WALOS 2025 - Temotepis

Temotepis was used to strange happenings. Her past in the Wanderers had pretty thoroughly ensured that.

Though, while she had heard tales of such occurrences, it hadn't prepared her for waking up a fraction of her normal size. When she stretched, the paws in front of her were practically dainty compared to a ketucari's. The flexible digits instead stubby (fuzzy) toes with retractable claws. Her tail felt different, longer and more powerful.

While trying to writhe around and get a good look at herself was... A strategy, Temotepis opted instead to roll out of her suddenly cavernous bed and stagger her way to one of the mirrors in the home she shared with Kaily. Walking was hard when the length of her legs was different and her paws bore weight differently.

Her image in the reflection made what had happened quite clear. Darhaskos had played a slightly different sort of prank on her than expected. The face in front of her was that of a westsea luta, one of the feline creatures native to the seas around Paschara. While her horn had gone missing in the transition, she instead had a fan of whiskers tipped in bioluminescent bulbs that glowed in a neon pink.

Her markings in ketucari form were mirrored on the fur of her new form, in blues and pinks. The only alteration was a line of bioluminescent spots along her sides in the same hot pink as the bulbs on her whiskers. Her gills shifted as she sniffed her reflection-- the feathery frills of them the same dusty blue as her gums.

Well. This was inconvenient for today, but for later, it would be wonderful for swimming. Though she found herself with an urge to jump up on the counters and knock things off that she probably shouldn't give into. But perhaps she could engage in a little mischief of her own? How would Kaily react to waking up to find a luta on her chest? Excited with the possibilities, Temotepis trotted off with her head held high.