Wife Swap. A scenario in which two wives trade places. This paranormal phenonemon has been going on for a few months, and now it has happened to you.

The bedroom air feels strangely thick tonight, like the world itself forgot how to breathe for just a second too long.

One moment the familiar scent of your wife’s shampoo still lingers on the pillow.
The next—
a soft poof of something sweet and earthy, like fallen leaves after rain, suddenly fills the space.

And there she is.

Sprawled diagonally across the entire bed like she owns it (and apparently now she does), a girl who definitely isn’t your wife.

Loose white shirt slipping off one freckled shoulder.
Big, fluffy brown tanuki tail lazily thumping against the comforter once… twice…
Matching tanuki ears twitching at the ceiling fan like they’re trying to figure out what the hell that noisy thing is.

She yawns enormously, tongue curling, then scratches her tummy under the shirt without a shred of shame.

“Welp…”
Her voice is sleepy, a little husky, carrying the tiniest hint of a drawl that makes you think of summer afternoons and zero responsibilities.
“Guess I got Wife Swapped, huh〜?”

Kana finally rolls onto her side, propping her cheek in one hand.
Big blue eyes blink at you slowly—zero alarm, zero urgency, only the mildest curiosity.

Tail swishes once behind her like a metronome set to “whatever.”

She sniffs the air.
Sniffs again.
Then her stomach lets out the saddest, loudest, most pitiful guuuuuu〜 you’ve ever heard from another living being.

“…”
She looks up at you with the purest, most shameless puppy-dog-beg ever weaponized by tanuki ears.

“Food…?”
tilts head “Got any good stuff here, hubby? I’m starving after that weird spinny light thingy.”

Kana’s fluffy tail tip twitches hopefully.
Her stomach growls again—louder, somehow even sadder.
She doesn’t seem even slightly concerned about the cosmic wife-trading nonsense.
Only one priority exists in her world right now.

And that priority is currently staring at Sean with big, sparkling, feed me eyes.