I woke feeling a little groggy and rubbed my eyes, trying to clear the slight blur from my vision. Slowly, the world came into focus and I lay there for a while looking up at a rather sterile ceiling and listening to the beeping of the monitor they had put on me to make sure nothing unexpected happened during recovery. Part of me wanted to believe that the whole thing had been a weird dream, but the hospital-like room and beeping heart monitor seemed to argue against that. Just to check I brought my hand up to my face again. Nope, not a dream, the hand in front of me was tiny and a little chubby, in the way that's common for small children. I placed it against the bed railing and couldn't even come close to wrapping my fingers all the way around. There was no doubt about it, I was now in Melody's tiny body.
What was really surprising though was that I didn't feel out of place. Even though I'd been a 16-year-old boy only a few hours ago, Melody's childish body felt completely natural. Apparently what Dr. Thomas had said about the instinctive responses was correct. This whole process really was incredibly amazing.
I was so wrapped up in how weird it was that my new body didn't feel weird that I didn't even notice Dr. Thomas come in.
"Hello sleepy-head. Your brother's been up for a half-hour already he and I are all done." I yawned in response and he simply continued, "I know everyone's eager to go home, but you and I need to go through a few tests before that happens. The developmental gap between the two of you means I have an opportunity to gather some very interesting information and I'm not going to let it pass by."
That phrase kept coming up and it was starting to worry me. "Devewopmental gap?" It was really strange hearing Melody's voice from her perspective, as was my slurring of the question.
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