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"There now, I'd say you're ready to help me, yes?" The raven haired witch quick stepped back, her cat still perched up on her shoulder and whom glowered at her a bit. "Don't forget what I've told you to do." She smiled, and fluttered back, a quick witch who had just placed two curses upon her. "Be a good pet now, I shall see you soon."

Seconds had passed, which seemed like minutes, but they fleeted as did the witch. When she was gone Kari finally stood up, her legs feeling odd and untrue to the rest of her body.
She lifted her arms and scanned them, everything seemed normal, the only odd thing was her beating heart and how it beat so quickly.

With wobbly legs she continued to walk, her head dizzy and sluggish now. Kari couldn't figure out what she was doing before she met the girl. Each step felt heavy and unlike her own, but she didn't want to stop walking and her feet just led themselves.
Kari's dress slightly fell, the shoulder strap going down. A few times she had picked it back up, placing it on her bare shoulder. She grabbed her dress again, balling it in her fists but it was a few moments before she noticed that her hands were grabbing the hem where the seamstress had sown the torso into the skirt.

Kari looked down, seeing the bottom of her ensemble reaching her ankles instead of usually falling at her calf. Her straps slumped on her again and this time her stomach became a tight whirlpool.
By this time she was close to her home, even if she didn't realize it. There were other homes near hers, but due to the witch and wizard, were uninhabited and boarded up. She had walked over to one home, the closest one near her and looked into the dirty window glass.

What she saw had shocked her, her body was now tiny and not at all her usual size. "I'm five," Kari placed her hands onto her cheeks, her fingertips pressing into them a bit while she looked at the transparent image in front of her.
Her body was now small and the dress appeared too large, it hung overwhelmingly on her body; swallowing her up.

Kari's eyes blinked, and before she knew it she had shrunk another inch or two. Her intake of breath was short and quick, and suddenly she knew where she needed to go. Kari's thin hands left her face and grabbed her frock, lifting it up so she could run. She dodged down corners, went through tight spots, to go to her home. Each step of her shoes sounded loud and echoing, and it made her feel alone, as if she was the only one in the world and no one knew of her crisis. Kari could see her house, just a few feet away and she made her strides longer, pushing forward more to call for help. Her dress drowned her more, straps continuing to lower themselves while her waist grew thinner.

And when she pushed through the door she fell. Her head smacked against the floor, the door hitting the wall behind it.
Inside the lights weren't on and now her body seemed incredibly small, the table looked like a large looming monster, the couch grew foreboding. "Hello?" She picked herself up, her dress was so large now that she slipped out of it and walked around her own empty home. "Mom? Mom! Help, ther-there's something wrong!" Kari made her way past her living room, going down the hallway that led to their separate bedrooms. "Mom! Mom!" Her voice grew more panicked, and she squeezed between the area of her mothers door and the frame.

Kari's head looked around the room, everything was three times her size; gigantic.
She passed her mother's long mirror and stopped, looking at herself. And for a moment it was hard to register what was in the reflection. She blinked and it blinked, her mouth became slightly open, and it's mouth became slightly open.

A small kitten, gray and meek, was in her mothers room. "I'm not five, I'm-I'm a cat." Kari backed up, starring at her paws in the reflection of the mirror till she finally looked down and stared at them. It was true, she grew fur, and no longer had thumbs.
It was at this moment that she stopped and sat, her hind legs poking up front. For a second she looked at her body and then she stood up again, her heart beating with an emotion other than fear.

Kari let her cat legs carry her out of the house.

Kari's newly found feet padded along the floor, and her thoughts went from passive to angry. She thought of the witch who cursed her and who described her as a pawn, her life was a joke and it had been reduced to something non-human.

She looked around, the world she was used to looked so different through a cat's eyes. Her ears twitched and she looked up, seeing someone irregular to the town. Kari's tiny mouth opened slightly, and the rage she had for the witch had flew out of her. The fur along her spine had risen up and her back became hunched as she stood before him. She couldn't help but feel so hostile, even if she didn't know him. Her heart beat a bit, angered and nervous. Her decision as to what to do was unknown, and all she could think about was the witch who had told her to go search for the wizard.