The next wave sent her body forward as it rippled out from her core to her extremities. She dug into the carpet as a series of muffled cracks announced the lengthening of her wrist bones and the thickening of her fingers and the sharpening of her nails. At the other end of her body, her feet stretched even more radically, and fearsome new claws gripped the floor underneath her. Her skin excitedly prickled as the once fine blonde hairs of her neck and back grew even as the mane of her head receded. Her lips thinned and split over a growing smile.