Jenna thought hard once more. She felt that excitement building up inside her, filling her with a warmth. She focused on that feeling. Slowly closing her eyes, she could see the red of the light pressing on her eyelids.

"Ani-may-jus!" she said, never losing concentration. The warmth flooded through her, and her ears twitched along with her eyes this time, and all sense of her surroundings was lost. But as far as she could tell, she was still human, sitting in a chair, holding a wand and two legs planted on the ground. She opened her eyes again, and grabbed her mirror.

Her eyes were definitely more gold. In fact, there was hardly any hazel left. She thought her face looked flushed, a little more orange or red, but she had been focusing so hard she may have been holding her breath. Her ears seemed keener to sound, though she had lost track of it and it may have been shock. But they looked weird. Longer, or pointier?

It's my desperate imagination. She would find anything no matter how small to hope she could transform. But why were her eyes so gold? Why so different?