Rachel’s feet crunched beneath her ankles as she strode off her patio and into the vast, spacious ranch before her. Her hands crackling and condensing in much the same way, she let the dancing breeze caress her long brown hair, cautiously venturing forward on all fours. Her back was relieved when her arms and legs stretched into equal lengths, followed by their bulking with muscle mass. Motion became heavy, so she held still as her glutes widened, eventually leading to the barreling out of her ribcage, followed by the rest of her torso. Wider, longer, stronger... repeated the mantra in her head, a tingling tide of fine cocoa hairs washing over her skin’s shores. From the buttocks forward the hairs spread, a tasseled tail sprouting at the end of her spine from a collection of intently longer ones, the sensation like a gentle tug. By then, her torso had thickened into shape, so Rachel’s neck started to broaden too. The trend began at her collarbone, continuing up to her head, leaving a smear of black hairs along it from what had been the human hair growing out her scalp. Her two modest breasts withered away into nothingness between her two front legs and Rachel resumed venturing forward into the ranch’s hills. Simultaneously, her ears turned chocolate brown, cupped, and pointed while they migrated to the top of her head, resting in a nest of shorter, coarser hair. Also moving along her head was her eyes, as they migrated to the sides where her human ears were, and finally, her mouth and nose pressed forcefully into each other and downward as if a weight dragged them toward the grass below. A black puddle appeared around Rachel’s augmented nostrils, replacing her lips as well, while her teeth expanded behind their fleshy cloak. She sputtered and stood on her hind legs, first to catch her balance, and then to proudly neigh into the hills ahead.

Rachel was a horse.