Daryn, or Debbie as the librarian seemed to know her, stepped out through the door into the main library room. One of her legs whacked the frame, and she winced and pulled it in, but after a moment it felt better. She looked around curiously. The librarian was an ordinary human, but she didn't bat an eye at the drider-girl now standing in front of her. "Well, now," she said, "if you're quite over being scared of your own lunch, perhaps you could either get to class, or get back to arranging the books?"
"Uh...um, I...have to go to the bathroom," Debbie said. Not actually true, but she wanted to get out and have a look to see what had changed; if the librarian thought this was normal, what did the rest of the school look like?
The librarian frowned. "All right. Be quick about it."
Debbie skittered off, eager to be out of glaring range. It felt so strange to have eight legs all working in perfect synchronization. It wasn't even a conscious thing; the mental impulses were the same as walking as a human had been, it was only the physical sensations that differed.
She looked around the hall; there were only a few people around, and all of them seemed to be human. None of them seemed to find her particularily strange, either; she got a few odd looks, but nothing at all like what she'd have expected. Was everybody else human? Was she the only drider in the world?
She spotted Tony, her best friend, and approached him nervously. "Oh, hey, Deb!" he said. "They're not working you too hard with the library thing, are they?"
She shook her head. Him, too...did nobody but her know she had changed? "Um, Tony," she said, still finding her new voice strange, "do I...do I look different today?"
He frowned thoughtfully. "Uh...I don't think so," he said. "You've had that haircut for a while...is something the matter?"
She gulped. "I just...I feel kinda off, is all..." If even her best friend didn't remember her old self...
"Hey, don't worry about it," he said. "If this is about you feeling different again...look, you don't need to feel bad about that. I think it's pretty darn cool that you're a drider, you know. There aren't too many non-humans in the school, so it's cool having someone like you for my friend."
She smiled in spite of herself. "Th-thanks." Did...did that mean there were others!?