“Eat me?” she muttered in surprise. She took a half step back. “I don’t think that should be the first thing to say…” Just saying that made her think that this spider woman actually did eat people rather than something else. It wasn’t even why it unnerved her at the start. Seeing a walking hybrid spider and human, it was still like an insect and at the woman’s size it was a little unsettling to see. Even if she didn’t have any paralyzing fear of spiders. Having one human size makes it hard to ignore.

She just had to remind herself that they were just another species in this strange world. ‘Just think of her has another woman, with spider legs and a spider body thing. That’s not working… She wouldn’t have a shop if she wasn’t friendly… Calm the body…’ Taking in a couple of breathe to ease her heart, Katlyn stepped towards the woman.

Looking back at Shia, she needed her for translations since her nanomachines still were overworked with the vast amount of new languages. “What does she need me to do?”

“She needs you to take off your dress.”

“R-right, of course.” Katlyn tried to reach behind her back, but fumbled finding the strings tying the dress in. She had no problem stretching behind her, but it wasn’t something that she had to do every day or in fact ever. “Um, could you help me untie the knot?” she asked Shia, unable to coordinate directions with her hands. She fumbled on the strings, but pulled on the loop rather than end of the string only making the knot harder to undo. “I’m used smart fiber, so I haven’t had to do something like this before.”