Part 1 It was dark… Cold… Cold…? I felt cold sand underneath my skin and my scales. So strange – my scales felt nothing like they should… Slowly I opened my eyes, seeing… shore. Shore. I clumsily sat up. A moment – then my memory caught up with me. The ritual. My mission. And – I stared. I had seen them on so many humans so far, but to see – to feel – them now on myself… Legs. I had legs. It was still dark out, the white sand all around me. I had awoken here, at this beach – I knew where I was. I took a moment, maybe few, to collect myself, staring at my new legs, at the shoreline. My new legs were like those of a human’s, but mine were still covered with scales, the same dark blue ones as previously on my tail. My skin, my hair were still the same blue as always, and I knew my white eyes were still the same as well. Legs though – I truly had those, the ritual had worked. It had worked. ...