Katie might have been adult in body, but in her heart, she was still a little girl. Almost immediately her imagination began to race with all the wonderful dreamy possibilities. One stood out, firm and beautiful as a sunrise. She closed her eyes. "I wish I was a unicorn."
Almost instantly, Katie felt a warm power envelop her....in an instant she was drawn onto hands and knees as the world around her swirled with the wonderous and familiar energy of transformation. Even as she watched, spellbound, she could scarecely believe it. Her legs were changing. Some of the muscle and fat around themseemed to vanish making them look very boney. She noticed her feet as her toes started to clench and relax. Each time she did so they shrunk from their average size, and became smaller and rounder looking. Her four smaller toes merged together; toenails expanding to cover the tips and sides of the toes instead of just over the top. It wrapping around the entire front portion of her feet and partially underneath; they continued to flood over the rest of them, she dark color shimmering with golden hue as they became beautiful hooves. Lifting one, then the other, Katie could feel them, or rather not feel the ground beneath them...the hooves themselves seeming made of true gold.
She didnt have to wait long as her ankle shifted, forcing her feet to an angle as her legs changes to the powerful hocks of a horse...downy white fur swarming over them and along her larger rear as a white tail swished out.
Her spine seemed to expand with the addition of new vertebrae pushing legs and hip further backwards. As this happens, new bones and muscles began forcing their way out, arms now shifting forwards, elbows reversing. Katie watched as her hands shifted in the same way her feet had, losing definiton and feeling until they were beautiful golden hooves, horses legs with white hair.
The changes continued and continued swiftly as her neck and face began to shift. She felt her head expanding out...her hair turning white as it fell down over her shifting head. It was now a mane...as her eyes were pushed to either sides of her head, her lips turning rubbery as her human features at last faded to those of a horse. As she did...she reared up and when her hooves crashed down...they created sparks. Katie could feel the magic pulsing, focusing, a purity of essence and spirit akin to the very essence of beauty and innocence. A horn peirced her forehead as the child gained the immense knowledge of magic and the insights of eternal joy any unicorn would have. Her ring now gracing the lowest run of her horn as she turned and snorted at Merlin.
"Well now, a fine unicorn you make." The old man said. "You are still you of course?"
She nodded.
"Very good. You have taken your first step into a larger world....what do you wish to do now?"