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An inch tall, you tell yourself. This can't be happening... except, of course, it is happening. At least I won't die of thirst; on this scale, one of those drops is as good as a gallon jug.
Wait a second, there's something... shrinking... scale... the square/cube law. The strength of your muscles, and even your bones, depends on the area of their cross-section, and that should rise and fall with the square of your size -- but your body's volume, hence its mass, depends on the cube of your size. From 6 feet height, that's 72 inches, down to 1 inch... 1/72 size, so the area is (work it in your head, where's a calculator when you need one) about 1/5,000, and the volume is around 1/350,000. Close enough for jazz.
In other words, your muscles are currently about 72 times stronger than they need to be in order to haul your body around. And your bones are likewise 72 times stronger, so no worries there. No wonder ants can haul 10 times their body mass around, they're on the right side of the square/cube law!
Before you can talk yourself out of it, you crouch down and then leap up at a 45-degree angle. You rocket through the air, missing the sink's rim by a country mile (or whatever the equivalent length is at your current size), and discover how hard it is to steer when you're just a ballistic projectile...
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