Love your work

She was groomed and pampered to the letter. An acid bath to make her scales shine, a filing and polish of her claws and spines, a wing ‘preening’ and membrane softening with scented Saddle Arabian oils, a fang whitening with enchanted Dromardian pumice. She’d been snacking on those minty Crystal Empire gems for the last hour, and she kept glancing at the curling pathway on the cavern’s far side, straining for any sound like hooves.

(Whistle) Pulling out all the stops, I see.

Hah, I love this stuff... the way you establish the characters so well first, before they start growing. I never thought about the reformed changelings doing something like this before, but they do it so well.

The Crystal Empire must be an interesting place to live, if stuff like that happens regularly. :)

I'd read this even without the fetish shenanigans. Just the "Shapeshifting invaders body-snatching people adapting and being adapted to becoming shapeshifting aggressively cuddly and campy dudes" angles are worth it.