Rae inspected Karl for changes, as she could feel that he had new skills active on the team.
"You know, you're getting wider instead of taller." She noted.
"I'm still not fully grown. Humans aren't fully grown until like twenty years old. The men get all their height early, then they fill out with muscle." Karl explained.
"Yeah, but look at you, and then the other human men. They're all so skinny. Hardly thicker than the women, just bigger. Male Bloodbath Spiders are much smaller, they don't usually get much larger than Cara. But the more beard you get, the wider you are."
Karl smiled, "Are you suspecting that I'm not human?"
Rae shrugged, then admired the way her modified body moved and did it again for effect.
"Nobody would mistake you for one in the dark. You don't smell like a human. You just smell like Karl."
Karl thought about it for a few seconds, then shrugged, mimicking Rae's movement.
"That's just how people from my town are shaped. I'm taller than almost all the men in my home town, but most of them are almost as wide as they are tall. It's an advantage in the mines, so all the tall people must have moved away years ago."
Rae gave a twirl, then turned back to Karl. "Humans come in so many varieties, but I kind of like this body. I need to learn this skill before the token wears out. With [Ghost Beast] and these lovely black robes, I can sneak up and terrify people at will. They are much less likely to notice a small woman than a glorious Bloodbath Spider, no matter how good my hiding skills are."
Karl chuckled, as Rae's human form was a hundred and ninety centimetres tall, but incredibly slender with a nearly flat chest and just enough of a curve to the figure to make it undeniably feminine.
Her skin was also as impossibly black as the shell of her chitin in spider form, a colour he had never seen on a human before. But with the glowing red eyes that her human form had, it looked good on her.
"Well, I must say, you had a much easier time with it than Hawk did."
Rae smiled at him, a row of sharp teeth with serrated edges, and flexed her fingers, which looked to have polished nails, until you realized the red was the same metallic chitin as Rae's spider legs.
When you added it all up, she was clearly not human, but a humanoid monster.
Hawk came out to explore, now that the magic was stabilized. He raced off into the distance with a streak of blue and red fire, twirling in joy at being able to spread his wings again.
Since everyone else was coming out, Remi also came out to explore.
There weren't much in the area except broken rocks, but there might be good rocks with them. Cara and Thor were resting in their spaces, waiting for a reason to be doing stuff. Unlike some of the others, Cara didn't really collect rocks, and she had already scanned the area for cool stuff, but found nothing.
It shouldn't take long before the others started to come back out, and by then Hawk should have a good scouting report for them, so they could move on safely.
The first one out was Corbin, who had a beaming smile on his face, which turned to confusion as he realized he was the first one to finish the process.
Then, Ophelia came out, looking somewhat disappointed. freewēbnoveℓ.com
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