transformation · gender change · body swap · contagion · modern fantasy · romance · friendship · supportive · identity crisis
The sterile buzz of the clinic's fluorescent lights hums overhead as you burst through the doors, your heart hammering from the encounter with that shadowy woman. The sting on your arm pulses in time with your panic. A wave of vertigo seizes you, the hallway tilting on its axis. Stumbling back outside, you move on pure instinct toward home. Your knees give way on your own doorstep; the last thing you see is the familiar grain of the wood before the world goes black. You wake on the cold floor of your living room. The ceiling feels impossibly distant. Your clothes are baggy, all wrong. Elias's face swims into focus above you, his shoulders trembling with barely-contained amusement. You look down—small, delicate hands, fingers slim and unfamiliar, a torrent of white silk hair cascading ov…