This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
All work is fiction intended for fantasy only, regardless of content, and consent must always be acquired when engaging in any sex act with another adult.
Please note that all characters are clearly over eighteen and written as such in all stories.
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Three days past the accident in the recombobulator, she took her pre-made lunch to the cafeteria of the research facility, plonking herself down a little too heavily at a table with her colleagues.
"How's it going?" She asked, taking a bite out of her sandwich and talking through the moderate mouthful. "I'm starving!"
They all looked at her as if she'd grown a second head, though an amused little part of Dr Stephanie thought that it could have been quite funny if she had turned up with a second head. And pretty useful for her work, whether she was researching herself or using her second brain to further whatever other research it was that she was doing. Two heads were well enough said to be better than one.
"Oh, come on..." She grunted through her found, lounging back across the seat, a booth set against the side of the cafeteria that she'd slipped into. "You can't all be stuck here all weekend!"
"Er..." Sam rubbed the back of his neck, a little sheepish. "Yeah... Yeah, we've got plans, heading out to the bar to cut loose a little, it's been a busy time."
"We never usually see you here though, Steph, though we're so glad you joined us," a woman that had joined the team some time back said, Jane, with a genuinely warm smile. "It's good to see you out of the lab! How have you been?"
"Eating like a horse," she joked, though to hear a joke from her lips...well, that was odd. "Busy, the recombobulator is really coming along, I'm so close to perfecting it."
Her patience for social interaction waned quickly, though it was unlike her even to talk to others. Yet she just felt like she needed to be around people more, to do more around others, even though she did not honestly understand it.
If it felt good, did she need to understand it? That was not like her either, but, as her mindset shifted slowly, it became easier and easier to set aside things like that, to ignore the problems and to just keep going forward. In a way, it was as if she had taken a step towards living in the moment.
The next day, the hair growth on her body was impossible to miss, turning darker, the hair on top of her head longer too and shaggier, in a way. She didn't even bother trying to tame it that day but let it hang long and wild, setting up a date with Callum for later that day. She was even going to show him the lab! He'd love that, being so interested in her work, as he was. But Stephanie had something of a single-track mind as she exposed her long, hairy legs in a skirt, not caring for conventions.
If she was meant to be bare-legged, maybe she should never have grown the hair in the first place!
She followed her whims, not even noticing people staring at her when she strutted down the hallways at work, choosing flat shoes and trainers, even though there was no real expectation for anything other than sensible shoes at work. She'd always worn comfortable yet professional black shoes, wanting to maintain her image, but it was more that her mind didn't even go there anymore, as if the public perception of her was not something that she even knew existed. Even though so many in the world were so conscious, for many reasons, of their bodies and how they presented themselves, she just didn't have that in her mind anymore.
It was a revelation, something that, indeed, made Stephanie feel like a new person entirely, though she was not coming into a new step or stage of her being, no, not by a long shot. It was more, for her, as if things were falling away, bit by bit, making it so that she was able to reveal her bare, hairy legs without worrying at all.
People stared... So what? It just didn't register for her, even though it was more difficult for her to work. Her mind felt as if it was not operating at full speed, but, even though she was bothered by that, it wasn't anything that raised the old, familiar burning annoyance that Step had had to deal with prior. That was kind of nice, even though her colleagues laughed at her when she had taken someone's lunch without asking, devouring it all. The laughter was harsh and grating, like a warning call, and she'd almost slammed her fist down into the cafeteria table with a warning growl herself.