A man dressed only in a loincloth burst into the bedroom, a battleaxe in his hands.  “I have found you foul sorceress Topaz, and will end your reign of terror now!”

The lithe woman lounging on the bed looked up, and started to grin.  “This again?  Coryn, Coryn, Coryn.  You know how this ends.”  She set down her novel, and picked up a wand, lazily pointing it in his direction.  “I’ll take everything from... What the fuck?”

As she exclaimed the wand lit up, as did Coryn’s body.  Pink lights danced away from him, swarming like fireflies before spiralling into Topaz and vanishing.  Coryn’s body dwindled under the assault, losing seven inches of height, some muscle tone, and more.  His flowing hair looked distinctly less luxuriant when the fireflies departed.

Topaz on the other hand was bulking up, gaining muscle definition and the same amount of height that Coryn had lost.  Her long blonde hair fluffed out in an invisible wind, haloing her nightie-clad body.

“Did you know it could do that?” breathed Topaz, staring down at the wand in her hand.  “I thought it could only take one thing at a time.”

Coryn shook his head, trying to clear the cobwebs that were slowing his thoughts.  He gripped the axe tightly, and brandished its foam-rubber blade at Topaz.  “Your confusion will be your undoing!”  His step toward the bed turned into a stumble as his foot caught on some discarded laundry.

Topaz giggled.  “Too slow.  Take everything.”  The wand flared again, drawing more fireflies of strength, size, and who knew what else from Coryn.  He dropped to his knees, and the axe fell from his hands.

Topaz jumped off the bed, landing more nimbly than she’d ever previously managed when bulked up.  Her body moved like a dream, and she crouched before her dwindled sweetie.  “Oh, Coryn, are you alright?”

He reached for the axe again, but couldn’t pick it up.  Confusion clouded his expression as he tried and tried to grip it, but failed again and again.

“Your hands!” cried Topaz.  “What happened to your hands?”

Coryn lifted them up before his face and stared at them in surprise.  His arms ended at his wrists.  “Ah.  Well, that would explain it.”

“Check?” asked Topaz softly.

“Green.”

Topaz blinked.  “Really?  Are you sure?”

Coryn summoned a crooked grin that matched his plainer face.  “Foul temptress, you shall not defeat me so easily.”  

Two more flicks of the wand led to a much-reduced Coryn.  His arms and legs were half missing, and Topaz had bulked up enough that she’d been forced to tear her nightie off her burgeoning body.  Coryn’s wide-eyed look at the sight made Topaz smirk.  “What say you now?”

Coryn groveled before her.  “Take it all, goddess.”

Topaz licked her lips, and looked down at the wand in her seven-fingered hand.  She knew that the moment it stopped touching her, all this would end, everything it had stolen would go back where it belonged.  She gripped the wand more tightly.  She’d stolen part of Coryn’s strength several times, but she’d never felt so magnificent before.  Coryn’s dazzled expression as he looked up at her made her want more.

So she continued, growing too tall to stand in the room.  Coryn dwindled, becoming a mewling larval thing with dull eyes.  And yet... and yet she could feel his eagerness.  The tenth invocation would take everything he had left.  She hesitated, wand still pointing at him.  “Be mine,” a part of her murmured.  “Take everything.”

The flare of magic was brighter this time, and the surge in her limbs became a splitting, tearing sensation.  She managed to hold on to the wand and ride it out, panting softly.  “Oh, wow.”

“Yeah,” she heard Coryn’s voice say, to her left.

Topaz looked that way, then squeaked in surprise when she came nose to nose with Coryn’s face.  “What?”  His head was on her shoulders.  Looking down their body, she saw two sets of arms, thick male ones above thinner female ones.  When she tried to move them, only the thinner set moved, the set holding the wand.  Further down was a pair of legs, arranged fore and aft as if she were a very short-bodied centaur.

“What on earth?”

Coryn’s arms wrapped around them and hugged tight.  “Mmm.  I don’t know, but I like it.”  He cupped one of their breasts, and gave it a squeeze.  “Oh!  That feels... can you feel it?”

Topaz squeaked a wordless reply, then nodded.

Hands roamed everywhere, exploring their shared body.  One snuck between their legs, discovering that both sets of parts were present.  That proved enough distraction that complex thought and speech became impossible.

*** *** ***

They rolled apart, panting as their bodies reformed.

“Pity you dropped the wand,” chuckled Coryn.  “I could have gone another round or two.”

Topaz looked over the side of the bed, started to reach for the wand, and then rolled back.  “Nnng.  I want to.  But...  Coryn, what was that?  I was...”

Coryn grinned.  “Oh yeah.  You were amazing.  You should stop halfway next time, I bet I could figure out how to use my arms to... no?”

“This...  We think this wand is safe.  Temporary.  But...  I took your intelligence, too.  I could see so many possibilities.  If I put a headband on, tucked the wand into it...  I could keep us like that indefinitely.  And if I kept it for a day...”

“Permanent.”  Coryn licked his lips.  “That’s...  How did we not see that?  What else don’t we know?”

“What other verbs does it have?  If ‘take’ was the only one, we wouldn’t need to say it.”

Coryn sat up, then rolled to his knees, crouching before Topaz as he had earlier.  “I volunteer to be your test subject.”

Topaz laughed weakly.  “You love this.  Why?”

“You should have seen yourself, love.  You were a goddess.  Take my looks again, and see.”

Topaz nodded slowly.  “That’s... safer, right?  You’d still be there at ten.  Sort of.”

“Ugly and deformed, no doubt.  Don’t scream at the sight of me, please.”

Topaz giggled.  “Take beauty,” she said, pointing the wand at him.  The sparkling was much less pronounced than before.  At Coryn’s urging, she did it twice more, then the two of them left the bedroom to check themselves out in the master bathroom mirror.

“Oh,” gasped Topaz.  “I’m...”

“Lovely.  But not anything like before.  Do you see why I didn’t stop you?”

Topaz brushed fingertips over her flawless face.  “I don’t want to stop me.”  She set the wand down on the vanity, and watched as her face shifted.  “It’s subtle.  Symmetry, and smoother skin.  How does stealing beauty from you even work, though?  Your skin isn’t flawless.”

Coryn shrugged.  “You took everything, and now that one aspect seems odd?  What else can you take?”

Topaz shook her head.  “Anything?  I mean, it took your hands.  I could probably steal your belly button, or your knowledge of baseball.”

Coryn’s eyes lit up. “Oh!  Do that.  Take half, and then we can watch this afternoon’s game together.”

Topaz tilted her head to one side, giggling a little as she considered it.  “That’d be interesting.  You always try to explain it, but it never seems to click.”  She scooped up the wand.  “Take knowledge of baseball.”  

Nothing happened.  “Fooey,” pouted Topaz.  “I guess that’s too abstract.”

“Or it’s not a single word.  Try taking my right arm.”

Topaz did so, and failed again.  But she found that “take arm” and suitable focus on which one she wanted did work, and soon she had three arms, while Coryn only had one.  

Jokingly, she pointed the wand at Coryn and said, “Give arm”... and sparkles traced from her arm to his stump.  Both their eyes widened at that.  “Cool.  We can swap arms!” exclaimed Topaz.

The wand flared, and sparkles traced over all their arms.  Before the transfer was half done, however, the wand tumbled from Topaz’s vanishing fingers and everything went back to normal.

“Well,” breathed Topaz once her hyperventilating had slowed.  “That was different.”

“You’ve discovered two new verbs.  We should see if there are any more.  Erase, perhaps?”

They spent a frustrating hour trying every word they could think of, and then tried an online thesaurus to find even more.  Synonyms of take, give and swap all worked.  Nothing else did.

More curiously, swap didn’t work the same as give or take.  It completely exchanged the named feature.  Coryn figured that was because at the half-way point, it wouldn’t know what to work on.

Topaz nodded her agreement.  “That makes sense.  Want to try something really weird?”

Coryn laughed.  “Like being merged with you wasn’t weird?”

“C’mon, we should be lying down for this.”

“I like it already...”

Topaz arranged herself with her hands folded over her chest, the wand peeking out at her sweetie.  “This way it won’t fall when I say... swap minds.”

The spiralling sparkles swirled between their heads for a few moments, then Coryn’s body slowly sat up.  “Woah.  I’ve had your strength before, but this feels... different.”

Coryn carefully gripped the wand as he sat up in Topaz’s body.  “I think I could get used to this.  You feel so soft and smooth.”

“Mmm, you do,” agreed Topaz, running Coryn’s hands along her body and up to her breasts.

Coryn gasped softly.  “Oooh.  Do that again.”

Instead, Topaz leaned in for a kiss that evolved into frenzied groping.  Unfortunately, Coryn lost track of the wand and it tumbled away from his hand, putting them back in their own bodies.

“Headband?” asked Topaz.

Coryn thought it over.  “As long as I leave your hair alone...”   While Topaz was digging through the closet, Coryn picked up the wand and turned it in his fingers with a speculative look.  When Topaz returned suitably head-banded, he pointed the wand at her.  “Swap personality.”

When the sparkles died down, Topaz made sure to grip the wand tightly in his hand.  In Coryn’s voice he asked, “What was that supposed to do?”

Coryn shrugged her slender shoulders.  “My personality, your memories.  More or less.  Doesn’t feel like it worked, I remember being me.  I guess it treats ‘personality’ as a synonym for ‘mind’.”

Topaz prowled toward his lover, and tucked the wand into the headband she wore.  “Something to figure out later.  Much later.”

Coryn did not object as Topaz’ muscular body pulled her now-slender one toward the bed.  She crouched before him, nuzzling at Topaz’ growing erection.  “Maybe it worked.  This looks yummy, and I’m sure I didn’t think that a minute ago.”

Topaz groaned at Coryn’s treatment of her.  “Libido.  It didn’t transfer libido.  Oh!  How can I...”

Coryn grinned up at Topaz.  “You think too much.  No wait.  I think too much.  You...  I...”  She sat back with a thump.  “Holy...  Quick, what’s twelve times thirty-two.”

Topaz thought for a second.  “Three hundred eighty four.  What?  I can’t do math that fast.”

“You can now.  Mind subdivides into persona, intelligence, and libido.”  Coryn licked her lips lasciviously.  “Yummy, yummy libido.”  She pounced.

Topaz put up only token resistance, his body speaking far more clearly of his desires than his confused words.  Coryn crawled up his body and shushed him with a kiss.

Their libidos found each other very pleasing indeed.

*** *** ***

Coryn curled up against Topaz’ warm, masculine body as it dozed.  Her smile was the first thing Topaz saw when he woke.  “Oh, wow.  Not a dream.”

Coryn giggled warmly.  “Nope.”

Topaz licked his lips, eyes distant and dreamy.  “When your sweet voice called out my name...  Oh.  That was...”

“It was.”  Coryn touched Topaz’ lips softly, then leaned in for a brief kiss.  “You’re thinking again.  Talk to me.”

“Are you happy?” asked Topaz hesitantly.

“Deliriously.”

“But it’s the wand that made our minds... what they are.  What will we think when we go back to normal?” fretted Topaz.

“I don’t care.  I don’t want to...”  Coryn covered her mouth suddenly.  “Oh my God.  I don’t.  This body feels like the real me, the idea of being you feels... weird.”

Topaz sighed relievedly.  “I feel the same way.  I’m pretty sure it’s the wand.  We should change back, to be sure.”

Coryn put her hand to the wand in her hair protectively.  “No!”

“Coryn... we can’t go to work like this.”

“Sure we can.  You have the brains for sysadmin stuff now.  I’ve...”  She frowned, wrinkles creasing her forehead.  “The idea of doing your job is appealing.  I feel... eager to deal with people.  That’s so weird.”

Topaz effortlessly pulled Coryn’s hands away from the headband with one arm, and plucked out the wand with his other.  The moment he tossed the wand to the side, pink motes glittered out of their heads, exchanging places once more.

Topaz sighed softly.  “Sorry.”  She touched her throat.  “Feels weird to be me again.”

Coryn nodded glumly.  “Yeah.  I was really keen on being you.”

“I know.  But we have to think about this.  Maybe sleep on it.  This is big, Coryn.  Our minds weren’t our own.”

“I’ll say.”  Coryn looked down at himself.  “Making love to a guy should have been offputting.  But it was wonderful.”  He looked over at Topaz wistfully.  “More than wonderful.  God, your body is amazing.”

Topaz blushed, then smiled.  “Thank you.  I liked being you, too.  But now that I’ve tried both... sex as a woman is definitely way better.”

“I know!  It’s totally unfair.”

Topaz smirked.  “You wouldn’t say that if you’d been through a period.”

That got a chuckle from Coryn.  “Fair enough.  Though I’m willing to trade for an hour or two during the worst of it, so I can know.”

“Really?” asked Topaz eagerly.  “Then I suppose we could try swapping from time to time.  If we can still play barbarian and sorceress, too.”

“Do you want to play it while swapped?  I like the idea of draining you and becoming your goddess.”

Topaz looked away, glancing toward where the wand had fallen.  “I had felt like it was stagnating.  But I can steal so much more than strength.  Or... or give!  I could be a supplicant, offering up beauty.”

“Or boobs.”

Topaz giggled.  “What, you want my boobs?”

“Think bigger.”

“You want me to... steal other people’s boobs, and give them to you?”

Coryn grinned.  “Now she’s got it.  Got any big-chested friends who’d be willing to make a donation to the cause?”

Topaz bit her lips.  “I should smack you for that.  And yesterday, I probably would have.”

“Which is why I haven’t said anything.  Your C-cups are a good handful, and notionally more is a waste, but...”

Topaz nodded.  “But after spending an hour with your libido... the idea of playing with much bigger boobs is appealing.  Wait, what if I stole your size?”

“Can it...”  Coryn stopped and laughed.  “Of course it can.”

Topaz rolled to the side of the bed and snatched up the wand.  “Take size.”  Both their eyes went wide as Topaz grew and Coryn dwindled.  He reached for her breasts and gave them a good squeeze.  Then lost another seven inches for his troubles.  Two further zaps left him less than half Topaz’ height.  Her legs dangled off the bed and stretched halfway to the door.  Topaz rolled to her back and Coryn clambered on top of her, his body barely as long as her torso.

“You feel as light as a kitten,” murmured Topaz.  “So cute...”

Coryn snuggled up to one of Topaz’ breasts, kneading and nibbling at it.  Topaz giggled, and got a sour look from Coryn.  “What’s wrong?  Still too small?”

“They’re so flat when you lie down,” sighed Coryn.  “Maybe if you were on your side?”

Topaz rolled to her side carefully, but Coryn still ended up with an arm pinned under her.  At his wince, she sighed and set the wand aside.  Soon they were back to normal once more.  “Are you okay?”

Coryn gave his hand a shake.  “Yeah.  Just sprained it a bit.  May I try something?”

Topaz grinned and handed him the wand.  “Hit me.”

“Give boobs.”  The light-show that followed made Topaz’s eyebrows rise.  

She cupped her breasts, frowning.  “They feel a little bigger.  But how?  You don’t have breasts to speak of.”

“When we exchanged height, it was foot for foot, ignoring conservation of mass.  I guess it doesn’t matter how much I have to give, what you get is proportional to you.  Let’s see how far it’ll go!  Give boobs give boobs give boobs...”  Coryn continued to give away his breasts, and what little fat he had over his pectorals dwindled with it.  When he was done, his chest was entirely flat, even missing the usual nipples.  

Coryn undertook a very thorough examination of Topaz’s expanded chest that left her squirming and moaning.  He discovered that his nipples had merged with hers, one tiny nipple on the tip of each of her expanded ones, and those were even more sensitive than normal.

Coryn paused his examination to Topaz’s vocal dismay, tucked the wand into her headband, then nuzzled his way down the side of her neck and back to his new playground.

Unfortunately, Topaz’s run in Coryn’s body earlier had worn him out.  Thankfully, Topaz was enjoying the doubled sensations from her much-enlarged breasts too much to care.

When they finally got out of bed, both were more than eager for lunch, and once they had that taken care of it was nearly time for the big game...

Coryn patted the couch beside him, and Topaz carefully lowered herself to it.  She still wasn’t used to the extra weight in front.  Coryn grinned at how her breasts swayed as she settled.  “No luck finding something big enough?”

Topaz shook her head.  “I measured.  These are five cups bigger than I had before.  Five!  The only thing that came close to fitting was one of your worn-out T-shirts.  I’d rather go naked.”

Coryn chuckled softly.  “No objection here.”

They watched for a time, with Topaz growing increasingly restive.  Coryn would distract her during lulls in the game by fondling her chest, but even that wasn’t enough.

“Can we try that knowledge thing?” asked Topaz at the end of the second inning.  “Even if I can’t take specifically baseball stuff, it still might help.”  She pulled the wand from her headband, and offered it to Coryn.

He mused on the idea for a few moments, then flicked the wand at Topaz.  “Give knowledge.”  There was a brief show of light.  “Anything?”

“Try again?” asked Topaz.  Another dose made her tilt her head to one side and contemplate the TV.  “Maybe try explaining it again?”

Coryn’s explanation of the game and the more esoteric points of the rules kept Topaz involved for two more innings.  At the end of which she sighed.  “Okay.  I think I get it...  But it still seems boring as heck.”  She pointed the wand at Coryn.  “Give knowledge.  Give knowledge.”

Topaz licked her lips, then got a devious grin on her face.  “I know how to distract you.”

“Oh?”

“Give knowledge.  Give knowledge.  Give... uh... smarts.  Give smart.  Giv... guh?”  Topaz shook her head, trying to clear the fuzz that had descended over it.  She nearly dropped the wand, but a startled Coryn managed to snag it in time.  He tucked it back in her headband.

As Coryn tucked the wand back in Topaz’s headband he studied her dull-eyed expression.  “Oh, sweetie.  What have you done to yourself?”

Topaz grinned at him and knelt between his legs.  She fumbled at his belt until he relented and undid the buckle for her.  Then she yanked off his pants and went to town.

Coryn found his mind oddly divided.  The blow-job Topaz was giving him was one of the finest he’d received.  And yet... it was also possible to watch the game, focussing on it and recalling the minutest of trivia.  Even the blinding orgasm that followed only cost him a couple of pitches.

Topaz cleaned up every drop, then clambered up onto the couch like an oversized pet and snuggled up against Coryn.  He petted her head softly, which made her murmur happy incoherences.

With his sweetie dozing contently against him, Coryn watched the rest of the game in peace, amazed by how much more he could follow.  Once it was over, he flicked the TV off and returned his attention to Topaz.  “Are you happy, like this?  You seem happy.  I wish I could tell.”

His hand brushed against the wand, and he grinned.  “And I can.”  Coryn grabbed the pen and notepad he used to keep statistics during the game, and flipped to a fresh page.  He wrote a brief note on it, and propped it up on the coffee table.

Then he took the wand, and gripping it tightly murmured, “swap personality”.


Topaz blinked at the wand clutched tightly in his hand.  “What just...”  His eyes went distant as his fuzzy memories suddenly came into sharp focus.  “Oh!  Oh you sweet thing.  I’ll let you have this good and...”  His eyes lit on the note.  “Well now.  ‘Try anything you think will be fun.’  As you wish, love.  As you wish.”

Topaz turned his attention to Coryn, who was kneeling before him eagerly.  “My, what an eager pet.  I was aiming more for bimbo, but...  You really aren’t a proper bimbo, are you?”

Coryn’s disappointed whine made Topaz chuckle, and pat her head.  “Oh, sweetie, I’m not upset with you,” she cooed encouragingly.  “I just need to tweak a few things.”

Coryn grinned at Topaz’ tone, then looked puzzled when the first thing Topaz did was to give her a couple doses of intelligence.  “What?”

“Bimbos need to speak.  But only about sex.  Give libido.”  Topaz shuddered as sparkles carried away a tenth of his sex drive. “Bleh.  OK, no more of that.  This body can’t spare much.  Take volition?”  More sparkles followed, and Topaz grinned.  “Oooh, this has potential.”

Before long, Coryn was rubbing up against Topaz and moaning hornily.  They didn’t make it to the bedroom.

*** *** ***

Topaz groaned.  “Enough, Coryn.  Stop already!  I’m spent...”  But Topaz’ lust-crazed creation had no inhibitions left.  Topaz yanked the wand from Coryn’s hair and tossed it aside.

A whirlwind of sparkles enveloped the two of them.  Topaz sighed softly and rolled off of her sweetie.  “Too much?” she asked, softly.

Coryn winced as he sat up.  “Only on this end.  God, that was fantastic.  Thank you.”

Topaz started to giggle.  “You’re thanking me for turning you into a bimbo?”

“Most of the way into a bimbo.”

Topaz blinked at Coryn. “Most of the way?  What’d I miss?”

Coryn picked up the wand.  “Give lips.  Give hips.”

Topaz cooed happily as Coryn repeated his two gifts, touching her growing hips with one hand, and patting her hips with the other.  After four cycles, she gestured for him to stop.  “Too much more and you’ll look bizarre.”

Coryn gave her enormous breasts once more, then studied his handiwork.  “Much better.  Hm, what else...  Take teeth.”

Topaz’s eyes went wide.  “Oh.  Oh!  Making my mouth better at blow-jobs?”

“Uh...  Is that okay?”

She grinned, and kissed his cheek.  “Go for it.”  Soon Topaz’s teeth were gone.  Coryn’s jaw expanded to handle the new dentition, his teeth growing in both number and size.

“Id looks like you’re woofing oud,” lisped Topaz, then she giggled again.  “Can’d speak righd.”

Coryn probed his new teeth with his tongue, his grin growing.  “More?”

Topaz nodded.

“Take tongue.”  Before long, Coryn’s tongue was lolling out of his mouth like a dog’s, and Topaz’s eyes were captured by it.  Once it got so long Coryn couldn’t pull it back in, his pronunciation went to hell and the wand stopped working.

Topaz plucked the wand from Coryn’s fingers, tucked it in her hairband, and pulled him toward the bedroom, where he put his new tongue to very good use.

*** *** ***

Later, over dinner, they both marveled at the things the wand could let them do, and wondered what other tricks they could try.

“I wonder if it works on inanimate objects,” mused Coryn.  

Topaz’s eyes glittered.  “You could give volition to my teddybear.  Maybe it’d even move.  Stealing yours wasn’t fun, I ended up way too controlled.”

“Oh, you’re just assuming I want to be a bimbo again?” asked Coryn with an arched eyebrow and poorly hidden grin.

Topaz studied him mock-seriously.  “Hm.  I think you’d rather try being my nightie.”

Coryn’s fork stopped halfway to his mouth.  “I...  Wow.  I wonder what that would be like.”

“Only one way to find out,” teased Topaz.  She set her utensils down neatly and pushed away from the table.  “I’ll go get that nightie on.”

Coryn watched Topaz sashay out of the kitchen, then hurriedly finished his food.  He arrived in the bedroom just as Topaz was slithering into her sheerest nightie, topaz blue to match her eyes.  Coryn just stared at the sight, until Topaz sashayed up to him, and pressed the wand into his hand.  She held out a swath of fabric in front of the wand.  “Say it.”

“Swap mind,” murmured Coryn obediently.  Both their eyes went wide when the swirling fireflies started.  Topaz kept her grip on Coryn’s hand, and poorly managed his collapse to the floor.

“Oh, sweetie, I hope that didn’t hurt too much.”  Topaz brushed a hand over her nightie.  “And I hope this is fun for you.”  She made sure the wand was still resting in Coryn’s hand, then pirouetted to make her nightie flare around her legs.  She danced seductively, then started to fret.  She crouched beside Coryn, and checked to be sure he was breathing.

Topaz sighed in relief, then shook her head.  She flicked the wand out of Coryn’s hand.  Soon he was sitting up and shaking his head.

“So?” asked Topaz.

Coryn shrugged.  “It worked.  I feel fine, other than a bruised butt.  Shouldn’t have done that standing up.”

“And?  What was it like?”

Coryn smirked at her.  “Only one way to find out.”  He grabbed the wand, and pointed it at Topaz.  “Swap personalities.”

“You just want to feel those breasts from the inside,” grumbled Topaz.  “Not that I blame you.”

“I was touching them, but couldn’t fondle.”  Coryn put her hands to her breasts, and gave them a squeeze.  “I’ll make sure to fondle them for you.”

Topaz caught the hem of her nightie, and tapped it with the wand.  “Swap minds.”

Coryn danced and swirled the nightie around her body, making sure to give Topaz a proper show.  She also made sure that Topaz got to fondle her breasts vicaroiusly.  After she’d had some fun, she got an impish look on her face.  “I wonder...”

Coryn crouched next to Topaz, and wrapped part of the nightie around her hand before she picked up the wand.  No sparkles flew, as the nightie was part of the current swap.  Biting her lip, she pointed the wand back at her former body.  “Swap minds.”

Coryn pouted at the lack of sparkles, then tried one more time, pressing another swath of nightie fabric to her lips.  Apparently that was enough to trigger the wand, and a moment later Topaz sat up in his masculine body.  “Well.  That was a trip.  I see your point about the fondling.  Not the same at all.”

“I know,” sighed Coryn.  “Nice, but not as good as having hands.  Still, in the right circumstances, or with the right object...”

“Like your vibrator?” asked Topaz.  “Wait, I mean my vibrator.  Oy.”

“Seems like a poor substitute for the real thing.”

Topaz’ face scrunched up in distaste.  The expression was cute on her usual face, but looked comical enough on a male face that it set Coryn off on a giggling fit.

“There are better ones,” insisted Topaz.  “But... yeah.  It’s hard to imagine anything as good.  Maybe as a change of pace some night?”

“Speaking of changing pace... I think it’s time the axe came out to play...” teased Coryn.

Topaz’s eyes lit up, and he was off like a shot.  A minute later, a loincloth-clad barbarian entered the room.  “I have found you at last foul sorceress Coryn.  Your power will soon be mine!”

Coryn pulled the wand from her headband.  “Oh I don’t think so, big boy.  Soon to be not so big boy.”  Her speech proved her undoing, as while she was exulting Topaz had crept closer, then pounced.

Topaz’s strength kept the wand from aiming at him, and soon he had it plucked from Coryn’s hands.  “Foolish sorceress, binding all your power into such an easily stolen trinket.”  In moments, Coryn’s intellect was spiralling away, followed by her volition.  (That got dumped into Topaz’s teddy bear, but it didn’t start to move.)  As a last touch, he doubled the size of her breasts.

Topaz grinned ferally at the sexy figure mewling before him.  “What else should I do to you, pet?”

“Make me... toy.  No mind.”

Topaz chuckled and shook his head.  “Not a chance.  I want to see you down on your knees, begging.”

Coryn did so without hesitation, and followed every order Topaz gave just as promptly.  His eyes went wide.  “Did I take all your volition?”

Topaz was too busy staring at Coryn’s loincloth to answer.

“Like what you see, pet?”

“Yes master.  Please?”

Topaz nodded, and no further words were needed, or wanted.

*** *** ***

When Topaz woke, the wand was still strapped to his wrist by the headband he’d stolen from Coryn.  He looked over at her, and found her smiling, watching.  “You didn’t you take it?”  He sounded vaguely disappointed.

Coryn shook her head.  “Like this.  Stay.”

Topaz checked the time and cursed softly.  He’d slept through the night, they were already a third of the way to making the change permanent.  “You’re not in your right mind.”

“Stay.  Please?”

The smile that accompanied the request melted Topaz’s heart.  “Fine.  But I’m giving you your volition and some of your intelligence back.”  Once that was done, Topaz studied Coryn once more.  “You’re free.  What do you want?”

Coryn giggled happily.  “Exactly what I said.  That was fantastic.  I’d be happy staying your sex-crazed bimbo.”

“But you have a job.  One that you really like, and pays well, and you work with nice people and...”  Topaz looked stunned at a realization.  “And I’d be happy doing it for you.  How much do you make, anyway?”

Coryn named a figure that made Topaz’ eyes go wide.  “If I moved in with you, we’d be fine with just the one income.  Holy crap.”

“I’d still want to work your job.  It sounds like fun.  Especially now, I feel...”  Coryn looked away, biting her lip.  “God, this sounds awful.”

“What?”

“You were too bright for your job.  Like this, a little slower... it would go smoother.”

“You can tell you’re dimmer than I was?”

Coryn nodded.  “Yeah.  Feels kind of nice, not having all that junk spinning around in my head all the time.  Peaceful.  I like it.”

“I do like being able to think quickly,” mused Topaz.  “But I’d feel terrible about stealing your life.”

“Why?” asked Coryn.  “I’d get the benefit of a sexy husband and his awesome job.”

“Husband?” asked Topaz, eyes wide.  “We’ve only known each other for a month.  We’ve never even talked about making things permanent.”

The wand flared in his hand, and Coryn squeaked in surprise.  Topaz tossed the wand aside... and nothing happened.  “Oh.  Shit.  I didn’t know it could do that.”

“We’re stuck like this?” asked Coryn.  “Oh.  Oh wow.  That’s...”

“Terrifying?” interrupted Topaz.  “What if we’d gotten stuck while I was your nightie?  Oh God, I’ve crippled you.”

“What are you talking about?” asked Coryn.  “The wand can change us back.”

“Except you’re at eighty percent of my intelligence now.  If I give you one dose, you’ll be at ninety two, two puts you at one hundred and four.”

“Eh, close enough.  Besides, I’m happy like this.”

Topaz grabbed the wand.  “I need to fix this.  Swap personalities.”

Nothing happened.  Topaz tried a dozen different things, and none of it worked.

“Oh goodie,” said Coryn.  “We really are stuck.”

“How can you be so happy?” demanded Topaz.  “We’re screwed!”

Coryn slinked closer to Topaz.  “No we’re not.  Though maybe we should be.  That always calmed me down when I was you.”

Topaz stared down at the hand teasing at his groin.  “Ohhhh, that feels...  Hey, I gave your volition back.  Why are you doing this?”

“Because I love you, and I want to make you happy,” answered Coryn with an open, honest smile.

“You... love me.  Oh this is so weird, hearing that in my voice,” whispered Topaz.  “I...”

“You don’t have to say it.  I know how I overthought such things.  Tell me with a kiss.”

Coryn’s kiss was ferocious and wild.  When they finally broke for air, he smiled sweetly down at Topaz.  “I do love you too.  This is so weird, but...”

“Yes, love?”

“Will you marry me?”

“Oh!  Yes, my love.  This way around or the other, whatever would make you happiest.”

Topaz poked at the wand and made a face at it.  “I don’t think we’ll get that choice.  Unless this thing self-recharges after a while.  Which it probably will.  Phew.”

“See?  Not all is lost.  We’ll get through this, together.”

Topaz smirked.  “You’re just saying that because you wanted my body.”

Coryn giggled.  “You want my body too.  C’mere and take it.”

*** *** ***

Topaz and Coryn’s wand did not start working the next day, leaving them stuck in each other’s body.   Each time their attempts to get it jump-started failed, Monday was a little closer.

“Topaz, you have to accept we might be like this for a while.  We need to teach each other what we need to know for our jobs.”

Topaz laughed mirthlessly.  “Sure.  You can tell me everything I need to know about running your servers in a day.”

“Pretty much, yeah.  I’ve written scripts to handle the bulk of the work, and there’s lots of documentation.  You’re smarter than I was, so you’ll be fine.”

Topaz blinked. “Seriously?”

“Yeah, the only things you really need to know are a handful of names, and the password to the password manager.”

Topaz fretted.  “You shouldn’t tell me that.  I mean, that’s a huge security breach.”

“And that you know that is a good sign.  You’ll be fine.  We’ll just explain it to my boss...”

“What?” exclaimed Topaz.  “You want to tell people we’re swapped?”

“Well, yeah.  I don’t want to turn our lives into a... a... what’s the word...  a stupid TV show.”

“Sitcom slapstick is out?” chuckled Topaz.  “I suppose you have a point.  And I did tell some of the girls at work about playing with the wand we got from TransmuDate.”

“Man, we should send them a thank you note.  And maybe ask why they didn’t tell us about the permanent mode.”

Coryn insisted on taking care of that right away, dashing off a quick email with the occasional suggestion from Topaz.

After a session of swapping notes on people at their respective jobs, Topaz brought up the subject of what to tell them once more.  “Are you sure it’ll be okay to tell your boss?”

“I’d call him and tell him I trust you, but I have your voice.  I suppose I could VPN in and email him from my account.”

Topaz nodded, then his eyes went wide.  “Wait.  Since when do I know what VPN means?”

“I’ve told you about it before.  You’ve got my smarts and more.  So...”

“So I can remember my own memories better?” asked Topaz, wonderingly.  His eyes went distant for a long time.  “Holy crap.  That’s fantastic!  Wait, but what about you?”

Coryn smiled at him sweetly.  “I’m happier this way.  I used to dwell on bad stuff, and now it’s all sort of fuzzy and vague and easier to deal with.”

Topaz stared at her quizzically for a time, then slowly nodded.  “I can see that.  Do you think you can remember the names of my co-workers?”

Coryn looked concerned for a moment, then brightened.  “Yeah.  You’ve introduced me before.  Mary’s the tall one, Gina runs the place, Sarah’s the university student...  I swear I couldn’t have named them before we swapped.”

“We’ve traded scarily fundamental things about ourselves,” fretted Topaz.

Coryn shrugged.  “We’re stuck like this until the wand resets.  If it does.  Make the best of it.  C’mon, I need new bras and maybe a couple of nice dresses...”

Topaz eyed Coryn’s chest, poorly covered by an old T-shirt of his.  “You’re not kidding.  How’s your back with those boulders?”

Coryn flopped to her back on the couch with a grin.  “You’ve kept me lying down most of the weekend.”

“I’ve?  You’ve been a willful temptress in...”  Topaz shook his head.  “Not again.  We’ve got a lot to cover – including your chest – and not much time.”

Coryn did not need much persuading to get ready for the mall.

Once there, they found that Coryn’s enlarged chest made finding bras tricky.  A clerk in one of the upscale stores shook her head with a supercilious smirk, and directed them to the trashiest store in the mall.  Coryn grinned broadly and thanked her, getting a confused look in return.

Coryn’s giggles got Topaz going, too.  Then the show she put on while trying on new bras got Topaz even more revved up.  Coryn added the outfit that got the best reaction to the pile, a strappy thing that didn’t hide her breasts in the slightest.  She still managed to find a few sensible items, and a few tops that would pair well with skirts in her closet.

Coryn even got Topaz to try on a new blazer, and order a properly fitted suit.  Topaz tried to protest, but relented when Coryn claimed he’d look “drop dead sexy” in it.

Once they’d had their fun at the mall, it was time to get to work.  They only had the evening left to cover all the essentials for each other’s job.  Once they ran out of things to say, Topaz set Coryn to reading the store’s website to familiarize herself with the products they sold.  Topaz logged in over the VPN and studied Coryn’s voluminous documentation.

After a few hours, Coryn turned her computer off.  “That’s it.  Brain full.  Time to go to bed.”

“Go ahead,” said Topaz absently, his mind buried in new data.  “I’ll be there in a bit.”

Coryn grinned, and was soon back wearing nothing but her new sexy collection of straps.  She’d tied a ribbon to the ‘collar’ of the outfit, and set it in Topaz’ hand.  “Pet wants to play.”

That got his undivided attention, and led to some excellent stress relief for both of them.

*** *** ***

“Hey Topaz!  Wow, you look hot.  What did you do?”

Coryn blushed at Mary’s compliment.  “Didn’t Gina say?  I’m Topaz’ girlfriend... I mean boyfriend.  Actually, fiancee.”

“You’re engaged?” squealed Sarah.  “Tell us everything!”

Between the questions and banter, Coryn soon felt right at home with the others.  She had a few bobbles with the register at first, but with Sarah’s help soon got the hang of things.  She discovered that she had a knack for reading customers as they approached, and suggesting things they were happy to look at.

At the end of the day, Gina asked her to stay behind after they’d finished closing up.  Coryn waited nervously as the older woman studied her.

“What is up with that chest?” Gina asked at last.

Coryn giggled.  “Taking turns being male,  and a wand that made it possible.  We both knew what we wanted.”

Gina chuckled softly.  “If that wand ever starts working again, I might be inclined to try that myself.  The customers definitely liked the new look, I wouldn’t be surprised to find you’re well above Topaz’ average by the end of the week.  Can we keep you?”

“So you’re not mad at me?” sighed Coryn with relief.  “I was worried.”

Gina shook her head.  “Nah.  You did great for a newbie, and not bad for a regular.  You seemed really keen on doing well.  Topaz seems like she wants to be somewhere else, some days.”

“I’ll do my best!” chirped Coryn.  “I’m loving it so far.”

Gina laughed.  “Really?  You’re probably the only one here that does.  It’s a job, sweetie.  Don’t overdo it.”

As the week progressed, Coryn’s opinion of the job never wavered.  Her attitude was tested on Thursday, when Gina reported that she’d had the highest sales of all the clerks.  The others said the credit should go to her tits.  Coryn smiled sweetly at them, and tucked the register tape showing the sales totals into her top.  “There.  Happy?”

That got enough of a laugh to break the tension.  A little chat with Gina about how to help spread the commissions around helped even more.

As a result, Coryn went home Friday in high spirits, and found that she’d beaten Topaz home yet again.  She started dinner, and while it was simmering put on the strappy outfit under her apron.

The way Topaz’ eyes lit up when he saw her made her grin.  “Did you have a nice day, love?”

Topaz nodded.  “Dr. Felnutter clicked on a phishing email.  Your scripts tagged the infection and I got it knocked down so fast that nobody even noticed.  Except the boss, he gets the notifications too.  By the time he’d made it to my office in a panic, I already had it sorted.  He’s not the demonstrative type, is he?”

Coryn giggled and shook her head.  “Did you at least get a ‘good job’?”

“Great job, actually.”

Coryn’s eyes went wide.  “Rare praise indeed from Gary.  Damn, I don’t think I’ve heard that from him in over a year.”

“Really?  So I’m doing okay?”

“Hon, you’re doing great.  This is... this is really working.  I love your old job.  Got top sales again today.”

Topaz frowned.  “So why do you sound worried?”

“I checked the wand.  It’s working again.  But I don’t want to go back!”

“Ah.”  Topaz sniffed at the air.  “Why don’t we have some of whatever’s making that lovely smell from the kitchen, then talk about it on a full stomach?”

Coryn nodded happily, and turned toward the kitchen.  She smirked as she heard Topaz’ stuttering reaction to what was behind the apron.

Dinner was a hurried affair, as Coryn had left the apron in the kitchen.  Topaz didn’t even try to talk, and let Coryn lead him to the bedroom.  Coryn dimmed the lights, then suggested Topaz “get comfortable” while she lit a few candles.

When Coryn was done with the candles, she turned to see Topaz wearing nothing but a loincloth.  “Mmm.  Are we doing barbarian and sorceress again?”

Topaz prowled toward her.  “No toys this time.  Just us.”

Coryn backed toward the bed, then tumbled artfully on to it.  “Show me how much you love this.”

Topaz did, in spades.

*** *** ***

Coryn woke in the pre-dawn dimness.  She cracked open her eyes, and by the guttering candlelight saw Topaz’ were open, studying her.  “Love?”

“You are so beautiful.”

Coryn blushed.  “Thanks, but hold that thought.  Gotta pee.”

When she returned, the candles had been extinguished, but the bedside lamp was on.  Topaz was sitting up in bed, the wand in his hand.  

“Oh please, not yet...” begged Coryn.

“Swap personalities.”

Coryn moaned as he stared down at his body.  “I don’t want this.”

Topaz sighed softly, and crawled into bed beside him.  “We’ve been permanently twisted by that wand.  What are we going to do?”

“We?” asked Coryn.  “Are you feeling...”

“Broken.  I want to tear that wand out of your hand and break it.”

“Please don’t,” chuckled Coryn.  “I think we can still have fun with it.  Give intelligence.  Give intelligence.  There, that should have you close to where we started.  Tell me the truth.  Has the wand broken you, or has it revealed things you didn’t know?”

“I...”  Topaz looked down.  “I liked being the strong one.  The smart one.”  She brushed her hands softly over her chest.  “I like these, but...  I think you wear them better.  Is that a horrible thing to say?”

Coryn leaned in to kiss her softly.  “Mmm.  No.  It is strange, but I feel the same.  I liked being soft, and sexy, and sweet.  If we’re admitting horrible truths, then I tell you this: I want to be yours.”

“What’s horrible about that?” asked Topaz.

“I want to be your dim-witted sexual plaything.  I want you to own me.  I want... a proper collar.”

“Check your jacket pocket,” whispered Topaz.

Coryn climbed out of bed, still holding the wand.  He returned with a small package.  “Is this?”

“Sit down and drop the wand.”

Coryn did so, moaning happily as the sparkles darted between them once again.  She opened her eyes, tearing up slightly as she saw Topaz open the package.  Inside was a shiny pink collar that made her melt.  “Oh...”

Topaz slid the collar in place.  “You are mine.”

“Oh yes.”