The first thing Lohan did, after deciding he wasn't going to let anything else break in that apartment, was sit on the living room floor, cross legged, and breathe.
It wasn't an ordinary breath. It was one of the techniques he had developed over those weeks, whenever his human body received another wave of Slime traits from Elysium, and which he called, without any originality, "Calibration."
The idea was simple: instead of trying to control his strength at all costs, which only left him stiff and clumsy, he learned to listen to his body before acting, the same way he did with the gelatin in the game, dividing his attention between what he wanted to do and what his body was actually ready to do.
He closed his eyes, and felt his heartbeat slow down, and the rest of his body followed, his muscles releasing a tension he hadn't even known he was carrying.
The first exercise was the silliest, and also the most important: the egg.
