Okay. Listen to me carefully, because this is going to sound strange and it will take effort.
[Alucard's tone, thankfully, does shift to fully serious. With his free hand, he offers it out towards Astarion.]
Think of your wings as a modified version of your hand. Everything is large and spread out now, but you have certain bones. I'm going to touch them.
[He does just that, gingerly tracing a finger over Astarion's right wing, identifying what keeps the glorious, leather wings capable of flying around the workshop.]
They're not too different from your hands, they're just spread out more and with your skin stretched taught over them. Now imagine what you have now starting to rearrange itself. The skin shrinks. Wraps around your hand as it should be. Everything just goes back into place, and it's doing so because you're willing your body to behave in the way it should when it has a human shape. Just keep visualizing it until you feel things start to move, then it should follow naturally.
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[Alucard's tone, thankfully, does shift to fully serious. With his free hand, he offers it out towards Astarion.]
Think of your wings as a modified version of your hand. Everything is large and spread out now, but you have certain bones. I'm going to touch them.
[He does just that, gingerly tracing a finger over Astarion's right wing, identifying what keeps the glorious, leather wings capable of flying around the workshop.]
They're not too different from your hands, they're just spread out more and with your skin stretched taught over them. Now imagine what you have now starting to rearrange itself. The skin shrinks. Wraps around your hand as it should be. Everything just goes back into place, and it's doing so because you're willing your body to behave in the way it should when it has a human shape. Just keep visualizing it until you feel things start to move, then it should follow naturally.