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Takin' a break

You decide to try and relax for a while. The near-constant adrenaline feed of the past twelve hours has taken its toll on your system, and you're feeling rather exhausted now that it's over. Grabbing a controller, you switch on your PlayStation and play some Final Fantasy for a while. Later in the afternoon, you put on a pot of strong coffee and warm up some more of the hamburger. Since you're not as famished as you were this morning, you have time to notice how much your senses have improved. Even unseasoned hamburger tastes delicious, and the coffee is absolutely incredible, once you've figured out how to drink by lapping. After a thoroughly satisfying meal, you curl up with a few manga for a while.

At dinnertime, you finish off the hamburger. You find another package in the freezer and set it out to thaw. You lie down in bed and flip through 2010: Odyssey Two, by Arthur C. Clarke. You find yourself identifying with Dave in the story. After all, he too was changed into something utterly beyond his experience, for reasons that he couldn't figure out, by something that he didn't know what it was. You wonder if there is a reason behind your experience. Or perhaps it was just random chance? Amused, you close the book and drift off to sleep.

That night, you have what is probably the most disturbing experience you will ever have; your first female dream. Nothing dirty, thankfully, but still definitely female. You dream of being a mother, and raising a family, with another fox for a mate. You wake up the next morning, feeling very perturbed. Dang, you realize, I really am thinking like a girl. Being a mother? Where'd that thought come from?

You shrug it off and head down to breakfast. After you finish, you wonder what to do now.


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