[Flashback continues, outside the Church in an area used for outdoor eating]
Miriam raised an eyebrow when Caren mentioned her occupation and looked her up and down. Due to her own lack of familiarity with these kinds of religions she hadn't noticed until right now that nuns were supposed to be typically older, and their vows were usually lifelong.
"A part-time nun? I didn't know that was a thing" Miriam commented. Caren smiled and looked around to make sure there was no one else around.
"Well, it's not a very common thing, but yeah, it does happen" She said "I feel like I can trust you, so I'll explain" Caren's golden eyes glowed for a split second, which surprised Miriam, but her curiosity had only been piqued further.
"This Church in particular, let's say it has many more duties than go beyond giving spiritual counsel and helping make the local community a better place... We take care of things most people don't know about... things beyond their wildest dreams" As Caren spoke, a gentle, cool breeze swirled around her, making her long silver hair wave while her eyes glowed again.
Miriam looked around, wondering how she was pulling this off but not entirely discarding the idea that what she was witnessing might very well be the real deal.
"Some of us are born with... 'Gifts'... things that could make fantasy books feel dull and unimaginative by comparison, though it's very likely many folk tales were based on such people" Caren said "The Church gathers and helps those, people like me, so that we can put our gifts to good use... or maybe they keep us on a leash because they're afraid of us? Who knows" She giggled.
"So, you have one of those gifts?" Miriam asked and Caren nodded with a playful giggle in response.
"Yep, and that's why I work as a part-time nun while I finish college. I might become full time after but I dunno, I still haven't settled for any career paths. The pay's decent though" She said "But enough of that, I bet you're curious about what my gift is about, right?"
"If you don't mind sharing" Miriam smiled, radiating pure, innocent curiosity, like that of a child, which Caren had caught on since she began talking to her, and it was one of the reasons that made her choose to trust her.
"Watch this" She said and reached for her own phone, setting it on table. Her eyes glowed more intensely and she traced various circles with her right index finger, clockwise and counter before directly pointing at the phone with it. Then, before Miriam's very own eyes, the phone began to shrink until it became smaller than a tic-tac.
Miriam's eyes widened, she had never something like this happen in real life, though she knew that a certain friends of hers would've really loved to have access to this kind of ability. Feeling even more curious, she carefully picked it up and she saw that its screen was still on, it looked way too detailed for this to have been some fancy sleight of hand.
"No need to be so delicate. Whatever I shrink becomes much more durable as long as it remains shrunken" Caren said "Try squeezing it with your fingers"
Miriam hesitated, not really wanting to damage someone's property, but seeing how confident Caren was about it made her feel more at ease and then she tried squeezing the pill-sized phone between her fingertips. Surprisingly, to no avail, it was like she were trying to squeeze a tiny diamond, no matter how much strength she put into it, the phone remained unharmed. Caren then gestured at her to give her the phone back.
"I can show you that not even something really heavy will damage it" She chuckled, and the two walked towards a nearby bench, on which the silver haired beauty set the phone before she dramatically turned around, giving her wide hips a wiggle to show off the sheer doughy heft she packed in the back, her voluminous, fatty glutes bounced easily. Miriam's eyes once again widened, but this time they did with pleasant surprise, and the beautiful Mexican mother gave an approving smile.
Caren then nonchalantly plopped her big booty down onto the bench, completely engulfing the shrunken phone under just one of her massive cheeks, big enough to give the likes of Lulu or Chahna a run for their money. She even bounced in her seat and sensually ground her hips before she stood up.
"Ta-dah!" She said cheerfully, but Miriam's sudden giggling threw her off "What happened?"
"The phone's not on the bench" She said.
"Hmm?" Caren raised an eyebrow, but then she felt a distinctive tiny lump stuck to one of her plump fleshy globes "Oh yeah, that happens sometimes" She laughed, nonchalantly picking the shrunken phone up, yanking it a little as it had gotten slightly embedded into her squishy booty flesh. Caren then pointed her finger at the phone and it rapidly grew back until it reached its original size.
"Not a single scratch!"
"Whoah" Miriam was even more surprised when she saw that it was indeed the very same phone as before. She was open minded enough that she could accept things beyond people's common knowledge as plausible, even more so after witnessing it for herself.
"Can you make it grow bigger? Lots of people would love to have a few extra inches of their phones' screens"
"Nope. Guess that's the 'catch' my gift has. I can only shrink things or restore them to their size but I can't make them grow any bigger than they originally were. I would if I could" Caren replied, taking a brief glance down at her chest and hips.
"I don't think those need any supernatural enhancements" Miriam giggled "You've got a superb figure, even I'm envious! If back in the day I rocked the kind of bod you do now, it wouldn't have taken me years to make my hubby mine"
"Must be a very lucky man" Caren said, once again looking at Miriam up and down, taking in her curvy figure that her business attire did very little to conceal. She had a hard time believing that a such a beauty goddess would have any reasons to envy her body.
"Anyway, that's the only limitation to my power, I can shrink stuff as small as I like. I've even messed around with the other nuns' heights, taking an inch or two off on random days just to see them freak out. Absolutely priceless!" She whispered, and the two broke out into several giggling fits, like true kindred spirits. Even Caren wasn't entirely sure if Miriam would fully appreciate her sense of humor but now she was pretty sure she did.
"Wait, you can also do that to people?" Miriam asked after the info clicked in her head.
"Yeah, I can shrink anything, living or inanimate. Living stuff also becomes like indestructible while shrunken" Caren explained.
"But I didn't feel like scaring a random animal just to show off, after all, all life is sacred and was made by the Lord in their infinite wisdom... except those pesky mosquitoes! I'm sorry but those can go right to hell!"
"Very well said" Miriam nodded solemnly "But also add cockroaches and scorpions to that list" She chuckled.
"By the way, going back to what you said before, it sounds like you love your son a lot"
"Of course! I've always wanted to have a baby boy of my own, my little prince" Miriam replied with a sweet smile, blushing a little "My friends could tell you al about it if you ask them, I've wanted to be a mom and have a boy since all the way back to kindergarten"
"Wow. Gotta respect that dedication. But why a boy though?" Caren asked with sincere curiosity.
"It just felt that way, like, that's the way it should be" Miriam replied with a shrug, to her, the question was like asking someone why they liked chocolate "Well, you know... I was never a very girly girl" She giggled again as she reminisced about her childhood and teen days. To have called her a tomboy back then would've been the understatement of the decade, and yet she took that in stride, even playfully admitting to being a grown up one when asked about it "I guess I figured out I'd be a better mom for a boy, that we could relate a bit more"
"I see. I think I can understand now"
"Speaking of that, I'm looking for girls who may be interested. I wanna make sure he ends up with a good one" Miriam said as she reached for her own phone and showed Caren pictures of you. The silver haired girl couldn't help but smile.
"I see that he mostly looks like his dad, but he got your skin and your face, kinda. Also the eyes" Caren commented.
"Actual black eyes aren't so common" She muttered, making Miriam giggle.
"What?" Caren raised an eyebrow.
"Back in my homeland, nobody would've given us the time of the day having those eyes. In there, it's all about green or blue ones, though golden like yours are obviously rare, you'd be a hit there too" Miriam noted "So... you were saying you're interested? I guess I must tell you that he's pretty young and innocent. He turned 18 on September last year"
"Yeah, I am... but I was getting a little worried" Caren laughed "Looking at those pics, I thought he was like 15 or 16!"
"Aaand... one more has fallen for the Xitlali genes" Miriam chuckled "Don't worry, it's a thing that happens to all of us on my mom's side of the family. We always look younger than we really are"
"Good. I don't want to go to jail" Caren giggled some more "He really looks like a good boy in those pics, but you sounded a bit sad when you talked about him before..."
"Oh, that's just because I wish I spent more time with him. Work has kept me busy, plus, this is about time he'll start flapping his wings and I guess he'll eventually leave the nest. Though I'll have you know that in our culture we don't boot our kids the moment they turn 18. The moment to leave comes naturally, when they marry and start a family of their own"
Caren nodded, getting some more insight on the situation, but soon a cheeky smile formed on her face.
"But then again, you're looking to marry him off" She teased. Fortunately, Miriam saw the humor in there and laughed cutely.
"I just want to make sure he ends up with a good girl and they can make each other happy. It's not like I wouldn't love for him to stay with me a bit longer" Miriam said with a sigh that tipped Caren off that the latter was more along the lines of what she wanted, the former idea was just her putting her son's best interests ahead of her own...
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