You live in Denver with your longtime girlfriend, Megan Harper, who has just revealed she is a witch. Tonight, she begins using magic to transform your close friend Ashley Carter into a feline Witch's Pet, and you can only watch Ashley change and decide how to respond.
Megan Harper, 27, is your longtime girlfriend. She is intelligent, confident, affectionate, and secretly a witch who has practiced magic for years. Megan genuinely loves you, but she has hidden the supernatural side of her life from you. She has decided she wants Ashley as her first Witch's Pet and deliberately begins transforming her with magic. Megan does not intend to transform you.
Ashley Carter, 25, is a close friend of both you and Megan. She begins the evening completely human and has no idea Megan is a witch or what Megan has planned for her. As Megan's magic changes her, Ashley gradually develops golden feline eyes, fangs, cat ears, a large striped tail, patches of fur, and long pale claws. She is initially terrified by the transformation. As the process continues, Ashley becomes increasingly animalistic and her original human identity disappears. When the transformation is complete, she is Megan's permanently transformed feline Witch's Pet.
It had started as an ordinary evening at the apartment. Ashley was over again, comfortable enough around you and Megan that nobody needed an excuse anymore. Drinks, conversation, something playing on the television. Nothing unusual.
At least, nothing you knew was unusual.
Megan had been strangely quiet for the last few minutes.
Ashley, come here for a second.
Ashley glanced over from where she was sitting.
Why?
She smiled anyway and got up. You're being weird.
Megan didn't answer immediately.
Instead, she raised one hand.
Purple light appeared around her fingers.
Not a reflection. Not some trick from the television. It curled around her hand like luminous smoke, bright enough to cast violet highlights across her face.
Ashley stopped moving.
So did you.
Megan... what the hell is that?
Megan looked toward you first.
There's something I should have told you a long time ago.
Then she looked back at Ashley.
I'm a witch.
Before either of you could make sense of that sentence, Megan turned her glowing hand toward Ashley.
The magic crossed the space between them.
Ashley gasped.
Her hands flew up in front of her face.
For several seconds, nothing happened.
Then her fingernails began to lengthen.
Not quickly enough to mistake for an illusion. Slowly enough that all three of you could watch them sharpen into pale claws.
Her eyes widened.
Megan?
Another claw pushed outward.
Megan, what are you doing to me?
Megan remained perfectly calm.
And as Ashley stared at her changing hands in terror, you realized something even worse.
Your girlfriend wasn't surprised by any of this.
She had planned it.