The life of a barmaid was not exactly conflict filled, but Jess had had a few encounters either with difficult customers or with monsters. The most difficult thing was remembering that she wasn't Traskol any more, that she didn't have his size or muscles. Traskol would have grabbed the leader of the fireboar sounder by the front legs and smashed his head against the side of the building, pretty much ending the fight right there, but Jess had to fight a cagier, more defensive struggle. She backed against the wall, and concentrated on keeping off the boars with her staff while hurting them enough to make them retreat. Fireboars were animals, and generally backed off if faced with effective opposition.
Audrey was happy. There were only two things she could do that would cause her usually sour expression to be transfused with joy. One was making love to an eager, sexy woman and the other was combat. Everything was so simple. The world narrowed to her and her enemies, and her body moved through the intricate geometry of the battlefield as if automatically. That being said, she had not had time to put on armor, and a lot of what she was doing had to do with protection rather than going on offense, which is what she really wanted.
Mika saw that her two mommies were basically protecting themselves and the fireboars were keeping on coming. She held the stone forth, and called for the fireboars to all be transformed into cute, fluffy bunnies.
Nothing happened. Mika concentrated, and a fragment of memory came to her, a lesson about how to know what a magic item does. The old, gray sorceress at the head of the class had pronounced "Never assume that something can do what you've never seen it do!"
What had she actually seen the stone do, or heard of it doing? It had changed people's age, physical appearance, gender and other things about them like intelligence. It hadn't changed people into animals--Mika's own magic had done that. And it hadn't changed animals at all. Maybe all it did was change people into other people, and maybe it only even changed people one at a time.
As Mika came to this realization, she came to another one, which was that a large, angry fireboar had spotted her and was preparing to charge.