A huge thanks to Claire Brown (INSTAGRAM: @mouse_brown), my amazing illustrator, for bringing my unusual characters to life. In this episode: Percival opens one eye slowly. And then shuts it again as quickly as possible. The sunlight is blinding and it forces his eyelids shut against his will. His vision is filled with red glaring luminosity caused by the light through his eyelids. “Where the devil am I?” he groans. Something is different about the sound of his voice. It still retains its faux feminine quality but it just doesn’t sound like him. His body aches terribly too and feels very unusual. As if it has somehow been reconfigured. He brings up one of his paws, Percival is a Shih Tzu, to feel his face and is horrified at the unexpected lack of fur on his cheek. His first thought: he’s somehow been captured in the night and shaved by a disturbed human with unusual sexual appetites. Then, he manages to open one of his eyes and sees his pale, pink man-hand and his worst nightmares are realised. He’s somehow turned human!

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