Sha la la la

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If I shapeshifted to a tree,

I’d have to make sure

I kept my human brain in there–

fed well enough to maintain functionality–

so I’d have the presence of mind

to shapeshift back.

If I wanted to shapeshift back.

I could

shapeshift into a tree

and leave out my brain

and just

be a tree for the rest of my life.

The same

doesn’t work for small rodents–

obviously

you can’t fit a whole human brain

inside a mouse-body

along with all the necessary bones and muscles,

so instead

you have to retain

only the basics:

your mission,

and the spell to restore yourself.

Unless you didn’t.

You could retain

only the story

that you were a goddess

and the king of goddesses

cast you out cuz you weren’t pretty enough,

and now you had to find the spell

to get back.

I wonder

if she’d actually succeed

in making herself a goddess that way.