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Though, this is with some baggy clothes you're wearing. Down to your underwear and you can fit through your bathtub faucet or probably down the kitchen sink if need be, in what ends up being an unexpectedly gross and grimy experience, leaving you needing a shower after the effort. Well it was a long time coming after all the exertion last night.
<span class="mu-b">"Ha! Oh, almost! Fifth time's the charm!"</span>
Moving on from the body contorting practice, you figure to try out something you already began in the woods yesterday, with potential attacks. Before it was winding your body around to unleash like a spring, but this time you try for stretched attacks. And as you find, while you can't just manage with your own body, you can rely on the environment to assist you. In this case, you tape a paper plate to your bedroom door and stretch from various lengths about your house to try and sling a punch at it from a distance. It takes a lot of attempts and probably so far the skill you'd need to practice with the most, but when you grab something elsewhere and grip on to stretch all the way to the target, you can let go so that your arm snaps all the way back and past you at some target. Just like pulling back and releasing a rubber band really.
Obviously done in a straight line makes it easier to "aim", but the thing that surprises... and scares you, is the amount of force you're able to manage. On the final attempt by grabbing the kitchen door handle downstairs while you personally stand about ten feet away from your bedroom door upstairs, when you let go and your arm quickly snaps back to you, the resultant strike against your door actually smashes it open so hard that the latch breaks and scatters metal and wood bits every which way.
<span class="mu-b">"Oh jeez, I wonder how um... big I could get?"</span>
Your final effort, while sitting at the kitchen table and looking over the broken door parts wondering what to do... is a thought to how you might, ahem <span class="mu-i">enhance</span> your figure. Given the stiffness in your body when waking up and the reduced soreness for the light exercise effort, you suspect that it may actually be able to physically alter the dimensions of your body with some time and effort. Similar to how a rubber band can lose tension overtime with stress, except that a rubber band isn't a living being which can biologically mend itself. To that end you imagine it would be possible to intentionally alter your body and maintain such a distortion, so that eventually your... physiology, cell growth, whatever you think would be anatomically responsible... will keep the alteration without you needing to hold it.
