If you've trolled thru my Scraps, you may have come across the rough sketches for a future story called "Human Honeymoon." It was just the thing for this month's MGC: Mirror/Species Switch.

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"You know," Ariana said as she twined her arms around his neck, "when we get back to Manhattan, Alex will be able to turn us back. Elisa says that NYPD has written your little adventure off as a gangland raid gone bad." Before he could dwell on the past, she kissed him and asked with a pert smile on her lips, "So, are you going to miss this?"

"Being human?" Kirin rolled his eyes and puffed out his upper lip even though he didn't have fish whiskers. "What's to miss? No wings, weak body, poor eyesight," Ariana smirked at this -- they'd discovered that he had astigmatism and had probably been so for years until the species change had revealed it, "no, bishoujo, there's very little I'll miss about this."

"Oh, really? What about hanging out in bookstores and sucking down cappuccinos?"

"Mochacchinos," he conceded, "and chocolate-almond biscotti."

"Chocolate fiend."

"Still, I will not miss them." He pulled her closer. "This is what I'll miss most -- being able to look into your eyes right before I kiss you."

And so he did.