So Tracy went first and then the others.
It was just a board game,this Game of Change,and Tracy was annoyed because the
outer cover promo had promised real magic,real change.
Which there wasn't any of.
False advertising.
So Tracy shifted impatiently as the other air-heads giggles,gossiped and talked boys,dating and missing bras.
Tall silent Tracy had a dark secret.One that had to do with why she'd transfered her
English major studies from Berkley to Cambridge..on the other side
of the country.
For you see a year ago Tracy had been rgang raped on Berkley Campus by a gang of drunken guys on
Crystal Meth mixed with LSD and cocaine.
They'd pushed her to the cool grass in the dark of night,bound her to stakes,gagged her and then
ripped off her clothes,burnt her bra and panties,fondled her breasts and then
raped her,all five of the little Fu$kers.
She'd fled naked from the campus after they were done with her,left her things behind in the dorm and never returned.
So missing bras were the least of her issues.
The boring false Game of Change ground to a close and Tracy watched with
disinterest as Sandra went and tossed the box and game pieces in the trash can.
Then Tracy went to her room,where she was all by herself,and locked and bolted the five
locks she'd secretly installed without the Matrons approval.
One for each of the five who'd assaulted her a year earlier.
Trac wanted to bring out the monster within her,let out the rage and
express herself with claw and fang.
She wanted payback on guys.
She'd already tried the Armenian Werewolf Spell and Potion.
No go.No bloodthirsty Beast of the Moors had she become.
She'd tried the Hecahba Bethog dragon transformation curse potion next.It had
looked promising for that first few minutes of ingestion,but she soon had realized that
though it though it gave her skin red painful welts,and a slight rise in pain threshhold
levels,it hadn't turned her into a dragon.
So when she'd read that there was a certain type of gemstone,called Dragons Eye,that turned water
and mud into dragons flesh,she'd pursued that course of action.
Thats why she'd been looking for the Dragons Eye gemstone amongst all that jewelry in the
Mall.
And when the girls had visited the Spells R Us store,in a fit of desperation,whilst
the Old Man wasn't looking,she'd pricked her finger,drawn a drop of blood
and laid it on that huge dragons scales.
A dragon she suspected that might once have been a living human,who'd transformed into a
dragon under the influence of Dragons Eye.
Or it might have just been a statue.
But one with rather unique gemstones for its eyes.
Her clue had been the huge gemmed eyes of the statue.White on the outside,
with a green circular band that might had been a iris,surrounding a slitted black
reptillian pupil.
The ancient lore said that was what Dragons Eye looked like.
So Tracy had pricked a finger,squeezed out a tiny drop of blood and placed it on one
of the statues eyes while no one was looking.waited a few seconds,then
pushed a clean white hanky over the eye,and when she'd taken the cloth away,on it was
a quarter inch spot of red,her blood.
She'd put the hanky in a plastic bag in her purse and zipped it up.
So now she pulled out the plastic bag,and saw that the white cloth inside it now
had a huge circular stain that was obviously wet,and nearly a inch
in diameter.And before her awed eyes it was still growing in diameter.
Trancy whisstled as she realized she had the Real McCoy in that bag.
Her drop of red human blood had transformed,expanded.A cloth soaking with blue
dragons blood.
Tracy just sat there staring as the transforming blood finally neared the end of its
transformation,to a circular wet soggy blue stain about two and a half inches in diameter.
She did the rough math and also checked the weigh of the soggy cloth on
her microgram balance.
By her calculations the little red drop of human blood had expanded 99 times
in volume and 99 times in mass.
As a final test she squeezed out a drop of the blue dragons blood.
She spotted what she was looking for,a unchanged human red blood cell in a sea of
lumbering spiky blue dragons blood cells.
As she watched,one of the big blue cells brushed up to the tiny red human cell.The
red cell began to expand in size,sprout tiny spikes along its surface.
She swore she could see the mitochondria shift and change inside the mutating expanding
emerging little cellular monster,till its cellular coat roughed,darkened to a blue sheen and was just another of the big alien cells in that drop of dragons blood.
Tracy sat there for a hour,thinking.
Did she really want that transformative process raging inside her organs,bones,muscles
and blood and skin.
The answer was no.
She shuddered as she imagined herself bursting apart,spilling expanding guts,blue blood and
twisting ribs all over the rug if things went wrong.