You squeal as something brushes against your leg, tripping over whatever it was and falling into the water. You flail around in panic for a moment, something weighing down a leg before it disappears, to your relief. Your head breaches the water as you cough, hand on your chest before you register that it’s not just wet, but sticky.
Like slime.
Actually, your entire body feels strange, and you realize what’s wrong a moment too late, the blue spreading up from the water in a shower of fine scales. It’s too quick for you to do much as you flinch, jerking your head back to see if you can make it back, but you can’t. Your legs meld into a tail, and with it disappears your chances to leave…