 Post 1; #78 be curious, not judgmental
Culloden was too sweet, and Soph gave him a biiiig smile at his kind words AND the successful transfiguration. "Thanks, sir." She wasn't PRETTY like this, but... as pretty as a centaur could get, probably.
The moment she tried to take a step away from him, she just about fell over, her back legs throwing off her balance and making her stumble forward. But she recovered okay, taking slow movements forward now, her gaze directed back at her back half as she watched each and every step her new hooves took in the back.
The front ones were fine and dandy, but the back ones? Super weird. She didn't like it.
Still stumbling a little as she walked, Soph ignored Thereos' instructions - at least, she didn't stop her attempts to get used to this new form, but she still listened to him - and galloped around in a large circle in an attempt to get the feel for it. Her instincts kicked in soon enough and after a little bit of practice and observing her own hooves' movements, she wasn't stumbling anymore. It still felt really, really weird, and she was super skeptical of her back end. It was going to BETRAY HER THIS WHOLE TIME, WASN'T IT?
But what? Oh no. Now they had to move through a target range on their VERY NEW hooves, shoot for the FIRST TIME EVER with their new bows, and try to hit the targets??? Weren't they being set up to fail here? Sweet Merlin. This was ABSURB.
Still kind of cool, though, and Soph was smiling despite her irritation. They were gonna get to do ALL THE COOL THINGS. WOOP WOOP. When it was finally her turn, she slung the rabbit skin satchel over her body and carefully picked out her five arrows.
And then it was time to rock 'n roll.
Starting forward carefully - and slowly, mind you, because SLOW AND STEADY WON THE RACE or something - Soph lined up her first arrow with her bow, knowing generally how to do that, and puuuulled back, giving a squint at the first target as she stumbled past it and released--
...Whaaaat. The arrow smacked into the far corner of the target and Soph GAPED, almost forgetting to keep going because she was so pleasantly surprised that she'd gotten it. MAYBE SHE WOULD HAVE MADE A GOOD CENTAUR AFTER ALL.
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