Mole awoke with the hydra sisters kneeling over him. The right sister was beaming. "Thanks for the warning, you saved our lives."<br/>"And his own!" The other two chimed in. "We've taken on bigger things than that with little more than a stomachache for a few days."<br/>"Don't listen to them, they're just hungry. Here, have some water, that was a nasty spill you took."<br/>Mole reached for the cup of water and drank it. Wait, he sat up and looked at himself. He was still huge. He wiggled his fingers, twitched his nose, stood up and then sat back down again. "I can move! I'm in control! Yes!" As he was doing an exited jig around the rock that had given him control over his own body again he began to shrink from eight feet tall down to seven and then six until he was once again a puny four foot mole. He still felt control over it, but he was just too tired. Two of the sisters looked at him hungrily but the right one hugged him close to her.<br/>"No eating him. He's my friend now."<br/>"Really?" Mole was about to make a snide comment about her eating him but he abstained. Her friendship was keeping it from happening again. "Uh, thanks. I appreciate it but I should really be going. I have to get back to work." His new friend frowned and her lip quivered.<br/>"But what the heck? I'm not going anywhere on my own anyway. I think I can stay for awhile."