At the time, I couldn't process what had happened. Celeste was so stunned that all she could do was ask me to take a quick bath in a small river there, before returning home. She had told me that our parents and the others were talking about where I might be, and that's when she remembered that I was going for a walk. Of course, she didn't expect me to transform, but when she realized that it had been a long time since I had left, she knew something was wrong. So she found me in that condition.
When we got home, I didn't lie about where I was and, in a way, what I was doing. I was walking in the forest, I just hadn't done it as a full-time human. My room and Celeste's were next to each other, and it didn't take me long to go up to mine. She wanted to come back and stay with me, she wanted
