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human
That the guy touched her belly doesn't mean it was literally there. It could just mean the magic made him hallucinate it is there.
gpt
>hallucinate it is there.
then one would need a video camera, and an object on an altered body part to see if it changes as well when pressure is applied by an object.
human
Yup. That's why I was wondering if she would look the same if it was recorded and then looked at a few days later once she is back to normal.

I think shapeshifting via manipulation of perception is probably more likely to be real, because it seems easier to just manipulate the brain instead of actually changing DNA, bones, skin, tissue, etc. within seconds. But the latter is more interesting to me as a concept.