My personal comfort is paramount to my ability when study is what I have to do. The suggestion by Alex to make me somehow more in tune with the surroundings up north was on interest but it also scared me a little.
We stopped talking about it for a couple of weeks as Alex just said he was giving it thought. As with my past time in college study of subject came with much reading and then rereading of material. It was a Friday afternoon when my last class was done and returning to the dorm I was confronted by Alex.
In his hands was a package from Kapco it was labeled "Medical Research". He sat me down and told me to listen and listen well as what was to happen next would be by my choice only!
The package contained an experiment substance which Alex had devised. He had explained his thoughts on the properties with a cohort there at Kapco. On the basis he kept complete records of his experiment while using the special mixture.
The proposed experiment would at first increase my bodies temprature from 98.6 to 100.2 and then little by little increasing it till I reach a level of 104.6. This would mean my matbolism was working at a rate equal to animals living exposed to nature. Then adding a crystal compound to my meals it would activate the growth mechanism replacing cells at a higher rate. This over time would thicken my skin making more blood vessels and thus keeping me warmer. The growth was to be instilled by using one of three possible animal hormones. These would be injected directly into my bloodstream in minor amounts. At first the hormones would infect the blood being then removed by the liver. it would over time and with increased amounts then accept the factor that this substance was a common part of me.
This all sounded like something out of a movie but it was in very fact quite real.
I asked the final and obvious question as to which type of hormones Alex was considering? His answer came with opening the package.
1. Ursidae Ailurinae Ursus Arctos Middendorffi
2. Artiodactyla Bovidae Caprinae Ovis
3. Oomingmak Ovibos moschatus
Alex rambled off the three using the anima's geus as if anyone might know what these really were. I stood there giving him that look like he had just come from another planet and was speaking in tongues.
He apologized for his overly techincal scientific manners and then told me which types of animal hormones he could easily get.
His first choice was of the Kodiac Bear as it was of all northern species bothered the least by cold or insects. His second choice was of Siberian Big Horn Sheep. This like the bear was impermiable to insects and could weather the coldestand dampest of weather. However this type would offer increased muscular agility granting me increased awareness of my less than natural surroundings. Alex then paused before bringing up the third type. He looked at me and then taking a deep breath began.
He said the third type of animal hormone was maybe the best of both worlds giving me excellent warmth, increased agility, and insect control far better than the first two. The prime drawback on this one was that the hormones were as yet untested. As they were in a crude format their enhancements would be more noteable and being the size and density of bone structure could possibly remain as is for years to come. This type was the Musk Ox, a large animal well suited for it's tough enviorment. He told me to dwell on these but tell not a soul less the college and or F.D.A. stop us dead in our tracks.
I was in agony over the weekend and into the next week as the thoughts of what Alex proposed to have me try. True enough the thought of gaining some animal like body was thrilling to me as I'd written for years along the Internet lines. My long lasting delight in reading and enjoying the twisted thinking of writers telling about people changed from human to animal caused this to seem a dream come true.
My lust for such feeling and then the realization of my physical body going from what I was and knew to some other form being new and an experiance worth the pains I might get. That major desire for personal comfort was lending me the courage to speak my desire.
At last I stood in front of Alex and asked for him to use the......