This choice: She feels you and reaches down for you • Go Back... Mai gets this strange look on her face like she’s surprised and uncomfortable at the same time. You don’t really understand what that look means until she crouches down slightly and starts to move her hand towards you. At first you think she may be reaching for you, but she’s only got one finger extended. She felt you, but she doesn't think you're a person... She thinks you're an itch! You immediately drop off of her toe and run away from the massive appendage as the hand gets closer. The finger aggressively rubs against the toe, the nail bringing up a small amount of dead skin underneath it as it viciously scrapes the skin. You imagine you wouldn't have lasted that long if you were still clinging to the side of it. Luckily you won't have to try something like that again, as Mai directs her attention to the itchy toe, and spots your little body on the edge of the sandal. She holds her other hand up to her mouth in shock as if to stifle a scream and she whispers "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! I ALMOST KILLED YOU! I'M SOOO SORRY! HERE, GET UP OFF THE GROUND BEFORE I STEP ON YOU OR SOMETHING!" She lays her palm flat on the ground directly touching the sandal, and you manage to jump over the small gap between the shoe and her skin. It takes you a good few seconds to run to the middle of her palm, and you immediately sit down on the soft, scaly skin, waiting for her to bring you up. The experience is extraordinary as she brings you up hundreds of stories to her waiting eyes. Behind her thick glasses you can see a wave of relief, happiness, and guilt in each one of her expressions. But you're a little busy being blown away by the sight of her giant face so close to you. you can't even see the whole thing from your perspective, that's how tiny you've become.
“SORRY I ALMOST SMUSHED YOU WITH MY FINGER. IT’S JUST THAT WHEN I FELT YOUR LITTLE BODY NEXT TO MY TOES, I THOUGHT YOU WERE A BUG OR AN ITCH OR SOMETHING… I’M NOT MAKING THINGS ANY BETTER AM I?” You shake your head and she sighs saying “SORRY. IT’S JUST… WOW, YOU’RE TINY. I MEAN YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SMALL AND ALL, BUT NOT THIS MUCH! YOU’RE LIKE, SMALLER THAN A PEA! AN ANT! LOOKING AT YOU IN MY PALM LIKE THAT IT’S JUST SO… OH, I’M DOING IT AGAIN, AREN’T I?” At this point you’re visibly frustrated with the giant girl’s involuntary taunting, and she can tell as she blushes and looks down away from you saying “SORRY, SORRY. I’LL TRY NOT TO MAKE YOU FEEL WORSE. LET’S TALK ABOUT GETTING YOU BACK TO NORMAL SIZE.” The giantess moves around the room, heading back to where the shrink ray was on the desk, and you can see from your perspective in her palm a small amount of smoke rising from it’s location. Mai sees this too and her already enormous eyes grow even wider with shock. “NO! NO, NO, NO! THIS ISN’T GOOD!” She lowers her hand down to the tabletop, and it takes you a minute to climb off of it to make sure you don’t break your legs from the fall. That’s how insignificant you’ve become. Once you’re clear, Mai puts all her attention on the device, checking the smoking barrel and running all sorts of diagnostics tests on it. You take the opportunity to walk over to some loose medical supplies on the edge of the table, marvelling at the scale of it all. There is a pile of Q-tips on the edge of the table, and you walk right up to one of them, falling backwards into the tip. Maybe being so small will have it's advantages, you think to yourself, as you continue to relax on what you can only describe as the world's comfiest seat. After a few minutes, Mai scans the table looking for you again, finding you in your resting place and almost snorting with laughter. She collects herself and leans in closer as you step off the huge ear-cleaner and she addresses you.
“SORRY FOR LAUGHING. THIS IS ALL JUST SO WEIRD. IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN." You wave your arms up and down as if to say "You think YOU'VE got a lot to take in?" She recognizes the folly of her mistake and says "RIGHT, RIGHT. ON TO BUSINESS. DO YOU WANT THE GOOD NEWS FIRST OR THE BAD NEWS?” You don’t like the sound of that, and she doesn’t really wait to let you choose as she says “WELL THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU LOOKED SUPER CUTE ON THAT Q-TIP, AND I’M SURE IF WE TOOK A PICTURE OF YOU ON THERE IT WOULD GET LIKE A MILLION HITS.” You are unamused and she bites her lip, saying “RIGHT. SORRY. BAD NEWS. HERE IT IS: THE DEVICE OVERHEATED. SHRINKING YOU SO MUCH AT ONCE CAUSED IT TO GO A LITTLE HAYWIRE, AND IT WON’T WORK IN IT’S CURRENT STATE.” You ask her how long it’s going to take to fix, completely forgetting that you’re way too tiny for her to hear you like this. You can tell she’s stalling as she shrugs her shoulders. So when she looks back down at you through the magnifier, you aggressively point to your watch. She gets the message and says “RIGHT. TIME. HOW LONG WILL THAT TAKE TO FIX. UH… THAT’S THE THING…”
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