Verisimilivirate

You quickly shapeshift into a hare to save yourself any undue humiliation, and begin bounding toward the forest, and some suitable underbrush, when a man in a blue hooded cloak rides up on a horse.

"Dawd, dawd! Nee wabbi gahneewah!" the girls seem to chant in unison. The man in the blue cloak, levels his right hand at you, aiming. You, of course, only see this when you look back one last time before you enter the safety of the underbrush - and are struck by a blue bolt of lightning from the man's fingertips, providing at least one Blueite household a nice meal of Rabbit Stew.

Meanwhile, you become a Returner, disappointing Fred, and relegated to the dreary world you knew, without even so much as a memory of the exciting life you ALMOST lived.
End Of Story