Time passed. Days became months, and months slowly turned into years.
Inside the tall glass tube, the change continued without stopping.
At first the two small bodies had only touched at the hands. Then their arms joined.
Their legs slowly moved closer and became one. Their shoulders pressed together until the line between them disappeared.
Little by little, their bodies stopped looking like two children.
Bones changed. Muscles twisted and reshaped. Skin fused together like melted wax slowly hardening again.
What was once a brother and a sister slowly became something else.
Something new.
In the end, even they themselves would not have recognized what they had become.
The being inside the tube was neither a boy nor a girl anymore.
It was both.
And yet it was neither.
Even their minds had changed.
At first their thoughts were separate. They could still tell who was speaking. The girl's fear was different from the boy's anger.
