Ian, now Thomas Karn, gasping and looking about. After a moment, he reaches down touching his naked body, his hand sliding further down to touch his penis and testicles, and then he thinks, "Still human," and lying back down, he stares at the ceiling, lost in thought.
Twelve months ago he had been a horse named Sadie and had almost forgotten about his previous life as Ian...which, due to a accident involving a piece of costume jewelry had led him to becoming the mare, complete with a foal suckling at his teat.
But then the farmer's son, Thomas, had come to him to make a deal. A deal that would last a little over a year. And Ian, not quite remembering his time as a human, had taken the deal.
Now, he shifts about, this being the umpteenth time he has been woken because of a the strange dream, which usually involves him being a mare and then being mated. Noting the time on the digital clock was about three in the morning, Thomas thought about sneaking into Becky's wrong and taking a pair of her underwear to wear...something he found helps with the strange dreams and the craving to be female.
Shaking his head, he thinks, "You are going to get yourself caught if you keep up this behaviour," and rolling over, he thinks, "The real Thomas never had this problem, otherwise it would have been in the save file."
After a bit of tossing and turning, Ian/Thomas eventually stands and moving across the room, he lifts the board and removes the amulet.
Staring at it in the moonlight, he thinks about his deal with the original Thomas, who is now living in the barn, having just given birth to a foal.
Sighing, he places the medallion back and then picks up the other item hidden there. Gently touching the one-piece bathing suit he had bought with allowance, he tells himself, "If I do turn into anything using the amulet, it will be a little girl," as he thinks of how unhappy he has been for the past year as a male.
Looking at the shorts and shirt, also hidden in the secret compartment, Thomas eventually sighs and wonders if the real Thomas will have the same problems he is having with adjusting to being male again.
Fitting the board back into place, Thomas stands and moves back across the room toward his bed. Shifting the covers about, he eventually finds the plush Angelina Ballerina his sister played with when she was younger. Looking at the ten-inch plush, he cuddles it closer in a motherly fashion, the strange dream and the sensation of wanting to be the opposite sex and gender escaping his recollection for the moment.
Crawling back under the sheets, liking them lightly touching his naked body, Thomas thinks about how both he and the mare can be happy. After a moment, he drifts back to sleep, the Angelina Ballerina plush pressing gently against him.