Yolanda

Without warning Yolanda forgot what it meant to be human. An unfortunate occurrence since she happened to be surrounded by several, and was pretending to be one herself.

A human sat across from her. Humans have names, right? She wasn’t sure. It was like concentrating on a word so long that it no longer looked like a word. A named human seemed off somehow.

Yolanda noticed the bowl of soup in front of her. Then she became aware of her human tongue. It was coming back. She humanly lapped up the soup with her tongue. No one would suspect a thing.