Sabrina clawed at the muddy ground with webbed hands, hauling herself and the new lumbering weight of her lower half out of the water. Her wet hair veiled her face. She heaved in one burning breath after another.
A piercing noise shook the nesting seagulls away into the foggy darkness. She realized the noise emanated from her as those dark blue scales detracted into her body like broken glass slicing against her skin. She trembled when the tail fell away, dissolving into foaming nothingness.
She screamed even when the shifting agony stopped, leaving her naked on the abandoned shoreline. She wailed until she felt the earth quake underneath her palms.
A/N: Hey, guys. This is just a miniature scene I came up with that falls in between chapters 1 and 2. I thought I might share it. The song I pictured with this is "When the Darkness Comes" by Grace Fulmer. I'll still be posting the next regular chapter on Friday. See you then :)