Unfamiliar feelings of deep affection swelled up in Sophie's heart as she saw the duke swinging her around the room as if she were a little kid. During the hug, one of his hands brushed against the spider legs beneath her cloak.
A strange look crossed the duke's face and he put down his daughter with a quiet storm raging in his heart. He looked carefully at her body figure hidden by the cloak. Sophie trusted her father, so she unclasped the buttons on her cloak and revealed her new appendages.
"As you can see father….my body grew these freaking spider legs in one day!" Sophie hurriedly spoke.
The duke was silent for a moment before hesitantly approaching his daughter and ran his fingers along the length of the spider legs.
"Ouch!" he hissed.
His finger had a small line of blood when he touched the bladed end of the appendage which dripped slowly down to the floor.
"Are you okay?" Sophie panicked with a fluster.
