Ty grinned. "OK. You want to be human again." He concentrated a moment, and Mike felt himself start to shrink. He was disoriented a moment as everything changed. When his head cleared, he was on hands and knees in the middle of the stall, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay.
He spat out the mess as he stood up, then did a double-take as he realized Ty was a foot taller than he was! Looking down, he discovered why - he was now a scrawney, filthy 12 or 13 year-old boy, wearing only a worn, dirty loincloth. His hair was long and matted, and his teeth felt crooked and dirty. "What did you do to me?"
"Made you human. You didn't say you wanted to be yourself." Ty looked around the stall. "I made you a human part of the stable - you muck stalls and groom horses in return for food and a place to sleep. You're a peasant boy with no family, no education, and a future of shoveling horse shit. At least, until you turn 17 again."
"What happens then?" Mike stared at himself, becoming aware of things wrong in his head. He couldn't remember how to write, and yet he now knew exactly the right way to pick a hoof, and the fastest way to muck a stall.
Ty shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe you'll wake up back home in your own bed. Maybe you'll turn into a horse again. Maybe you'll wake up a young kid like this again and start all over. I did a random spell on you - makes things more interesting! Well, been ehre long enough - I have the rest of the group to work on!" He grinned at the dull-minded stable boy and then popped out.
"No! Wait!" Mike yelled into the air. "I don't wanna stay like this! Please!"
"What are you yellin' about, Micha?" The other stable boy looked into the stall with a frown. "Get back to work! You still got this whole side to muck, and if it ain't done before the Master gets back, you'll feel his boot again!"
"Uh, OK Liam." Mike blinked - he knew the boy's name. A tined rake was leaning againstt he wall, and he picked it up and started siftingt he soiled straw. Looked like he had about 5 years of working here before he found out what Ty had in store for him next!