"Shape."
No sooner had those words left your mouth, you feel things start to change - it's painless, but you can and DO feel them taking place rather abruptly.
Your fingers begin to elongate first. You feel your body starting to shrink, too, and feel your clothes falling away. Your shoes and socks are torn through as your toes meld together into two digits. Your toenails stretch out, and you soon see sharp talons spring from the tips. From your heels, two extra talons made themselves known.
It is a rather fast process altogether. Brown feathers start to bloom across your body as it shrinks down to a much smaller size. Your arms stretch out, feathers sprouting from all around. From the velvety down that keeps you warm in the night to the fringed plumes that grants the owl its silent flight.
It’s like getting a massage, almost, you feel; even though this massage is turning your hands into the fused ends of wings now growing and blooming to full size.
Tufts of feathers sprout on either side of your head as your hair melts into the plumes. Your nose and lips elongate and fuse, then harden into a curved black beak. Your eyes grow larger, becoming huge golden discs that take up a good percentage of your head. Your sight growing much stronger with it. Your neck is limber, allowing you to swivel your head behind yourself.
and within minutes, you are now an a flesh and blood Great Horned Owl on the floor. Only your much too large clothes remain as a hint of what you used to be.
You can think, and feel the same, but your sense of hearing is much clearer than before. You heard somewhere that some owl species could hear a mouse under a foot of snow.
Your eyes are sharp, yes, yet your sense of smell is dulled to the point it was practically nonexistent. Still, you are thankful for the fact you can actually control yourself as you turn your head, glancing about the surroundings.