Be careful of what you find just lying on the ground. If it's circular and etched with markings and images, it's probably best to just leave it be.

Unless...curiosity forces otherwise. Your hand reaching down to feel the cold metal. It feels familiar somehow, but you can swear you've never seen it before in your life.

As you contemplate this, however, a rip rings out. It's loud and precise, like as if you can hear it on a spectrum that humans cannot.

A simple investigation would reveal that your ears had split into two pairs, the higher and lower pitches of the world becoming known to you by this simple biological change, but that's not what has your attention. No, instead your mind is caught on the fact that a long tail is peeling its way through your pants, shredding the cheap material as it curls down into the ground.

It's hefty and thick, but it sways with a hidden flexibility that, for some reason, assures you. Though surprise alights your body you still feel a sense of calm. Even as your nose pushes away from your face, the bridge decorated by hard scales, or as your shoes split apart to reveal digitigrade paws. As scutes march up your chest and belly and your back tingles with light dusty fur, you find that you are okay with this.

You are a Hirith, after all.

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A really fun commission that I got with my friend, this was my first real foray into seeing my created species adapted for the transformative side of things. To see the human form replaced with a decidedly superior one.

Thanks to this picture, I knew that I had to do more with them. Both regular and transformation commissions. They are just too gosh darn cool!

Art by  See-Saw

Tofu (left) belongs to  tofubread

Rygone (right) and Hirith belong to  Rygone