The tail was the strangest bit, his flesh tucking up into the shape of it as he squawked, head rounding, lips thick and clunky. It spread with feathers and that was better but the twisting his internal organs disconcerting to say the least, even his shaft retreating inside his body. Yet the horror of feeling his maleness seep from him was more than he could bear, head spinning, heart pounding, clicking the edges of his beak together in a stress response, flapping and spinning in madly mindless circles.
No... No. She was not a rooster with a thick, luscious tail and crest but a hen ready to lay eggs, a cloaca turning into her under-tail where it was best placed. Even then, the need to be impregnated rose up inside her, a driving need that was almost as bad as the hunger in the pit of her stomach. When had she last eaten? There was probably some seed outside, yes, she should go find that, straight away, yes.
Her humanity slipped from her feathers like raindrops, a beak hardening while her eyes shimmered with a lack of human intelligence. Yet there was nothing else for her as she settled fully into the form of a hen as if that was what she had always been. There was no other memory or recollection in her mind at all of being anything other than a hen, a chicken on the farmyard, the soft clucks and croons of the rest of the hens, some popping into the nesting boxes, soothing to her mind.
With them, she was safe. She would lay her eggs and eat her grain and stay safe at all times.
Ruffling her feathers, she hooked out, squawking and clucking as she got caught up in some cloth. It was none of her concern though as she scurried out the door at a brisk bob, that questing walk that hens had, searching for what drove her days in the grumble of her stomach. Water too - yes. She paused at the automatic drinker, sipping, bobbing her head. That was a start, that was better. What was she doing out in the pen again, the yard of other chickens beckoning her with their feathered, clustered warmth?
With her head down, she clucked and plucked determinedly at the ground, seeking out traces of seed with which to fill her belly. With the flock milling around her, she was just one of the chickens and so she would remain forevermore, tucked in against the side of the mother hen flock, right where she belonged with the best of them.
Life was easy when one was a chicken and she had no intention of changing that anytime soon either.
Clucking and pecking, Will worried no more.