Odette was sitting at home, watching the sun go down. Pretty soon, the moon will rise, and she will be back into her human form...
Though tonight, she wondered if that even mattered? Would those people come by again, or will she be sitting here, alone, for the rest of her life?
She was just starting to weigh the consequences of just spilling the truth, and suffering the curse becoming permanent, or continuing to wait here, when the moon finally touched the lake, and she felt the effects of the curse taking hold of her.
Within seconds, the curse wrapped itself around every inch of her body - changing feathers to skin, and wings to arms. It only took a moment - a flash of light, and she was back to looking like a human. She stood there for a moment in the freezing cold water, before sighing, and turned around to walk back inside...
She didn’t get too far though, before something in the distance - at the far end of the only road leading up to her cabin, caught her attention. Was someone coming?