[ WP ] Were-humans ...

Toki was perched on her branch with her head turned backwards and snuggled gently among one wing. The vibrant orange-gold feathers on her chest were laid perfectly after much preening during the day and likewise the blue feathers along her back and over her wings. Her tail flicked every once in a while as she silently shifted from standing on one foot to the other. A dark green, somewhat hole-ridden, sheet covered the top half of her cage and moonlight gently crossed over the weeks news papers that lined the bottom. 
 
 She shifted suddenly, head popping up and quickly coming around. Toki gave out a gentle squawk as she began to pace back and forth on her perch in irritation. Something was wrong! Her feet trembled and her talons failed to grip the branch. Her wings flared outward, the tips barely reaching either end of her large cage, and she gave a loud screech as she fell backwards. She beat her wings and failed about at the bottom of her cage but could n't flip over. 
 
 The bars were suddenly hurting her, something she had never felt before, as they pressed against her body. She could remember using her talons and beak to climb around on them but now she was uncomfortable. She gave out another screech and stretched out towards the side of the cage with her beak and her new nose struck first. 
 
 Toki stilled at the bottom of the cage. *What has happened to my beak? * 
 
 She reached once more, this time opening her mouth as wide as possible but was met with the taste of cold metal. Toki recoiled and used her talons instead but this gave her a similar experience although it was the feeling versus the taste. Finally she stretched her wings up and saw no feathers and no wings in *front* of her. 
 
 `` CUDDLES!'' She began to scream the name of the cat. `` CUDDLES CUDDLES CUDDLES!'' The cat was always making trouble after all. 
 
 Toki grabbed her perch and attempted to pull herself up but it cracked and fell down across her body. She struggled to move but her new limbs long long and too new to use. The newspaper crunched and scraped around her and the metal tray clanged and banged against the bottom bars of the cage. 
 
 `` TOKI!'' She screamed her own name repeatedly now. 
 
 Finally the light to her room flicked on and a breathless old lady tore the sheet away from the top of the cage. There in the bottom was a blue-limbed, golden chested, white faced girl, eyes dilated wide in terror. 
 
 `` Toki? What's wrong?'' the girl repeated in an all too familiar whisper. 
 
 The old lady fainted away. 

