Week 2 Candy's Date: After Lunch

Evelyn followed the crowd after lunch to the music room still holding the egg Shar had given her. The overlapping leaf design was quite pretty, but that wasn't why she hadn't opened it yet.

She'd watched the others open theirs of course. The red head had seemed like she was going to throw a fit over the two of them only getting the one egg, but she'd quieted right down when Carla had opened it to find a leash and clipped it on the collar Kim had started wearing for some reason. They'd spent the rest of lunch feeding each other bits of chocolate from the black egg it had come in. So strange.

Misty had seemed delighted with the silver earrings she'd found in her equally silver egg but Gabriella had cried over the doll dressed in a ballgown much like her own. Evelyn just didn't understand these people.

Then Shar had given her an egg of her own and her blessing with it. She'd felt the power in the woman's words and shivered.

She watched the musicians set up before their audience. The cow woman, who had apparently swapped transformations with the giant, set a plush cow on it's own seat with the audience before going to her drums. Like it was her child or something.

Anna didn't seem bothered at all to find herself with Susan's punishments. This wasn't how contestants were supposed to act.

Evelyn's elvish senses could easily smell the chocolate under the egg's shell. She'd come to find she really enjoyed chocolate, but there was something more as well.

Under the chocolate she could smell other sweets. Elven candy. She knew what it was by the smell alone, though she'd never had any. Just as she'd never seen a World Tree yet still knew their leaves.

How had Shar even know? And what kind of message was giving it supposed to send her?

At least the cat girl had stayed back with the pink one and her ridiculous tits. That seemed more like an exit transformation, something that should have sent the young girl spiraling into despair, yet here was just treated as a afternoon's inconvenience.

She needed to understand though. She'd barely gotten to interact with her contestants at all before her show had been yanked out from under her. The initial transformations had gone well she thought. Shock and anger, even a little despair. She wondered what had happened to them. The eggs made her think of Sarah for some reason.

Shar had a cow, cat, and even a dog on her cast. But no bunny.

She wondered if Laura liked rabbits.

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"Why are you even here." Stacy groused at her sister. "Don't you want to go listen with the others?"

"Nah, not my kind of music." Tracy was wearing her headphones Stacy noted. Were they on?

"Are you listening to music now?"

"Yeah! Pretty cool huh? I can wear these while still hearing what's going on around me. You didn't get improved hearing with your new ears?"

"No." Stacy grumped. She wished she'd gotten better hearing instead. "My sense of smell is better."

Tracy whistled. "No shit? Funny, those look more Husky than Bloodhound." Tracy wasn't wrong, Stacy had gone over her new parts as best as she could in the mirror, they were definitely Husky like. Her transformation could have gone much worse she had to admit. Long floppy hounds ears would have looked stupid as hell, or a stubby little Rottweiler's tail.

"No shit. And it's a bit disturbing at times."

Tracy grinned wide. "Yeah I bet, dealing with everyone's BO must suck."

Stacy grimaced. "Not as much as you'd think, it's more like seeing extra colors than making the bad ones worse if that makes any sense. No it's what I smell, or don't really, that bothers me."

"What's that?"

"Shar. Everyone, even the elf, has their own scent. I could track anyone of you around the castle now if I wanted to, except her. Shar doesn't have a scent. It's like she's not even there."

"Whoa, freaky." Tracy was carefully non committal on that subject.

"So again, why are you here?" Stacy asked, after some unusual silence from her twin.

"I'm keeping you company. Can't a sister show some concern every now and then?"

Stacy really wanted to say something caustic to help vent the frustration she felt, but Tracy showing concern for her did feel nice. "I suppose, but aren't you board just sitting there staring at me and my stupidly large breasts?"

"You know me, I never get tired of looking at tits." Tracy said with a smile, but not her usual leer. "How about some chess to pass the time?"

"We haven't played chess in ages. Where did you find a set?"

"My laptop has a chess program on it. I'll be right back." Tracy ran off leaving Stacy alone with her thoughts.

If this trap brought even a glimpse of her old sister back, she decided it wasn't that bad after all.

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Gabriella sat next to Misty, listening to the band play. It wasn't really her thing, much preferring the soothing sounds of a string quartet, but she had to admit Carla did have a lovely voice. If only she didn't scream so much...

She looked down at the doll she was holding again. It only resembled her superficially, but the dress it wore was an exact copy of one of her own. Such a precious gift Shar had given her. Even if her dresses were taken from her forever she'd still have this one. She felt tears rise up again and Misty took her other hand.

She looked over to see the other woman smiling at her with tears in her own eyes.

Past Misty she saw that Evelyn had opened her egg finally and was eating some kind of candy wrapped in leaves she'd found inside. For some reason she was crying as well.

Poor thing, Gabriella thought. They'd have to be more welcoming to her. If her show had meant as much to her as Gabriella's dresses did to her she must be devastated at the loss. Odd to find sympathy for someone who had kidnapped her own group of people much like Shar, yet there it was.

Maybe Misty could find some way with her sight to get the other woman to open up to them.

Or they could try to talk to her over dinner she supposed.

Magic couldn't be the answer to everything.