as curses go, could be worse

[abnormalizes]

WHO: Evangeline, Korone, and you!
WHAT: Evangeline and Korone swap bodies. Fun times for all!
WHEN: Oct 12-13
WHERE: Birdtile house and elsewhere - see Evangeline and Korone's toplevels
WARNINGS: uhhh mistaken identity smooches might happen idk

[Part of Evangeline's job at the research center is to investigate cursed objects that get brought in! She did such a good job with the jar after all, it makes sense for that to be part of her usual work now. So on Friday, she's given a cursed mirror to investigate.

It's definitely cursed, but Evangeline isn't quite able to figure out what it does, and she goes home thinking she'll come back at it on Monday with a refreshed mind and take another look at it.

On Saturday morning, she wakes up as a pigeon.]

Comments

[abnormalizes]

-Rinku, you speak pigeon?

[Evangeline apparently can't tell the difference between pigeon and monkey.]

[roundandaround]

Eh? No, I thought you told me your dad was teaching you monkey...

[Wait. Something is off... but off enough to prompt an excited hug instead of suspicion.]

You didn't call me Rinku-san!

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline hugs back, but...]

-Don't get too excited. It's Evangeline, me and Choco swapped bodies.

[Unfortunately, Rinku has not had an honorific promotion today.]

[roundandaround]

Aww. ...Eh?

[Rinku blinks as the implications finally hit her.]

You mean like that prank we were gonna do? But it's not even April Fool's yet, Neechan!

[abnormalizes]

It wasn't on purpose. I was investigating a cursed mirror for work.

[roundandaround]

Why do people keep making those things, anyway? At least just switching bodies is better than the other stuff that happens...

[abnormalizes]

It could be worse, but I'm still not a fan! Showering was. An ordeal.

1/3

[roundandaround]

Eh? Yeah, I guess fitting into a shower with wings might be hard if it's a small one, but considering how big that mansion is you'd think they probably have a huge one...

2/3

[roundandaround]

[roundandaround]

oh

[abnormalizes]

Yeah. It'd be one thing if I were switched with someone I'd already seen naked, but...

[roundandaround]

I mean, yeah, she's really cute and it's awkward, but I wasn't thinking about that!

[abnormalizes]

I was thinking about it! Because she's my type! And I don't want to be weird but I also don't want her to come back to a gross unshowered body!

[roundandaround]

[Kettle sound. Rinku shoves her red face into Korone's (Evangeline's?) shoulder.]

Wuahhhh. [slump] Yeah... I would probably get weirded out if I switched bodies with somebody like that too. Sorry, Neechan.

[abnormalizes]

[Gentle headscritches.]

It is what it is, I guess. But I'll be really glad when I'm back to my body again.

[roundandaround]

[Automatic snug.]

Hmm... Do you think the curse picked her for you to switch with on purpose, or that it was just, like, throwing everyone in town into a hat to pick one?

[abnormalizes]

Hard to say. As far as I know she wasn't anywhere near the Research Center when I was working on it... So maybe it was like that cursed book and picked someone I was connected to?

[roundandaround]

That makes sense! Or maybe you were thinking about her or something.

[abnormalizes]

Oh... yeah, that might have been it, actually. I do remember thinking about her yesterday.

...Now I have to apologize for bringing her into this. Man.

[roundandaround]

Eh?

[Rinku lets go and tilts her head.]

That's still not your fault, though. That's just normal. It's whoever cursed the thing's fault, isn't it? You could've thought about anybody.

[abnormalizes]

Well, yeah, I didn't do it intentionally, but... I don't think whoever cursed the mirror is going to apologize?

[roundandaround]

It's still their fault. And they might. If they decide to give up a life of crime or something.

[abnormalizes]

Doubting that's happening, but it'd be nice.

[roundandaround]

You never know! Someone might. I hope so, anyway. Some people are just kinda scary, but...

[abnormalizes]

I don't have a lot of faith in the inherent goodness of the people who stuck Choco in a jar.