Chapter 4The alarm and confusion fade away, and they carry you off with them.
You sleep in warmth and darkness, Carrie’s jelly (your queen’s jelly!) sustaining you while your body molds itself to fit your new life.
You don’t feel your hips widen or your legs slimming.
You aren’t truly aware of several your toes fusing or the extra joints that develop.
You dream of flight, and the muscles that are slowly adapting to drive your new wings twitch in sympathy.
Your waist narrows, the mass shifting into your new lower abdomen, plates of chitin forming to protect the precious cargo you will soon carry.
A thinner, subtler ruff of fur is forming around your neck even as most of your other body hair is shed.
Your folds are concealed beneath a new flap of protective exoskeleton, your breasts s
