https://www.deviantart.com/akira-devilman666/art/Spy-Br... I finally reached the 10 minutes milestone! I was then asked to hold my breath during that time as a minimum standard, it was still hard but I could do it. In the meantime, I found another valuable ally besides the second state to assist me in my struggle against lung pain : distraction! this is why I began to read a book at every training session, the final phase was now a minimum of 10 min until I reach my peak capacity, so if I ever have a problem, I would just have to lift my right paw up to ask to drain the mask. then I managed to hold longer at each time and ask for draining when it has been too long to be compfy enough for my muscles Then one day I decided to really try to do my maximum and ask only when desperate, then I managed to hold 15 minutes before I began to feel really weird, I began to stop feeling my body, my lungs were screaming for air and had spasms, I felt really dizzy and my vision started to slowly fade to black... I was losing consciousness, and it would have been lethal this time, I then used my last strenghts to raise my paw before I could reoxygenate my body in a mighty and glorious GAAAAAAAASSSP! The doctor and the body guards then applauded and congrated my achievement! It was my absolute limit, but one hell of a limit : 15min and 7sec! They then decided to make my breath hold showcase a main attraction for all the others during the agency's great christmas gala at the end of the year. This record was so impressive that they also decided to have my time saved and cattalogued in the Agency's archives as well as having my picture framed and my bust sculpted to be shown in the agency's most famous spies gallery. Then I would practice a 15 minutes long breathhold twice a day everyday for the rest of my life to stay as efficient during my whole career! But in the end, after some more years, I still managed to hold my breath for 20 minutes!
