“It looks like we’re trapped in this reality for eternity,” she told them. “And I don’t think we’ll be allowed to remain human. The mermaids have invited us to join them and I think I might. All we have to do to become mermaids is drink from the cove.”
“We know,” Anna, a tall redhead, sighed. “Look at Lisa and Helen. I guess they must have swallowed some water while they were rinsing the soap off.” Becky peered at the stream where the girls had splashed in and saw that two of them hadn’t gotten out. She recognized Lisa and Helen and saw that they had both been transformed into mermaids. Lisa, at least, seemed to be accepting her new form somewhat positively, tentatively flexing her tail and swimming cautiously back and forth. Helen, on the other hand, was shrieking in dismay, demanding to know how and why this had happened to her.
“Look, though,” Becky said, “they haven’t been harmed, really. They look really good, in fact. I still think I might join them. Remember, we can’t stay as we are.”
“I don’t know,” Anna replied. I’ll consider it but I’m not sure.”
“Well, I’m sure,” Susan, a butch biker babe, chipped in. There’s no way I’m going to be half fish.
“Me neither,” Jamie’s nemesis Robin added.
“Excellent,” a new voice exclaimed. “You’ve renounced the mermaids and neither of you can become elves, since you’re not virgins. That means you’ll be joining us faeries.” With that, two groups of singing, flying, dancing, laughing faeries surrounded Susan and Robin. The faeries encircled each girl, and began to move in rhythmic circular patterns. The two rings contracted closer to each girl and, as they did so, the suddenly frightened girls shrank. As their diminishment proceeded, their bodies changed, each of them growing wings, their features becoming more delicate and their ears tapering to points. In a few minutes, the two girls had become two new faeries.
The faerie leader laughed in delight. “Any more recruits?” she asked.
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