These were from a lovely book by Moto Hagio, in which a Galapagos lizard falls in love with a human. When she asks to be turned into a human her wish is granted, but of course these things come at a price. Throughout her whole life, her family can only see her as a lizard, as can she herself when she looks in the mirror. She doesn't realise that she is in fact a beautiful girl and thus she has to live with the shame of being in the wrong skin.
A really different approach to the age old fairytale
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