon get over her snout
when the changes heated up all over her growing form and she got out one last
human shriek before Lady Charne stopped thinking Clare
thoughts and started thinking the greedy evil hungry thoughts of
a flamebreather.