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Once the morph finished, she drew a deep breath and exhaled softly. Beside her, Coco gasped. As a rare surviving Allagi, Seraphina had been born with the ability to alter her physical appearance, but she knew watching the process still shocked those unfamiliar with her race.
This wasn’t Coco’s first time witnessing one of her changes, but her friend claimed the extent of the transformation would always warrant a second and third look.
“Your posture changed too. I never noticed that before,” Coco exclaimed softly, staring at her.
After eight years of friendship and seeing Seraphina’s various shifts time and again, Coco always mentioned discovering something new.
Chuckling, Seraphina pulled at the clingy fabric of her glittery silver shirt. Her boobs appeared huge now or maybe only in comparison to her real size. “Pretty sure no one’s going to notice anything about me except for my breasts leading the way.”
“No, you’re fine.” Coco walked a circle around Seraphina, eyeing her from top to bottom. “Everything looks good. I wouldn’t be able to swear it was you. What about the voice?”
Seraphina cleared her throat several times, controlling another shift. Her vocal cords expanded and reformed. “How is this?”
The melodic tones were far different from her natural husky rasp. Coco’s green gaze brightened and she nodded. “Perfect. Let’s go.”
One more adjustment to her top which did nothing to loosen it and Seraphina added a sway to her enlarged hips as they made their way from the restroom lounge of an eatery to the street leading to the gambling center, Mieje.
Bright lights flickered across the night sky as patrons made their way up the automated walkway and entered the gold framed glass doors of Mieje.
Inside, the jangle of music could barely be heard over the excited chatter and grating laughter. Crowds formed around high-stake tables and machines. Credits won and loss with the tap of a finger to the screen or the flick of cubes rolled.
To know people had wealth to spare for this level of frivolous play continued to amaze Seraphina. She struggled to fill her belly while those here put on their shiny clothes and gave away their income...for fun.
Roboservers rolled by on smooth wheels, metal frames gleaming beneath the overhead lights as they paused periodically to offer custom made beverages and stimulants. All legal, of course.
Coco sauntered forward, lips wide in a come hither smile and eyes scanning for a viable mark. Seraphina followed at a slower pace. She’d tried before to duplicate her friend’s natural sensuality and failed. Plus, the heels she wore precluded any fancy footwork. It took effort to stroll in a steady glide in the five-inch spikes. Sexy was not an option.
“There,” Coco muttered.
With a light hair toss and fake laugh, Seraphina turned her head in the direction Coco pointed. An Antare stood at a table with four others. He gestured wildly with two of his arms and braced his other two hands on his hips as he eyed the rolling cubes on the table.
Cheeks flushed in what she assumed to be pleasure, he cheered when the three cubes landed in a blue triangle and laughed uproariously as the digital holo-display above the table ticked with his five-digit winnings.
Stars and warships! Seraphina’s heart thumped. That much credit could go a long way for someone like her.
“What do you think?” Coco asked, facing the opposite direction and flirting with a tall Zorin across the room who tipped his glass in a salute toward her.
Another deep exhale to calm her nerves and Seraphina let her tension and fear about tonight drain away. They’d done this plenty of times before with no issue. Today would be no different. “He should do.”
The plan they’d devised required Seraphina to make nice with the mark, relieve him of his credit chip and cash out a chunk before he realized it was missing. She’d conveniently let the credit chip fall on the floor nearby where the mark would easily find it and assume he’d dropped it while she and Coco escaped undetected. Easy.
“Go get him, Thriller.”
Seraphina bit her lip to hold in a chuckle at the nickname Coco gave her after their first successful scam. They’d run this particular heist for two years and counting. While Seraphina longed for the day they could put it beyond them, she had a mission to complete and some credits to steal.
