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I wedged myself further into the trough provided by the wood grain, the desk’s slight imperfections giving me a varied range of terrain I never would have noticed before.  Gina’s pupil, blown up to ridiculous proportions by the magnifying glass, followed me wherever I went – not that I was going far, anyhow.  My slow crawl through the wooden ditch was going none too fast, and Gina clearly knew it.

 

Gina’s constellation-sized lips moved and the ground beneath me shook in anticipation of her thundering voice.  “This is more like it,” she said, every syllable resonating in my bones.  “You looked taller than normal last week, but that must have been a trick of the light.  Maybe you were wearing a different pair of shoes or something.  Whenever I thought of Fulda’s boyfriend, I always remembered you being just about this big.”

 

I peeked out of the trench to look for Jessica, but found my view blocked for miles in each direction by Gina’s right thigh.  No doubt she was occupied with Anni right now anyway.  “I never really thought of you as a person.”  The renewed sonic assault made me duck back down into cover.  “Not compared to us, anyway.  You never were more than a speck to me, just a pathetic little mite clinging to my older sister.  She must have felt absolutely gigantic with you looking up at her, standing on her foot or something so you wouldn’t get crushed.”

 

Gina’s fist slammed into the desk with the force of an asteroid, launching me out of the wood grain I was hiding in before I fell back into it.  “Now it’s my turn.”  She extended an index finger and pressed it down over me while I pushed myself against the hard surface at my back.  The whorled surface of her fingerprint bulged into my sanctuary and turned white while she forced it toward me.  The desk’s flaws were just deep enough to accommodate me though, and I was able to stay out of contact with her mammoth fingers.

 

She inspected her empty fingertip with the magnifying glass before lowering it to the table.  “Didn’t think you’d come that easily,” she declared, making my vision shake.  “Or rather, you’re too small for me to catch you like that.”  Gina reached into the unknowable distance to her right before bringing her arm back into view.  Tremors shook the desk when her wrist set down, climaxing with the appearance of a sequoia trunk gripped daintily between her fingers.

 

A toothpick.

 

Before I could get up Gina scraped the toothpick forward in my groove.  The blunt wooden tip easily struck me and lifted me up along the gradual incline until I was draped across its base.  With a single flick she deposited me on a ridge, denying me cover within any more of the desk’s features.  Feeling defeated, I simply looked up at Gina dominating my view in three directions and readied myself to endure whatever came next.

 

A series of resounding thuds spread over the desk, and Gina’s unoccupied fingers told me that she had just dropped the toothpick.  Faster than I could believe they were back, this time bearing a pair of tweezers between her thumb and forefinger.  With each prong over a mile long there was no way I could escape this, and in just a few moments the ship-grade metal plates were in position around me.  I closed my eyes while they closed in, and after an interminable wait cold metal touched along the whole length of my body.  My eyes shot open to see two insurmountable metal walls on either side of me, a contoured blue sky beyond them.

 

With a single jerk upward Gina lifted me from the table, and my stomach dropped down to my ankles from the force.  It didn’t feel as though I was dangling between the tweezers.  Gina was in full control while she held me here.  Slowly she lifted me toward her face, and little by little the skyline grew more restricted until all I could see was black with a round blue lining.

 

“Wow, I feel so big compared to you!”  Gina’s voice sounded more like a primal roar that bounced around in my head and blurred my vision.  Long before I could recover she added, “Just imagine, if you were normal size, how big…”  The rumbles gradually died off before they were renewed with a tremendous explosion.  “Wait, you have no idea what it’s like to be normal size!”  My ears rang from her accusatory shout, but she did not stop.  “You’ve always been no more than a speck, trapped in the shadow of giantesses like us!”  In an instant she lowered me from her eye to her mouth, the sloping pink walls engulfing all I could see.

 

Harsh wind cut at my body while she whispered, “Your whole life you’ve been down at our ankles, haven’t you?  What was it like, coming over all those time to have three titanesses towering over you?”  Despite the cutting gusts I was held tight by the metal on either side, and Gina continued.  “If Fulda hadn’t told us, Jess or I would have stepped on you, for sure.  You’re just so insignificant, you know?”  Now that she mentioned it, the times when she was only a head taller than me seemed like a distant memory.  It was getting difficult to remember any time that Fulda and her sisters hadn’t completely dominated my skyline.

 

“Were you scared?” she asked, going back to her earlier question.  The wind from her voice pressed my face against my skull and made my clothes ripple, but I was still held firmly in place.  “Did being at the feet of three enormously tall women concern you, make you worried about getting crushed?”  Before me the pink wall tightened in what must have been a grin.  “Or wait.  You have a thing for tall women, right?  Women the size of a mountain must have really got you going, huh?”  Gina’s resounding voice made me nervous for a variety of reasons just then.  “Not gonna lie, that weirds me out.  I hope you don’t have a boner right now.”

 

The world shifted in more ways than I could process at once while Gina stood, keeping me centered in front of her lips.  Involuntarily I looked down, miles of her body encroaching on my view to the carpet.  This high up the vertigo didn’t even register.  It was more like looking out of a plane mid-flight, the idea of falling was so abstract I could scarcely recognize the danger.  Being so small compared to everything on Gina probably changed a few of my self-preservation priorities too, since it would be nothing for her to crush me or pop me in her mouth.

 

Again the world changed, scrolling past me as though it were an all-encompassing still life filtered through the ends of the tweezers.  In only a couple steps Gina reached her bed and sat on it, causing everything in my sight to bounce violently while she came to a rest on her mattress.  Everything slowly shifted upward and drew my attention, and when I looked down again the light gray earth had been replaced by a smooth alabaster.  Gradually the ground drew closer while the tweezers lowered me until my feet set down upon the surface.

 

Simultaneously the metal plates on either side opened, leaving me with what some might mistake as freedom.  Up close the pale plain was far from smooth, its surface ridged with crags scattering in every direction.  It was soft though taut, with my feet able to indent the top layer without sinking in.  A forest of wispy, waist-high trees was scattered as far as I could see, curving along the horizon.  Beneath me the ground gently raised and lowered, barely enough for me to notice the constant seismic activity.

 

Everything came together at once for me to realize I was standing atop Gina’s tummy.  I turned to my right and saw a deep cavern in the distance, with the ground sharply changing to a dark black beyond that.  The ground returned to its reflective white some immeasurable distance away, continuing a dozen miles before rising sharply in a cloth-covered cliff face.  In shock I spun around to see the great white plain continue for many miles before it reached a set of symmetrical, ridged foothills, and what looked like the original ground crumpled up at the base of taller mountains.  A city-sized hand lay atop the ridge, and beyond that Gina’s immense face peered over, looking in my general direction.

 

The ground rumbled with enough intensity to send me reeling while a harsh wind rushed down at me from the peaks.  “Everywhere you look I’m there,” came Gina’s thunderous voice just as a shadow fell over me.  I looked up to see her free hand blocking out the sky.  “Ground, sky, hills, mountains…” She trailed off into menacing laughter, a low grumble rising from the ground.  “I’m practically a goddess to you, huh?  If I wanted a weak, pitiful little worshipper, that is.”  In between Gina’s deific taunting I could hear Jessica berating Anni while the latter cried out for her to stop, though I couldn’t see anything beyond Gina’s all-encompassing body.

 

An earth-shattering boom split the air, followed by a splitting crack.  “What the fuck did you do this time?” bellowed an enormous voice, familiar despite the heavy distortion.  Fulda had thrown the door open and rushed over the threshold, brandishing Anni’s shoe in one hand, with Mary and Alyssa on either side of her.  At the sight of my girlfriend I felt an onrush of hope, though at the same time the ground beneath me fell away and I tumbled backward.

 

A building crashed into my back, and in the split second before being launched forward I spotted a slight overhang – Gina’s fingernail.  In an instant I flew through the air, racing toward Fulda in a flat arc.  Before I knew what was happening I impacted on her forehead and momentum carried me up onto her scalp.  I rolled head over foot until I came to a stop deep within the forest of auburn hair, thick red strands filling my view in every direction.

 

Groaning I struggled up to a knee, only for the ground to rush out from under me again.  I bounded along the surface of Fulda’s scalp, crashing off the red tree trunks until I was free again, my time inside her hair only a brief memory.  “Where is he?” she shouted, falling upon her sister to throttle her.  “And where’s Anni?”  She was answered by a startled gurgle and the resounding thud of Gina’s head hitting the wall.

 

While Fulda proved that she was still the biggest and strongest sister I plummeted toward the ground.  First I bounced off the top of her back, rolling off her vertebra to be sent back into a freefall.  I dropped several miles along the length of her chemise until landing atop the mountain that was her ass.  A titanic ass cheek funneled me into the outline of her crack and I began to descend again, sliding along her thigh and calf until hitting the ridges of her Achilles tendon.  A tall wall of cotton caught me, and in an instant I was launched over it and sent careening over her heel to land in the carpet.

 

“I haven’t seen your boyfriend!” Gina lied while I came to a rest at the base of a thick carpet fiber.  My moan was drowned out while she continued, “Isn’t he supposed to be in his little house?”  I slowly got to my feet under the shade granted by the carpet.  “Anni came in here and started pushing us around, being way meaner than usual.”  Every single part of me ached, and the twisting pillars on either side did not make me feel any better.  “I just wanted to even us up, make her the same size, but it got out of control.  Jess has her.”

 

Resolutely I grabbed hold of the column nearest me and began climbing back to the surface.  A tremor swept through the floor, causing me to come to a stop while the mast I clung to swayed.  Jess yelped, a piercing screech that assaulted my ears from every direction and caused me to feel faint as it overpowered my senses.  A moment passed, punctuated by her sobbing, before Fulda’s voice dominated the air again.  “You had him last, where is he?”

 

I scrambled for the top, anticipating the reprieve of Anni speaking.  “I had him in my stocking when Gina shrank me,” she began, her voice sounding distant but still full of power.  “He shrank with me and became absolutely miniscule.  She demanded him, and threatened to smash me with my own shoe if she didn’t get him.”  By now I was nearing the top, and forced my aching arms to work just a little bit harder.  “I think she flicked him toward you when you burst in.”

 

All of the light that had been filtering down to me was blocked out suddenly, and through the gaps I could see a great cotton plain of stitched fiber, pulled tight around a curved object.  It set down atop me and compressed the carpet I had been hiding among, forcing me back down to the base.  Fortunately there was enough space left over for me to be comfortable in the gap.  Once the surprise wore off I grabbed onto one of the leg-thickness fibers, realizing it would be the easiest way out of this.

 

For several moments I stayed there, dangling from the sock and holding on for dear life.  Suddenly the person above me exploded into action and I was lifted along with her heel.  Her movements threw me around as though I were on an incredibly intense bull ride, but I desperately clung to the off-white lifeline.  When I came to a stop I was resting against an immense white wall that curved inward as it met the ground, the view above me blocked by rough blue fabric bulging over the wall’s crest.  Beside me the wall rested against an alabaster leg which futilely kicked to throw her assailant off.

 

“You’re not going anywhere until we find him,” Fulda growled above me.  I gave a relieved sigh that I had picked her foot to grab onto while she proceeded to interrogate Gina.  “If you think I’m heavy now, just wait.”  Gina grunted under the strain of Fulda straddling her, so she continued, “When was the last time you were five foot nothing?  Four?  Three?  You’ll be remembering them soon enough if he doesn’t show.”  A smug tone entered her world-splitting voice.  “If it takes long enough you’ll find out what it’s like for the dirt under my nails.”

 

Behind me her two monolithic friends searched the room, trying to find a needle in a haystack.  Mary disinterestedly swept the desk I had hidden on while Alyssa crawled around by the door, scanning the carpet for me.  Every now and then one of them would pick something up and squint, then put it back down when they discovered it was nothing more than a fragment of pencil lead or a scrap of paper.

 

While I was okay with Gina losing a few feet as poetic justice I realized the precariousness of my situation and began screaming for help.  Much to my surprise Anni came around the bend of Fulda’s foot, looking intently at the fraying stitches of the sock.  She looked up at me clinging to Fulda’s heel and motioned for me to stay still, as though I had a choice.  Quickly she ran and crawled onto Fulda’s toes, then scrambled up the length of her foot.  In a few seconds she was only an arm’s length away from me, then she paused.

 

“I know you want out of this,” she began, her voice still booming to me despite her actual size.  “I do too.  But I also want Gina to suffer for doing this to us.  Now, this is totally up to you, but would you be okay if I held onto you a bit before telling anyone?”

 

“I like the way you think,” I replied, and Anni sent an arm up for me.  Her thumb and forefinger settled around me and I let go of the sock I had been clinging to, allowing her to pluck me off it.  “Wait until she’s about four feet, I think?  Maybe three.  It’s kind of dangerous being this small.”

 

Anni turned and slid down the length of Fulda’s foot, running off the toes to be stopped by the carpet.  “Sounds good.  I’ll keep walking around like I’m looking for you to keep up appearances.”  With that she closed her fingers around me in a loose fist, keeping me safely in her palm while she probed various socks to act as though she was looking for me.

 

When it came time for her to inspect Alyssa’s socks the ruse nearly backfired on us.  Unaware of Anni at her feet she raised up her foot to take a step, turning it directly over her friend.  Beneath the shadow of her foot I heard Anni scream before jumping to the side, clutching me to her chest to keep me from rolling out.  An instant later I felt the familiar quake of a footstep through Anni’s skin, and we wordlessly agreed that was time to call it.

 

Anni hurried to Fulda’s exposed knee and tapped on it with her free hand, opening the one with me so I could look up at them both.  While Anni loomed over me, her chestnut hair spilling over her shoulders like a great willow, she was dwarfed against Fulda’s thigh alone.  Her kneecap alone was many times Anni’s size, and her thigh was broad enough for a house.  For me the tremendous thigh was more like several aircraft carriers put together, given a bronze sheen by her tan, enough to support a whole civilization for me.  From here her watchful eyes were so far away I doubted she’d ever be able to find me without Anni’s help.

 

Slowly Fulda turned her head toward us until her icy gaze alighted upon Anni.  “What’s up?” she boomed, making my ribs quiver.  “Besides me, of course… sorry, I’ve got to get those in while I can, you know?”

 

“I found him!” Anni yelled, causing me to clutch my ears to preserve what was left of my hearing.  She held me aloft toward my monumental girlfriend, who set an open hand on the carpet beside her.  Carefully Anni set me atop the pad of Fulda’s index finger then backed away, leaving her to do what was needed.

 

Slowly Fulda lifted me up until I had ascended the whole length of her enormous body.  She held me in front of an eye, her iris large enough to be a movie projector screen while open and her lashes long enough I would get winded running the length of them.  It darted around while trying to find me amid the grooves of her finger before her cavernous pupil was finally able to focus on me.  “Wow.  You.  Are.  Small,” she declared in a staccato rumble.  “I like it.”  I felt the blood drain out of my face; all this trouble and she was going to leave me like this after all.

 

“But not for you,” she continued after letting me sweat a little.  “You’re no fun if you fit in a pore.  It’s cool to know that transitive shrinking works though.  Give me a moment.”  Fulda closed her eyes, the breeze from her eyelids slamming shut blowing back my hair, and gradually I found myself becoming less tiny.  When her eyes opened again I was nearly able to straddle her finger, and while her eye was prominent it hardly dominated my view.  She had returned me to the size she made me.

 

As carefully as she had lifted me up Fulda lowered me back down to the carpet so that I could step off her finger.  “Now what about me?” Anni shouted from behind, causing me to spin around.  To my surprise the most immediate object in view was the front of her skirt; I had to crane my neck back to look at her face again.  She was just as tall, relatively, as she normally would be.  Since then though I had gained a new perspective on what it was like to feel small, or what someone towering over me looked like.

 

“Uh, well, you see Anni,” Fulda stammered, “I can only grow one person every day, it gets messy if I try more, trust me.  He was barely more than a speck so I got him first.  Don’t worry though!  I’ll grow you back tomorrow, I promise.  Until then, you have a new friend!”  Fulda’s other hand shot out from behind her back, revealing something the size of a doll dangling from her fingers.  As she got closer I realized it was Gina, screaming incoherently and struggling futilely to get free.  From half a foot up Fulda let go, dropping her sister to the ground.

 

Despite her temporary embarrassment Gina got back to her feet quickly and stepped toward me and Anni.  She squared up with me and spread her feet, placing her hands on her hips while she glowered down at me.  Even with her diminished height I didn’t quite come up to her knees.  “Even shrunken you’re still a pipsqueak to me,” she growled.  “If you thought I was bad before you haven’t seen anything yet.”  I hoped she was all bluster.

 

“Jess, go get the cage out of my room!” Fulda called, oblivious to Gina’s intimidation.  “We’re moving the party into your room!”  Her sister’s feet thudded against the carpet on her way out, and the three giantesses sat down on the floor, leaving a spot open for Jess.  “The night’s still young.”

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