Veleminis

Changes

Diana turned towards me and handed me a strange looking satchel. It had two straps the same length and it was made of a strange material, it wasn't the pure leather all our royal carriers were made of. It had a strange shine to it.

"Open it dear." She said as her hands demonstrated in the air. The carrier had a single button in the center of the front. It was easy to open by moving a small strap away from the button. I pulled the flap away and exposed the inside contents.

There were balls of fabric and a box with a strange lady looking straight at me. "I have chosen human world clothes that I think will help you blend straight in! I also thought it best to disguise your hair as well, so I have retrieved a hair color changer. From now on you will be a beautiful blonde."

My hair? I had always loved my hair, in fact, I thought it was one of my best features and the thought of changing it was terrifying. Of the few constants I have in my life, my hair had been a very solid one.

No matter how I was feeling, my ladies would be able to put my long brown locks into an intricate and beautiful style, soothing me as they brushed through it. I searched for my ladies approval in. Something I should never do but always had as I had known it was more achievable than getting it from my parents.

"You will look beautiful no matter what color your hair is, My Lady." Aliah said kindly. Her eyes sparkling with truth. I moved my gaze towards Kinsey and her eyes held the same assurance.

"So how does it work? Does the lady on the packet do it?" I had never really heard of anyone changing their hair before.

"No Dear, remember the humans don't use magic, in fact, they do a lot by hand. Kinsey child, please go and retrieve the water bucket I asked to be brought. From now on we will do everything without magic."



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For the while, the girls worked on my hair and I felt calmed as they massaged the new color into my hair. Aliah filled the bucket with water each time it became soiled, from a well over behind the portal.

"Tana, it is done. I must say, you are stunning!" Aunt Diana continued drying my hair with a large cloth. "Now it is time to get dressed. I have also brought clothes for your ladies and I believe Casper has brought his own, please could you all go change in your carriages."

I followed her orders in silence, awed by my new hair. Grabbing the new clothes she had gifted me I hurried back to the carriage very quickly realizing that I would need the assistance of my ladies to undo the corsets that bound me in. I could only hope that these new clothes would be free of those.

"Tana, we will help dress you first." Aliah and Kinsey had realised my delema and Kinsey had all ready begun preparing my new clothes in the carriage. I stepped in and Aliah closed the door behind me.

"This is certainly a tedious place to try and change." I said as the girls began working on the back of my dress, all of us having to crouch and squeeze. Kinsey worked from the bottom and had chosen to sit in the very corner so that Aliah had space to do the very top as well. They both worked to meet eachother in the middle and finally I am left in my undergarments.

Just out the corner of my eye I spotted Casper grinning evilly at me. He wore such strange clothes, I could only assume that they were the human clothes he had. He a a long sleeved grey shirt that huged tightly to his knight like figure in an eye appealing way. He also wore pants that seemed to be a particularly odd material.

It was only in that moment that I realised that he could see me. In my undergarements. That was why he was grinning like the devil on a Sunday. I did the only thing I could. I screamed. Following my screeching I dropped to the floor and out of his sight. Unfortunatly because of the tight squeeze of the carriage I caused all three of us to create a stack of bodies on the small square area floor.

"My Lady, are you alright? My goodness you scared me." Kinsey who had been at the top of our bunch stood and began pulling Aliah and I back up.

"I am fine, truely, well actually, no I am not. Casper was peaking into the carriage deviously and I am not dressed!"

"Oh my, how unkind of him. To invade a lady's privacy." It was now Aliah who spoke. Unfortunatly she had been at the bottom of our pile and had taken a second to recompose herself.

"Honestly, I wonder if he is Truely Lord Kluver's son, he is certainly no gentleman!" My anger burned inside and again I was exuding agression towards him.

Our conversation ended and slowly my anger melted into embarrassment. I began to question myself, do I even have any appeal to men? My slim frame lacked curve and unfortunatly I was born looking just as melnourished as the lower castes of the people of Veleminis. I new it was not because of my eating habbits but rather passed on, as my mother said she had been much the same as a young girl.

The girls had already attended to the window of the carriage and fully undressed me. They now held up my new undergarments, they looked scandelous. Like something I never would contemplate wearing and I again felt myself becoming more self consious. Apparently Diana had briefly explained how these new clothes worked because they already knew how to put them on. They told me the one now covering my breast was called a bra and the other was underwear. Even with them on I still felt naked. Exposed even.

Kinsey then explained to me that the black pants Diana had give me were called jeans and in the human world girls are allowed to wear pants any day they like. In fact apparenlty they have a lot of say in what they wear. The jeans were tight and felt constricting just like the corset I had been wearing not long before but it was outweighed by the fact that wearing pants felt invigorating. They also gave me a shirt, saying that it was called a t-shirt and they were generally a cotton material and had small sleeves. My new t-shirt was white with a simple outline of a black bird. My new outfit was suprisingly comfortable. The girls pulled on last item out of the bag and told me the boots were very stylish in the human world and could be worn with most outfits. They were beautiful leather and fit perfectly along with the soft socks.

Overall I was suprisingly happy with my new appearance, the blonde hair made me feel lighter. The clothes although startlingly different to what I had grown up with. I had asked the girls what should be done with my hair and they replied only to dissapoint me with the knowledge that human girls rarely do extravagent things with there hair and so to fit in I would leave mine out. It was so dissapointing because I had always enjoyed my ladies playing with my hair and trying to find the perfect look for my dress.



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Finally we all stood at the foot of the portal, dressed in our best human clothes and eager to discover all that this new world had to offer. For me that was time.

I needed more time.

"Everyone hold hands, we need to make sure we all end up in the same spot. I'll think about our destinaiton, everyone else please keep your mind blank so that we dont end up somewhere we do not want to be." Diana gave us all a stern look and put a hand out to me. Kinsey stood next to me and Aliah on her other side and Casper was on Diana's other side. As we all embraced each other and cleared our minds, we took a leap and it turns out portal travel isn't very user friendly.

We landed with a thud.