Momentarily frozen in fear, I could do nothing but stare wildly at her as she closed the gap between us, watching as her skin continued to ripple and undulate across her stomach. She saw me looking and she grinned even wider now and reached down with one hand to rub at the skin there, which seemed to be stretching and pulling as if somehow her transformation wasn't quite complete and flesh and muscle was still shifting into place. "Isn't it beautiful?" she said, the S again hissing as if she had a lisp. "I always knew Brandon was the best choice. So virile. So fertile." Her words hit me harder than any blow of her vicious claws. My mouth dropped and the pain rippled through me until I thought my own skin would start to stretch and rip open because the agony seemed too massive to be kept i

