You decide to carefully plan put a few options before proceeding.
You have trouble walking on four legs at first, nearly tripping over your paws a few times, put you practice and eventually get the hang of it. You find yourself purring in delight before stopping yourself and realizing what you've doing. You better do something fast.
You saunterer over to the other enterance to the room, opposite to the one from where you came. Your new built-in night vision allows you to see easily in the darkness. It appears this hallway leads deeper into the maze. You think you see a glint of light at the end, but can't be sure and probably don't have time to investigate.
Remembering it was a straight shot, you quickly speed down the hallway from where you came, your claws clicking loudly on the stone until you reach the spot from where you fell. Your diminished size makes the distance seem impossibly long. You even try jumping up a few times, suprised at how high you can jump and how easily you land again, but still apperantly can't reach it.
Running back to the room, you read the inscription again and ponder the meaning of the words. The "curse". What did that entail? Are you cursed to be a cat forever? Are you a werecat now? Is this a temporary form before you become something else? The ambiguous nature of the words bother you. Maybe drinking from the fountain again will reverse the changes?
Your sensitive whiskers quiver, alerting you of something. Turning, you see a mouse scurrying along the wall s few feet away.
As if losing control of your body, you suddenly find yourself launching in the air towards the mouse, claws extending. Are you hissing? Before you can answer that question you find the struggling mouse caught between your front paws as you like on the floor. Bringing your muzzle down you snap the mouse up quickly, shredding it's flesh with your pointed teeth. You lick your chops with your sandpaper tongue before you regain control of yourself.
Startled, you rise and saunter back to your pile of clothes. You need to make a decision fast.