instar | the animorphs

"Morphing's tiring and we don't want him stuck - see if this makes it any harder, I think, then work up from there?"

"It's sure as hell distracting," says Trouble, beginning to morph. "Not that much harder, though..."

Bella watches his arm as he changes. "Note when during the morph it stops hurting, and if there are intermediate stages."

"Still hurts," he observes, although in fact the morph has yet to touch his damaged arm; it's going for the hair first, and Robin's brilliant green eyes. Then he shrinks, all of the barely-an-inch height difference, and his face begins to shift...

...and paleness spreads patchily over his skin, and the broken arm fixes itself all at once— "Stopped hurting now," he reports wryly— and his chest grows and his waist shrinks and certain other details rearrange themselves.

Trouble - to all appearances Robin - shrugs.

Bella writes this down, checks her timer, writes that down. "Takes longer than me morphing Andi. Seems relatively proportional to how big the changes you're making are."

<And I can thought-speak now,> he (or she) says cheerfully.

"...Ooh. Me and Andi did not come across that particular feature morphing each other, although we can do it when we're butterflies - how do you do it?"