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talk
to the guy. Turn off the look. I hate that look.
You're going to be a really good mother some day, with a
look like that."
I found the gate in the elephant pen and opened
it. I slipped inside while Cassie retreated
into the shadows to watch my back. I moved slowly,
not making any threatening moves that might alarm the
elephants.
Elephants may be gentle, but they
are
big.
You don't want to be in the middle of four upset
elephants.
I went to a far, dark corner of the pen and be gan
the familiar ritual of focusing my mind. I
concentrated on the elephant. My elephant. The
elephant whose DNA was a part of me.
And then I began to change.
C
"People say I'm pretty, I don't know and I
really don't care. But I'll tell you one thing
-
no
one who has ever seen me morph into an ele
phant ever used the word "pretty" to describe it.
I felt the thickening of my legs and arms.
I watched as my skin grew leathery and gray
as mud.
I felt the sudden sprouting of my trunk as my
nose and upper lip seemed to explode outward.
"Pinocchio, eat your heart out," Cassie whis
pered.
I felt the teeth in the front of my mouth run
together, and then begin to grow and grow into
long, spear-length tusks. It's a creepy
sensation, by the way. Not painful, but definitely
creepy.
I was growing big. More than big. I was
gaining several thousand pounds.
Several
thousand
pounds.
I was about twelve or thirteen feet tall. I
had ears like beach blankets. I had a little, ropy
tail. I was a full-grown African
elephant, and I was ready to have a little, um, talk
with Mr. Josep
Something.
"Hhhhuuuuhhhrrrooooooomm!"