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Author's Chapter Notes:

Duguda kidnaps earthling colony citizens and sticks them to the table with red tape, to oppose Ambloome's hospitality to the migrants from earth.

Alicindra and Admyra had become the best of chums,

Since Admyra had responded to the beat of legal drums

By dismissing prosecutions by the lawyer named Duguda,

Who’d attacked Kayte’s Mom’s relations with a welcome small intruder.

 

Alicindra had assisted Judge Admyra’s meeting Bryce,

Paralegal boy from Sydney; and the couples found it nice

To be double-dating frequently, but all of them were feeling

That the shrinking power of Ambloome was the means for some concealing.

 

So the four consulted Ambloome in their search for good advice.

She informed them of the chance to make the women small as Bryce,

Just as Jenyfer and she had done. Four couples went off touring

To the future, where the radiation baths were most alluring.

 

Ambloome introduced the other women to the scientists,

Who repeated what they’d done before. When radiation’s mists

Cleared away, the Judge and Kayte’s Mom waited for the special treatment

To enable them to walk the places where the shrunken feet went.

 

Soon it happened. Now four giant women all could infiltrate

Earth society at earthling size on one quadruple date.

But at first, they just went separately, with Ambloome gladly waiving

Her new rules against those amulets which Stawmi was engraving.

 

Now that Friemann stayed in future times, the Viking he had trained

As a maker of new amulets (the expert who remained)

Had permission from the queen to make two more to aid the linking

Of their worlds for two more giants who enjoyed the power of shrinking.

 

Alicindra shrank to earthling size, and Stawmi gladly showed

Her his Viking village haunts, while on an inner Sydney road,

Bryce was pleased to hold Admyra’s hand, and take her to his mansion,

Plan a midnight party for the girls whose size concealed expansion.

 

That would happen later. Meanwhile, old Duguda, feeling blunt

At the failure of his prosecution, saw a new affront

In construction of the colonies, though little was exerted.

He considered that the Queen’s attention had been too diverted.

 

So he struck at night and kidnapped several folks from Shangri-Large,

And approached Newtopia as well, where he would quickly barge

Past the giantess who guarded it, and snatched some more insurance:

Representatives of cities. Then he gave a new assurance:

 

Once he’d fled to his large castle, he made sure they’d not escape,

When he stuck them to the table top, with red adhesive tape.

With the red tape holding them at bay, he told the reigning monarch,

Who approached, “I’ll kill them all before the sky has even gone dark.

 

If you don’t agree to send the earthlings back to earth, and stick

To our people, I will do these tiny hostages in quick.

If you even try to break in here, I’ll take them all out early.”

They believed his shouted threat and found his disposition surly.

 

“I’m afraid we’d never get to him in time to help, my liege,”

Said a guard to Ambloome, “He can hold off any feeble siege,

With his guns and all those tiny victims trapped. He’d see us coming.

But perhaps an earthling could sneak in, if we locate the plumbing.”

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