When she arrived back at her apartment, Mary fastened up her pants again, hiding her tail down one leg. It took her two trips to bring all of her goodies inside, and as she trekked in the final wheels of cheese she felt her feet slipping inside her shoes.
She stuffed her fridge full of the perishable wedges and stacked the wheels on the counter. She kept one block of swiss out for munching, however.
As she ate, she walked into the bathroom to take a closer look at herself. She dropped her pants, which had started to feel like they were slipping off her waist. She looked at the lanky pink tail dangling from her behind. It was a foot long by now, and growing thicker. It was an inch and a half at the base of her spine. She concentrated for a moment, and shrieked with glee as she realized she could work the muscles that swished her tail about.
The entire area around it was covered in light gray hairs. Her pubic region's hair now matched that color, and the area which it covered looked like it was growing.
Her fingernails were much sharper now, and turning pink. The same was happening to her toes. Her ears were starting to look bigger, and the roots of her hair were losing their color.
Mary was pleased to see she hadn't lost her hourglass figure and perfectly shaped breasts, but she wondered how much she was shrinking...and how fast.
She rummaged around her closet for a meter stick, and when she found it she set about making tick marks on the wall next to the bathroom door. With a pencil she marked six-inch increments all the way up to six feet. She used to be 6' 1", but obviously that was no longer the case. Standing straight next to her new height scale, she found that she had shrunk down to 5' 8".
Excited that the changes were finally starting to happen, Mary went back to the kitchen to make herself some lunch.