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Petra went over to her emails and found the one. It was from some site called Shade’s Magical Domain. Opening it up, she was hit with a splash of black and purple colors… and then how amateurish the email format was. The email and site itself looked like it came out of the early 2000’s, though it did at least have a cute raven chibi in the corner.

Definitely weird and suspicious. She looked over some of the text at the top, promising all kinds of costumes and that deliveries would be on time and instantaneous. Definitely feels shady now.

Still, again, not many options left if she wanted to find something to wear for the season. Perhaps it was worth taking a bit of a chance with this thing.

She scrolled down through the email, looking at all the options on display. Then, her heart fluttered.

Petra gasped. Right there on the page, almost as if a gift from Heaven, she found it. It was the perfect costume for her.

“Captain Celaeno! Ooooh, I love her from the movie!” Petra giggled, her cheeks growing rosy. She loved that parrot ever since she laid eyes on her in the My Little Pony movie from a bit ago. She was sooooo cool! Plus, that look and voice… oh! She loved Celaeno from the bottom of her heart.

“This is mine!” Everything was a blur then. Petra rushed through page after page, signing up for the site, ordering the costume, putting her credit card information in, everything. She wanted that costume. She wanted it bad, and nothing was going to stop her.

Ding! Petra snapped out of it, seeing that her order was complete. A small pop-up window appeared, reading: “Delivery in Route. Part 1 Coming Momentarily. Part 2 to follow shortly. Thank you for shopping today~.”

‘Coming momentarily’? That can’t be right. Petra scratched the side of her face. That whole sales pitch had to be an exaggeration and nothing more. It was probably just being taken to the post office or something.

Regardless, the costume was hers now. Just a matter of waiting. She leaned back in her chair and stretched, letting out a big yawn. Time to take it easy for a little bit.

Though, as she stretched out, there was this tickly numbness. It started in her hands, fingers twitching as they stretched. Her ring fingers merged with her middles. Fingernails grew soon after, forming sharpish claws. Eventually, her hands turned rough and scalish, tinted reddish brown.

Her feet followed suit. The sight was hiddened at first, cloaked by socks, then noticeable as the fronts stretched out… followed by the back. Petra felt a brief bit of tightness and then, the feeling subsided. Similar talons as her hands tore her socks open, though the fronts were down to three digits. In their backs, a single claw poked out, her feet quite avain now.

Petra yawned one more time and leaned forward in her seat again. Well… might as well get back to looking at the Twitter feed again. Got a bit sidetracked with that costume hunt.

Click. Clack. Click. Clack. That sounded wrong. Do her fingers usually make that sound when typing?