As the smoke clears, you find yourself on a large white surface, stretching a very long distance in all directions. Beyond that, you
notice you are surrounded by gigantic trees, far larger than anything you have ever seen in your life. However, you can't help but think
that it all seems so very familiar, although you know for a fact that you have never seen trees that massive before.
Below you, you notice a large letter "A" printed on the ground. In fact, there are quite a few of the enormous letters, each one bigger
than you are, lined up next to each other, forming words across the landscape.
Attempting to stand up, you find it impossible. Your body simply refuses to right itself, leaving you stuck on all. . . Sixes??? With an
incredible shock, you realize you now have six legs, none of which appear human in any way, but look very much insect-like. With great
difficulty, you manage to move your head into a position between your legs, giving you full view of your underbelly, where you discover
with a horribly sick feeling in your stomach that your body has been segmented. Your abdomen has separated from your torso, which
had formed into an insect's thorax, and every bit of skin had transformed into a hardened exoskeleton. Moving your head back into its
natural position, you now see your antennae hanging in front of your face, which you notice had formed into an ugly pair of insect
mandibles.
After taking all this in, you realize that the strange landscape you stood on was, in fact, the very book you had unwittingly used
moments before to cast a spell upon yourself, transforming you into a ant. As the horrible realization of what you did finally sinks in, you
start to panic, scurrying aimlessly around on the page. Suddenly, a subtle breezed blows across the surface of the book, but to you, it
feels like a hurricane! Using your tiny clawed feet, you manage to grasp the page, avoiding being blown off the surface, only to look up
in terror as the adjacent page, having been turned by the breeze, comes crashing down on top of you! Frantically, you dart across the
book, clearing it's edge just as the pages fold on top of each other, narrowly escaping being smashed between them.
You crawl from the book and onto the path where the book had landed, beside yourself with fear, unable to comprehend your
situation. You're an ant, that much is obvious. Mere moments ago, you had been human. Mentally, you still are, but now you're trapped
inside an insect's body, with no clear way of changing back. You're quite sure you'd been male then, but now, somehow you know, but
don't know how you know, that you're a worker ant, and female. Worker ants are always female, aren't they? You're not entirely sure
about that one, but you at least know you're not male anymore. And another thing, ants can't read, let alone recite a counter spell. And
no one knows what happened to you, so you can't count on anyone lifting the spell for you. It looks like you're stuck like this. . . Forever.
The only thing you can think to do now is to at least get off the path. If anyone walks this way, you don't want to get stepped on. And
so you start crawling your way across the stone path, every sensation a new and interesting experience. Walking feels strange, and
almost alien. Even the air feels different on your new exoskeleton. Your new globe-like eyes take in a much wider range of vision, even
though you're definitely near-sighted. But from this perspective you don't need to see very far. You're mildly surprised to find you're
actually enjoying the feeling. Maybe that spell wasn't such a curse. Maybe this is what's meant to be, like the world make so much more
sense now. You're an ant. Now that you think about it, it doesn't seem that strange. You're an ant, that's all there is to it. In fact, your
kinda excited about it. You're an ant, the world's a much bigger place now, and beyond that path, who knows what crazy adventures are
out there just waiting for an ant like you to find them. . .