It takes a moment for Ellie to realize what she had just done, and the horrifying embarrassment just increases even further as she cowers behind the tree.
-Oh god oh god oh god they’re all gonna think I’m crazy… or… or a big coward…- she thinks to herself, her heart pounding in her ears as she puts her back to the tree and slides down to her behind with a soft thump. She curls back up as she inhales deeply, eyes clenching tightly shut as she tries to calm down, focusing on nothing but her breathing as she inhales, counts to four, and then exhales and repeats the process over and over again until finally until her body finally stops shaking and her heart slows to it’s normal rhythm.
As she hears footsteps approaching she takes a deep breath and stands up, turning to look at the polite girl who had collected her belonging for her, and a weak, nervous smile crosses Ellie’s face as she shifts from foot to foot. A visible jolt of discomfort shoots across her face as a shock runs up her legs, the muscles still sore from her landing, but she manages to ignore it as she gulps heavily.
"My, my. I hope you don't freak out like that around everyone." The girl says as she approaches, which causes Ellie to droop a little, wanting to just shrink out of sight to avoid the embarrassment… Which she instinctively starts to do, her body thinning ever so slightly as she loses an inch in height. Her skirt slides down her waist a little and her top slips a bit down her neckline. Feeling the fabric sliding over her skin she visibly twitches
-Oh crap oh crap- she mentally squeaks, as she realizes what she was doing and slips back behind the tree again to take another deep breath before she tries to undo the change. Instead of trying to get the inch back, she just thickens up a bit more to fill out her clothes and it wasn’t until then that she realized that she had never completed her body… Her chest was still flat as a board and she quickly fixes that… her chest popping out just enough to fill the top giving her a modest bust before she moves back out around the tree.
“I… I’m sorrrryy….” She apologizes, but as she notices her voice she scowls in frustration, Gods dammit why couldn’t she get this right?? Her voice was still fucked up… the Rs rumbled in her chest as if she were purring. Her throat visibly writhes as her vocal chords reform and tighten.
“S-sorry…” she tries again, this time feeling much better about her voice which was now a little high pitched, but not to an irritating level and sounded much more natural and human, “I-it… was just a little too much…” she mumbles, “I’m… I’m not used to people… it’s… been a while..” she mumbles, shuffling her feet before stiffening at the girl’s offer to hurt the boy, “N-no! I-it was my fault… he… he just… startled me…” she replies, her voice getting lower and lower as she glances around at the rest of the group, afraid they were listening to her.
"Did I do something wrong?" The boy’s voice calls out, and she stiffens again, her cheeks flushing bright, bright red again in response as she shakes her head and stares at the ground. “N-n-no..” she mumbles weakly, unable to even look at him.
While staring at the ground, she notices her bag laying where the girl had discarded it and she crouches down to pick it up, a hand holding her skirt down as she glances nervously over at the boy, afraid that somebody who was that straight forward and say things like that to a woman he never met before would be a perv… But she quickly looked away as she grabs her backpack and puts the tree between her and the boy before she goes digging around in the bag, groping blindly for one of her jerky snacks. The moment the embarrassment started to fade, her stomach started to grumble loudly at her. She hadn't eaten since the night before and the amount of energy she had already used up this morning made her stomach protest… So out comes one of the large jerky sticks in a plastic wrapper with the image of a large hairy man on it and tears it open before ravenously taking a huge chunk out of it.
“Sh-shorry…” she mumbles through the mouthful as she chews it up, “I’m… really hungry…” she mumbles to the other girl as she swallows it before holding out her hand, “E-ellie… My… uhm… my name’s Ellie…”