Sable laughs, arms still around Ava, and squeezes her tighter. "Always, my love. Absolutely always."

She pulls her as close as she can, squeezing her warmly and stroking her hair.

Ava snuggles into her surprisingly softer girlfriend, and lets out a sigh. 

Sable always knows just what to say. 

"I don't do well with surprises..."

"And if you've discovered magic and are pranking me, honestly, ten out of ten execution. But I doubt you'd be that cruel. That silly, maybe, but..."

"... I guess you're right that there's not much to do but try to live with it and keep an eye out for clues."

"... And if whoever did this is listening, um, thank you I guess?" She giggles.

She snuggles in close to Sable and hugs her tightly.

Sable giggles as well and nods. "Seconding the gratitude here," she adds playfully.

And she otherwise just continues to stroke Ava's hair and hold her tightly.

"Mine," she murmurs in her ear. "Keeping you. Nothing about this can derail our life together. I won't let it."

She squeezes and caresses and holds so protectively, snuggling adoringly.

Ava holds her Sable close, and lets go the remaining tension in her as best she can. 

"So, uh, practical considerations. Do we menstruate now? I think we can probably keep our current IDs without many awkward explanations... Though this certainly does suggest I should get my name and gender marker change through sooner than later. Should we tell any other people we know? Um, not to be crude but we're going to need to relearn sex too. Do we stop going to the optometrist? Do we go to a different optometrist to check that everything, is, uh, normal? Do we keep wearing glasses for fashion? Has anything else changed? Like, we don't have tails now or something, right?" 

She exhales. "Sorry, I'm spiralling again..." 

She presses her face into Sable's shoulder and lets out a heavy breath.

Sable smiles tenderly, still petting Ava softly, and replies. "Okay, taking it one at a time. We'll find out about the periods in a month or so. IDs should be fine, we can just say we got some surgeries when we get the photos done. Yes, you should get going on your name and gender marker, no reason to hold back. Only tell people we trust not to throw more of a fit than we can handle, so that probably means a couple online friends, probably no one else. Going to the optometrist would produce lots of questions we couldn't answer unless we managed to keep our past records from getting sent on. Fashion glasses are up to you, we can just as easily claim contacts with anyone who asks. And we don't seem to have tails or anything else, which is a kindness for the explanations we'll have to make, at least."

Gentle petting, gentle caresses, slow and steady, holding her warmly.

"It's going to be okay. We can handle this. I love you."

She nestles in close...

And squeezes Sable so fiercely tight. 

"... Can't believe I'll get to fuck you in a proper body," she says softly. "It's not my dream body, but it's maybe as close as can exist on Earth safely."

Sable nuzzles her cheek against Ava's, squeezing back just as hard. "Mine's certainly better than I ever expected to realistically have. Looking forward to it," she purrs. "So much to rediscover."

Ava giggles. 

"I think we should check the place over for any clues, just in case. I don't expect much, but, well. Let's try."

She nods and starts looking around. Clues? Any clues around here?

How about this handwritten note in red ink and sharply spiky cursive sitting on the bedside table next to the girls' obsolete glasses?

Hello, Ava and Pirates—

You're both likely rather confused at the moment. Allow me to explain what's going on, in as much as I can.

Yes, you've both been transformed into the most closest bodies to your ideals I can give you while still being somewhat superficially explicable to mortal science. You girls unknowingly did me a good turn some time back, and I make a point to pay my debts.

To explain in more detail, you're both fully functional, though sterile. You'll have the normal hormonal cycle, but modified to be bloodless since there's no need to keep refreshing uterine linings for a pregnancy that won't happen. Your eyesight is repaired and a bit upgraded, your metabolisms should be a bit more cooperative, and your flexibility enhanced. Ava, your knee and ankle are healed, as are your hearing damage and your tachycardia. Pirates, that bit of nerve damage in your finger is resolved, as is the glitch in the nerves around your right elbow that kept putting your fingers to sleep at certain angles, along with your shoulders and knees. Generally every instance of functional damage in either of you has been completely repaired. Scars have been left in place, however, because their disappearance would be harder to explain, and Hailey's attached to several of them. Balance and coordination is improved as best I can without involving any mental changes, and your aging has been permanently halted.

Furthermore, your sexual sensitivity has been increased, as has your libido and pain tolerance. You also both have easily suppressible gag reflexes now.

Have fun.

—a friend

"Aaavaa? I think I found a clue." She holds the note out to her.

She reads the note.

Then she breaks out in giggles.

"Okay, my best bet now is that it's, like, Jade, or Nathan, or basically any other random trans person I ran into in my work as an online mod. I'm trackable down by mundane means I'd bet, and if magic is in the picture, it's probably even easier to find me. Someone who lived, or had a friend live, or something like that. I can think of dozens of people who'd want to give away transition magic if they had it, and I was a bit of a public figure for a while, so..." She rubs the back of her head. "So if that's Who, the What is — some kind of biohacking, pretty clearly, if they can make that detailed of changes and locate all my physical issues. Probably it doesn't extend to brain work, or maybe they just didn't want to maybe mess with my personality — I know I wouldn't like to wake up as a different person suddenly. For all that I have done exactly that more than a few times, it's different when it's by another's choice."