When Suzy awoke the next morning her entire body was sore. It felt like she slept on a rock. Not wanting to deal with work she called up the office. Her boss sounded sympathetic as he told her to take all the time she needed and that he was amazed she was still working.
"I guess the pregnancy is finally catching up with you Suzy," her boss said.
"Yes sir, it's getting really tough. I have my phone with me in case you need anything."
"Don't worry Suzy. With all the work you have done, you are definitely allowed to take any time you need!"
"Thank you sir! I'll be in touch."
With that, Suzy hung up. Apparently, reality shifted when she became pregnant. Suzy remembered having a bunch of work to do but maybe with her new pregnancy, she had hurried to do all the work knowing she would need time off. No matter though, Suzy was free for the day. Sitting on her couch, she pulled out the vial. The colors weren't changing quite as fast anymore which made her feel better. It would have been hard to gulp down the contents fast enough to avoid another unexpected change!
Now back to the question on her mind; why did she grow a foot, instead of six inches? She had to know what the deal was. The only thing she could figure to do was to drink purple again. Suzy waited for it to cycle through and then drank down the liquid. She felt her legs lengthen out, touching her coffee table and her upper body grew as well. The question was, how much?
Suzy stood up and tried to figure it out. She almost was to her ceiling and she remembered it being nine feet high. If she had grown a foot again, she wouldn't be so close! Finding a tape measure, Suzy let it fall to the floor. She had grown 18 inches this time making her an impossible 8 feet 7 inches tall.
"OK, OK think this through. I grew 6 inches the first time and six inches the second time. The third time I grew 12 inches and the fourth time, eighteen inches. Was there a pattern?" Suzy looked at her instruction paper to see if there was any clue. At the bottom of the page she saw a signature but it was hard to make out. Suzy could tell the first letter was an F.
"OK F...I think that's an I...B...is that an A or an O...then either a N or a M, then...an A? These last letters look like CCI.
F-I-B-?-?-A-C-C-I."
Suzy went to her computer and started typing it into google. She started with FIBAN and the auto-fill suggested FIBONACCI. She clicked the link and read out loud.
"The Fibonacci sequence is found by adding the last two numbers in the sequence to get the next number. The pattern begins 1,1,2,3,5,8,13. One plus one is two. One plus two is three. Two plus three is five and so on."
Suzy thought about it. If six inches equaled one, the pattern would fit! That was why she grew 12 inches the third time and 18 the fourth time! So, under the same idea, if she drank purple again, she would grow 5 times 6 inches...30 inches or two and a half feet! As it stood, she had a huge problem. Being almost nine feet with a massive belly made it too hard to walk more than a few feet without hurting. She would be stuck in her house until she gave birth...and she didn't know when that would be because she didn't even know how far along she was.
What choices did she have? The only colors that would help would be black, to shrink down or white to cancel everything. There was blue as well, which would make her a man. What to do?