Cobalt and Iris helped Yukino and Sakaki pack up their custom-tailored robes. They had backed their rental van into the studio through the rear garage door. Iris thanked them for all their help over the last two and a half days.
"It was a pleasure to work with you," Yukino said. "This ought to benefit all of us."
"I'm sure it will," Cobalt said. She had donned her robe again, as well as her collar. "Your stuff is divine. I'd love to commission a few custom outfits like these."
"Any time you want," Sakaki said, handing Cobalt her business card. "We'll even waive the international shipping fees."
"Thanks!" Cobalt said.
In a few minutes, the designers' van was loaded up and they headed off. Iris closed the garage door and she and Cobalt walked back to the shooting area. Cobalt was beaming.
"Thanks for agreeing to this last picture," Iris said. "I'm surprised you're so thrilled about it."
"I've been accepting a lot of things lately...I think I've become too restrained with myself. I'm eager to explore what I really want, and your idea...well, i-i-it's a step in tha-a-at direction."
"You're bleating again...with the collar on." Iris frowned.
"So-o-o I a-a-am," Cobalt said, waving a hand. "Let's get to it. I-I-I'm ready."
"Okay, so how do you want to do this? Do you want privacy?"
"It's oka-a-ay. We-e-e're both girls, ri-i-ight?" Cobalt smiled. Her cheeks blushed a bit under her thin coat of light gray fur. "But I-I-I'll bra-a-aid the lowe-e-er pa-a-arts." Iris nodded in agreement.
Cobalt slipped out of the robe, revealing her natural blue and gray fur pattern. She closed her eyes and concentrated, feeling the change happen. Her ability to increase the growth rate of specific parts of her fur had never felt so easy to control. Sections of the thick dark blue mantle above her breasts and at her waist grew several feet long.
"That ought to do it, I think," Iris said. Cobalt stopped the growth and looked down at the silly-looking locks of blue fur dangling down her torso and the sides of her legs. "Here, sit down and I'll do your hair first. I think you'd look nice with a little band at the hairline."
"Oka-a-ay." Cobalt took a seat and began braiding the long hairs at her waist into bands that would wrap around her like a thong. Iris braided her forward locks of hair into a pair of braids that wrapped around her head and merged into the rest of her free-flowing hair at the back of her neck. Then she moved in front of Cobalt and braided the long strands on her chest into "suspenders" to attach to the braids at Cobalt's waist.
Once finished, Cobalt adjusted her braids to make sure she was adequately covered. She posed for the final photos feeling none the worse for wear, but during the final shots, Cobalt began to feel strange again. Her mind was closing down into the more simple thoughts of a real goat. She barely heard Iris announcing that they were finished with the shoot.
"Bette-e-er ge-e-et...colla-a-ar..." she bleated slowly, tugging nervously at one of her suspender-braids.
"Right away," Iris said, already bringing it over to her. She clasped it around Cobalt's neck. "Better change back, all the way."
Cobalt tried to concentrate on becoming a guy again. She focused intently on it, but her mind kept wandering. She saw images of herself in all those beautiful gowns, and then imagined herself growing her fur out to ridiculous lengths, rolling in a bed of gleaming white hair grown from her own scalp. Then she imagined things she had barely dared to imagine before. The stranger, sexier things she had tried to ignore out of embarrassment and shame. Her mind roiled in all of the thoughts that brought her delight, fear, excitement, anxiety...so much so that Iris' shouts to make sure she was okay barely registered in her ears. The collar felt tight around her neck, and the world wobbled back and forth, then tumbled.
Iris watched her friend lose her balance and quickly moved to catch her, helping the kimera settle onto the floor. The brass bell clanged heavily. Cobalt's fur shifted under Iris' arms, and her body started to change. Cobalt fell unconscious as the bell started to glow a bright yellow.
"Cobalt? COBALT!"
To Be Concluded
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