Hanley decided to make Ernest a tiny little guy, to shock him as he would wake up.
"Let the changes begin!" Ernest announced to himself.
At first, it seemed that nothing was happening. But after about a minute the changes started to occur. Ernest had a little bit of muscle on his arms and legs, and had an averagely average build. But slowly, him arm muscles began to twitch rapidly like bird wings flapping... and they seemed to be diminishing slightly, ever so slightly. It was almost unnoticeable, actually. But after a little while they shrank, and shrank some more... and by the time the twitching had stopped, his arms were pencil thin and had no muscle. His hands were humongous in contrast, but soon the fingers became small and stubby, and his palms began to shrink until they were a reasonable size with Ernest's arms.
The next place was the legs, which had a little bit of muscle on them too, which diminished even faster than the arm muscle. His legs shrank to half-length and thinned out until they were as thin as a ruler as well. Ernest's trousers were far too small and dropped to the floor, revealing the still man-sized components behind his underwear. Soon those began to twitch and get shorter and smaller, and almost invisible. Ernest's chest muscles simply quickly disappeared as there never used to be much there anyway. It shrank until it matched the size of the rest of his body.
The transformation was complete, leaving Ernest with a doll-sized body, but with a normal sized head and feet, which looked ridiculous. Hanley laughed...
...and Ernest awoke from his slumber. He was only about two feet tall, and he couldn't move around properly.
"What've you done to me!? I thought you were going to make me like you!" Ernest shouted, quieter than he could have if he was a normal size. He fell off the sofa and it was quite a drop, which was surprising for him. He ran over to the door, but he realised he couldn't reach the handle. He was stuck.
"Okay, tell you what," Hanley said...