The Rescue Mission
Eris claps her hands excitedly. "Oohhh, this is going to be so much fun!" she squeals. "Ok, let's get that robe off. After all, I'll need to be able to get at all of it."
Alice happily discards her robe, now clad only in her beautiful brown fur from the edges of her cheeks down to her wrists and ankles. "I'm so excited!" she squeals along with Eris. "I've never had anything like this done before."
Eris surveys Alice's body fully. "Yeah, I can tell." She walks around behind Alice. "I'm beginning to think I just got swindled for the task I now see before me," she laughs. "Okay, follow me." She leads Alice into the salon area where soothing spa music is playing. She has Alice lay down on her back in a reclining chair. "This is going to seem like an odd question, but do you want me to leave your lady area alone, or take care of it along with the rest?"
Alice is taken aback. "I'd prefer to have it all done, so it all looks beautiful."
Eris nods. "All right." she takes warm, damp towels and lays them over Alice's hands and feet, then lays another cloth over Alice's eyes. "Just relax," she whispers in Alice's ear, making her tingle. "I'll start with your cheeks."
Alice can't wait. Whatever lovely treatment Eris is about to do to her rae is surely going to make her coat more radiant than ever. She smiles, imagining the rae on her cheeks looking so beautiful that Ethan swoons for her. Then she'll be able to show him the rest of her body, finally, and be together. She sighs happily.
A second later, she hears a soft buzzing sound, then feels cold metal run down her left cheek, then her right. "Looking better already," Eris coos softly. But Alice knows instantly that something isn't right. She feels the metal begin to run down her neck now, from her chin to her clavicle, over and over, and the buzzing sound becomes a raspy crackle.
"What... what are you doing??" Alice asks, already feeling a change in her fae energies.
"Just getting the bulk of this fur of yours off before we exfoliate your skin, dear."
"My fur... off??" Alice asks, feeling panic rising as the metal works its way across her neck, leaving it feeling cold and exposed. She tries to reach up to feel her face, to remove the towel over her eyes, but her hands won't move. "Why... why can't I move my arms? Or my legs?"
"Well I'm working with very sharp objects over very sensitive areas. To ensure your safety, I have to keep you motionless for the process. So powerful magnets inside these towels gently hold you in place" The metal object was now moving down her shoulder. Alice felt something heavy and soft roll off her shoulder and heard the gentle 'piff' of it landing on the floor.
"What was that??" she asked frantically.
"That was quite the massive clump," Eris said cheerfully.
Alice whined. This was not what she wanted at all. "Wait, wait, wait, wait," she said, feeling dizzy. "Stop for a second, ok?"
Eris stopped, and lifted the cloth off Alice's eyes. Alice saw what she feared. She was holding a massive electric clipper in her hand, and it was already littered with brown strands. "Oh gosh. Oh gosh..." Alice said, beginning to hyperventilate. "I-I-I-I-"
Eris stroked Alice's hair. "Shhh… I know, change can be a shock, but I promised you I'd make you look amazing, so just bear with me ok?" And with that she turned the clippers back on and ran them down Alice's left arm slowly.
"No, wait! Stop!!" Alice shouted, tears pricking her eyes as she imagined a shorn strip being carved down the rae of her arm. "I didn't want you to shave me!"
Eris pulled back. "But you signed and paid and everything. I thought we were pretty clear."
"You said you'd take care of my fur!" Alice protested. "Not shave it off!"
Eris looked confused. "Yeah, take care of it as in 'make you look sleek, smooth and sexy'. What else could I have meant?"
"I thought I'd be getting a full deep cleansing, or a mask, or..."
Eris giggled. "For body hair?? Really?" She scrunched her nose. "Well, I suppose I could do the rest, but you're going to look pretty silly if I stop now." and with that, she mowed another path down Alice's arm, like it was no big deal that she was shearing away Alice's very identity.
"Hey! STOP IT!!" Alice screamed.
Eris sighed and produced her tablet again. "If you would like to cancel your session, we charge a $1000 cancellation fee."
"WHAT?!" Alice shrieked.
"Would you like to cancel?" Eris asked flatly.
"Yes! Fine, run my card." Alice wasn't happy about it, but she didn't have time to haggle. It would take her months to pay off all that, but it beat losing her rae.
Eris ran Alice's card. "Huh. Declined."
"What? No, no-no-no. I'll write you a check!"
"We don't accept checks." Eris stated, inspecting her nails nonchalantly. "Look, I gave you that special rate, but it came with a noncancellation clause. No one's ever run up against it before. So let's just continue. Once I finish with the clippers, I'll give you a pumice massage to remove any remaining hair. It feels incredible, and your skin will thank you for years! And then after that, I'll give you a full hot oil massage to really make your skin glow."
"W-what about a deep conditioning instead?"
"That's a bit more money, especially given how much I'd have to use," Eris tapped on her tablet. "That'd be about $1600. We use only the highest quality materials. And since your card already declined at $1000, we know you can't pay that much. So just relax and let me proceed." Eris then placed the warm towel that had been on her eyes over her mouth. Alice could only give a muffled "Mmmm!" as she then returned to shearing off her beloved rae, denuding one arm, then the other, then carefully over her chest and breasts, her abdomen, pelvis, then down her legs. Brown fur rained in heavy torrents from her body as Eris worked.
Alice couldn't believe this was happening. She whimpered, wailed, begged and sobbed as Eris clipped away more and more. Why wouldn't she stop? Wasn't the customer always right? How dare she do this to her! She had tried to flash away, but her powers were already faltering as her fainnhood faded. She could feel it happening with every agonizing pass of the clippers. The world became duller, less vivid, and colder. Alice felt her own strength waning, and she felt weak and sickly.
She looked at Eris furiously as the woman flipped her onto her stomach, but Eris didn't seem to notice, or simply refused to engage. The chair flatted into a massage table, and Alice's face was placed into a cushioned hole, giving her a view of the floor. She gasped in horror at what she saw. Vast piles of soft brown fur - her fur - lay in a thick blanket all over the floor beneath her. As she was processing this cruel theft, the clippers went to work again, slowly denuding her back. She watched in absolute misery as the pile below her grew and grew as her back grew colder. Then the clippers were running over her tailbone and her bottom, and finally those parts of her legs that Eris couldn't get to before.
It was over. Alice's fainnhood had been cloven away from her brutally as if she were merely some hirsute human with a hormone condition. She was a human now, bereft of her splendor and glory. She would age now. She would get sick. She would never feel the rush of flashing across great distances instantly. She would never heal a wound instantly, regrow a tree from a seed to maturity in a matter of hours, or harness the power of lightning. She could never feel the comfort or her soft rae. Never visit the Long Wild again, And she would one day die.
She lay there, numb in shock, staring at the plundered treasure of her secret, precious rae that now taunted her from the cold floor below. She felt Eris massaging her backside with pumice. It felt like salt in a raw wound, and the oil massage that followed did little to improve her mood.
She was rolled onto her back once more as Eris scrubbed her frontside with the pumice stones, rubbing away any last stubbly vestiges of fur, then oil massaging her front. Eris seemed to understand by now that no amount of care or craft would make Alice enjoy the process, and so she went about her work thoroughly but wordlessly, offering no consolation or encouragement.
"All right," Eris said quietly. "All finished. Would you like to see the new, beautiful you?" Alice made no response, but as the magnets released her, she slowly pulled herself up and let herself be escorted to a mirror. The person staring back at her was barely recognizable. Gone was the innocent gleam in her eyes. Gone was the fluffy brown fleece. In it's place was a young human woman with her long hair in a bun, and smooth, radiant, flawless, bald skin. She nodded. She was beautiful. But she was also mundane now.
Her phone buzzed at her side. "Finished," came the text from Ami. "Meet me on the other end of the strip mall, let's get out of here."
As she exited the spa, still in a cloud of sadness, she turned back to look once more at the place where she'd made such a terrible sacrifice. She reached up and undid her bun, letting her long hair cover her thin frame almost to her calves. At least she still had her long hair. She hooked a lock behind her now rounded, human ear, sighed, and shivered with the pangs of loss as she went to meet Ami.
Alice happily discards her robe, now clad only in her beautiful brown fur from the edges of her cheeks down to her wrists and ankles. "I'm so excited!" she squeals along with Eris. "I've never had anything like this done before."
Eris surveys Alice's body fully. "Yeah, I can tell." She walks around behind Alice. "I'm beginning to think I just got swindled for the task I now see before me," she laughs. "Okay, follow me." She leads Alice into the salon area where soothing spa music is playing. She has Alice lay down on her back in a reclining chair. "This is going to seem like an odd question, but do you want me to leave your lady area alone, or take care of it along with the rest?"
Alice is taken aback. "I'd prefer to have it all done, so it all looks beautiful."
Eris nods. "All right." she takes warm, damp towels and lays them over Alice's hands and feet, then lays another cloth over Alice's eyes. "Just relax," she whispers in Alice's ear, making her tingle. "I'll start with your cheeks."
Alice can't wait. Whatever lovely treatment Eris is about to do to her rae is surely going to make her coat more radiant than ever. She smiles, imagining the rae on her cheeks looking so beautiful that Ethan swoons for her. Then she'll be able to show him the rest of her body, finally, and be together. She sighs happily.
A second later, she hears a soft buzzing sound, then feels cold metal run down her left cheek, then her right. "Looking better already," Eris coos softly. But Alice knows instantly that something isn't right. She feels the metal begin to run down her neck now, from her chin to her clavicle, over and over, and the buzzing sound becomes a raspy crackle.
"What... what are you doing??" Alice asks, already feeling a change in her fae energies.
"Just getting the bulk of this fur of yours off before we exfoliate your skin, dear."
"My fur... off??" Alice asks, feeling panic rising as the metal works its way across her neck, leaving it feeling cold and exposed. She tries to reach up to feel her face, to remove the towel over her eyes, but her hands won't move. "Why... why can't I move my arms? Or my legs?"
"Well I'm working with very sharp objects over very sensitive areas. To ensure your safety, I have to keep you motionless for the process. So powerful magnets inside these towels gently hold you in place" The metal object was now moving down her shoulder. Alice felt something heavy and soft roll off her shoulder and heard the gentle 'piff' of it landing on the floor.
"What was that??" she asked frantically.
"That was quite the massive clump," Eris said cheerfully.
Alice whined. This was not what she wanted at all. "Wait, wait, wait, wait," she said, feeling dizzy. "Stop for a second, ok?"
Eris stopped, and lifted the cloth off Alice's eyes. Alice saw what she feared. She was holding a massive electric clipper in her hand, and it was already littered with brown strands. "Oh gosh. Oh gosh..." Alice said, beginning to hyperventilate. "I-I-I-I-"
Eris stroked Alice's hair. "Shhh… I know, change can be a shock, but I promised you I'd make you look amazing, so just bear with me ok?" And with that she turned the clippers back on and ran them down Alice's left arm slowly.
"No, wait! Stop!!" Alice shouted, tears pricking her eyes as she imagined a shorn strip being carved down the rae of her arm. "I didn't want you to shave me!"
Eris pulled back. "But you signed and paid and everything. I thought we were pretty clear."
"You said you'd take care of my fur!" Alice protested. "Not shave it off!"
Eris looked confused. "Yeah, take care of it as in 'make you look sleek, smooth and sexy'. What else could I have meant?"
"I thought I'd be getting a full deep cleansing, or a mask, or..."
Eris giggled. "For body hair?? Really?" She scrunched her nose. "Well, I suppose I could do the rest, but you're going to look pretty silly if I stop now." and with that, she mowed another path down Alice's arm, like it was no big deal that she was shearing away Alice's very identity.
"Hey! STOP IT!!" Alice screamed.
Eris sighed and produced her tablet again. "If you would like to cancel your session, we charge a $1000 cancellation fee."
"WHAT?!" Alice shrieked.
"Would you like to cancel?" Eris asked flatly.
"Yes! Fine, run my card." Alice wasn't happy about it, but she didn't have time to haggle. It would take her months to pay off all that, but it beat losing her rae.
Eris ran Alice's card. "Huh. Declined."
"What? No, no-no-no. I'll write you a check!"
"We don't accept checks." Eris stated, inspecting her nails nonchalantly. "Look, I gave you that special rate, but it came with a noncancellation clause. No one's ever run up against it before. So let's just continue. Once I finish with the clippers, I'll give you a pumice massage to remove any remaining hair. It feels incredible, and your skin will thank you for years! And then after that, I'll give you a full hot oil massage to really make your skin glow."
"W-what about a deep conditioning instead?"
"That's a bit more money, especially given how much I'd have to use," Eris tapped on her tablet. "That'd be about $1600. We use only the highest quality materials. And since your card already declined at $1000, we know you can't pay that much. So just relax and let me proceed." Eris then placed the warm towel that had been on her eyes over her mouth. Alice could only give a muffled "Mmmm!" as she then returned to shearing off her beloved rae, denuding one arm, then the other, then carefully over her chest and breasts, her abdomen, pelvis, then down her legs. Brown fur rained in heavy torrents from her body as Eris worked.
Alice couldn't believe this was happening. She whimpered, wailed, begged and sobbed as Eris clipped away more and more. Why wouldn't she stop? Wasn't the customer always right? How dare she do this to her! She had tried to flash away, but her powers were already faltering as her fainnhood faded. She could feel it happening with every agonizing pass of the clippers. The world became duller, less vivid, and colder. Alice felt her own strength waning, and she felt weak and sickly.
She looked at Eris furiously as the woman flipped her onto her stomach, but Eris didn't seem to notice, or simply refused to engage. The chair flatted into a massage table, and Alice's face was placed into a cushioned hole, giving her a view of the floor. She gasped in horror at what she saw. Vast piles of soft brown fur - her fur - lay in a thick blanket all over the floor beneath her. As she was processing this cruel theft, the clippers went to work again, slowly denuding her back. She watched in absolute misery as the pile below her grew and grew as her back grew colder. Then the clippers were running over her tailbone and her bottom, and finally those parts of her legs that Eris couldn't get to before.
It was over. Alice's fainnhood had been cloven away from her brutally as if she were merely some hirsute human with a hormone condition. She was a human now, bereft of her splendor and glory. She would age now. She would get sick. She would never feel the rush of flashing across great distances instantly. She would never heal a wound instantly, regrow a tree from a seed to maturity in a matter of hours, or harness the power of lightning. She could never feel the comfort or her soft rae. Never visit the Long Wild again, And she would one day die.
She lay there, numb in shock, staring at the plundered treasure of her secret, precious rae that now taunted her from the cold floor below. She felt Eris massaging her backside with pumice. It felt like salt in a raw wound, and the oil massage that followed did little to improve her mood.
She was rolled onto her back once more as Eris scrubbed her frontside with the pumice stones, rubbing away any last stubbly vestiges of fur, then oil massaging her front. Eris seemed to understand by now that no amount of care or craft would make Alice enjoy the process, and so she went about her work thoroughly but wordlessly, offering no consolation or encouragement.
"All right," Eris said quietly. "All finished. Would you like to see the new, beautiful you?" Alice made no response, but as the magnets released her, she slowly pulled herself up and let herself be escorted to a mirror. The person staring back at her was barely recognizable. Gone was the innocent gleam in her eyes. Gone was the fluffy brown fleece. In it's place was a young human woman with her long hair in a bun, and smooth, radiant, flawless, bald skin. She nodded. She was beautiful. But she was also mundane now.
Her phone buzzed at her side. "Finished," came the text from Ami. "Meet me on the other end of the strip mall, let's get out of here."
As she exited the spa, still in a cloud of sadness, she turned back to look once more at the place where she'd made such a terrible sacrifice. She reached up and undid her bun, letting her long hair cover her thin frame almost to her calves. At least she still had her long hair. She hooked a lock behind her now rounded, human ear, sighed, and shivered with the pangs of loss as she went to meet Ami.
