Well Aaron was into weapons so was looking for a bazooka or perhaps a Elephant Gun
not the sort of thing you'd find in a wrecked
antique store with smashed clocks
and bore signs the store staff had
turned into dragons whilst inside the store.
Emily however was fascinated with mechanical time pieces and had
rebuilt and made quite a few grandfather
clocks and chronometers in her time.
So she had been somewhat annoyed because Aaron had
yanked her away from the wrecked store before she was ready to go.
In her quick glance at the store,the parked cargo truck beside it and the boxes of plates,cups and figurines
she had noted the cups and plates tended to have images of
clocks and watches on them
and the figurines tended to
have a clock in them.
So later that night,whilst Aaron went to sleep
in the hidey hole they had found
Emily quietly got up
got dressed
and slipped out into the night to revisit the ruined antique shop.
It was called the
ALCHEMISTS SHOPPE ON TIMEPECES AND ANCIENT RELIQCES
and on the first eye sweep of the premises
Emily got the impression that the
cursed shop staff
who would in due time transform into
scaly flamebreathing giants called dragons
had fled INTO the store rather then staying outside in the yard outside beside the building.
Which didn't make sense to Emily
UNLESS there had been something outside the store that had scared the doomed staff
into fleeing into the "shrinking ' building
So Emily approached the parked cargo truck
whose back doors were still open,
Inside the dark interior of the cube Emily
could hear the ominous 'tick tock' of a timepiece
Foolishly she laid her hands on the inside floor of the cube
which seemed to trigger the device inside
Suddenly the timepiece began to go
'BONGGG BONGGG BONGGG" and the vibrations in the air
seemed to sink into
Emily's bones
The air around her seemed to glow with the vibrations
and the human girl realized too late the same power that had
transformed the store staff
was now working on her
And like them she stumbled towards the gaping doorway of the store door as the curse
vibrated through through her mind
fogging it as her tailbone begagan to lengthen and her
eyeballs swelled and began to reaarangee to something different