Sally, a 8-years old, and her little toddler brother Gary form together a happy family with their single mother Samantha. However, as it is often the case with single-parent family, money didn’t flow as water, to say the less.
Going from one casual works to the other, Samantha had difficulty to make ends meet. She was eventually forced to move out into an even smaller apartment, with no bedroom at all. You can imagine how tough it is to raise a family in such an overcrowded place. Sally had to suffer the tears of her toddler brother who slept right next to her. And the mother, snowed under, worked hard to synchronize their paces of life, to no avail.
She was on the verge of depression when she found about a new portal brand, named “one more room”, who offered to shrink things to store it more easily. In a first time, she didn’t see in what it could be useful in her situation, since she didn’t own a lot of furniture, until she read on the prospectus that, for “female” owner who wanted extra safety and availability at all times for their precious goods (portals have limited range), they had designed a special “womb room” device, which allowed to put things into the safest place imaginable. They also added that it would work as a pessary in parallel, giving it two uses at the same price.
She found it odd in a first time, but after a closer reading, it looks like the device shrinks and decontaminates simultaneously the transferred objects to avoid any risk of disease or dirt in such a vulnerable place. There would be no problems for her health. However, it was indicated nowhere that the device was designed for living objects… like her children she was considering “storing “that way.
She was uncertain in a first time, but after a few more exhausting days in her crowded flat, she thought it was worth giving a try.
She drew on her savings to buy an affordable portal and decided to test it the very week.
Sally and Gary were horsing around again as she went home. “Stop stealing my pencils, we have very few” Sally shouted to her young brother who was still learning to talk. As every child, he was curious of what his sibling was doing and wanted to copy her, whereas his sister was not very sharing.
“Shut up, you two” Sam interrupts them. The two siblings freeze on the spot, startled by how loud their mother had talked, and stare at her in awe for a moment. Samantha didn’t yell often, so they know it was for serious topics when she did.
Sam takes a deep breath, and begins to explain things to her older child. “Sally, I know it hasn’t been easy for you since we moved in there, and I suppose you lack very much of privacy. If I told you there is one chance to give you some, would you accept whatever the conditions”.
A wide smile grew on Sally’s face at the perspective. “Really, a true new bedroom like in the good old days ... neat!!” she clapped in joy. Then she thinks a while and say “but are we going to move again?”
Sam knows she is stepping on the touchy matter to introduce. “Well, maybe “new” is not the accurate word… I’d rather say it is a very old one, the very first you occupied in your whole life. I’m suggesting you to go back in but, at a different scale….”
Sally looks at her perplexed. Sam doubts to be very clear in her explanation. So, she decides to tell it straight. “Ok, to be honest, I’m offering you to go into my womb”.
“What?” exclaimed the dumbfounded child. “Like a baby?”.
“No sweetie. You are not going to be cramped in there. I can adjust size so it looks spacious for you”, she reassures her. “Listen, I’ve already tested it on vegetables, and none got damaged in the process. It’s totally harmless. It’s going to be like a real room for you, but with fleshy floor and walls. Do you agree with that ?”
Samantha didn’t want to force her children. Things would go easier if they consented to it by themselves.
Sally was doubtful. It was not like any room she had seen before. It was her mother’s body, her womb. Well, technically, she had already been in there, but she didn’t remember anything, and it was not going to be the same as a shrunk person than as a fetus waiting to be born. However, she could accept anything to get away from her brother bothering her all the time, like he was currently doing right then.
“Heh, I suppose it’s worth giving it a try.” She says with a fake smile, while pushing back restless little Gary.
Samantha returns her smile, and gets the device out of her pocket. It was a small gun, designed to shoot the portals directly on walls. She fires it on the one place she had purposely cleaned for that, making appear a blue oval at the size of a door.
“See, this is the door of normal sized world side. It is connected to the other micro end that I have pushed against my cervix, which automatically set itself on the inner part, within my womb. It wasn’t very pleasant, but well, anyway, there is the gate to my womb”. Samantha hands a walkie-talkie and a flashlight to her daughter. “I want you to always keep those close to you.”
“Don’t tell me I’m gonna get lost in there” asked a bit uneasy Sally.
“No, don’t worry. I just prefer… to stay in contact the time you’re in, okay. Just basic safety.”
Of course, Samantha couldn’t tell her that despite the tests on the vegetables, she had no idea how the device would handle a complex human being. In a first time, the talkie was there to make sure she would be fine once on the other side. Sam should have done more experiments, with animals for example, but she couldn’t afford it. She simply trusted the device to work correctly, and keep her child intact.
Sally stands a while in front of the captivating glowing entrance, which evokes a bit the stargate. She didn’t know how things would be on the other side, but, after all, it could not be worse than the current situation. And more than anything else, she trusted deeply her mother to keep her safe.
“Okay, well, here we go” Sally said, taking her courage in both hands, as she stepped eyes closed in the blue oval.
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