
Ruined Sleep - 5/8

I fell in love with the story about 8 years ago when the original was written and fell in love with it again when he started the rewrite last year. He's currently on a hiatus with the rewrite but I strongly encourage reading all chapters or go back to the original and read all the way through Emergence, Existence, and Eldrus.
Emergence rewrite, Chapter 6: Many Nightmares
Emergence rewrite, Chapter 1: A Long Tail
Emergence rewrite, all chapters
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A disgusted growl preceded a clumsy lurch, before Karen managed to topple off the bed. She landed on her back, and felt tears blossom as volts of pain stabbed her shoulder-blades, claiming the hotly contested title of most agonizing sensation.
Her fingers cut through the duvet as she discovered them, armoured in black scales and inch long talons. Yet above the wrist, dark fur shrouded her body, weaving through the tears and rips of her night clothes. Like a wolfs?
Logan had mentioned wolves. He’d- what was it!? He’d pitied her. No? He’d talked about Halloween ideas earlier. Was this him? Had he spiked her? Could magic do that? Most mystics were pranksters, it made a mote of sense! She hissed and clawed her way of her torn blankets, lashing tail painfully against the wall, kicking the bed, and headbutting the cabinet. The clock fell on her skull.
Three forty four, said the broken display.
Karen struggled on all fours, seams ripping apart as her body exceeded the fabrics limits. Dark quills burst through the tears, unfurling into thick feathers. Her hair was no longer lashing in her vision and she hesitated against crying for help. What if her parents saw this thing?
Bad.
Thinking was a losing battle, her shoulders were bubbling with new flesh, the space was too small, too close, too tight, threatening to crush her like an egg. But screaming was bad and she bit her hooked beak down on the pillow, hissing at feathers like needles on her tongue.
The next surge threw her hard against the floor as her back split and punched the ceiling. Vast fans of flesh recoiled from the touch. Karen pulled them down tearfully, only to slam against wall and window when she turned, the motion scattering pens and paper, tearing down curtains, clothes and posters, as her body hit angles everywhere.
It was too tight. Across her new limbs, feathers stabbed outwards like grass after winter, a vast canopy that was still growing. She was still growing. It was too tight. Too close. A trap. A prison. A vice. A crush.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
Species Gryphon
Size 905 x 1280px
File Size 217.9 kB
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