Yes, thought Circe, the entire town would do her bidding. But how best to implement it? Though it gave her great pleasure to cast her transformative spells, there was a certain lack of challenge to it. It was also very obvious.
She recalled the time that she'd been visited by the mariner Odysseus. It was one of her most bitter failures and her greatest triumphs. But her children had grown now and had rarely visited her because of their own responsibiities. Not that it had affected her, her immortality would keep her body young and supple. It's just that for so long her power had been limited to Aeaea. Now free to roam the world, she craved the power that she could have.
Circe realized that the first thing she must do would be to change the families of her new charges. That done, she would set forth to transform the town into her beastly servants. She thought again of her lovemaking with Nick and smiled. That would be the optimal way to bring about the change, that, and changing each family from the parents on down.
Speaking of parents; "Where is the rest of your family, my cub," she asked as she stroked Johnny's mane?