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Janus casually sprawled on their couch, their tail draping off one end while their horned head rested on the other arm. Their wide hips hardly reached the middle cushion at all, a testament to just how high a percentage of their size was sequestered to the caudal appendage. The kobold was reflecting on the events of the previous day. They had woken up as a human the day before, but by now that life was starting to seem as distant as a dream.

The entity, Geuse, had made them into this, a body so significantly different from their previous body that it didn't assault their mind with anxiety every time they looked at it... The serpent told them that this was them, and it was so. The world around them had conformed to their new body. Humans out on the street hardly batted an eye, except occasionally a child pointing and asking if they could be a kobold when they grew up.

Geuse had promised Janus wealth as well. Indeed, when the kobold checked their bank account (which, thankfully, they had put under their name and not their deadname, so logging in was no problem) the number in the savings account caused them to have to sit down and think for a while.

Janus sat up, remembering another promise. The gel serpent had also promised them the ability to visit anyone, anywhere on the globe, whenever they liked. Such a specific statement had to mean something, especially in the light of all the other changes in their life. The kobold pondered how they would be able to travel, whenever. Other than by sheer money, of course.

An image struck the reptilian's mind, and they looked down their girthy tail, raising it into a curve up away from the couch and gradually increasing the angle until they had made a circle from their base to their tip. Janus' mind filled with every piece of fiction with some kind of gateway through space as they drew it a bit tighter, a couple feet of tail on either side of the loop.

Twisting the open coil around to be perpendicular to their view, Janus perked a bit. The air inside the loop seemed to be rippling. Reaching out a claw for the tissue box, they balled up a tissue, and threw it through the hoop. It flew uninterrupted through and flopped onto the couch's arm. The kobold sighed, and flopped the coil down on the floor in front of the couch, sitting up properly now. Their foot claws dangled above the floor and their own tail. "I bet Ame could figure this out quickly." They muttered to themselves, thinking of another enby friend, a demigirl from across the country. They lifted their hips up using the muscles in the rear limb and then dropped themselves into the ring, towards what they thought was the floor.

Falling about five feet further than the floor should have been, Janus landed on grass, feeling their tail still resting on the floor now above them. They bent their knees to take the impact, and then looked up in surprise.

There, rippling in the air was a view of their apartment ceiling in front of the couch, in amongst their upheld tail, which in their shock, pulled away from its loop shape, flopping into the grass in a gentle curve. The portal evaporated in the process, leaving them in this new place.

As they looked around, they found that they were standing on a lawn, in front of a house in a suburban area. The change in general temperature and atmospheric pressure (which they had to pop their ears by forcing a yawn to dispel the discomfort from) told them they were nowhere near where they had started.

Janus was suddenly glad they'd been wearing jeans and a tee shirt while lounging at home.

Looking back to the house, they perked. This was Ame's house, as they recognized it from the pictures their friend shared online.

The demigirl in question opened the door not a moment later, eyes lighting up as she recognized her friend. "Janus? What are you doing here?"

Janus looked over their friend, still a human-wait, still? -and started walking that way, their tail asserting its appearance of neutral buoyance that the kobold had found easiest to walk with. "Oh, I just dropped in, was thinking about you..." They remembered hanging out with Ame once at a convention, but mostly conversations online.

"Well, come in! I was just grilling some burgers." Ame smiled.

With cartoonish timing, the short reptile's stomach complained of being empty. "Oh, I could definitely eat." Janus slipped through the offered doorway, their tail trailing behind them like a conga line of extra kobold three times their height in length.

Once the anacondan appendage had made its way fully through, Ame chuckled and closed the door. "Is your tail even bigger? What do you feed it?" The human playfully teased, walking towards the kitchen, where indeed there was quite a bit of sizzling going on.

"My anxieties and executive dysfunction." Janus declared playfully in return. "Didn't need them anymore."

"Good to know even kobolds get the blues." Ame sighed wistfully.

The Kobold planted their tail at the base of a barstool on the opposite side of the kitchen counter from the sizzling range and used the leverage to lift up onto it; their hips settling into place and letting the posterior powerhouse relax. "That's my favorite Uma Thurman film."

The human looked perplexed as she started poking the meat patties with a spatula. "What?"

Janus grinned shamelessly, planting their elbows on the counter and bracing their lower jaw up on their fists. "Even Kobolds Get the Blues."

"Just for that I'm giving you the burnt one." Ame stuck her tongue out playfully.