Alice jumped a little at the sound of the front door slamming. She knew it had to be her mom, home for her
lunch hour. Her commute was ten minutes away by car, so she usually came home to have lunch. Alice realized
she was completely naked with her bedroom door open, and darted over and shut it.
"Alice?" her mom called. "Is that you?" Alice winced. She should have closed the door more carefully.
Alice cracked the door open and shouted "Yeah, don't come up. I'm changing."
"I'm just surprised you're here. Usually you're at the park this time of day."
Alice was puzzled by that statement. She went to the park occasionally, but not often enough that her mom
would expect her to be there on an average day. Now that she thought about it, though, going to the park
seemed like a great idea. Something inside her felt energized at the prospect of being in the open air in such
a public place. She enjoyed the outdoors already, but now it was an even greater feeling that she absolutely
had to follow up on.
"Okay," she said in a hushed tone. "I'm going to the park, but I've got to wear something...even if I don't
want to." She knew her desire to stay unclothed was due to her own meddling on the Chronivac, but she chose to
stick with the scenario she had laid out for herself. "What can I wear," Alice inspected flat chest.
She dug through her closets and pulled out a cotton tee shirt. It was simple enough, she thought. She pulled
it on and slid her abundant curls through the collar. It felt wrong to her. Rough, itchy, restrictive. She
took it off and continued looking, finding only more clothes with annoying materials her skin wouldn't put up
with for more than ten minutes.
"Wait," she said, slapping her forehead. "I can just program new clothes." Going to the computer, she saw one
of the tabs at the top of the screen was labeled "Clothing." She clicked on it and found a variety of menus
for all sorts of apparel, even animal accessories like collars and horseshoes. "Well, I think my hooves are
okay without something like that," she said. "Let's see what you have in silks."
Alice found a natural brown colored silk top that acted sort of like a wrap for around the breasts. "That
looks pretty nice...loose fitting but not so much fabric that it'd be restrictive." She hit save twice, and
felt the silk garment pop out of nowhere to settle softly over her body. It covered her bare chest, although
was cut high enough that her entire lower torso belly was completely exposed. "I hope this will do as far as
indecency goes," she said.
She was about to get up and leave when she noticed a menu for jewelry. Intrigued, she opened it up and found a
surprising number of accessories to her liking. "Oh, of course. I gave myself an attraction to jewelry," she
said. Still, knowing this desire was artificial made it no less easy to ignore, and she found herself
selecting only a few items.
Two clicks of the save button later, Alice had two gold rings pierced into each goat ear. Two bracelets of
varying thicknesses dangled from her wrists. As a final touch, a highly ornamental gold band with several
jewels and an engraved vine pattern appeared around her left ankle, just above the hoof. This particular piece
was smaller in diameter than her hoof, which meant Alice would only be able to remove it with the
Chronivac...or a blowtorch.
"I never thought wearing this much jewelry would feel so nice," she said. "God, I've become so materialistic."
She giggled at the thought.
She stood up to head out the door, and looked around the room for her purse. The pink leopard-print purse was
sitting on her dresser. Alice frowned. It didn't match her new look at all. After another quick browsing
session on the Chronivac, she had turned it into a small hemp sachel with a thin rope strap. Inside she found
her phone, an elementary school ID, cash, and the new items she had chosen to be inside of it: a set of
panpipes and a golden brown silk wrap, in case people thought her wool wasn't enough cover for her privates.
She slung the purse over her shoulder, biting her lip, knowing the encounter she was about to have with her
mom. "I hope this works out," she thought.