[The Next Day]

Lucky Charm at first flinches away from reaching towards her neck, but. . .
Luckily! She overcomes her conditioned response and stops.

"Yeah...I guess I can. That'll be weird. Might need to buy a new wardrobe," Marin says.

She would say more, too, except then all of a sudden there seems to be an emergency telecom. Luckily, that emergency message didn't happen minutes earlier because that could have messed up 'trying to sit still'.

She listens. "Wow. Um. Maybe that explosion sound actually was something? We should definitely go there, right?" She moves away from Ginger Spice and looks at the door.


[Entrance Hall]

Harley is not there.
Either she doesn't exist because her room is empty, or...
. . .
the intercom woke her up and she realized that her baby is missing and is presently panicking and trying to figure out what happened and where the baby is and why her door is open and why she didn't wake up and oh no she's all alone again and the panic is making her see things sitting around every corner and hear something speaking in her own voice and oh no she's a terrible mother for losing her baby and


[Simulation Room]

Manja is safe and secure in Rein's palms.

She's not happy, though. Her body's flattened and her ears are flattened and her hair's sticking up and her paws are digging down.

Plus, all this movement and excitement and shouting and everything is putting her into distress and making the shapeshifting powers that she inherited from her mother activate: the most noticeable of which is that her fur becomes pricklier instead of soft.
Unfortunately, (or fortunately?) that's not all: her battleform that she inherited from her father also activates, with help from her mother's powers replicating the effect. (This is actually a good thing, because it redirects her maternal shapeshifting to assist in the battleform transformation instead of causing something detrimental to happen.)
She turns back into a humanlike baby, but instead of her usual white hair and interesting ears, she turns into a baby liongirl. Lion ears, with yellow-gold hair, tail, etc, with pink tips and highlights.
He might have to readjust how he's holding her.

She tries to roar but makes a cute noise instead.