The sunlight filters lazily through your bedroom window; the warm rays hitting you squarely in the face. Slowly you wake up, yawning as you do. You feel knackered and your body feels unusually heavy. As you open your eyes you catch sight of your still beefy body and the previous day’s event come rushing back. So it wasn’t a dream.
Still groggy, you sit up in bed, swinging your brawny feet off the bedframe, which groaned under your shifting weight. You look down at your bulky body and glimpse the ring, which you had kept on your finger throughout the night. You can now actually undergo another transformation. You feel giddy as you consider the endless options you have. You quickly get up and lumber towards your bedroom’s full length mirror.
You smile at your approaching reflection, completely undressed were it not for your black boxers and cap. You realise that you’re still wearing the cap which you had left on to hide your thinning scalp. Reluctantly you remove your headwear and assess the extent of the damage.
“Goddamn it!” you mutter tersely under your breath as you pass your meaty right hand through your balding blond locks.
Your hairline had greatly retreated, leaving just a small peninsula of vibrant blond hair in the centre of your forehead, surrounded from 3 sides by bare scalp. Behind this headland of preserved hair only few sparse scraggly hairs remained on the top of your head. The only areas of hair showing any vigour were restricted to a horseshoe going from your temples round to the back of your head.
You realise that you were probably feeling as self-conscious about your thinning scalp as Eric must have felt before. It also occurs to you that the now scrawny Eric must have inherited your old full head of hair! Your thoughts go back to the ring which is still on your finger, as the ornament glistens in the mirror. You remember that you are in the possession of a magical trinket that can rejuvenate your now thinning scalp and rectify your problem.
That said you could actually almost get used to your balding scalp, especially if you buzz cut it like Eric usually did. It could actually look quite manly in the right context, especially in the context of some more personal improvements of your own. After all Eric’s thinning scalp almost suited him as it accentuated his manly frame and his towering height.
You smirk as you consider who to trade with and what to trade…