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legs, arms, neck…"
    "Stop, dear," her mother told her with a laugh. "Let me help you. It's easier to think of it like this: Eyes, scales, wings, front legs, back legs, neck and head. Once the scales start to form, they'll just spread over your body without you having to worry about them. You can control the transformation a little, going faster or slower and changing the order of which parts of your body transform first, but you don't need to worry too much about that yet, as once you start, if you do nothing, the transformation will happen anyway. Now the most important thing is to relax, and remember that although it will feel strange, it's very natural and what your body is meant to do. Watch again."
    Her mother repeated the transformation again, and then changed back. Crystal was eager to have a go, but still didn't really understand how to begin.
    "I think I have the order, Mother," Crystal said. "But I have just one question."
    "Yes, dear. What is it?"
    "How do I begin?"
    Her mother laughed. "Sorry, dear, I forgot to tell you that part. I've done it for so long that I forget about it. Actually, the rest of it is relatively easy; all you have to do is visualise each body part and it happens. The hardest part to learn is the eyes, but once you have that, the transformation will just happen without you having to do anything at all if you so choose. It is better if you can learn to control it by directing it, but it will happen anyway."
    "I know, Mother. You told me that. But how do I begin ?"
    "Let me see, dear. How can I explain? First of all, you have to focus hard on your eyes. Picture them turning bright red. At the same time, concentrate on them becoming dragon's eyes. One thing that can help is trying to bring a distant object into focus at the same time as making your eyes as wide as possible. Your eyesight is better as a dragon, so doing this helps start the transformation."
    Crystal closed her eyes for a second, concentrating hard. She opened her eyes, and began to focus on her eyes. Dragon's eyes, dragon's eyes, she said to herself. She looked at a distant statue, one of two little Worm Dragons, and tried to widen her eyes and focus on that. Suddenly, she stopped and spun around to face her mother. She could feel someone watching her.
    "Do you feel that?" she asked.  "Who's there?" she called.
    "That's funny, I felt as if there was someone watching as well," her mother observed. "But I can't see anyone, dear. We must have imagined it."
    Crystal turned back to her mother. "Did my eyes do anything?"
    "Well, it's funny actually. They did look like they were changing colour, but they looked more brown than red, and I couldn't work out exactly what was happening. Try it again, dear."
    Crystal took a deep breath and tried again. She found the statue of the Red Dragon in the distance and tried to focus on it instead. Dragon's eyes, dragon's eyes, she thought to herself again. She could definitely feel something happening, but it didn't feel quite right. Red Dragon's eyes , she said to herself suddenly, wondering if that would help. She couldn't see her own eyes of course, but it just felt like something was happening. She could feel her skin tighten and become a little numb, and when she looked at the statue of the Red Dragon, she realised that she could see far more detail than she could just a moment ago. She stared at the statue for a while, marvelling at her enhanced senses, before looking down at her hands, and found that her fingers were now covered in bright red scales, and were already beginning to change shape. She stretched out and then curled her talons, admiring how sharp and strong they looked. She glanced at her arms, and saw that they were scaly, just like her claws, but were still just arms. Then they straightened suddenly, without her being able to control them, before beginning to elongate. She struggled to move them for a moment before finding that she could bend them the other way. For a second it