There is a pause, and then the giant speaks again, her statement a proclamation from the heavens. "On the same level. Shrink me, Richard. It's my last night here, and I want to see things as you see them, just briefly."
It was not a request you'd been expecting, but seeing the serious expression on that titanic face you give an assent through your suit speakers and descend back into your capsule. The cameras allow for a precise external size blast, and you give Tara just what she asked for, hesitating for the briefest moment.
As she vanishes from your feeds, you rush up and out to ensure that she's safe, breathing a sigh of relief upon seeing her at the bottom of a depression.
"Richard, what is this?" she asks, gesturing around herself. All this crushed grass, and tiny, dead bugs..."
"Tara, that's your bootprint."
"Shit..." she gasps. "You were right about me having an effect on the environment..."
The woman's in somewhat of a daze as you walk to the edge and offer a hand to pull her to ground level, where the two of you stand amongst the untrodden grass blades, she slightly woozy from her recent descent, you holding her steady.
You've shrunk her to your scale, her previous six feet of height down to just under your 3/8", and it sure does feel weird to be looking down at a woman that has carried you in the palm of her hand so many times. And yet, here you are, the simple grasp of your mitts keeping her upright!
Finally, she looks up at you, blinking once before fixing you with the steely gaze of her green eyes. "Hi," she says.
"Hi," you return, somehow sheepish despite the change in power dynamics. To be this close to another person of your size after so many months... "So, uh, when you said you wanted us to get to know each other better..?"
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