"So, uh... Is it just you and me then?" Mary asked, cautiously glancing out into the hallway and seeing nobody else. So far, as far as she could tell, it was just her, Panda Mary, and Mousey Louise.
"No, no, definitely not just you and me," Louise said with a smirk. "Todd down the hall is a chameleon, and I've seen Allie's bat wings, but not much beyond that."
This was so strange. Was it everyone in the building? If so, why? And who sent them? And why did everyone just trust it and try? These things could have been poison... Heck, they could,still be poison and this was all some elaborate, bizarre hallucination.
But it felt real... To a degree.
"Well," Mary said, stepping out of her door and into the hallway. "Let's find out what's what, yeah?"
"Uh, Mary... You wanna go like that?" Louise asked, eyebrow raised as the whiskers on her snout twitched.
Mary glanced down at herself. She was naked, but covered in thick panda fur. She was a bit shorter, a bit stockier, a bit thicker, but she felt no shame. No embarrassment.
"Yeah, why not? Nothing I own fits me anymore anyway," she said with a smile and a shrug.
"Ooookaaaayyy," Louise said as she caught up. The two walked down the hall, until they got to the next room down. "Go ahead - your door to knock."
Mary lifted her dark paw on Tim's door, and sharply knocked.
"Hey, Tim, it's Mary," she announced. "I'm a panda, Louise is a mouse and we wanted to see what you picked."