Try to speak, to hear your new voice say something about what you're seeing, while watching the transformation progress

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You force words through your restructured throat, needing to hear your own voice acknowledge what's happening. "I look... different," you whisper, the sound emerging soft and girlish. The feminine timbre still shocks you—it's undeniably you speaking, but the voice belongs to someone else entirely.

Miss Velvet adjusts the mirror fractionally, ensuring you can see every detail. "Different is an understatement, Candy. Tell me what you see. Describe yourself."

You swallow, feeling the delicate mechanics of your throat. "My jaw is... it's rounded. Soft." The words come out breathy, almost tentative. "The angles are gone. My chin is smaller."

"Keep going," she encourages, her gloved fingers tracing along your newly shaped cheekbone. The touch sends a ripple of sensation through your changing face.

"My cheekbones are higher. More prominent." You watch them in the mirror as you speak, the bone structure continuing its subtle shifts beneath your skin. The grinding ache pulses with each word. "And my lips... they're fuller. Pink. Like I'm wearing lipstick but I'm not."

"Permanent cosmetics," Miss Velvet confirms. "Your body will maintain that color now. What else?"

You study the stranger's face staring back at you. "My eyebrows are thin. Arched. And there's eyeliner... shadow on my lids. My lashes are longer, darker." Each observation comes in that unfamiliar feminine voice, the sound making everything more real, more irreversible.

"Your nose has narrowed beautifully," Miss Velvet adds, running one finger down the bridge. "So delicate now. Refined."

She's right. The nose you'd had for thirty-four years is gone, replaced by something smaller, more feminine. Combined with the light-brown hair framing your face, the bangs falling across your forehead, you look like a teenage girl. A pretty one.

"I don't recognize myself," you say quietly, the words carrying a tremor. "That's not my face anymore."

"No," Miss Velvet agrees, satisfaction rich in her voice. "It's Candy's face. And we're not even close to finished. Your bone structure will continue refining for another seven or eight hours. By late morning, the transformation will be complete—your face will be perfectly feminine, impossibly young."

The ache intensifies, radiating through your skull. You watch in the mirror as your features continue their subtle shifts, each small change pushing you further from what you were. Your own voice—this new, soft, feminine voice—narrates your dissolution.