The man becomes a wolf. Quadruped. Forty kilograms of extra mass from nowhere.

Mass is conserved. There is no forty-kilogram gift. The norepinephrine-dominant surge constricts visceral, renal, and cutaneous beds and dilates skeletal-muscle arterioles until ninety to ninety-five percent of cardiac output is in the muscle — past the eighty-five percent ceiling of elite exercise. Cardiac output itself is driven thirty-five to forty percent above athletic maximum by heart rate plus LERV-MMP2-enhanced chamber compliance, stroke volume climbing through Frank-Starling, not through new muscle protein. Resting muscle's share of cardiac output is fifteen to twenty percent. The shift makes the body look as if it has grown because the body has been pumped.

What you see is engorgement: myofibrils packed under hydraulic pressure, extracellular matrix temporarily loosened by LERV hyaluronidase, a crouched hyper-muscular biped with altered facial musculature. Not a canid. Not a quadruped. A human skeleton running a four-to-six-hour vascular programme. The strength is real. The apparent growth is an illusion of redistribution. Dawn puts the blood back where it came from. A woodland edge at 06:14 is the field form of this claim. The examiner retired months after filing.