You know, I found that opening segment to be oddly sweet. I know that might sound odd, given the constant fighting throughout the segment, but, even though I disagree with Donnica here, I feel a lot more endeared to her than I did before (and I liked her before this, too).

One thing I love about this story is the complexity of its characters. There have been so many times so far that a character (read Amber and Donnica) has said one thing but meant something entirely different. I feel like almost everything Donnica said to Trevor in that segment was her disguising her true feelings. In fact, Trevor flat out tells us this in the narrative, when he notes that he sees the worry in Donnica's eyes after she tells him that he will be watched at all times and that he "can't be trusted alone." This makes sense, as the "trust" issue isn't that Donnica thinks Trevor is trying to "escape" her or somehow screw her over but rather that she "can't trust" him to be safe on his own. She says some harsh things to him here, but those stern words are coming from a place of concern, not spite, hate, or disgust.

To me, it seems obvious that the same is true of most of what she says in the second fight of the segment. The first thing she brings up after telling him that she won't let him take the new job is that she won't allow him out of the house during the day. She's not there during the day, so why is it a big deal that he stays there when she herself is working? Again, I think this is a safety issue. She's mostly respected Trevor's autonomy so far (as annoying as she finds it), as we saw when he told her he was searching for a new house to fill his lot. But at the start of this chapter, as noted above, we saw her put her foot down and be firm when it came to his safety. And given all the things she has gotten away with when it comes to tinies, I can see why she'd be concerned that another giant might take him from her or even just kill him if they get the right opportunity. So he needs to stay in her house, where it's safe. It's so obvious to her.

Then there's Donnica referring to Trevor as a slave and telling him that she owns him, as well as her getting indignant when he says that he needs meaningful work. She suggests that he can worship her while she's working as he's looking for meaningful things to do and gets mad when he tries to explain that a job is different. This all sounds pretty arrogant and bad on her part, but, in its own way, I think it's pretty sweet. Given what we've seen of their relationship so far, a lot of the more derogatory meaning behind these words is kind of removed. In my mind, all of this is just her way of saying that she wants him with her always, even in the literal sense. She doesn't want to be separated from him, and the fact that he would "insult" that notion by claiming that he needs to work upset her more than he can understand right now.

The thing about Donnica is that she doesn't seem to know how to express herself around the people she loves. We've seen this a few times with her interactions with Amber, maybe most clearly when we couldn't even hear her side of that call with Amber about soccer not going so well. Donnica cares deeply about her daughter, just as she does Trevor, but, unless she's pushed to the emotional brink, the power attorney just can't convey her real feelings to them. She's used to making demands and having them met almost immediately. Even her own friends are afraid of her (we'll get to that in a minute). Donnica is used to bullying her way into getting what she wants. She doesn't know any other way to approach things like this, and she damn sure doesn't know how to respond when it doesn't work.

We see that as she gets more and more frustrated as Trevor doesn't give in and agree with her. Honestly, she doesn't even need him to when you think about it. She's gotten away with so much with tinies, and she's sharing his registration, so she's holding all the cards. She could just laugh off his complaints and show him that he's a slave by sticking him somewhere he doesn't like and just going about her business. But she can't do that, because Trevor isn't actually a slave to her, no matter how much she tells him (or herself) otherwise. His opinion matters to her, and she wants him to be happy. She just wants him to accept that she's always right and to give her what she wants, too. Unfortunately for her, that's not how relationships work.

So Donnica tries threatening and intimidating Trevor into making an apology for daring to defy her. When that doesn't work, she tries to woo him into it by tempting him with her ass, telling him that licking her anus will be taken as an apology and getting even more upset when he refuses to do it. She knows he loves it, yet he won't do it because he won't give into her. That's so frustrating to her that it starts to bring her to tears. She's so upset that he can't just give her this. Why can't he just go with her on this?

Ironically, the stubbornness that kept these tactics from working are part of what attracts her to him, and I almost think part of her would have been disappointed if she had been able to scare him into submission.

So Donnica decides that she needs to "punish" Trevor. And how does she do that? By making him sleep in her slipper. That's right, the guy with the foot fetish who's totally comfortable sleeping inside her asshole is being "punished" by being "forced" to sleep in her slipper. Clearly this is no punishment at all, given his love of her feet. And, in fact, the very next segment makes clear that this was usually something nice that she did for him and that he "reluctantly enjoyed" the smell, even if it did "feel like a prison" this time. The real punishment for both of them is their anger at one another, but that wasn't intentionally given to them by the other: That's just how they feel in that moment.

Also, I thought it was super cute that she gave him the hand towels to use as a blanket despite her anger. There's something about being considerate when enraged that's just really funny to me.

But Donnica's real problem here is that, while (as I've said before) Trevor accepts her for who she is, she really hasn't completely done the same for him yet. He has a good reason for wanting this job, yet she has no interest in really listening to it. She just wants him to do what she wants. She also gets frustrated at that same stubborn attitude that she sometimes loves, meaning she hasn't fully accepted the good with the bad when it comes to him yet. Whether or not she gets there will determine if Trevor is able to get that job (or another one like it if Donnica can't reverse what she did) and most likely the course of the relationship overall.

One last thing on that opening segment. I thought it was a good move to briefly note that intimate segment in the shower between Donnica and Trevor. It shows that, despite everything, they're still very much in love, but, at the same time, writing a detailed smut scene in between the two fights would have felt really awkward. I think this light touch was a great way to handle it. It really read the room, so to speak.

Man, all that Victoria stuff was intense! That shit built up to the point that, at the start of the chapter's final segment, I was legitimately concerned that she might do something truly terrible to Trevor. That seething anger of hers reaching a boiling point, all the humiliations she put Trevor through, and the general way she treats tinies all had me feeling like bad things were in store for our hero. So excellent work building that tension! It was straight-up palpable by the end of the second-to-last segment, when she turned her attention back to Trevor.

But I loved how Trevor reacted in that moment. He spent most of the chapter thinking that Victoria would mostly listen to him the way that Donnica does, and he didn't really adjust to Victoria's radically different treatment of him. But, when he really thought she was going to do something to him, something serious, he didn't whine or beg; he was defiant without even saying a word. Despite his exhaustion and fear, he wasn't going to give her what she wanted. And even Victoria recognized that. After spending most of the chapter trying to show Trevor that he's not really a man, she acknowledged (to herself) that he actually was, and it turned her on in a way that she hadn't been in years. He separated himself from her husband, and that made her want to break him even more.

But she can't, because she's still sober enough to remember that Trevor is Donnica's and that Donnica would destroy her if she went too far with him. Hell, she even realized that she "flirted" with that line with what she already did. Unknown to her, though, I think Donnica would think she already crossed it with that stunt in the pool, as Donnica does think that Victoria is beneath her little man, and seeing her make him swim between her smelly feet to make him feel less than that probably wouldn't sit well with her.

What Victoria did with those slaves, though? Fucking hot! She did in one with her asshole, one with her clit, and one with her foot, giving herself two powerful orgasms along the way. And the way she held eye contact with Trevor both when going into the shower and as she squished that last tiny was incredible! From a fetish standpoint, I loved this! From a narrative standpoint, I'm curious and concerned about Trevor's mental state after witnessing a murder before his eyes and hearing two more just before that.

All of that stuff should make it very interesting the next time we see Donnica and Trevor together. I don't know if we're going to see that as she comes back from town or if we'll jump ahead by then, but either way, Trevor's likely going to be in a weird, distant place, and I'm really curious how Donnica reacts to that, assuming she's calmed down enough to notice and doesn't try to avoid him or something.

And hopefully, Victoria gets what the fuck is coming to her.

I don't always feel that way when reading stories on this site. In fact, part of the fun is truly not knowing if the worst people will suffer for their crimes and even sometimes not wanting them to suffer (I already said that I like Donnica despite the terrible things she's done, so I'm actually not pulling for her to get her just desserts). It's weird how that works sometimes. But not in Victoria's case. Fuck her. Anybody who hates their husband because he's not miserable enough and she can't drag him down to her level is just disgusting, although that little tidbit explained so much about her.

And don't even get me started on her parenting. What a fucking monster. Naomi actually wasn't too bad this chapter when it came to Trevor (or, at least, she wasn't nearly as bad as I thought she would be the next time she got her hands on a tiny), but I can see why she's as fucked up as she is. Victoria did nothing but scream at her and even physically abused her a couple times. That's so fucked up. Then there's that "I don't care what you want" line. It seems clear to me that the only reason Victoria has custody of Naomi is to keep her ex-husband from having her, which would probably make both Naomi and her dad happy. And Victoria can't have that. Because fuck her!

Yeah, fuck her! Did I say that already? Well, I'll say it again, fuck her!

But I want to clarify that me feeling this way about Victoria is a good thing. You created a truly despicable character that draws a strong emotional response out of me, and that's really the goal of writing, isn't it? So good work, and, you know, fuck her.

Lastly, I suddenly have a lot of sympathy for Naomi, despite her murderous intent with tinies. Again, I have a feeling that something's coming with her that's going to be pretty bad, but, if I'm write about that, putting this stuff into the story before that adds a delicious layer of complication to whatever it is she's about to do, and I absolutely love that! I now know her a lot more about her motivations, and that should really add something to anything she does moving forward.

So yeah, great chapter, even without including the ever-popular Amber-Rebecca dynamic! Given that it sounds like you wrote a lot of this out well in advance and, reading some of your responses to reviews, you might have been a little surprised at just how much the readers are getting into that arc, I imagine you may have been a little concerned about that by the time you got to this point. But you nailed this, and having a Trevor-centric chapter reminds us of just how interesting he is as a character, too!

The goddess, the allmight figure, is one of both nurture and destruction, and Amber and Donnica are living embodiements of these aspects… or maybe it’s more accurate to say they strive to be, to become Trevor and Rebecca’s whole world. This strive is more apparent in Amber’s case because the tiny one is more mature, smarter, more her own self than the owner. This battle to be his own self is also the dynamic of Trevor and Donnica – she has full control over Amber, but fears losing Trevor in every corner because he is already an adult man despite being tiny. Trevor on the other hand wants freedom but is, at the same time, terrified by it. This nurturing and destructive aspects became clear to me when comparing Amber and Donnica with Victoria, which embodies only destruction. She is a destructive force not only for tinies but also for her family. And the irony is that, this 100% destructive force maybe introducing us to a new dynamic between Naomi and Trevor - that of father and daughter – in which Naomi will start striving to take the mother's place in Trevor’s life.

All these complex psychological interpretations are highlighted by the great writen size and feet scenes, the story feels natural. Simply a great use of the blurry lines between desire, lust, power, love and family for development. The world isn’t monotone, the main and side characters aren’t one dimensional. I can only thank you for all the thought, the hard work, for writing and sharing with us.

P.S.: Sorry for any misspelling. Although I am fluent in english, it is not my primary language.

My Trevor certainly caused a lot of mischief today.

I hope Rebecca is more well behaved in future installments to give these nice women a break.