"I'm done!" She called out as she ran towards the jade pavilion, Little Firefly's excited pulsing lights trailing behind her.
When they arrived in the forest clearing, Li Hua found a soft patch of grass beneath an ancient pine and slowly began her stretches to warm up her limbs.
Her mind remembered the familiar routine, though this body's untrained muscles followed with less fluidity than she was used to. Still, she guided each movement with patient precision—first gentle circles of her ankles, watching how these smaller, softer limbs responded to her commands. Then careful rolling motions through her knees and hips, noting every resistance and limitation, up to her shoulders and neck. She cataloged the differences between her past body's capabilities and this new vessel she needed to train.