Almost an hour and a half had
passed since Julie’s departure. Joy’s patience finally ran out with them.
Good riddance,
she thought. Just give me a normal,
non-supernatural life. Fate, however, wasn’t interested in such things, as
she would soon discover…
She locked the doors once
more and felt the need for a cleansing shower (preferably cold). She stripped
down and entered the glass stall, setting the shower head for alternating
massage.
“Mmmm,”
Joy murmured, settling herself against the tile wall as the jets of water
soothed her aching back muscles. She felt herself nodding off in the smooth
sensations, barely aware of the numbness and tingling that faintly rippled
through her body.
As she allowed the water to
soothe her nerves, still attributing the pins and needles to muscle kinks
working themselves out, she remained unaware of a strange transformation:
namely, the growing of…
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