Silently, the doe slipped out to drink from the cool stream. Stepping in, her ebon hooves clacked on the round stones.
After dipping her muzzle to suck it up, she noticed the water had a funny taste to it, like the smells from the new man lair up the valley.
She ignored it, having tasted worse in the dry season. Those hairless things were causing trouble all over the valley these days.
She snorted and went off to bed down and rest for a bit.
After a few minutes, she suddenly felt dizzy and sick. She tried to cough the water up from her first stomach, but it was already too late.
The colors in her sight seemed to change, becoming more vivid like a fever dream as she watched her forelegs ripple and flow into new shapes. Grunting, she rolled to her back as her chest narrowed, yet seemed to fill out in the front. Was her udder moving up her body?
She stared in a new feeling of horror as strange thoughts told her what she was seeing as her chest swelled back out with two head-sized furry lumps, tipped with her normal pink teats. Her mind told her these were breasts.
Before she realized it, she had reached a hoof to touch one. She wasnt sure what was more shocking, the feeling it gave her, or seeing her hoof was now oddly shaped, the hooves now longer, and able to curl over like a raccoon paw..or.. a.. hand?
Flicking her ears also found a tangle of longer hair on her head now.
New fingers groped for her normal udders, but found only vestigeal nipples near her groin, which had formed a soft mound enclosing her sex, not stylishly tucked low below her tail anymore. She checked in panic to see if she still had an anus. To her relief, *that* was still under her tail.
She spoke before she realized it, drawing on the new knowledge. "Oh deer! -Dear?! I'm a freak! What buck will have me in the rut-time now? I'll frighten them all out of the valley!"
Sobbing in her dispair, she didnt' hear the crunches in the brush until something parted the brush near her...