Whether it was you being adventurous and picking something not frequently focused on in transformations for variety’s sake, or you genuinely found beetles beautiful, spiders sublime, ants amazing, moths magnificent, dragonflies dashing, or… well, you get the idea… regardless of your reasons, you clicked the link marked “insect.” You find yourself reading through the opening paragraph, and, if you’re the impatient type, possibly wondering if this writer plans on simply alliterating all afternoon, or if they’ll actually advance anything.
Before you get the chance to read much more, you hear a thumping sound at your front door. You hadn’t been expecting any guests or packages today, so you can’t help wondering what it could be.
When you open the door, you see… A gift box, wrapped up in a big red bow and blue wrapping paper? And a trail of… ants? You weren’t able to get a good look, as the last few were scuttling out of sight, in the opposite direction of your “present.”
It has a tag with your name on it, but nothing else indicating who it was from.
Maybe you were the trusting type, and wanted to open it. Maybe you were the cautious type, and wanted it as far away from you as possible, thinking it could be a bomb, for all you knew.
But before you could act, the top of the box burst open, releasing a cloud of a strange powder around you, and you cough up a storm, feeling queasy. Something strange is happening to your body. You’re becoming something else. But what?