He cracked open his eyes, taking a few deep even breaths, before managing to shake his head. Slowly easing out of his hunch, he kept his gaze at neck level, not wanting to see any of what the others thought of his display.
“Continue…” he rasped softly.
Ender cleared his throat. “Right, let’s get this done.”
Seri gulped, worried about what ‘this’ was.
Severo staredat the floor length mirror and tried not to laugh. He was wearing a bright red dress with matching high heels, and a janky long blonde wig that looked as if it hadn’t seen a brush in a long while. With his facial hair and everything, he kind of looked like a hot mess. But a hot mess was still hot, right? And hey, if some could pull off this look, why not him?
Well…the obvious ‘not a vagina bulge’ in the crotch area was not aiding him…nor was the contrast between the color of the hair on his face and the wig… It wasn’t like men couldn’t wear dresses…but this was just…ehh…slightly indecent looking.
Seri probably looked worse than him, with his added facial hair looking like pubes, and the too big, bulky green and blue striped sweater, not to mention the sagging brown corduroy pants. They really needed to find a belt for him, or Seri would either have to pull them up with each step, or risk losing them.
Poor Skya was missing this entertainment, because Quill snuck off with her to play. Seri had seemed very nervous about letting her out of his sight.
“We look…like a train wreck,” Seri said in disgust.
“You aren’t wrong,” he snorted, while the others laughed.
“No one is going to believe this…and why are we even bothering when you can do that shadow thing…or can it only be done with your own body?”
“I can, and am going to make it better. But instead of a puppet like I made before, I’m going to create a shell around us.”
He sent his own shadow to form around him at the same time that he reached out and latched onto Seri’s with a tendril, doing the same. Seri gasped, and Severo almost pulled back at the look of panic that entered the Nymph’s eyes, but pushed on instead. He formed the shadow into the shapes he wished them to be, until two very different people were now staring back at them in the mirror.
While still tall, Severo now looked like a voluptuous female version of himself with blonde hair. Features softer, his chin now came to a delicate point. He still looked very muscular though, but feminine, with full breasts and wide hips. He wasn’t any shorter, as he couldn't shrink the shadow smaller than himself, but he was still shockingly different.
Seri, on the other hand, was at least five inches taller, muscular, with thick black hair and a full beard. The man’s face was much harsher, with a wider jaw, a more bulbous nose, and thin lips. Just a mask, really.
“How’s that?” he asked.
Seri’s hand shook as he reached up to touch his face, but seemed to misjudge and touched above his head. “That’s weird…”
“Yeah, you actually did get taller with your shadow’s help, so there shouldn’t be any adjustments you need to do when reaching. Just do things as normal as possible.”
Ender let out a whistle. “You make a hot woman, Severo.”
Severo scoffed. “I look like my mom.”
“I know, and she is quite?—”
“Say one more word and I’m punching you.”
Ender chuckled. “Fair enough.”
“It’s cold…” Seri whispered. “Also, I feel naked…like the shadow went between me and the clothes.”
“Yeah, nothing I can do about that. Sorry. I’d suggest when we are leaving for real, we find some tight clothing to wear underneath to help with that. I’m sure someone here has something,” Severo said with a hum. “Now, we will still have to be careful, of course, but these should easily fool everyone around us.”
“What about security? The scanners? Also, what about Skya?”
“And that is why we needed the clothes, and why I can’t do the shadow puppet thing I did before. The scanners won’t notice the real you under the shadow shell, but it will not pick up anything unless you are actually under there. To add on, that goes for clothing as well. A shadow puppet would show a big fat nothing on the scanner.”
“That’s… How is that possible? Though I suppose that has always been the problem with your kind. You have so many ways to hide, so many manipulative powers. Science hasn’t figured out how to do anything about any of it…”
Severo winced at the doom expression on the Nymph’s face. “Yeah, we are a bit of a pain in the butt. But no…nothing should appear out of sorts to any of their detection devices.”
“And Skya?”
