"Oh," Mark said with a sigh. "Okay, so nobody here has actually seen Jennifer, right? So I’ll just change into a different girl and call myself Jennifer. We’ll just touch this to one of those new outfits…" Mark touched the medallion as he talked. He felt a shock as he touched it. "Ow!"
Anna also felt a shock and shook her hand. A mere moment later, her eyes opened wide. "Oh no! No no no!"
"What now?" asked Mark, concerned.
"We both touched the medallion at the same time!" Anna held up her hands and looked at them as if looking for a change. "This is a disaster!"
"Why? What does that mean?"
"When two people touch the medallion at the same time, they swap bodies!" Anna could already feel something happening.
Mark looked down at the desk which slowly appeared to be getting further away. He looked up at Anna. "So I’m going to become YOU?!"
Anna had an intense look of worry on her face. "…and I’m about to spend 12 hours as a hamster!"
The changes started happening faster. Anna sat in the chair and watched as fur started to sprout all over her body except for her hands and feet. Soon her feet couldn’t touch the floor and her shoes fell off.
On the desk, fur appeared to be pulled into Mark’s body as he grew rapidly. The tail stump quickly disappeared, ears moved down the side of his head, whiskers retracted, and hair began to grow out of his scalp. He could feel his teeth shrinking and his vision started to return to normal.
Anna was soon engulfed in clothing on the desk chair. She could feel something happening to her ears like they were being pulled, a new sensation appeared on her backside just above her butt, and she could watch whiskers grow out quite rapidly as her vision changed.
As Mark started to reach full size, he jumped off the desk and searched for Anna in the pile of her clothes. He uncovered her just in time to see her final transformation into the hamster he had been only a minute earlier.
Anna looked up at him. "Oh, shit. You’re me!"
Mark cupped Anna in his hands. "And you’re a hamster!" He picked her up and placed her on the desk where he had just been standing.
Anna looked at Mark. "You should…" She paused and cleared her throat. "Ugh, not used to this voice. And these teeth. How did you manage?"
Mark chuckled. "Yeah, that was so bizarre."
"Anyway, like I was about to say," Anna continued, "you should put my clothes on."
Mark had been so distracted looking at Anna at a hamster that he had totally forgotten that he was completely naked. He looked down at himself seeing Anna’s body for the first time. "Well, this isn’t exactly the perspective I expected when I’d see you naked for the first time."
"Same here," added Anna.
Mark proceeded to put on the clothes that Anna had just shrunk out of. He was soon dressed in Anna’s blue dress and matching flats.
"That dress looks good on you…uh…me…" commented Anna.
"It feels tight here," said Mark as he motioned to his chest and stomach, "but it’s weird how loose it feels down there," he said motioning to his legs.
"You usually wear T-shirts and jeans, so this is new for you, but it’s quite normal. I’m used to it."
Mark started to reflect on their situation. "So I guess I’ve got to be you for 12 hours and you’re stuck as a hamster until tomorrow morning?"
"Yeah, but at least most of that time will be sleeping, so it should be really easy for you to pass as Anna King. In fact, the only person you’ll likely see in the next 12 hours is Kylie. Given that you know about as much about her as I do, that should be easy."
"Okay," Mark replied with relief. "So at about 7:30am, how do we change? If we swap back, you’re back to yourself, but I’m back to being a hamster."
"Yeah, we don’t want to do that," Anna agreed. "I’ll touch the medallion to something I last wore, so I’ll change from a hamster to myself."
"What about me?" Mark asked. "If I touch one of those unworn pieces of clothing you brought for Jennifer, I’ll stay you and just end up changing size to fit it."
Anna sighed. "Yeah. That won’t work. We need to make you someone else, but not someone from camp." She thought about it… "I know!"