97 Party 11 (1/2)

”If you dare to do something to the fox…” Kyro threatened, and tears of laughter ran down Iris' face. How could she have ended up in such a horrible situation? Just how?

She chuckled miserably as she looked at the door handle that was miles above her head. 'I want to open it for you,' she cried, 'but how do you expect me to reach it?'

Worst of all, she had no clue what had happened. One moment she ran into the bathroom as a human and locked the door behind herself, and the next she was buried under the white blanket, complaining as she tried to find a way from under it.

She didn't even get the time to look into the mirror, and she really wanted to see if she had turned into herself. Was it her body? If so, how did she regain it? And lose again?

Looking around, she searched for some kind of trigger, something that wasn't there normally, but there really wasn't anything. There was not a single thing extra in the bathroom.

Could she turn back only for a certain duration then? But what had triggered it in the first place? It wasn't like she had done something extremely unusual yesterday. Could it be the strawberry that set off a delayed effect of transformation?

It sounded preposterous, but she was currently locked in a bathroom after having turned into a human from a fox and back. At this point in time, she was ready to believe any kind of nonsense that might explain what was happening to her.

'Argh… How am I going to explain myself!'

Her transformation was terrifying—she didn't want it—but even more headache inducing was the fact that she might lose her home in a few moments. Kyro was about to break the door, and if he did that, he was certainly going to throw her out as some kind of freak. What normal fox kept turning into a human at random?

”Don't you have some key?” Gale asked on the other side of the door.

Iris froze, and soon she heard Kyro rushing away. She cursed, wishing for a sudden inspiration. 'Stop! Give me more time! I haven't come up with a good enough excuse yet!' she cried out, tears collecting in her eyes.

There was no explanation, however. She had no clue how she had ended up on this side of the world, let alone what was happening to her. This supernatural stuff was simply out of her league.