Waiting a moment for the other female to shift, Vashti finally stood and limped slowly foreword. She might as well change now and get it over with.
Putting a rather tight expression on her features the wolf stretched out somewhat; lowering her head and laying her ears back as she focused her control on the form of her body.
Slowly, a sharp pain tingled down her spine and she arched her back as the first changes took place.
Bone shifted and began to rearrange themselves, while others took a completely new shape. Fur gradually melted away and exposed bare skin to cold, then disappeared altogether.
The body overtaking this change writhed in pain and discomfort. When it came time for Vashti’s left hind leg to turn she stiffened and let out a weak whine; muzzle and skull deforming before taking a more humanlike shape.
The change ended quickly, and where a wolf once stood on the deck a young woman now kneeled. Long brown hair hung in waves around her head and hid her face, while her limbs remained stiff and unmoving.
A soft sigh sounded, “I swear it gets harder the longer I remain wolf.”
The figure shifted, then sat up. Long arms lifted to gather the locks of brown before flipping it to one side; revealing a gentle face, deep brown eyes, and dark lips turned up in an ever so subtle smile. Her long neck twisted this way and that to make a few popping sounds as joints were reestablished.
Slowly, Vashti sat up and stretched, then got to her feet and shivered in the cold. Oh the advantages to having fur…..
Her body was very long in most ways; her limbs slender but not without an undertone of muscle. She had a rather fit physique.
Slowly, Vashti tested her left leg. It throbbed in human form but not nearly as badly as it had while in wolf. Give it some time and the damaged joints would relax; giving Vashti full use of her leg once it did. Traveling through the snow for days on end wasn’t the best for it.
Looking up with relieved and happy brown eyes Vashti strode swiftly towards a large cabinet set against the house’s wall. In it she assumed were the pack’s clothes.
Opening it Vashti found smaller drawers built into the main compartment, and pulling one out she found a set of what she assumed were female clothes at first glance.
Vashti smiled and removed both a pair of blue jeans and a comfortable looking green shirt. She held them each up to her body to compare sizes; nodding when it appeared as though they would work.
As she pulled the jeans up around her legs Vashti let out a grunt, directed to the other female, “Thank you…..for letting me raid your pack’s clothes….”
Fastening the pants up though she realized with a chuckle that the legs fell just short of her ankles; not quite as long as she needed but they would work.
Vashti then tugged the shirt over her head and ran a hand through her waves of brown hair. She would prefer having it in a braid, but that could wait.