57. A Hairy Situation

Amy decides to take the pills. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I came all the way out here on a whim, why not take these mysterious pills on a whim, too?” She grabs two pills and, after a moment’s hesitation to silence the part of her brain screaming that this is a horrible idea, she pops them into her mouth and swallows. Then… nothing. She waits a few minutes but nothing appears to be happening.

“Well, maybe that was a placebo. Or it doesn’t work, whatever it does. I should get going. Still have to find Shannon and-” Amy is interrupted by a strange sensation in her arm, a tearing at the inside of her skin, as though something were trying to get out. Suddenly-

POIT!

Something shoots out of the skin of Amy’s right arm. She inspects it cautiously. It seems to be a big, brown hair, maybe an inch long. Huh.

POIT! POIT! POIT!

More hairs sprout up on arms and legs. “This is quite peculiar. I wonder-”

POIT! POIT! POIT! POIT! POIT! POIT! POIT!

More hairs all over the place. Amy begins to panic. Suddenly she is struck by a blinding revelation: “A DEpillatory is something that gets rid of hair…” she thinks, “So a REpillatory must be something that GROWS hair!”

Hairs continue popping up all over Amy’s body. She closes her eyes and tries to make it all go away by imagining it’s a dream. After about five minutes she feels the rumbling has stopped. She opens her eyes. She is now covered head-to-toe in thick brown hair. The hair has come in so thick that her clothing has burst off of her; her t-shirt, shorts, and underwear lies in a pile of scraps on the floor. She stumbles around the lab in search of a mirror. When she finds one, she looks into it at her new visage. If her skin were visible, it would have gone white as a ghost. Amy’s face is totally covered in brown fur. She looks like a muppet.

Amy’s eyes roll back in her head and she faints. When she awakes, she reconciles herself to her new life as a fuzzy brown monster. Thoughts of Shannon give way to pity at her poor fate as Amy becomes a permanent resident of the mansion, driven by the pits of her despair to wreak revenge on the pretty young visitors who stumble into the house with surprising frequency. In fighting the monsters of the mansion, Amy has now become one.

Amy no longer cares to continue her adventure.

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