A blob of shadows rose from the floor, it warily looked around the room as if searching for something, after confirming no one was around the blob took the form of a girl.
The girl suddenly opened up and from the inside walked a black-haired young woman with scarlet red eyes dressed in a black hoodie with a red skirt with some gold decorations here and there.
Alice had decided to change her clothing while in the middle of the [Shadow Travel], just in case she didn't manage to land in her apartment, one could never know. Perhaps service was cleaning the room?
In the end, her precautions were for nothing as her shadows reported the coast was clear, so she finished the teleportation and soon enough saw their apartment as normal. Rossie wasn't around either, the girl must be still at the clinic.
Alice checked her phone for the time and saw that she had spent almost five hours in her little escapade, probably most of the time was spent in that weird pod where her mana had been cleansed...But still, it was plenty of time wasted.
She wasn't sure at what time she had gotten into it the thing, but it had been way before the assigned time for the [Induction], "Now...Deep breathe you can do it..." She only had one thing left to do.
And she...Didn't want to do it, "Believe in yourself..." Said Alice to herself while walking to [Her] room. "And believe that [We] can make this work..." She stood in front of [Her] room's mirror.
A small black-haired girl looked back at her with her red eyes, worry clouding her eyes, and a grimace on her face. Before committing, the girl wrote something on a piece of paper and put it in the mirror so [She] could see it first, and after that... "[Shift Release]." She said and immediately felt her body change, mana flooded her veins and muscles as her flesh turned into mana and then shifted.
Her legs grew longer, her back got straighter, her arms turned both more slim and somewhat longer, and her fingers turned from small and roundish to somewhat longer and sharp. Her face transformed from that of a baby-ish pre-teen into that of a young woman in the door to adulthood.
She tried to ignore the more obvious change that had happened in her chest area, as it swapped from a modest bulge to a full-fledged chest. And decided to focus more on the important changes, like her hair!
Her lovely blonde and silky hair, how had she missed it!
It was her joy and pride of her, even if it made it as if she was a cliche blonde, she didn't care!
It was silky, it was brilliant and it was hers!
"Really, I worried too much for nothing!" Said Elizabeth while giving herself a look over, gone was the face of [Alice] nor the worries of the girl.
Only [Elizabeth] was left with her blue eyes checking herself all over to see if something had gone wrong, she had to give credit where it was due, [Alice] had very good reasons to worry. Their [Mana] had been siphoned out of them and cleaned before being shoved back. She wasn't sure if that could change her...
Actually... Before moving on Elizabeth caught a look at the note [She] had left behind...The writing was different from hers for some reason?
But the note's message was obvious. "[Check your mana for influences]?" Why had she written that?
She wasn't sure...But since [She] had written it, perhaps it held some merit?
So Elizabeth would do that, "Why not...It was me asking for it anyway." And said to herself while focusing on her [Mana] she tried to do what she had done before as [Alice]. First flood her mana from the core of her [Soulscape] then flush it out...
