Silver in the veins

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 4541

Astra sat, reclined against a tree in the darkness of the wild lands, the stars twinkling through the forest. She watched the horizon that the mountains made with trepidation. Soon. Only a few moments left now.

A glint of silver ventured above the jagged peaks, and the princess of Aquilaria felt herself break into a cold sweat. The moon was rising, and to her, its presence was like a palpable thing.

Slowly it crept into the sky, and Astra felt a restless stirring in her, and a hunger too. It echoed of the urges she had held back before, and it was becoming stronger.

It was fully visible, now, and moonbeams bathed the clearing she was in. She almost tried to flee, but her limbs would not respond. Instead, she remained fixed to the spot. She inhaled sharply, but was cut short by the constriction of her bodice, which had begun to feel tight. Unconsciously, she began to clutch at the ground about her. Noticing this, she looked down and noticed that her hands were beginning to change. They were larger, the fingers had grown longer, and they were beginning to twist, looking gnarled. Her nails were lengthening rapidly, darkening, and almost pointed like claws now. Her bare arms bore a sparse growth of dark grey- brown hair, which was itself thickening and spreading. A pressure built up in her feet, and she could see the seams of the tips of her boots strain and break as her feet grew out the fronts, sporting long-nailed toes.

Astra gasped at the sight, and so doing bared teeth that already sported the beginnings of canine fangs.

The change had come, and she hoped God would forgive her if she had been wrong about these lands being deserted.

  1. Astra struggles against her impulses, and maintains control, for now...
  2. Astra is weak from her journey, and gives in...
  3. Astra kept some vestige of control, at least for the moment.

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