"Mhm...you've grown taller." While still holding onto Xinzi, Dong Ling raised her eyes, trying to meet her monk's gaze. But if before she barely needed to lift her chin, she now had to bend her head back as far as her neck enabled her to. Alarmed by the change, the snakegirl furrowed her brows, wondering what had prompted such an absurd leap in height.
"Oh?" Xinzi, who had not noticed the difference, put one hand on his head and the other on Dong Ling's. The distance between the two made the monk's eyebrows arc up. Dong Ling was correct; it appeared that he'd taken an extra 14 cm, now standing at around 189 cm. The monk blamed this on his skeletal reconstruction and didn't give the change extra thoughts.
