They thought they were careful.

Maybe it was a weakening of her spell, or perhaps his calculations where wrong.
Or she thought, as she fell to the ground, maybe they’d been found after all.

It started as their last class let out. The itchy feeling accompanied by dread ran from the base of her skull, to the end of her spine. She hadn’t made it across the main lawn of campus before the physical changes began. He’d found her of course, almost immediately. She demanded that he watch for bystanders, but as he was quick to inform her, it was already too late.

Campus was abuzz with people leaving their afternoon classes, and their changing had to happen near the busiest junction. The students were shocked; one or two came over to help, but most stopped and stared. Some took videos or photos on their phone. She wanted to keep running, but the increase in mass and appendage growth made it simply too difficult to escape. As her crimson scales flared to life across her body, she noticed the familiar blue scales of her companion returning as well.

Through her changing body; she managed to ask “how many people have seen?” As her wings tore apart her human clothing, he answered through a growing maw, “all of them.” Her familiar scales returned, covering her reforming body, as claws and horns grew back. He followed slower, but inexorably back to normal as well.

As soon as her wings were functional, she carried herself, and her companion into the air, and away. She landed in the mountains above campus to allow both of them to finish in whatever privacy they could manage. By now their hiding spot was compromised, it was home no longer.

When the changes were complete, she took to the air, and he followed.

It was time to start over, again.

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Commissioned by supertroll1234
+Dragon Commissions+
Photoshop
2016
~Age