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Lauren knew what was comming, and knew it was comming soon. She held the note that Sabin wrote and unconsciously pawed at the injection point in her arm. She needed someone, anyone to be there for her and needed it quick. Who could she go to? She didn't want to bug Miller with it right now, she couldn't go to Nita. Perhaps Awen? Or Jordan? She quickly ruled Jordan out as she didn't want pro-lab anti-lab drama right now.

She really didn't know where she was going when she ran into a bat. Who was that? Lauren remembered Tommy and knew from the smell it must be him.

His smell... it was easier to find things from smell, to differentiate person from person just by smell wasn't it? As soon as Lauren realised it she KNEW trouble was soon.

Hesitantly she ran over, already feeling a little sore. It was going to happen and happenstance chose the person it would happen in front of. "Tommy..." She yelled over towards the bat person as she ran.

Lauren stumbled over towards Tommy and just as she was about to answer, lost the contents of her stomach. It looked very much like a cat loosing a hairball. "Sorry..." She said feeling more and more in pain. Before she knew it she was on the ground at Tommy's feet. "Please... stay." She pleaded to Tommy as she looked up. She knew it was about to happen any second.

Lauren was shaking and very hot to the touch, an unatural and nearly lethal heat for a human being. "Sorry..." She said trying to keep her voice down. Her fur was looked incredibly damp from sweat as she appeared to be changing in front of him, her body was thickening and her skin was getting a tiny bit more saggy. Lauren tried to hold back a frightening panic yelp but didn't succeed. Still the effort made it more muffled than the bone chilling loud bark she wanted to emit. "You... you've changed." She said attempting a form of conversation in between huffing and breathing deeply in panic and fear.

Lauren let out a forced laugh, "Well geuss they... they got their ROUNDSSS.." She yelled out arching her back in pain as she felt her torso lengthen and all her bones shift and stretch, the bones themselves changing into a slightly more flexible state. "done..." She said huffing and panting at the pain. Her legs were even shortening while her neck lengthened. Several things caused her to gasp and writhe but Lauren forced her mind to stay awake, even though her mind believed blacking out was the best for this amount of pain Lauren willed her mind to NOT black out. She had enough blacking out, both for pranks and in the reality that came with the chaotic nature this genetic expermentation leant itself to.

Lauren's orange eyes widened as her form continued to change. This seemed like the worse one yet. Her feet lengthened, her torso finished growing, her neck finished growing. After many agonizing minutes her body seemed to have stopped a second, giveing her time to roll over and burry her face in Tommy's wing. The dark felt good, comforting in a way. But just then her muzzle started popping out a little more and she fell away and literally rolled into a ball, twisted in on herself in a way she could of never accomplished with her former torso. She reached her paws to cover the acheing muzzle. All the time she emmited more animalistic sounds of pain then human sounds, whimpers, barks, yelps, a weird gutteral warbelling cry and gasps of pain.

Lauren wimpered as she felt a huge headache comming on. Instinctively she wiggled herself out of Tommy's wings as her horns grew, her newly formed muzzle gasping in pain when it happened. Then her tail grew at the same time, forming more fully. All her musles still seemed to be filling in the gaps where her bones shrank and grew, forming around the newly grown vertibrae and newly formed muzzle. Externally nothing more than muscle twitches were happening but internally the body warped itself in an almost magical way to accomidate to the forceful dna changes happening.

"Almost..." She echoed. "Almost over..." Her brain was moving faster as she felt more twitchy yet more reliant on her friend. He was here to protect her, one of the friends. He had her trust enough to share a burrow with her and all of her friends. It seemed a flashing image in her head she held for comfort. A burrow full of her friends. Mentally she knew it couldn't happen but it still helped.

Her skin burned all over as her fur finally grew where the muscle now rested. It was nothing compared to the pain she had felt before though so Lauren was finally able to force herself out of the pretzel she found herself in. She leaned against Tommy trembeling and aching.

Lauren ached all over as her fur finished growing in. She grew an odd large ruff around her neck, and it was HOT here to her. The island felt horrible. She needed someplace damp and cool.

She had noticed her pants shredded themselves off during the change as her body formed to grow out of them. In all the pain, she never noticed them in the way. Slightly embarrassed she reached faintly out for a few scraps but her paw just dropped them. Her arms were too weak right now, she was too weak all over.

food... sleep... food and sleeep was all she could think of right now. She couldn't get up yet though, her newly formed musles were too weak just yet. "I am done. This is... my last one." She looked him up and down finding words hard to form admist a sea of instinct, "Food?" She asked him. "Need food... and hot. It's hot, very very hot no good." She found it hard to talk normally but didn't question her words.