Section II Zauth -- The gurgling water in the cavern below 

Ias felt his body contort and stretch out. Horns sprouted from his head and a tail from his rear. He sprouted short fur all of shiny black and my ears stretched out. His stomach felt unique stretched out inside as well as out, bowled out, saggier. His feet were hooved which made his stance quite sturdier, but his hands split out to five fingers as before. He was still able to stand upright and was still a boy cow. Ias still was curious as to why a cow was choosen for his form.

"You don't have to get used to what you are so much. Your form is subject to change as you will see here in a few minutes," Glug told him as four jackals came in carrying a narrow wooden table per pair. They set it up beside glug on the end of the table. He still leaned against the larger table and reached behind himself and grabbed a white cheese wheel twice the size of his hand. He took off several loaves of bread and tossed them to the Jackals as they left and tossed even five more to the remaining Jackals in the room and one to Ias.

"Eat up, you'll need to get ready," Glug told him and Ias looked at the piece of bread and took a bite out of it. The bread was between soft and crunchy and Ias settled his mouth onto it biting into it again leaving it down to a half while coming back to sit along the side of the table, moving his tail out of the way.

The door came flying open to Glug's left and Ias's right and three Jackals, one Jamis, came in holding and dragging in a third who Ias remembered as the Jackal Dein. He was howling and growling at being forced into the room struggling against them but well overpowered. They hoisted him off the ground, and over around the large table to the opposite table where they placed him. Then through the opposite door there came three Jackals bringing in leather straps where they promptly situated them around the squirming Dein strapping him down tight, but leaving his midsection well exposed below his chest and above his pelvis. The three Jackals stood on the other side from Glug and him.

The Bull bovine came up to the Jackal. He leaned against his table looking at Dein, "Well, look at you. We haven't had a chance to talk to you, Dein, in a while. Getting a little thin I see." 

Dein struggled swaying from side to side. Glug put his paw right on the creatures abdomen pressing lightly on it poking it.

"Oh, please Lord Glug. I've been doing whatever you've asked. Why do you have to do this?" Dein whimpered.

"What? I'm just worried that you may be lacking in the reason we are really here. I'm sorry, you've been a good Jackal but we are going to change your form before we make sure you are properly fed," Glug reproached Dein and turned to Jamis.

"Sheep," Jamis said.

"Yes, blindly following a master. Fluffy, brown wooly, sheep," Glug responded and outstretched his paw toward Dein.

The creature's form shifted into a sheep. Dein turned his head in surprise and glanced over at Glug with a baa, "Oh no..."

Glug gave the creature's belly a light slap and came to lean back against the table as before glancing down at Dein and then over at his remarking, "You should lay down now."

Ias glanced at his piece of bread but laid back on the table laying up to look at the carved wooden ceiling offset with ribs of wooden arches that pushed the ceiling up to a larger height. He saw Glug hovering over him at the next minute. He placed his paw on Ias's belly and Ias looked up at him awkwardly but shrugged to himself.

"We will get this flat surface from here to here," Glug remarked looking around at the Jackals standing about before back to Ias while moving his hand up to two more hand lengths above his belly.

"And for Dein, sir?" Jamis asked.

"Use your imagination. Lets start with him first then we'll come back to... oh what is your name?" Glug said to Jamis and came back to Ias.

"Ias He'ney," He uttered bringing his paws beside his belly.

Glug removed the piece of bread from Ias's paw and presented it before his snout, "Could you finish this before we get started with Dein?" He took it in with one and a half bites.

Ias sat up, curious as to what they were going to do to Dein. He watched them as they stuffed the Jackal forcefully full of food from the table, consistantly, over and over again, rotating foods and drinks. The Jackals all around the room pooled their efforts to ensure that the food kept coming in again. Dein was plugged full quickly and his belly soon rounded up in an arc two full hand lengths above what it originally. Glug laughed happily and poked and prodded the mass.

Ias watched this and was eventually eyeing and grabbing food from the plates offhandedly watching what was happening. He did this and the creatures didn't notice him doing this which didn't strike Ias as awkward. He mostly grabbed the breads as they were the closest but he even went to grab a mug of ale from one of the trays, getting off his own table.

When the creatures finished with Dein they came to him and Glug balked as I was just finishing up a last bite of bread, "What have you been doing?"

"What? I was just trying to eat some things," I responded to them.

"Oh, you want to eat? Jamis come here and lets help Mister Impatient eat." Glug remarked with a grimace.

They continued on with Ias, pushing food down into his stomach, causing it to stretch with the usual amount of food over time. His belly started to become displaced eventually and he watched with a peculiar interest how it rose higher until it blocked his vision down to his lower body and rose as a mound before him.

The termination of Ias's stuffing came to an abrupt end. Glug was helping out as much as Jamis was and Glug slumped over Ias's belly sprawling out over it. The Bull pushed against Ias's belly to get himself back up and stood back looking over Ias grinning fully, "There we go. This was so fun, let's do it again some time. Maybe next time you'll have enough patience to wait until we start with you."

They all retired sitting down at the table in the chairs surrounding it with Glug leaving no Jackal standing. Ias was confounded as he didn't feel in any way full despite having so much food pushed into him. He reached behind hisself and grabbed another loaf of bread and brought it back to munch on it. 

He glanced over at Dein and then looked on the Jackal fuller as Dein was staring at him wide eyed. Ias shrugged at the Jackal and Dein slowly looked back overhead with a groan. Ias shifted himself to his side to look toward Dein and the Jackal noticed him moving again.

"How can you move?" Dein grumbled.

"I'm having no trouble," Ias responded.

Dein returned his gaze above, "Ugh."

Ias saw the others feasting and they continued to feast until their stomachs were not much lower than his was. Ias took a few more loaves of bread and eventually just watched them eat. At length, they finished and got up and left their seats dissapearing through the doors. Ias shifted over and sat up looking around and finally down the table toward Glug. He met his gaze as the Bull was bringing a piece of meat in his hands toward his mouth. The Bull paused ready to take a bite and his paw drooped. He then slowly put the piece of food down.

"What are you doing?" Glug remarked frowning.

"What do you want me to do?" Ias asked glancing down at his bellies.

"I don't know. Digest what you ate. I'm surprised you are moving at all. You're going to break your back," Glug grumbled reaching for a tankard and taking a good swig.

"I don't feel so," Ias said getting up and came casually around his table.

"Oh, okay. If you're going to act so resiliant, come over here and sit beside me," Glug responded grabbing a red apple and shaking it at Ias before eating the fruit whole.

Ias grabbed a few loaves of bread and came to sit down in the chair right beside Glugs at the edge of the table. He sat right in front of a fruit tray that was piled up before him. Glug reached in front of him and Ias strained around the tray to see him ring a cow bell there.

Two Jackals came through either door and Glug indicated the tray in front of Ias whereas the closest one came and hoisted it over Ias's head and placed it on the table he was just lying on. The other Jackal dissapeared through the door there and returned with a mid sized silver tray which he placed before me and put my pieces of bread there on top of it. Glug leaned over with his elbows on the table and his hands linked together. He put his head on top of the plateau that his hands made and smiled at me, "So?"

Ias reached next to hisself and took a bottle of wine and got up taking his tray with him to fill it up with various vegtables, cheeses, fruit, meats. He passed on by Dein who stared at him and as Ias put wedges of cheese on his tray.

Dein reached out and stopped him speaking through clenched teeth, "What's wrong with you?"

"I'm not full. My stomach can handle it," Ias spoke light heartidly.

"No. You're insane. The last time someone challenged him... they got..." Dein said clenching his teeth even more but ended in a whimper closing his eyes and laying back with a grumble from his belly.