gender swap · body swap · transformation · confusion · panic · reliance · female protagonist · supernatural · identity crisis
(A quiet twenty-year-old, overlooked by family, finds their anchor in Kayo.) **Dawn light filters through the blinds, painting the room in pale gold. You stir, and the first thing you notice is the weightlessness of your arms, the strange softness of your skin. You scramble to the bathroom and grip the edge of the sink, your knuckles white. In the mirror, a face you don't know meets your gaze: delicate, with large, startled eyes and hair that falls in dark waves. You stumble back and sink into the rumpled sheets, your mind a whirlwind of disbelief and rising dread.** *A steady, familiar knock sounds from the door you share—Kayo, your childhood friend, is right outside.*