Well, this is a Stupid way to die. Catch a girl on a Bridge, only to lose my balance. Worth it, she didn’t deserve to die like this, nope. My face is going to be busted into a million pieces for sure. Not the way a girl should die. Worth it.

  Right before impact, my vision flashes, and now I’m surrounded by all white. Nothing exists, just white. “You probably won’t remember this, but you weren’t supposed to die then, that girl was. Though I do approve of your actions, it does cause a problem, since you’ll be taking her place. A place that was prepared for her. If by some chance you remember this when you wake up, it’s your actions that cause the Gender Swap. You were meant to live on, and she was meant to go to this new world. You’re taking the body that was designed for her. Good luck in your new life. I will grant you a few gifts to aid you since you’ll need extra help at the start. Farewell, my Heroic soul.”My vision flashes again, and I find myself falling onto the ground. I let out an oddly feminine scream, followed by a second equally feminine yet distinct scream.

  “Itchy! Oh God, what’s Itching?!” I voice my frustration, the pain of my landing being completely ignored in favor of the extreme itch.

  “Are you alright? How, where, I don’t understand your appearance in front of me out of nowhere like this!” I freeze for a moment, but the Itch, though reduced, causes me to continue squirming.

  “Um, first, can you humor me, and tell me what my body looks like, cause I have itches in places I shouldn’t have. I don’t mean I shouldn’t itch there, I mean there shouldn’t exist. Maybe it’s a Hallucination, so I don’t want to say what I feel till I hear what I look like. Attractiveness aside that is.”

  The other woman, though confused at my question, decides the situation is odd enough to answer it anyway. “Well, you’re a rather attractive tiger clan girl.” My mind freezes for a second, but the Itch forces it to restart.

  “I guess that explains the Itch, my Brain must be trying to get used to something it never had before. Also, did I hear you correctly when you said Girl?” Now thoroughly confused, the other woman agrees that she did indeed say girl. “Oh great, so not only do I have to get used to a Freaking Tail, but now I have to deal with Feminine Problems too!”

  “You seem old enough that those problems should be commonplace already.” I open my eyes and look at her, only to freeze again, dumbfounded at her beauty.

  “Um,…well,…I was a Man till you saw me arrive. I was brought here by a power I don’t understand, and have no interaction with to my knowledge, and it seems that both my Species and my Gender have been altered. Also, I feel too young. How old do I look, please?”

  She looks quizzically at me, admitting to herself that as outlandish as my statement was, my arrival in such a spectacular fashion tends to back up my words. “Well, I can smell you’re not lying, and that way you just appeared, coupled with the fact you just slammed into the ground, implies you don’t have control of any such method of travel, so I guess an age difference wouldn’t be any more of a surprise. You look around sixteen to twenty.”

  My eyes pop open in surprise. “Huh, talk about a Bonus, got twenty-plus years younger. Naturally, the whole feminine problems thing is still going to be no fun. UM, how do I deal with that anyway? Back home it would be easy, but this isn’t back home.” Another blast to the other woman’s mind.

  “Men wouldn’t know anything about that here, are you saying you know how to take care of it where you’re from, despite having been a man?!” I nodded my head as I continued to squirm due to the Itch, which was slowly subsiding. My tail flaps me in my face, causing the other woman to chuckle.

  “I haven’t done that since I was six! You never had a tail before, what weird sort of creature were you?” I groan in embarrassment over my unruly new appendage.

  “Well, do you know what an Ape is? My original species is supposed to have evolved from Apes.”

  Her demeanor changed into one of revulsion. “Ugh, those smelly furry screeching tree climbers? They don’t even taste good! You used to look like them?”

  I shook my head. “Only superficially. No tail, no fur, had hair on my head, in my groin, and due to being male, my face. Some men had hairy chests too. Ears on the side of our heads, not on top as yours are, and I assume mine. Wonder why the ears didn’t itch as much?”

  The other Woman’s eyes kept darting all over the place. Like she didn’t want to get caught looking somewhere. “What’s wrong? You can’t seem to keep focused on me at all.” She blushed mightily before responding.

  “I, uh, don’t know where to look. You’re completely naked.” I get a wicked grin.

  “That implies that you like Women, in the romantic sense.”

  Her eyes bulged. “How does that imply anything of the sort?!”

  I chuckle. “If you weren’t interested in Women’s bodies, you wouldn’t care at all in this circumstance. Since there’s nothing erotic about this. I didn’t strip for you, I wasn’t doing anything alluring, and I’m on my front, covering everything important. At this point, a Woman who didn’t like Women’s bodies would just deal, and nothing would be awkward. That doesn’t mean you don’t like Men, though, just that you do, definitely like Women.”

  She plopped back onto her butt in shock. “Is that why no Man has ever gotten my attention?! They’re nice enough, but I couldn’t ever see myself being with one of them. I thought I just hadn’t found the right one yet.”

  Chuckling again, I continued. “Yeah, you’re definitely into Women, not Men, and that’s not a choice either. So many people where I come from keep saying it’s a choice, but it’s not. A man can’t choose to be into Men and have an Erection without helping it along. Nor can he stop getting Erect at the sight of a Woman, unless they are into Men, in which case it’s the reverse. So don’t think anything bad about yourself, your hormones, the things that make you aroused, they trigger according to the design that God put into your Body. God makes no mistakes, and approved of you EXACTLY the way you are.” I say this with absolute conviction because I know I’m right.

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  The Woman relaxes, clearly having thought she was a disgrace for feeling the way she did. “By the way, what’s your name?”

  Flustered now, she replies. “My name is Jeanette, and may I know your name?”

  I thought for a Moment. “Well, I suppose my old name won’t work, since it’s John, so I guess I’ll go with something similar. How about Joana or Jane? Which sounds better to you?”

  Thinking for a moment, she answers that Jane sounds better to her. “Ok, then my middle name is Ray, so I’ll just change the spelling to the Feminine version of Rae. Jane Rae, that’s nice.”

  A perplexed look was written all over Jeanette’s face. “Middle name? Does that mean you have a third name?”

  I nodded my head. “Course I do, everybody does, well at least back home, but judging from your face, I guess that isn’t the case here. Anyway, my Family name is Richards. So that’s Jane Rae Richards now.”

  Jeanette responds. “Though I am certainly pleased to meet you, and to know your name. Only the nobility has family names here, and they don’t have middle names. Though I suppose with you being Tiger Clan, that’s alright, since all Tiger Clan are Nobility. Still, they wouldn’t understand a Middle Name. Though if you only use it when signing legal documents, maybe they’d adopt the practice, as a security measure against forgery.”

  A cold shiver ran down my spine. “Did you just say that all Tiger-Clan are Nobility? Jeanette, PLEASE tell me you’re kidding!”

  “I think you should get used to being called Milady.”

  I shivered again. “Uh, just a guess, but a new Noble, especially a Female, they’d expect her to marry into the existing family, right?”

  She nodded her head. “Certainly, but how lucky you get to marry a Princess or something.”

  I jolt in surprise. “Wait, they’ll let me marry a Woman, don’t they want Heirs?”

  She looks shocked at my surprise. “Naturally, they want Heirs, but what does that have to do with marrying a Woman? Sure, if you were a Man, you’d have to marry a Woman, cause you need one Woman to get a child, but otherwise, there’s no problem.”

  “Um, where I come from, only a Man and a Woman can create a child. Two Women can’t get Pregnant by each other, and neither can two Men. So, unless you mean they’ll let the other Woman get Pregnant by a Man, then I don’t understand how that’s supposed to work.”

  She laughs loudly. “Your magic is the same as a Man’s Essence, so you just infuse your Magic into your Wife, and everything’s fine….Would,…would you consider,…maybe,…taking me as a Concubine? I’d truly love to have your Child. Not for the Noble Status either. Maybe it’s because you act like a man, while being a Woman, not sure, but you’re the first person I could see myself spending my whole life with. I didn’t even know I wanted Women till I met you.”

  It all came out in a rush like vomit, but it was truly music to my ears. “Still, we only just met, are you sure?” She nodded frantically. “I truly am certain I want this. Even as a second, third, or even sixth wife, I’ll still be happy!”

  Mind-blowing up, Hormones on overdrive, Breathe Jane, BREATHE damn it! Calm the ever-loving heck down! “So you’re saying it’s likely I’ll have a Harem of Women then, like even if I don’t want it? Like Noble Favors and such?”

  Jeanette nodded sagely. “OK, in that case, I NEED you in my life. Without you, I won’t be able to manage these interactions. I have absolutely no Noble Manners at all. Even if you don’t know much, it’s more than me. Plus, you’re the only one who knows the truth about my arrival, so if it needs to be told, you witnessed my arrival.”

  “Um, by the way, you think maybe I could get something to cover up with?”

  Jeanette blushed as she responded. “I suppose we should, but it’s a shame. Even if I can’t see everything at the moment, I still like what I see. Though my Under things won’t fit you, which is sad.”

  I chuckled at that. “You just want my Lady Bits to touch where yours were! Not that I mind the Sentiment. I suppose I should start getting used to being seen like this, too.” Saying that, I turned myself over to give her the full view, as I blushed. Not comfortable being seen as a Woman by any means. Jeanette’s brain promptly shut off, and a little drool escaped from her lips. “Well, at least I know you like the view.”

  Startled, she nervously took off her pack and rummaged inside to find some pants and a shirt that should roughly fit me. “I’m sorry I froze like that, I’m so embarrassed!”

  More chuckling on my part. “If you didn’t react similarly to that, I’d think you didn’t like what you saw, and that your marriage offer might be withdrawn.” I put on the pants but hesitated over the shirt. Standing up and pulling out all my courage, I walked forward, clumsily, and wrapped my arms around her, hugging tight. Then I planted my lips on hers, and once she relaxed, I plunged inside her mouth. She was surprised, but quickly started to explore my mouth in return. Eventually, we broke apart breathless. “Hope that was sufficient for now, I’m going to be a little off for a while, not being used to being a Woman after all.”

  The fiercely blushing Jeanette eventually got her mouth to spit out more words. “No, that’s more than I expected. I never heard anyone talk about what you just did. Touching lips sure, marking yeah, but that was new to me.”

  I cocked my head a bit. “Marking,…you mean with head movements, like a Cat?” Her head cocked in reply. “What’s a cat?” Oh boy, this is gonna be a fun explanation.

  I put the shirt on, after ensuring she’d gotten a good, long look. Then I explained what Cats were back home, and she seemed wistful, liking the idea of a little carnivore pal around the house. After that, I started to learn how to walk, as Jeanette guided us toward a good camping spot. Needless to say, I fell…a lot!

  The faster I attempted to move, the worse it got. Until I caught movement out of the corner of my eye, a Rabbit-like creature darted off in a panic, and without any thought, my body pulsed into action. This was the exact thing I needed. My new animal instincts took over, and I raced effortlessly after the creature. It eventually turned on me when I got close enough, trying to ram me with a horn of all things.

  This was the last mistake it ever made, My hand flashed out at the exact right time to snag and effortlessly snap its neck. I stood there dumbfounded. My body was now totally mine, but that chase was not of my control.

  “Wow, your instincts must be on overdrive, or at least you’re super sensitive to them right now. How do you feel now?”

  I thought about it fully and decided that I felt great and able to walk properly. “Aside from losing control there, I feel great. Do you think that’s a temporary thing, just from the change?”

  Jeanette answered with a thoughtful look. “I think that’s likely the case. Your instincts will be stronger for a while, then settle down. You won’t need the hunter instinct again, so it’s likely that it won’t take over again.”

  Thinking for a moment, I said, “Should we test that, look for another critter, and see if I bolt after it, or can I stay still for a second?”

  Jeanette nodded, “That’s a good idea, if you bolt, more meat, if not, then I’ll get it, so even then, more meat.”

  A new chuckle came out of my mouth, cause the look on her face seemed all too eager. We kept moving, and soon enough, another movement just out of sight caught my eye. I focused, yet I remained still. My pointing as I did was all the indication Jeanette needed to be off like a Shot in my stead. Another Rabbit creature with a snapped neck.

  “This is plenty of meat for tonight. More than I’d have thought in this area. Honestly, the game here is scarce. Maybe who, or whatever sent you here, made some extra game come too.”

  Jeanette’s idea seemed plausible, at least in this implausible situation. “Could be, not that I can be certain. So weird if the game has increased just after I got here, at least without some cause, and my arrival method is as likely as anything in that case.”