He felt the taps like an earthquake. "At least he's noticed something weird. Come on Umi... What's it gonna take?" he muttered to himself, as he began to squirm. He was a bit larger now, and still growing at a relatively slow pace. He squirmed harder when a bit of acid burned him; he was way too big at this point to stand on his little raft of chips. He was still growing back to normal size, getting too big for Umi to digest at this rate. It still burned, though.