So here in this chapter I do a few things one is with revealing what Ichabod's feet look like in his mutated form it goes back to the dream I had a while ago where I first got the idea where Ichabod had become like a Sphinx, that it he was like a cat from the waste down his transformed feet are a remnant of that idea and also since he's still kind of riding the buzz from his transformation Ichabod our scrawny little nerd is suddenly acting kind of well...Jockish trying to be all swaggering and confident trying to be what he feels a strong man should act like and as we shall soon see the actual Jock Bill is currently acting like a heartbroken teenage girl
After finishing that phone call Ichabod announced he was going to jump to the Fellowship as he had a sense that was where Bill was now.
After arriving in the Fellowship Hall almost where Bill's room was, before proceeding forward Ichabod could no longer take that his shoes were feeling far too tight since his mutation, so he took off his shoes and socks and saw that unlike his hands which still mostly looked like human hands except for the fingers being slightly thicker so the new claws could retract into them, his feet had apparently transformed into furry cat paws! Now slightly digitgrade and looked far broader than his long narrow human feet which is probably why they felt too tight in his shoes! Ichabod was initially delighted seeing his new paws and lifted up one foot to extend the new claws and wiggle the toes but then that feeling of delight suddenly waned when he remembered Marzipan was not pleased with even his partially mutated form and remembering Cor's words that made him feel incredibly uneasy…
But quickly remembering why he was here, he now padded over, marveling at just how quiet his new cat paws were now that he wasn't walking with his shoes with hard soles that made a loud 'click-clack' against the spaceship's hard metal floor...He tested Bill's door...It wasn't locked...He tried to open the door as quietly as possible he was instantly heard the sound of music…
He saw Bill...The Longhorn Bull-Boy was sitting in his easy chair, listening to Classic Rock on his radio and eating vanilla oat ice cream (A flavor popular with Herbivore Humanimals) straight out of the carton!
And Ichabod felt his new feline tail for the first time swish with irritation at seeing his friend who he admired so much in such a state!
"Oh that's VERY attractive!" Ichabod sneered causing the Bull-Boy's ears to perk up!
"Ichabod…" Bill warned "...You don't understand what's going on…"
"Bill," Ichabod said as he came over "You're a Humanimal...A Texas Longhorn...And you're afraid of a beanpole like Cor? A scrawny bespectacled nerd with absurd hair? Come on! You could crush him like an egg!" And Ichabod gently punched Bill in the shoulder to try to show camaraderie but Bill didn't take kindly to this and seemed to recoil from his friend's touch as if he was disgusted and Ichabod took notice of this seeing Bill had never acted like this before...And Ichabod quickly stopped the bravado and quickly went back to sensitive son-of-a-psychologist!
"Ichabod…" Bill said "...Cor is a Designer Baby."
Ichabod thinking about what he knew about that subject said "Aren't all humans in this day and age Designer Babies? I remember reading that fairy early in the Empire's history because they were worried that Redheads were going extinct along with people with blue and green eyes so they genetically engineered more people to have things like red hair and particularly blue and green eyes which is why growing up on Planet Alderbaren I was surrounded by blue and green eyes it was only after meeting you Humanimals that I met anyone humans or Humanimals with brown eyes."
"That's just cosmetic stuff," Bill said with a hand wave "That doesn't count. I'm talking about Black Ops stuff...Super soldier stuff...And not I'm not talking about someone who's really strong and can kill someone in unarmed combat...I'm talking about...Someone who can kill you in weirder ways...Weird psychic powers…"
I think I'll leave that chapter here...And here I reveal that there has been a lot of genetic engineering of humans in this universe's history mostly making Humans look in ways the leaders think is more attractive