Jessica awakened to the "thrum thrum thrum " of the Serpents Egg occular engines vibrating through
the deckplates.
She knew immediately she wasn't a harpy anymore,and as her eyelids slowly rose
and the sight of her green skin,with the odd green scale pushing out here and there,
it quickly dawned on her that she was the same species and sex as the strange greenskinned
woman she'd seen earlier.
And she was wearing the same kind of costume,a Old World style that looked like
she belonged in the middle ages.
The mere-dragoness,for so she now was,looked about and saw others of her new kind lying
about in various stages of awakefulness.
Above them hung the huge dragons=kettle,apparently in use,from the
looks of the geysers of steam and wobbling needles of pressure gauges
that lined the walls.
The group of former harpies conferred,and quickly discovered they'd all been turned into various ages
of mere-dragoness's.
Including Miss Elsie,who was now a green skinned mere-dragon girl of about five years
of age.
The group carefully exitted the chamber and headed back to the upper passenger and crew decks,
where they soon discovered they and the ship had been hurled back centuries,to a time when the Snagr
sailed the seas as a hull seething with mere-dragon passion...