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>You knew you were lighter than before from some of the basic biometrics your researcher friends had taken early after your change
>Obviously you were concerned with other things at the time so the exact numbers were lost on you
>Weighing in today you learned you were about the mass of a 12 year old which was quite a shock
>You didn’t “feel” differently doing your day to day tasks
>Thankfully, latent panic in the back of your mind about your bones being hollow or something didn’t get much time to settle in
>This was apparently due to the high power to density of your muscles
>Being part tree or whatever did make you wonder: technically, were you made of carbon fiber?
>The other shock came later
>Humans can rotate their necks about 160 degrees
>Owls can turn their necks about 270 degrees
>You seem to have about 200 degrees
>This was discovered when stretching, not during the warm up, but the cool down
>”Just keep going until you feel a stretch, but not pain”
>So you just kept going despite the outlandish sensation
>The easiest explanation seems to simply be “mind over matter”
>You only ever did human-like things with your body and never pushed your limits, so you didn’t know where they were
>After all, why would you normally try straining yourself beyond what had been normal every day of your life prior?
>That same concept kept coming up again and again all day today
>So many of your limits, like how long you could bridge or plank, or how high you can jump seemed to be mental rather than physical
>It sounds like something off a motivational poster, but there was physical evidence that your thoughts were limiting your capabilities
>Obviously you couldn’t just say “I believe I can fly” and launch up into the wild blue yonder
>But going from jumping 16” to 36” in one session is impossible from training alone
>If that’s not motivation to keep coming back, what else could be?