To wake up and find oneself covered in feathers is a rather unsettling experience. To then find that these feathers were not scattered about as the result of some debaucherous pillow fight, but actually attached to one’s body like some bizarre avian acupuncturing, is even more disturbing. To then find that one has in fact transmorphed into a bird, well, that’s just odd.

This is what happened to Nolan. He denied it at first. When he attempted to raise his arm and found that it had become a wing, he thought he was hallucinating. When he stumbled in circles on his newly pronged feet and eventually toppled over into the dirt, he thought he may have taken magic mushrooms. When he attempted to pluck out his own feathers and found he was greeted with an immense amount of pain, he was certain that he had taken magic mushrooms. But the hours passed and his condition remained unchanged. Nolan convinced himself for a time that he was dreaming. But when he dove head first into a rock and found that the only change to his condition was an excruciating headache, the reality of his newfound form began to sink in.

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