Rachel realized her friend was turned into a reynard, though she wasn't quite sure she was looking at a male fox.
Before her, Cassie lost the features that identified her as who she was as she slowly sunk downward. A final, "Yip," and Cassie bounded out of her clothes, took one look at Rachel and took off across the house and out the door Rachel had left open when she had entered.
Confused, watching Cassie's vanishing form, clearly seeing now that Cassie was indeed a male fox, Rachel turned and entered her best friend's room, wondering how such a thing could happen.
Inside the semi-darkened room she finds....