Whitewood: Puzzling Punishment

As promised, here's a special caption to make up for a lack of GENIE'D! today due to production issues. I generated this image in Midjourney a couple of weeks ago and earlier had the thought of some douchebag getting tuned into a puzzle as punishment. Thankfully, GIMP has a special filter that does this, so huzzah! I think this also counts as my first photo-manipulation image?

I liked getting a little more overtly magical with this one and showing Whitewood from the perspective of some of it's magical inhabitants rather than just hapless normal people that get transformed within the town. The moving puzzles were fun to describe and sort of hearkens back to the original Harry Potter books with the living paintings and photographs.

Hope you enjoyed, and hopefully we can get back on track with GENIE'D! soon. Thank you for your patronage and your patience!

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Edie and Sarah were two expecting mothers and dear friends that had decided to take a day out on the town before the impending births of their daughters. And there was also the fact that both women were witches. They'd had a delightful morning catching up at Edie's house (making use of her imported magic carpet versus the currently uncomfortable brooms), had taken a break for a delicious lunch at a quaint little diner near the beach and were now wrapping up their afternoon by perusing Whitewood's famous 'Cauldron' shopping district. Many of the shops there were unique and offered items that couldn't be found anywhere else! But witchhood aside, today they were simply two women out for a day of fun, and had stopped into one of the more mundane hobby stores, the Trinket Trader. The store was adorable and packed with handcrafted toys, furniture and decorations, clothing and other items most of which were all made locally (ot imported from overseas). But what had caught Edie's attention was the enormous display of puzzles! Something about the meditative tedium of putting one together really grabbed her, and the two friends were standing there debating over which puzzle to get. And because they were in tune with the ambient magic of the world around them, the puzzles were more than just static pictures. Each one was 'alive' in it's own way.

"Oh, let's do a cat! I LOVE cats!" Sarah gushed as she selected a 5000 piece puzzles that was made of nothing BUT cats. The furry felines on the box lounged on pillows while they slow blinked their eyes or flicked their tails. Some were sleeping, some were playing, and a faint purr could be heard coming from the box.

"Oh, you always pick cats! Let's do something exciting! Oh, what about this 'forest of the ocean'?" Edie said, rolling her eyes before picking up a incredibly colorful and beautiful scene. Dolphins breached out of turqouise colored waves in front of a blazing tropical sunset, while beneath the waves all manner of sea creatures moved through a intricately detailed coral reef. The two friends good-naturedly bickered with each other and continued to look at the thousands of puzzles before they were rudely interrupted by an overweight man who barged between them.

"Ugh, can you fat bitches just pick one? It's no wonder you can't make decisions without a man, you woman are just puzzles with half your pieces missing!" He grunted as he reached for a generic superhero puzzle, which to him looked static and unmoving due to his lack of magical awareness. "You'd all be happier if you just stayed in the kitchen where you belonged!"

Edie and Sarah shared a look behind the bulging man's back, and mischevious smiles appeared on their faces. They shared a nodd and Edie tapped on the man's flesh shoulder, earning a grunt as he turned to frown at her through an ugly, scraggly beard.

"Oh, so you think you're an expert on puzzles and women, do you? Let's see how you handle being both!" Edie said with a sinister giggle.

While the man's back was turned, Sarah quickly went to work as she cast several spells in quick successions; the first spell changed the man's gender, his balding head exploding in luscious brown hair as he shrank several inches and his ratty beard faded away from a softening face, his man-boobs turning into proper breasts as his fat tucked and tightened just enough to make her appear as a woman. The second spell made him, now her, years younger as the new woman regressed from her late thirties to her very early 20s! The third spell redistributed the former man's fat, causing her to become a stunning beauty as her flabby limbs drained as all the fat went into her breasts, ass, and the swelling pregnant belly that shot out of her abdomen. The fourth spell changed her filthy, geeky themed clothing into a pink maternity dress! The changes happened so fast that the new woman barely had time to gasp at her new body before Edie finished her off; a final spell that caused the woman to become covered in dark lines from head to toe before she suddenly turned flat and two-dimensional...Before crumbling into a pile of cardboard on the store's floor! But the witches were not done as another flick of Edie's wrist conjured forth a box with the new woman's picture on it, a happy pregnant young mother standing in a kitchen, and the pieces quickly floated from the floor into the box as her image came to life!

The two witches amused themselves as they watched the new woman fumble with her body, the stereotypical feeling up of her breasts, her hair, her lips and of course, the massive bulge the hung off her stomach! They giggled as she silently screamed, a distant, barely audible sound coming from the inside of the box, and then as she stumbled around the kitchen that was now her own little reality. Not that she could leave, though. The new woman was confined entirely to the small room, the stacked dishes and dirty appliances, the only glimpse of the real reality was the two giant faces of Edie and Sarah smiling cruelly down on her from above! Once their momentary torture was complete, the two women debated among themselves.

"We could just leave him here...I doubt anyone will miss him" Sarah said ominously, amused at the new mother's eyes going wide with terror at the idea of being left as just some...some toy to be bought by a stranger.

"True...But do we really want to deal with the Coven making a big deal out of it? You're still catching flak for turning your neighbors dogs into cats! And I still get side-eyed for making my husband's dick bigger..." Edie said with a sigh, "Let's just take her home and spend the rest of the afternoon putting her together, okay? I have a special potion that can get us both drunk without actually getting us drunk I want to try anyway!"

"Oooh, fun!" Sarah beamed, and the two witches made their way to the checkout, where the unimpressed owner, who had seen it all, took their cash and bagged the 'happy pregnancy' puzzle, complete with the new and formerly human woman banging on the gateway to between her new reality and the real world with tiny fists. Content and the rest of their day planned, Edie and Sarah left the store and headed back to Edie's house.

"So it's the usual 'teach him a lesson and turn him back as a girl, right?? Sarash whispered to her friend as they walked away

"Of course. But she better hope we don't get so potion-drunk we lose one of her pieces..." Edie said, her voice just high enough to carry to the bagged puzzle, "Since if we don't complete her puzzle, she'll never turn back at all...But then again, maybe she'll just be happy being right. After all, women ARE just puzzles missing most of their pieces..."

In the puzzle pocket reality, the new woman screamed in terror, and silently regretted having pisszed off the two witches...And hoped like hell they'd let her go. And if they did, she swore she'd never insult a woman, pregnant or magical, again!