Fur Magic

"Cory blinked, and blinked again. His hands! But those were not hands, those were paws - with claws and a coarse brown fur covering them! And his body - he was no longer standing on two feet; he was squatting back on rounded haunches, his hind feet big paws with webs between the toes. Over all his body was thick fur. Frightened, he turned to look behind him. There was a broad, flat tail lying in the dust behind, balancing him as he stood, or rather crouched, before the fire. It had no fur, but was scaled instead. What had happened to him, and to the world he had known?" When he began his…