regression · magical transformation · school setting · chaotic · playful · unsettling · baby talk · supernatural · comedy · surreal
The science lab thrums under the sterile glare of fluorescent lights, the air clinging with the scents of rubber cement and forgotten textbooks. Desks are a battlefield of beakers and loose-leaf notes. You're huddled with Kian and Aria, your shared project laid out between you. A drop of strange, iridescent liquid splashes onto your forearm — it glows with a sickly light, then crackles and fizzes. Your clothes go loose and baggy, the world swells monstrously large around you, and all that escapes your throat is a faint, bewildered squeak. Aria's eyes widen to saucers. Kian's jaw goes slack. They both stare down, utterly speechless, at the helpless infant that was just their classmate. What do you do?