“So what do we do?” Asked Alicia after Henry had finished relating his conversation.
“Well I get this nail polish off for a start. Red isn’t my colour” Henry tried to make light of the situation. “I think we have no choice but to follow her process and do what it says. Take a different satchel each night. I also think I know how to chose which swap we get. Think about it. When we drank the doll’s feet we swapped our own feet. Then last night we drank the doll’s hand and now we have swapped hands. I suspect that what ever part of the doll we consume is the part that we find swapped the next morning”
“But I’m stuck with being tall until the doll is finished?”
“It seems that way. She was pretty explicit about not trying to speed up the process by drinking multiple sachets in a day as well. We can’t risk that”
“Mm. Do you mind if I put polish on these fingers. I need to make them look a little bit more feminine at least”
“Go ahead. They are yours for the day. But first can you get the doll? I want to examine it thoroughly and check what is in store for us”
Alicia bought back the doll then went to the veranda to paint what had been Henry's fingernails. She took the opportunity to pull out the long black hairs that were growing on the backs of those hands. How ugly.
Meanwhile Henry was itemising the parts of the doll. He made a list. It was relatively easy as all the sachets were of a different colour. He added notes about where each sachet was on the doll and what it could potentially cause to swap.
The parts:
Candy striped, The gift doll was carrying (Already used and swapped heights)
Red, Feet (Already used and swapped feet)
Blue, Hands (Already used and swapped hands)
Brown, Back of head (hair?)
Pink. Front of head with eyes and mouth on it (Face?)
Light green. Side of head. Appears to be two sections but might be joined internally. (Ears?)
Orange. Neck area (Neck?)
Yellow. Arms (Arms?)
Dark blue, Legs (Legs?)
Purple, Bum (Bum?)
Lavender, Groin area (Genitals?)
Dark Green, Chest (Chest? Breasts?)
Pale green, Stomach (Waist? Stomach?)
As Henry wrote the list he was mesmerised by the hand doing the writing. It was hard to believe they were currently his. Equally distracting was the huge diamond on his other hand. He would get that off as soon as the list was finished and give it to Alicia to take care of.