Where Wild Things Roam
In the circle center, Anna clutches her middle, staggers to one knee, balancing herself with one arm braced against the ground.
I flinch at the painful pops and groans of her bones and body, audible even over the trance-inducing drums and the whirling winds hissing through the trees, as her shift is forced upon her. Struggling through the excruciating realignment of tissues and bone, she collapses to her hands and knees, panting heavily.
Her body swells to two, then three times her usual size and the neat t-shirt and shorts she wears tear apart, dropping in tattered shreds to the ground around her. Her face elongates and spines erupt over her smooth flesh in advance of a coat.
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