Mary was becoming more and more intrigued by the thought of becoming an animal. The vials really worked, and she could certainly change herself back, so what was the harm?
With an excited grin, Mary reached over the side of her bed and picked up the box of vials. She lay on her chest and took a closer look. Most of the vials apparently induced the shape of common household pets and farm animals. Too simplistic, Mary decided. If she was going to be an animal she wanted to be something wonderful and exotic!
Aha, now here was something interesting! Mary pulled out a shelf marked “Prehistoric” and looked at the contents. She gasped and her eyes lit up with amazement as she saw the pictures on the vials. Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, Ankylosaurus, Parasaurolophus. Dinosaurs! Mary half-giggled to herself in delight. These vials would make the person who drank them into real living dinosaurs! The drawer was filled with hundreds of familiar and obscure names. There were even some ancient marine reptiles in there, as evidenced by the Pleisiosaurus vial.
That was certainly exotic, and exactly what Mary was looking for!
With an insanely delighted grin, she drew a random vial from the box, seeing she had selected the Stegosaurus, and uncorked it. She sniffed the greenish liquid inside, and the smell of lush tropical greenery and a sharp scent of unfamiliar origins assaulted her nose. For a surreal moment she felt herself surge with the power of a creature from an ancient and dead world, her body massive and powerful, in a constant contest for survival. An ancient creature aching and begging to be released in Mary’s person.
She corked the Stegosaurus vial again and felt dizzy as she put it back. “Wow!” Mary gasped, “I wonder if actually being a dinosaur is as good as it smells!” She grabbed another random vial and took a deep breath. “Only one way to find out!”
She uncorked the vial in her hand and drank a little more than half. It tasted like nothing else she had tasted in her life, overwhelmingly strong and intoxicating. She gulped it down, the cool fluid slipping down her throat into her stomach.
Several minutes passed by, and Mary replaced the vial in the box and set it down beside the bed again, lying on her back and relaxing. She didn’t look at the label on the vial, just to make it interesting and surprising for herself. After a good fifteen minutes Mary stretched and looked herself over, not finding her perfect female body altered in any way.
“Hmmm,” she said aloud, “it must be gradual like the first time I changed!”