Cedar chuckled quietly and leaned against the counter, crossed arms propped on the counter, watching and waiting to see how sheâd react to seeing the fancy and exotic contents of the refrigerator. âItâs actually quite a bit later than noon here, than where the First lives, due to timezones.â
He glanced up to place where Reggae was, snorting quietly when he saw the blasted camera-bird had gotten one of the French doors open again, and was outside on the balcony railing. Which was good news- Cedar wouldnât have to worry about it dive-bombing him.
âIf you do not find anything you fancy in there, the pantry is just over there,â he said, rounding the corner to fetch something for himself from the refrigerator.
She noticed there was a plate a large piece of salmon that was covered in salt, probably to preserve its freshness, remembering how she used to do the same to other fish back home she took the plate of salted fish from the fridge, carefully removed the excess saltâŠ
And forgot Cedar was still in the room five feet away.
She performed a feat of inhuman proportions. If Cedar had the guts to watch, he would have seen her face stretch forwards, her skin harden, her mouth take the form of a bony beak and tiny feathers sprouting out, her white hair stuck straight out around her head like the crest of some strange exotic ornate bird, and she opened her beak, grabbed the fish and swallowed it whole. But thatâs not all that was happening.
She realized all too quickly something was wrong. She couldnât stop the changes, oh no, she had allowed herself to be thrown head first into a metamorphic state. She looked around, and saw Cedar, and she had to explain herself now, she had little time as it was! Her body was being surrounded by the crystals she had in her pouches on her belt, they were attaching themselves to one another and growing around her at an exponential rate!Â
âShit⊠I forgot about this⊠Cedar, I need to tell you something and you need to take heed! My family was targeted back home for a reason! We were not completely human due to an ancient bloodline that was forgotten to the agesâŠâÂ
The crystals were already about to close her in, she had to tell him now!
âCedar, Iâll explain later, just donât paniââ That was it, her voice was cut off by the crystals sealing off the last visible portion off her face in a cocoon of reflective stone. However that same reflective surface quickly took the appearance of solid stone.