| Yes, Fred's body is growing to twice it's original size, and growing
rapidly! Also the pain from the changes spikes and Fred passes out. The
last thing our intrepid (if somewhat dense) hero sees is the magician muttering
something about amatuers.
Fred wakes up an unknown time latter, feeling sore all over. The strange
thing, he notices muzzily, is that he woke up in a standing position.
Fred looks around and sees that Belboz is nowhere to be seen. In his
place is a note, a handheld mirror, his adventuring pack, his sword, and
a fancy bow with a quiver of arrows. Fred makes a clomping sound (?) as
he walks over and takes the items in hand.
He pauses to read the note:
Dear fool,
By now you've awoken and noticed that a few things have changed.
I probably would have stayed to help you, but I have no patients for people
like you! What in the name of all that you consider holy where you thinking?!
Anyway, good luck with getting anyone to believe who you really are.
You don't even look or sound like anything you did before. I suggest you
go and join the local Herd, because I rather doubt anyone can help you
reverse such an uncontrolled transformation!
Belboz
Fred drops the note and looks into the mirror, and drops it in shock.
It shatters into a million pieces, which pretty much sums up Fred's future
in the human-centric Kingdom.
Fred had seen a stranger in the mirror. The face was somewhat handsome,
but totally unfamiliar. It was human looking enough, but out of a ragged
mop of long, raven black, shoulder length hair, grew a pair of white horse's
ears!
Fred looks down at his new body, and sees the truth. He has a muscular
body down to the midsection. A mane of black hair stretchs down his human
back back to the barrel of his horse's body begins. The horse's body itself
isn't bad looking, if Fred is any judge of horse flesh, with a white coat,
full bodied black tail, and muscular body.
Fred's no longer a human. He's now one of the rare nonhuman races that
can be found in the borders of the Kingdom. He's a centaur stallion!
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