"Will we turn into monsters?" Upon hearing his father's words, terror colored the child's face.
For a youngster who already had a clear sense of his human identity, becoming a non-human monster was a truly frightening prospect.
"Don't be afraid, it's not necessarily a bad thing, Daddy is the same as you," the man consoled his child. It wasn't just his son who was undergoing mutations; his body was changing too.
However, compared to the obvious changes of green scales appearing on his son's body, the man's transformations were much more subtle; he had merely grown taller. So far, his increase in height was the only noticeable change, just a few centimeters more.
If he hadn't been so perceptive, he might not have even noticed the changes in himself.
"Dad, do you have scales too?"
"No, I've just grown taller," the man said, patting his son's head.
