
"Oh man, it's getting late." Kat said to herself. She had stayed up past her bedtime reading an extra story. Even so, she felt too excited to go to bed quite yet. Maybe she could read just one more...

She turned back to the index and saw a story called Felicity's Freakish Flexibility. Kat dropped into a split, or tried to. She was nearly able to make it, but there were still a few inches to spare. Her dancing had already made her pretty flexible, so she wondered what she would be able to do after she read this next story.

Felicity found few feelings more fallow than following her friend Fen on stage. Her fellow contortionist formed fantastic shapes with her fit frame. Felicity practiced for fourteen full...

The story was about a contortionist who, driven by competitiveness, pushed herself to every greater feats of flexibility until she could cross her legs behind her back beneath her arms, stuff herself into a tiny barrel, and fold her spine backwards at any point.

When she finished reading Kat felt her whole body tingle for a moment.  "Ok, that was weird." She said. She wasn't sure she needed to be able to sit on her head, but she had a feeling that she would be able to in a few days. "I guess flexibility is sexy?" She said, standing up and dropping into a split. This time she had no trouble at all. "It will make me a better dancer."

*I really should get to bed.* If she kept reading, it wouldn't matter how pretty the book had made her, she would look like a zombie the next day. Still, Kat couldn't help but feel excited to have found a whole new set of stories to read, especially because they seemed to be about giving her new abilities and talents. A few weeks ago Kat never would have thought that she would feel pretty enough, but now she was pretty confident that she checked the box of hottest girl in the school and was well on her way to being the hottest girl in the world. It was good to diversify her amazingness. But first she had to go to sleep.
