"Yeah... but like, is it a problem if they see me? Sometimes God acts through people, I'm a people."

"Maybe not! I don't really know what she's going to ask for."

"Well, if it's a problem I'll..." She pokes her three present ranks in Witchery. "Get another of these and turn invisible I guess?"

"...Huh, you know, I forgot that was an option. Mostly because rank 4 is out of my reach and most of my newbie's. Yeah, that would work."

"Oh good!"

"Well, if we've gotten all those nailed down... Do you want any advice going back to the good magic and picking where to put that extra energy, or do you have ideas already?"

"Oh go ahead and help me, there's so much stuff."

"Okay, so did you have thoughts about what second element you might pick..."

It won't be too long, from here. Rebecca's seen everything and Gwen's helped people like her plenty of times. So, soon...

"Well, that's everything spent. Any final second thoughts, or do you want to wrap this up and become a witch?"

"Did I successfully take off my sweater, it's kind of hard to tell like this."

Gwen pats her on the shoulder reassuringly. "Yes, you did, you'll be okay."

"Okay! Let's do this!!"

Then Gwen will stop holding her 'hand' in front of the linchpin of the whole network, and Rebecca can push into it, and-

She'll transform. Taller, lighter, with pastel-pink feathers on her shoulders and wrapping around less visible parts of her body. (Sirens are, in theory, beach-legal without clothes, the feathers cover just enough.) And she'll have new senses, and new 'muscles', and old senses will change, and, and, and...

"Ohhhh wow the touch shock thing is not messing around, I wanted to pet my feathers and now I'm scared to."

"Well, go gently, but I think you'll probably be okay."

Very tentatively she runs a fingertip down her neck.

"Okay actually this is awesome, I think when I'm used to it I will get along with it juuuust fine, it's just so much."

"Good! I've heard that before, but people relate to it differently. Hmm, let me get a mirror-" She starts to move toward the back of her desk, then turns into a yellow warbler, flies about six feet, and transforms back. She's spinning around a full-length mirror and tugging it over closer.

"Ooooh, I look so fancy. I didn't take unveiled so people mostly won't notice even if I slip up, right?"

"You do!" Also adorable, but Gwen's not sure she's someone who'd take that as a compliment. Even if it didn't come off as flirting, which it wouldn't be, but.

"Don't go down the street flaunting them, you'd usually be fine but not always so it's a bad habit to get into. Some things are really safe, though - like, if you have a driver's license the photo has changed a little to match your new look, and it will say your new height on it, and so on."

"Can you sell me a.... new sweater, I think I don't dare touch the old one, maybe it could go in a bag. I'm going to have to give a lot of my clothes to Beth."

"I do not have a fantastic selection of clothes but I think I still have a big silk-lined overcoat I picked up for this kind of situation..." She's back to being a bird and flitting around the couple  clothes racks in the store.

Then she's back on the ground. "Yep, still have it. Priced it stupid high, you can have it for an actual reasonable price. It's not going to be flattering, if you want to come sell it back to me at cost in a week, that's fine, I don't really need the money."

"Great. Probably something I have or can trade Beth for is still good and anyway I can go shopping, spend all my birthday money."

"Exchanging magic money for normal money is pretty easy, if you can find odd jobs. Actually, this is a good time to try out your warlock relics. A HexVPN connection was one of them, right? See if you can sort of reach into your heart and pull that out, you can get a hexmail account and check Oracle and WikiVeil for things nearby."

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