When Tony and Megan finally stepped out of their showers, they still had their towels in hand and were wiping themselves down as well as they could. They had placed their collars on little coat-rack-style sticks jutting out from the wall, and so when Tony was convinced he was dry enough, he lowered his towel and reached up to retrieve it. For reasons he couldn't quite completely understand, now that he was entirely naked, the thought of fastening this little strip of leather back around his neck again made him feel a little more complete--a little more presentable--almost as though he were really getting dressed. The sight of his first name on that metal tag dangling off of it even made him smile and made a now-familiar rhythm start to spasm like a metronome between his ass cheeks.
With his back turned to Megan, who was almost finished fastening her own collar, Tony did not notice her looking in his direction.
"Hey, what's that?" she asked, causing him to turn to face her.
"What's what?" he asked her, looking around to maybe find whatever Megan might have noticed. She sighed and came up to him and lightly brought her hands down on his shoulders.
"Turn around again," she asked soothingly. He felt her warm, smooth skin against his own and turned at her behest like clay beneath her fingers. His loins tingled beneath him. His tailbone quickly went back to its rhythm. Twitch twitch twitch twitch ... Megan spoke again:
"I'm saying, what is this?" She gently touched the vibrating lump on his butt and sent a jolting shiver through his spine. Tony jumped and yelped and spun around to face her, almost slipping during his landing on the hard wet floor beneath them. His small protrusion stopped its twitching and tried to point straight down between his butt cheeks. Megan looked as startled as he did. She blushed rubbed her arm apologetically.
"Oh, uh, sorry," she said in a soft voice, "I didn't mean to hurt your or anything, it's just--"
"No, no, It's alright. I just didn't expect that, is all. I'm not entirely used to that thing yet," he tried to explain.
"Oh, so, you haven't always had it, it's--"
"Yeah, it, it grew right after Madame Illusia cast her spell, or did her "metaphysics linement" or whatever they actually call it. I, um, I think it's, well, I think the start of my DOG tail growing in." Tony paused, relaxed, and gave a friendly smile. "It's still so weird to think I'll actually have one of those later this week," he continued, scratching the back of his head nervously with the hand that was holding his collar. Megan's eyes beamed.
"Aw, it's so adorable," she said excitedly, "You can even wag it like it's a little stump tail or something."
"Heh, heh, yeah, sometimes it's on purpose and sometimes it's almost automatic," he said, turning around slowly and wiggling his lump for her where she could see it before facing her again.
"It's really cool," she said excitedly, "just like your claws." Her comments made Tony twitch his tailbone not-so-much-on-purpose.
"Thanks," he answered, "I see you got some changes of your own that are pretty wild, if you don't mind me mentioning it."
"You think so?" she perked up at his mention of it. "I don't know," she said, "the woman said some weird stuff and then my hair went dark and some of my teeth got bigger. It did make it a bit easier to chew up my dinner, helpfully enough. And later in the evening I figured out that I could do this," she twitched her ears proudly. Tony smiled and twitched his, too. Tony wanted to mention her sexy nips but decided on a different topic.
"Did you think the food tonight was really, really good?" asked Tony, licking his lips at the thought of it.
"Fuck yeah," said Megan, smiling with her prominent white fangs showing.
"Do you think every meal is like that for a dog?" he asked slyly.
"I don't know, but I sure as fuck hope so," she said with an even toothier grin. "I know I won't have all that many years to live after that change, and I damn sure wanna live 'em!" A glint was in her eyes as she swore this.
"No argument here," said Tony, wagging his little tail stub so hard that it looked like it might break off.
"You know, Tony, a couple of like minded shepherds like us might have to get together and compare notes as this keeps changing us," Megan said with a wink.
"Might be a little hard to keep track of otherwise," he said with a wide grin.
"See ya around, neighbor," she said, grabbing her towel and leaving. Tony stood with a dumb smile for a moment and then he did the same.