I'm Not Supposed to Be a Woman (Part 4)

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True Form

We let the old man join our adventuring party because he claimed to be a wizard, though he often felt like more of a liability than an asset. His magic often misfired, he got tired quicker than the rest of us, and it just didn’t feel like he pulled his weight on this quest. I think most of us were ready to leave him behind next time we got into a town.

Then one day when we had just gotten up from a long rest, we noticed the old man wasn’t in camp. We searched around thinking he must have wandered off. Then we encountered her. We thought about recruiting her to join as well, but then we noticed she was holding the wizard’s staff.

At first we thought she killed him; we weren’t exactly ready for a fight. But then she tried to explain she WAS the wizard, that she was becoming closer to her true form. We had never heard anything like it before, but we also all agreed that the wizard in this form couldn’t be worse than the wizard in the old man form.

New Jersey (Part 1)

Darnell was trying to figure out what the hell was going on here. His skin was pale; he was carrying a purse; he seemed to wearing sweatpants; he obviously had a woman’s body. But the worst part of all this was that he was clearly now in New Jersey.

At least this seemed to be the platform to take the train into the City. He could get on, find his original body, and figure this whole mess out.

It didn’t take long for him to discover he wasn’t the only one in the wrong body. He heard people talking. He tried to get as much information as he could, but it seemed everyone was just as confused as he was. However, he figured one advantage his current body had was that this stuck up suburbanites were more willing to answer questions from what looked like a petite white woman instead of his original tall, male, Black body.

Mind-Shift Clinic

The “Mind-Shift Clinic” was the third or fourth place in town that performed body swaps between two willing people. The things were really becoming ubiquitous, though no one seemed to know anyone that actually went inside of one -- the technology was just still so new and people were skeptical.

Most people didn’t understand the technology at all, so even when a fire broke out at the clinic, few passersby were concerned...until the explosion.

It was like the tech leaked into the vicinity, swapping the bodies of people left and right. Vince hadn’t even been aware anything had happened when he felt the wave from the clinic. As he picked himself up, he could tell something was wrong -- the skirt, the tights, the long hair...none of it was his. As he looked around, it seemed he wasn’t the only one affected either.

(The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and) Mistress Hyde