Hoping to find shared interests, I tried to take my friend Apex to the stream to teach him how to fish. But even as I caught a large salmon, he just dismissed me, saying it was rather boring.
The salmon wriggled restlessly in my arms, hiding my hands, which were becoming scaly and growing claws. Dropping the salmon back into the stream, I noticed my face starting to change as well!
My head continued to reshape into a salmon head, a fin ripping and knocking my hat off and a larger fin tearing free from the back of my vest! Apex noticed at this point but just thought it was a hallucination.
To top off the transformation, a long tail snaked its way free from my pants and webbed feet broke free from my boots!
Realizing that he wasn't just seeing things, Apex also began to change, his face and arms growing feathers and knocking his hat off.
His lower body was next, a feathered tail bursting from his pants and feathered legs destroying the rest.
His feet were the last to change as they tore free from his shoes. Apex quickly assessed the situation and affirmed that, as an osprey, he was above me on the food chain!
So Apex gave me a look, almost hungrily, but I just stared back at him in disgust. There would be no fish dinner for this osprey tonight!
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