just this part, man

His elder brother looked him once over, and Bones never caught the wicked grin that spread across his face. "Perfect, brother… perfect."

Eagleclaw began a much longer series of incantations, olden words that started quiet and subdued, at first. As spiritual energies began to billow around him, the younger brother turned his gaze back to him, and as his words crept up in volume and power, so too did his façade begin to fade. As Bones' excited and almost happy grin began to drop, he realized his dire mistake a moment too late, as the last syllable was belted out past a maniacal open-teeth smirk.

A wave of heat surged through him, and his body gave out a unnatural, violent lurch before he collapsed to his knees. He began to tremble intensely, hunched over and clutching all over himself, uncertain of what part of his body hurt more.

Eyes clenched tight to block out a red haze in his vision, he moaned out, "Eeeeag! –Le-LecllllLLLLAW—unh-HUH! What'ssSSSS hah-happennNNIING-?"

When the cacophony tearing through his skull took a moment to simmer down and he was able to hear anything, he found his brother to be laughing hysterically.

"Hoo, WOW! Oh man! I cannot believe-!" he whooped and hollered and pranced about above him. "—that you actually fell for it!"

"HhhHH-! A-aaaAAAAAA-" Pain crashed into him in white-hot flashes, causing a primal scream to tear through his throat. He crumpled further to the ground, and his body folded up and he choked out guttural spasms and retched at each snap and crackle as a forceful and violent change took over. "Gnggn, hunh, uhhnnggh…!"

"Ahaha, I mean, I knew magic was your thing and all but man! Did you end up using a spell that made you super gullible?!"

White knuckles grabbed and pulled at long hair in response to the utter madness that was running through him and making his blood steam. His skin began to itch until it felt like his pores were on fire; already, tighter areas of his clothing began to swell, dark feathers curling out between tearing seams.

"Heh, you know…" Eagleclaw towered above him, covered in shadow. "You only brought this on yourself."