Fine, touch the girl. Do it now!

"If this goes poorly you owe me your firstborn," you say with hesitation as you grab hold of her hand. You see the flow connects to Alex' foot again, though not as fast as before. You look at your hands and see shimmering white thunder crawl between your fingers and on your skin. Wait, did you see some red and pink veins in there as well? But in a few seconds the silent inferno dissipates and the connection dissipates in a lazy mist that passes boxes and flesh as if it wasn't even there.

"See? Worked like a charm!" Alex says and turns back around towards the storage shelves. "Now let's have a look at where it originates from."

"Fine," you say in response and look around the floor for places to step.

The sound of water running through pipes suddenly fill the room and you both freeze in place.

The sound comes from the wall to your right, where you see some pipes are connected to a water boiler and going into the wall. "I think the toilets are on the other side of that wall," you say very quietly as you hear someone pulling paper towels out of a wall-mounted dispenser.

"And that sounds like someone washing their hands," Alex says equally quiet as she turns back towards you. "I don't think they've noticed us. Let's go and see if they are friendly.

"Okay," you say, crackling your knuckles and pumping your arms to get the blood flowing. Not that your beating heart needed any help with that right now. You both go quietly over to the toilet door. You take a few breaths before you abruptly open the door, hoping to catch any potential hostiles off guard.

You find a small girl in front of you. She's petite in her 20's you'd say. You can't say through her look of shock, fright and horror if she's cute, but you can tell you caught her at a bad time. She was apparently in the middle of washing her stomach and crotch clean with some moist paper towels.

Oh, and by crotch you include her pretty decently sized dick. All of this you manage to soak into your head before your ears are assaulted by a glass-shattering scream as she almost jumps through the back wall at your frightening entrance.

"Woah woah woah," you say in a loud but hopefully calming manner. "We mean you no harm!"

She stands still before gasping for air she didn't realize she'd been holding in. "What the fuck!? Why did you scare me like that!?" she raggedly asks, one hand pressed against her chest and the other keeping her balance. "You almost gave me a heart attack!"

"Jamie and I are very sorry," Alex says in a slow and simple tone as she slowly steps into sight with her glasses in her hands. "We're out scavenging and we haven't seen a soul in weeks. We got spooked by the sound while we were in the room next door."

"Well you're not alone about being spooked!" the woman says with a bit more pride in her voice. "Look-" she says before stopping, glancing down at herself, realizing she's standing there with her tits and dick on full display. "-Don't look! I mean- Look away, please?!" She says as she begins trying to cover up her tits and attempts to hide her dick.

"It's okay, we've seen dicks before," Alex notes, waving the palm of her hands in front of her.

"Yeah, but I'm not- wait," she begins before stopping herself. You look at the mirror and not directly at her as she begins pulling up some underwear obviously not designed for dicks. She then dons a pair of yoga pants which you consider a lucky choice if you had to guess at what she was about to say.

"I'm not a guy- I mean, I am a girl. I'm Rebecca, or just Becky,"

"Hi, Becky, I'm Alex" your former roommate responds in a more sympathetic doctor voice. "And I'm not here to judge, in more ways than one."

"What, um, thanks I guess, but maybe not? Anyway. I got bored, been alone in isolation for two weeks, been taking some food the past few days from around here. Now I see this shop and I figure, sure, why not, right? Being alone and running out of batteries, time to get something new. So I sneak in and pick up some stuff... then things get a bit hazy. I remember a tickling feeling as I picked up some stuff, boom -blackout- then, suddenly, I find myself having a weird orgasm on a toilet seat in a porn store bathroom! And I'm for some reason eagerly jerking a fucking dick stuck to my crotch and it just goes bang bang bang! And then I'm covered in myself and I just black out again. Then I wake up and the goo is beginning to crust a little, so I try to wash, but there's no hot water- and then suddenly you guys come crashing in and try to scare me to **** with me holding what seems to be my dick in my hand!" Becky says quickly in a slightly panicked tone before stopping to catch her slightly hyperventilating breath again. "So forgive me for being a bit... on edge!"

"Oh," Alex. "Well, you're not insane and not asleep. but I suspect you might have caught that pandemic that put us in quarantine."

"Is all of this about a virus that makes women grow dicks? Patriarchy can't handle the competition?" she asks as she demonstratively slaps her crotch for effect. A bit too hard as she keels over slightly at the sudden unusual pain. "Ooomph... that- does hurt!" she says as she swallows deeply, coughs and tears up a little.

"Yeah," you say after wincing sympathetically, which you notice Alex does too. "They don't like those kind of taps at all."

"Anyway," Alex says, glancing around. "We're being very loud. I keep telling Jamie we're being too noisy. Growing a dick isn't the only thing that can happen, I'm afraid. Once you got this stuff, just thinking about something might make it happen. And we suspect there's something out in the town we don't want to meet."

"Oh. Well, yeah, I've been living very quietly in a high rise apartment a few blocks away. Family property I'm using while studying," Becky says as she looks around to find her purse. "I don't know what happened, but it went very quiet the first few days or so. I think I'm the only one left in the building. Sometimes I've heard some screams at night, but nothing more unusual than the normal night life would bring on an anemic evening."

"We haven't really heard anything around our place," you say, wanting to get a foot in the door of this conversation as well. You feel a slight tingle in your nose as you feel a slight need to sneeze. It's weird, the air here is pretty humid and not dusty.

"This just seems so unreal to me, you know? I'm hoping I wake up soon from this weird dream," Becky sighs as she tries to make sense of things.

"Yeah, I feel you," Alex says with a sigh as you see her scrounge her nose as well.

"Is there dust in the air?" you ask Alex. She shakes her head but blinks as she pulls up her glasses and looks around the room. Before she can say anything, you feel the tickle flow through your body as a sneeze cries through the room.