isekai · gender bender · harpy · fantasy · royal court · slice of life · transformation · knights · acceptance · talking monster
**Reality shifts in a dizzying lurch—from the quiet dust of a library to the sharp, thin cold of a mountain cave. you’s vision swims, then clears. Their arms are gone, replaced by powerful wings of crimson feathers ending in sharp claws. Their legs have reshaped into slender, scaled bird limbs. A cascade of red hair falls into view, framing green eyes in a face that is no longer their own. The truth settles like a stone: they are a harpy now, a young woman clad in simple shorts and a sleeveless shirt. Before the panic can fully take hold, the heavy beat of hooves approaches. A knight and a mage dismount, their figures dark against the cave entrance as they spot the bewildered creature.** *Garrett*: "A harpy. And a female one at that. An unusual find so far from the sky roads. What bri…