Steve walked out of the magic as he held the phone in his hand. The 32 year old furry had grown bored with life – he had a stable but uninteresting job, enough money to be secure though not wealthy, and had been following the same day to day routine for the past few years.
He’d come to this magic shop as a kid because, like every other kid, he used to believe in magic. It also helped that the magic shop was right next to the entrance to the mall, which meant he’d had to walk by it every time he’d come here anyways. But that was 20 years ago, nowadays the mall was about as dead as Steve’s belief in magic. After all, you can only buy so many “magical” tomes or “potions” before you realized that they never worked.
To be frank, Steve wasn’t even sure why he’d come to the mall to begin with. He hadn’t been here in a few years but he’d had a strange feeling when he woke up this morning. That feeling had grown even stranger as he approached the display at the magic store, and stranger still when he downloaded the app. He didn’t believe in any of this and yet, deep down inside he had a feeling that this one was real.
Sitting down on a bench outside of the store, Steve decided to scan himself. “Steve is sitting on a bench while he has doubts about whether MagLib is really magic.”
That’s… uh… weird. The app knew his name, what he was doing, and what he was thinking? Steve supposed it could have pulled his name from the phone itself and used the camera to figure out where he was, plus the statement about him having doubts was fairly generic. Still, Steve couldn’t shake that feeling from before.
Steve selected the word “man”. With a few keystrokes he could turn himself into an anthropomorphic animal – assuming, of course, that the app worked – but should he? Looking around the mall, Steve saw that it was a far cry from the sea of humanity that used to fill it up 20 years ago. Still, there were a few people milling around and Steve could only imagine how they’d react to the sudden appearance of an anthropomorphic lion or alligator in the middle of the mall.
That’s when Steve had an idea. On the far side of the mall was an out of the way, single stall bathroom with a locking door. It was supposed to be for mall employees only, but anyone could get into it, and the locking door would make it perfect for Steve to test the app out. He could use the app to change into an anthro. If the app worked then he could change himself back without anyone being wiser. If the app didn’t work then he’d go back home, open up some porn, and masturbate the doldrums away.
Steve walked to the other side of the mall, cut into a small hallway between two clothing stores, then navigated a few turns until he came to the bathroom door. Turning the handle, Steve expected the bathroom to be empty, but as the door opened he saw that it was anything but.
The bathroom itself was a typical small, unisex bathroom. To the left of the door was a sink and a mirror, to the right was a toilet. The room itself was only big enough for one person which, at the moment, was the transient who was lying unconscious next to the toilet.
The man looked to be about the same age Steve but dressed in a shabby mess of clothes and looking as though he hadn’t taken a shower in days. Steve didn’t have to look far to figure out why the man was passed out either – splayed out next to him was an empty syringe and a bottle of pills.
Locking the door behind him, Steve realized that this man presented the perfect opportunity to test out the app – he could make whatever changes he wanted without any risk of being discovered. Opening the app, Steve targeted the man and generated a sentence:
“Frank is passed out on the floor after overdosing.”