Dusk&Dawn

-11-

<Side's POV>

Lisa was really excited when I knocked on the door.

Just like her mom, she could understand animal speech. And although she wasn't very fluent in Wolfspeak, she communicated just fine.

Lisa's room was an art studio, her walls were painted with murals of mythical animals, she has a pottery area on one side of her room, her desk of cluttered with colour pens and colour pencils.

"I'm 19 years old, how old are you?" Was one of the questions that caught me off guard.

«Age?» I asked reluctantly.

"Yeah, you seem my age.." She trailed off.

Lisa was a great craftswoman, having many copper jewellery pieces that were displayed in her jewellery box.

And she was crafting a crown for me.

«I'm 21 years old»

I stood still as she placed her finished master piece on my head.

It had was coiled in such a way that my gemstone was also part of it.

On each side of the crown were small copper chains that held the crown in place on my head, without affecting my ear movements.

"Oh wow, you look great, let me get some flowers." She ran off while I stayed on her bed, unwilling to move as I felt like this crown was still fragile upon my head.

She returned shortly, with a handful of roses stripped of their thorns and small white flowers.

Coming over to me, she slipped the roses into the crown, adding the small white flowers underneath the roses.

"Come look!" She gestured me towards a full-length mirror on her wardrobe door.

And standing there, nearly brought me to tears.

The crown was exquisite...

I felt myself shift out of my Wolven form, and blinked in surprise as stood about a head and a half taller than her.

While I was still mostly wolf, I was standing on two legs and had hair...like on my head.

I covered my chest out of modesty, but there was nothing there really.

I was wearing my shorts from last night and I still had a bit of blood that I missed cleaning from that puddle just now.

"...you're more beautiful than I thought..." Lisa said dreamily.

«Um..do you have any clothes?» I asked, embarrassed by my nudity.

"Of course I do. But I'm not so sure I have any comfortable ones that would suit you. Let me ask my mom."

And she's gone again.

I stood in front of the mirror, admiring my long brown hair with golden highlights. And my father feminine curves..mostly my butt.

I still had my tail, which was bunched up in my shorts.

"Here..mom said you could borrow this." Lisa reappeared, holding a green vest and a pair of long grey pants.

"Thanks, where's the bathroom?" I took the clothes from her.

"It's okay. You can change in my room, mom is almost done with lunch. See you downstairs." She waved, walking out of the room and shutting the door behind her.

Holding out the vest, I squeezed my arms through and smoothed it out.

I took a gander, making sure there were no peeping toms or anything before tossing off my shorts and tugging on the pair of grey pants.