The boys didn't heed Sean's calls to join him in the pool. "OK," he thought. "If they don't want to swim, that's their loss. I'll enjoy it myself."
Sean was very tall and muscular. He stood a full 6'9", weighed 280, and was essentially all muscle. Sean was very proud of his height and good looks, and was worried that his 5'2", 13-year-old son Andrew wouldn't grow anywhere near as tall or muscular as Sean was.
But the multipart spell that Ric had begun would change Sean's perspective dramatically. The huge, muscular man started to swim laps - as was his habit - along the length of the large pool. Sean was so into the sensations of the water as he glided effortlessly through it that he was completely unaware that with each lap he was losing 3 years of age.
To keep Sean unaware for as long as possible, Ric had cast the first part of the spell so that Sean's snug fitting speedo would morph to fit his changing age and size. The spell also warped Sean's perceptions so that - until Ric willed otherwise - Sean would continue to see himself as a muscular adonis whenever he looked at his body or saw his reflection.
The boys watched spellbound from the window above as Sean swam. For the first two laps, the changes were barely noticeable, as Sean's age dropped from 35 to 32 to then to 29. But during the third lap, the boys noticed that Sean was starting to lose his muscle mass. This made sense, because at the age of 24, Sean had started a 5-year, progressive body-building program that had transformed him from a skinny young man into a confident, muscular hunk by the time he was 29.
But now the effects of that body-building program were being undone by Ric's age-regression spell.
In the course of just one lap, as his age fell from 29 to 26, Sean's weight dropped from 280 to 245. Sean paused at the end of the pool for a moment, feeling that something must somehow be off with his usually perfect stroke. But then he resumed his swim, and this time the change was even more dramatic.
The boys watched in amazement as Sean appeared to grow slimmer with each stroke. By the end of the lap, Andrew was transformed back to the skinny young man he had been at 23 - still 6'9" but now just 210 pounds.
From the window above, Ric looked down at Sean with satisfaction as his spell took effect.
"Are you gonna stop it now?" Sean's son Andrew asked. "No, the fun's just beginning," Ric said, flashing a wicked grin.