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<a class="link link--external" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9htisOeVx_s" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Transformation</a><br/>
________________________​</div><br/>Lamia staggered out of the glass and righted herself, hoping none had seen her stagger. She needn’t have worried. Apart from her fellow initiates in their mist-filled tubes, she was alone in the chamber. That was odd. She could have sworn she’d heard the ritual words as her body burned with the transformation, the Terrigen Mist unlocking the secrets hidden within her genetic code.<br/><br/>An empty podium stood in the center of the dark, barren chamber where an upper caste noble was meant to read off the betrothals. Doubtless the information was still there, but for once her curiosity was turned towards a different type of investigation. Her bare feet didn’t feel any different on the cool metal floor, nor did her hands seem any different. She hands over her face and hair. Unchanged. Had her transformation been so subtle that she could not see it without a mirror? Or perhaps she was like the king, apparently human but possessing great power.<br/><br/>But what if…what if she had not changed at all. The idea sent ice shooting into her belly and her tail thumped the floor with her agitation. Her tail? No sooner had she thought it than the appendage lifted from the ground to twist through the air in front of her. Scales dark like liquid oil, iridescent in the dim light with sheens of blues and purples hidden among the black decorated the massive length. Thick as her torso near the base, it slowly tapered like that of a snake’s to a point after stretching several times the length of her body. It felt heavy, but also powerful.<br/><br/>She reached out and touched it. The scales reminded her of glossy ivory beneath her fingers. Smooth and soft. The chamber hissed as another containment unit opened. She turned her attention away from her new appendage to see who would be next to join her in Inhumanity.