Reviewer: Jim1989 Signed [Report This]
Date: August 11 2024 5:24 PM Title: Chapter 32: The End

Nice closure at the end there. Initially I was expecting Trish to stay planetary in size with humanity living on her forever, but this was a nice enough route to go instead. It's nice that Trish was somehow able to shrink back in size so that she can be intimate with Thomas and her children once again. Kinda curious as to how humanity was able to survive living on Trish's skin during their trip to Mars...was Trish so big that she produced her own breathable atmosphere or did people live in vacuum sealed bubble colonies on her body during the adventure? Moot point either way, I know.

Anyways, nicely done for closure to this story on the whole. Good stuff!

Reviewer: bustyshrink Signed [Report This]
Date: August 05 2024 9:04 PM Title: Chapter 32: The End

Bravo!!! What an accomplishment! I've never read a story quite like this one. I really appreciate the dedication to straining the imagination by having her actually go from tall woman to planetary goddess and back. And the idea of breaking the giantess out of the fantasy mold by constantly contrasting Trish against more stereotypical giantess characters was so fun. The scene of her using an abandoned town to play through her football helmeted boyfriend's monster giant woman fantasy was I think my favorite scene and I love how you wrote her as a person with her own specific kinks and character faults. I also love how well you did the raid gone wrong scene and the tension between her and the authorities in general. If the itch takes you I'd love to see you tackle another caught-in-the-middle giantess vs authorities narrative, I think you have a special flair for it. Maybe like a woman grows to 100 feet tall and has to begrudgingly be a special agent for the government via blackmail or something. ANYWAY, amazing job, very rare to have a giantess author go as hard as you did for this amazing tale!

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: August 02 2024 10:04 AM Title: Chapter 31: The End is Nigh

It's amazing that you've found a way to make Trish being so ridiculously big not only be incredibly hot but also continue to play into such a compelling narrative. All the buildup from this slow burn up to now has made her so interesting that even when she can't speak or move she's intriguing to read about.

That's a hell of an accomplishment, and I'll admit that when you initially marked this story's size range to the most extreme categories early on, I had my doubts that this story would be able to hold on to what made it special when we started measuring Trish in miles, let alone when we'd start doing so by states! But you pulled it off, and I have no doubt that the final chapter, no matter how large Trish is, is going to be interesting and satisfying.

I mentioned that the last chapter was heartbreaking, as that was the chapter when Trish became too big to safely interact with humanity, namely her family. But the start of this one was a bit gut-wrenching. Not only finding out that Trish's growth had claimed lives (albeit it sounds like those people's stubbornness is as much to blame as her), but to see her blink an apology for stretching for the first time in three days was just so sad to read. Throughout this story, it's been made clear just how much Trish loves people, loves humanity as a whole, so knowing how much it bothers her that people are dying just because she exists makes me feel for her in a way I don't think I have for very many fictional characters.

And for her to want to know the damage she's causing, even when Thomas would rather protect her from it, just made me love Trish even more. People are small enough now that she could just pretend they aren't there and no one could really blame her. Hell, at her size, she could easily justify to herself that she needs to be able to move around and that she deserves to be comfortable. It's not even her fault that this has happened to her!

But, once again, she tries so hard to put everyone else before herself, like a true goddess would (I still haven't given up on that theory yet; we'll see what happens next chapter). It's really touching!

But with that mentality, it only makes sense that she lost that faith that had guided her for so long, that she stopped believing that she could will herself to not destroy the planet. Such a trying time would shake anyone's faith, I think. But that just made it so much more rewarding when that faith came flooding back as she realized that her purpose was to save the people of Earth, not destroy them.

This week's Trish moment was her blinking that everyone was invited to live on her body before the president was able to explain what was happening. That kind of made him discussing it with Thomas privately first kind of pointless (not from a narrative standpoint, but from the president's viewpoint, if that makes sense), but damn was it incredibly cute!

Also, holy shit did you do an amazing job of selling Trish's size here. From the devastating impact of her subtle movements stretching to her cutting lose a bit and having some fun altering the planet when it was only those who wanted to stay and die left on it, the way you demonstrate the effect that Trish is having on the world around her is enthralling. I personally enjoyed her admiring that her foot was the size of Florida as she rolled her ankle and stepped on it. That was such a fun way to make that point!

But you also kept things interesting by keeping us posted on some of the other characters that have shown up from time to time in the story. I love how Nancy, on some level, kept the faith that Trish wouldn't destroy the planet even when Trish privately wasn't able to do so. Between that and her little near slip of almost calling Trish goddess on live tv, it's clear that Trish as a person had a deeper impact on Nancy than the newswoman would care to admit.

I felt so bad for Melanie at the start of her segment. I was sad to read that she went from wanting to make amends with Trish and Thomas and even be friendly with them again when last we saw her to hating Trish, although I can't blame her for this. Not only did she lose her job and home because of Trish's growth, but she's been branded a heretic because of the religion formed around Trish (ironically, Trish would have never wanted this for Melanie). Even though my hope was that Melanie would be able to at least clear the air with our two protagonists before the end of the story, I'm glad that she got her happy ending and found a way to love again. It was a beautiful ending for her (I mean, she could show up in the last chapter, but what was written here feels a bit like the last word on her to me).

As a side note, after reading this chapter, I came away thinking that the Little Ones cult is so interesting that I almost wouldn't have minded reading a story just about them, not even for the size fetish perspective of Trish but just out of interest. I'm not saying that to encourage you, but rather to point out that, in a short period, you shaped a truly intriguing lose religious order that I kind of hate but in a good way. In particular, the way that Barry guy twisted Trish's cute little ones to mean members of the cult itself was a great example of how people abuse and misinterpret religion to mean what they want it to mean, and I found that as interesting as I did despicable.

I was also thrilled to see Jake get what was coming to him. He came off as a shallow, chauvinistic jerk when we saw him early on, and this chapter absolutely confirmed all of my worst thoughts about him. To be fair, I think Gianna is a fanatic (albeit an incredibly smart one) who was way out of line for what she did, but I just couldn't find myself to feel bad for Jake. He's a jerk, and he got what was coming to him. I am left to wonder if he made it onto Trish at all before the end of the world, though. I know it was implied that everyone who wanted on got on, but between the fanatics and that crazy rush that he was afraid of in the first place, it's tough to say for sure (at least in my mind).

So yeah, this was an awesome chapter, much moreso than I could have imagined going in, given Trish's immense size and the fact that this meant humans were pretty much invisible to her. But Trish's gentle nature won the day once again! I really look forward to seeing how you end this story. I've been holding out hope that she would eventually become small enough to hang out with her family, but with the way this one went down, that could potentially mean the end of all humanity! So I'm curious if you found a way to make that work somehow, or if the last chapter will just be some sort of epilogue for the people living on Trish as she drifts endlessly through space.

Like her, though, I have faith!

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: July 26 2024 3:23 AM Title: Chapter 30: Vanishing

What a heartbreaking chapter this was.

The emphasis you put on Trish's size gradually isolating her from everything she loves is such a unique thing to see in a story on this site. Most stories here are about size giving women (and occasionally men) everything they want through the power of being big, but here Trish is slowly losing the only thing she wants, her family, by growing.

And worse yet, she can't even properly grieve about it for the sake of those around her!

I really like how this was presented, too. We started out with details of why Thomas and she stopped doing various things and how many close calls they had. Then, as her size became more extreme, we transitioned into something more resembling a timeline, marking negative milestones such as her no longer being able to see Junior with her naked eye (that one particularly struck me, for some reason). To me, this helped highlight how quickly her growth progressed through this time, updating us at hige jumps of 500 foot intervals from paragraph to paragraph. This was really well done!

Thomas's innovative approach to giving Trish as much of a life as possible was quite touching as well. The living space lens thing was a pretty cool idea, and it was nice that she could still see the kids and him even with the extremensize difference. It also allowed him to give her that trademark smile at the end of the chapter, helping her through such a painful time, just like always.

The tiny-controlled vibrator was a clever little idea, too! I figured he'd be riding in a giant dildo at some point, but it was cool that he found a way to be active in pleasuring his 1,000-foot wife as well. I also loved that she went from not super enthused but willing to try to orgasming three times! Based on the show she gave him before putting him in, I'm willing to bet that him being in there had just as much to do with that as the vibrating itself!

So Trish has a cult of Little Ones now, huh? I wonder what role they'll play as we're nearing the end of the story.

Oh, this week's Trish moment was her hugging the loving space with Thomas in it. She found a way to make almost accidentally crushing him to death look so cute!

I'm really curious to see how this story ends. I know this is a size fetishist site, and my horny brain is always saying, "Bigger!" but I do hope that Trish finds a way to hold her kids and fuck her husband proper one day. She's just someone who's so easy to root for, and given how well she has handled having so much power all this time, I'd say she deserves that much. But you've done a good job of keeping the ending hard to predict. I have no idea whatsoever what to expect in these last two chapters!

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: July 19 2024 8:24 AM Title: Chapter 29: Mutually Assured Destruction

I can't say enough how much I love how subtly the callback to the power poses of the earlier chapters was done here. The poses aren't mentioned by name, but that raising of Trish's chin and that puffing out of her chest make it clear what she's doing. And what is it she's doing? Why bluffing, of course.

That's not to say that Trish wouldn't hurt the military if they hurt Thomas or the rest of her family, but I think that her doing so would be guided by spur of the moment emotion rather than making good on a threat. No, Trish is trying to intimidate her enemies here in the hope that things never get that far and maje sure Thomas stays safe. We see this conveyed, again in a ver nuanced manner, when she gives that full smile after the military agrees to let her family go, only to slip back into that stern look a second later, trying to hide her relief and keep the facade going. Mendleton noticing her breathe out herbtension looking over junior and the emotion she showed alone with her family seem to back this up as well.

And the confidence she was able to display in such a high pressure situation was pretty impressive, especially knowing how important Thomas in particular is to her. I've said ot before, but I continue to be proud of how far Trish has come from those early days curled up in a ball on her hospital bed.

That all being said, confident Trish casually threatening the military was hot as fuck!

Jeb being proud of his daughter for fighting against the government was super cute!

This week's Trish moment was her accepting Mendelton's apology, I think. She demanded it but didn't accept it right away because she knew they owed her one, but she wanted to understand where she was coming from, why they felt they had to do this, before deciding to accept it. Once she knew how desperate they were, she empathize with them and was able to accept the apology. That empathy, her not putting herself above humanity despite viewing herself as a literal goddess is the core of who Trish is, and this is what separates her from those "maladjusted brats" of Thomas's favorite fetish stories.

I also like the way you balanced Trish's confidence in her destiny and the gravity of the sacrifice that she was willing to make for her family. She didn't believe that the chem nukes would hurt her, but it was made obvious that she wasn't afraid to die so that the people most important to her (and, let's be honest, probably people in general, knowing Trish) could live. I feel like these states were hard to navigate, but I think the reader is able to feel the weight of her decision without her coming off as doubting herself. This was nicely executed!

Finally, I was a bit touched that Mendelton seemed to come around on Trish by the end of the chapter. His respect for her being willing to sacrifice herself for her child was a nice moment, as was him being not completely sure if he would be able to do the same, even if would like to think he would. That level of honesty helped me see him in a new light.

Him realizing that she really is a goddess and that this wouldn't work right before pressing the button was a pretty cool moment, too. I wonder if he too believes that she won't destroy the world now.

Reviewer: Jim1989 Signed [Report This]
Date: July 15 2024 10:16 PM Title: Chapter 29: Mutually Assured Destruction

Side Note: Thought about this as a follow-up. Wanted to include it in my previous review, but the thought only came to me afterwards. I figured that at this point, the reality of Trish's size is apparent to the entire country and probably the entire world, assuming other countries get American news channels and such. Assuming the rest of the world catches wind of Trish's growth - meaning that she's going to grow bigger and bigger to the point of being literally MILES tall as well as being literally unstoppable, unbeatable, and all-powerful  - I would guess that large chunks of civilization might end up experiencing downright anarchy if they figure that the apocalypse is just a few years away and there's nothing they can do to stop it. Again, I don't know if Trish and Thomas could put out any kind of statement that would keep people around the world (both in America and elsewhere) from going all "Children of Men" and appeal for calmness and stability. Just something to consider within the broader framework of the story in case you'd like to address it. I only put this out there because I've come to enjoy this story very much over the past few weeks.

Again, good stuff!

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: July 12 2024 7:24 AM Title: Chapter 28: The Next Step

The first thing I noticed here was Trish changing her view of humans from little people to bugs. Of course, I can't blame her for this, given how small we seem to her, and her watching the "bug" doctors scurry when she was trying to see little Thomas Jr. was one of my favorite parts of the chapter.

Man, Thomas is such a good husband, putting up with moody Trish during the pregnancy. Granted, he was probably into some of the stuff she did, but holy shit did that pressing the air out of him sound brutal. Of course, I wouldn't call this outright cruelty because of the safeword, which she honored, sort of. Leaving him stranded on her tot for so long that she forgot about him was a whole different sort of torment.

So I had to ask myself the same question that Thomas asked her: Why? Her answer was interesting. She did it because she was feeling guilty and wanted to test how much he'd put up with from her? I took that to mean that her hormones were making her feel insecure and have some doubt about just how committed Thomas is to her, which she felt shitty about because her rational side knows how devoted he is. So her compromise was to prove it by doing by "helping him breathe." And even when he passed the test by putting up with it for a while and giving the perfect answer,"I thought you were enjoying it," her insecurity still couldn't accept that and convinced herself that he was just into it, hence the further punishment and the deeper guilt after she calms down and realizes how irrational and mean she had been.

I have no idea if any of that is correct, but that's how I made sense of it.

Oh, and I just love the idea that Trish would randomly decide, "That's enough words" and just tossed Thomas in her mouth for a few hours. Even without a detailed description, that may be the hottest thing you've written in the whole story, at least in my opinion, and that's saying something.

I was happy to see Thomas come around on the whole destiny thing. And that bot right before that, when he once again read Trish's mind. It's impressive just how well he knows her, and stuff like this makes them so enjoyable as a couple.

This week's Trish moment has to be her insisting that Thomas fill her with millions of babies just so she could have a baby belly. That was a cute, silly conversation that I really enjoyed. Between that and her affectionately partially "caving in" her birthing cavern by pressing her hand into herself, as well as all the love she felt when Thomas announced that he had their baby, there was so much heartwarming stuff here!

And then the army showed up, because of course they did! I wonder if they knew her babu was being born that day. If so, pure balls on their part. Trish still hasn't hurt anybody too badly yet, but this may be the ultimate test for her.

But I have to say, if they took Thomas as a hostage, that's probably the only card they have left to play, but that doesn't make it a good one. I'm really curious how this plays out.

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: July 05 2024 7:06 AM Title: Chapter 27: Developments

Maybe the most intriguing part of this chapter was Trish's dream. It could be interpreted in a number of ways, but to me, this was our lovely goddess's subconscious acknowledging how vital Thomas has been to her transition into a goddess (whether that transition is symbolic or literal), as well as how much she still leans on him even now.

She says the dream started with them on one of their walks, which were maybe the most critical part of her gaining confidence during the early days of her growth, and Thomas, her anchor during this whole ordeal, is walking along side her. I don't think this is a coincidence, nor is it one that he grows alongside her. Even though he obviously hasn't grown with her, he has shared this experience with her, which I think is part of the reason why she has said multiple times that she would always basically always do what he says and never  go against him. Likewise, the fact that they're still going at ot when she spans the width of North America and the Atlantic seems to affirm her belief that Thomas will stay by her side no matter how big she gets.

And Trish being so into this dream tells us how much she values these traits in her husband but also how she has come to feel about her growth, going from fearing it to being turned on by it. We've seen a lot of this expressed in previous chapters, but to see her subconscious put all of these feelings together for her here (unless I'm wrong in my interpretation) is a beautiful thing.

I love the smugness with which she dealt with the military trying to stop her from saving the people in the burning building. To me, this interaction sums up Trish perfectly. She loves the power she has over the little people, but she refuses to use it unless there's a good reason to do so. So when the military tried to put preserving its authority over saving lives, she was practically giddy at the chance to rightfully put them in their place.

This shows just how reserved Trish is as a goddess. She loves the little people so much that she nit only devotes her time and power to help them, but she stops herself from even gently dominating them, something she could easily do at any time, as we see when she straight up ignored the attack on her when she defied their order.

This is also why the military adviser to the president is wrong when he says that Trish will stroll into Washington and just take over and the president's fear of losing his bluff of a deterrent is for nothing. She only wants to help humanity despite all its flaws. That all the people complaining about her are authority figures shows how unique she is. They all feel their positions threatened by her and can't comprehend that she won't use her power to seize control. Meanwhile, the common people interviewed, those who only cared about their day-to-day lives and their jobs, all seemed to see her as a force for good.

The contrast between those with power given to them by their positions with how Trish handles having real power helps to highlight how special she really is.

Also, it was nice to see that blood Trish gave for science come into play here. I wonder if the government took the sample or if she was lied to when they said they would use it to see if they could help people with it. In any case, I was happy to learn that she has a 97 percent chance of surviving a nuke! Unfortunately, we can't say the same for Thomas or the rest of humanity for that matter.

Which leads to another interesting observation; the president spent all his time lamenting how the nuclear option wouldn't work and no time considering the innocent casualties nuking Trish would surely cause. Maybe Trish should make that trip to Washington.

In a smaller note, it's interesting that Trish's strategy of willing away the need to eat has worked and it doesn't even seem to bother her anymore. It makes me wonder what else she can will herself to do. Could she force herself to stop growing? I know she wanted to stop before, but I think her confidence and faith in herself are a factor here. She really believes that she doesn't need food so she doesn't. When she wanted to be normal, she didn't believe she could be.

Of course, I think this is a moot point, as clearly Trish doesn't want to stop growing at this point. But I could see her willing herself to control her size at some point (or maybe this is wishful thinking on my part, just wanting to see a happy ending).

Finally, I'm both happy for and curious about what Trish's pregnancy means for the couple. It's going to be hard for Trish to play a role in raising that kid or even enjoying its infancy. But, like with the find issue, I bet she'll find a way through pure will.

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: June 28 2024 8:49 AM Title: Chapter 26: Goddess

I feel like Trish's belief in destiny and that she can will away things like hunger feed into the goddess theory around her size. And if that ends up being the cause of all this, I love the theme of the benevolent, loving, and just a tad awkward goddess learning from the early days of her growth to have confidence in herself and become the deity this world needs.

First, seeing Trish's interaction with Robert really encapsulates what makes her so special. The joy she felt at being able to give him the relief he needed in that moment, the miracle he had been hoping for but never expecting, literally brought her to tears. She didn't put out the fire to feel a sense of accomplishment or to show the world her worth, and she certainly didn't do it for praise or worship. She just wanted to make people happy, and seeing the stress leave Robert's body as he finally relaxed and left everything to her gave her a feeling she's probably never felt before.

This is what she means when she says she's a goddess. She wants to take away as many troubles being faced by individual people as she can. She wants humanity to trust her, not place her above them. This is a very different kind of goddess than the patrons of this site are used to, and that makes me love Trish that much more!

I love how awkward Trish is with the media. She's not a stateswoman nor is she trying to project herself as being worth more than the average person, so coming off as a little nervous and having a little doubt behind her words, like I feel most of us would if given that large a spotlight, helps her feel grounded, even when she's claiming a sort of divinity.

And her trying to explain to Nancy how she can do more than the firefighters and also trying to not downplay the work said firefighters do was this week's Trish moment, I think. She knows how hard this was for them and how easy it was for her, but she struggled to find the right words to convey that both things can be true, and it all came off in about as cute a way as possible as she bobbled her way through that.

Also, I feel like that whole destiny thing comes into play here as well, as Trish's awkwardness with the press caused her to call herself a legit goddess in such a way that Nancy found it a bit endearing rather than egotistical or threatening. So maybe Trish's natural nervousness defused the situation on its own, and things just worked themselves out for her.

Trish refusing to eat in order to prove Dr. Vale wrong and not "eat everything" is a tremendous sacrifice on her part, assuming it works (with the way this story is going, it most certainly will, I think). She's quite literally starving herself for humanity, simply willing her hunger away, and without any guarantees that this is going to get any easy down the road. She truly loves the "little people," even if she hasn't fully realized that this is why she's doing this yet.

Thomas's stance on Trish's destiny position is pretty interesting. He's a man of science, so it makes sense that he doesn't buy into it at all. But at the same time, he does have faith in his wife, even if he doesn't realize it and thinks that question is unfair, because he's backing down and respecting her belief by doing so. Even if he thinks she'll ultimately prove him right, he's standing by her through these choices and his concerns are coming from a good place anyway. He's just worried about her, but he wants to support her as best he can at the same time.

I've said it several times at this point, but the specific ways in which you have Trish and Thomas support one another through all these trials and tribulations serves as an excellent example of what a health relationship and marriage should look like.

That bit where Trish is internally taunting the San Diego skyline about how much larger she's going to be than it come a year or two later was pretty striking for me. As I read about her mentally teasing the little people of the city about how her foot will be bigger than their whole skyline, I couldn't help but think back to when we first met Trish, hugging her knees as she kept herself in a ball trying to shrink herself or her crying when she heard the news that she was going to reach at least 30 feet tall. Her confidence has brought her so far, and I'm not ashamed to say that I was a little proud of her embracing who she is like that.

Man, that confrontation with the military went a lot better than I thought it would, too! I love how happy Trish was at the thought of the military trusting her, but I have to wonder if that's really what happened here. It's wholly possible that she's right, but I could also see the higher ups in the chain of command not liking the optics of assaulting a pretty girl in a sundress, even if she is 150 feet tall. Or maybe they have some doubts as to how effective they can be against her. We still don't know the full extent of her regenerative abilities, either, so that could give them pause as well.

In any case, I'm glad they allowed her to save the whale, and it's great to see the people of this world fully embracing her good deeds tour like those on the beach did.

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: June 21 2024 9:11 AM Title: Chapter 25: Stuck

It only makes sense that right after I give Thomas credit, he goes and makes a mistake like this.

That being said, this was actually a pretty healthy fight for a married couple, I think (unless you happen to be a small abandoned town, anyway). What I mean by that is that while, yes, Thomas was being selfish in wanting his wife to give up on the idea of going out into the world, his reason for wanting this wasn't selfish at all. In the end, he just wants Trish to be safe, and his concern about how the outside world (and the military, in particular) seems pretty legit based on how people have acted around her for the most part so far.

But Thomas's mistake was that, once he identified what it was she wanted, he initially chose to try and talk her out of it instead of hearing her out and really listening. He let his own fears cloud his judgment and tried to steer her in the "right" direction, something we haven't really seen him do up until this point. As a result, Trish became frustrated and upset, and the ghost town paid the price.

What we saw from him in the back half of this chapter is what we've come to expect from him. He calmed down and tried to get at the heart of what was bothering Trish. He got her to feel comfortable and open up, to the point that when she couldn't articulate what her feelings were he was able to piece it together in a way that made her feel understood and even helped her to understand some of those feelings herself. It's always heartwarming when Thomas is able to do this, showing that he truly gets his wife and is able to see directly into her soul.

I also really liked how he admitted that he wasn't buying this destiny idea that Trish believes but is willing to see it through with her anyway. It's easy to support the people we love when they're making the choices we think are right; it's quite another to back them even when we think they're wrong and may even be putting themselves at risk. That's a level of trust and love that few people ever truly achieve, I think (although I hope I'm wrong about that!).

For Trish's part, I can certainly understand feeling a sense of guilt (I'm not sure if that quite fits, but it's the best word I can think of here) at keeping all this newfound power to herself and using it just for her own pleasure and that of her husband. She really does feel like a goddess, and she wants to act like one toward humanity. As I've mentioned several times by this point, this is a benevolent want, not a selfish, controlling one. She's not looking for worship and praise. She just wants to help people, and she knows that there are things that only she can do for them. You could argue that this is selfish of her, as most of humanity is too frightened of her to want this and would rather she keep to herself, but I think it's pretty selfless to want to give up the comfort of her father's property to do good even at the risk of provoking the military and possibly being killed for no good reason.

It was both endearing and heartbreaking to see Trish willing to give this desire up for the sake of Thomas. She's a good spouse, fully willing to put her happiness aside for the sake of her partner. Likewise, Thomas was willing to do the same, which, as I believe I've said before, is how this is supposed to work. If both partners are putting their spouse's wants above their own, then they'll take care of each other and everything will work out, as it did here. Thomas knew that she was going to give up her happiness for him (as he cockily noted at the end of the chapter), and he couldn't just let her do that. He had to let her know that he would be okay with her doing this and that he wanted to be by her side as she did it, even if he didn't think it was a good decision. It was a really touching moment by both of them, really.

And then there's that last paragraph. It's been a while since she realized that she would do whatever Thomas told her to do. But I don't think this is blind devotion or he willfully being manipulated. I think she would never disobey Thomas because she knows that he's looking out for her best interests and trusts him completely. She knows he would never take advantage of her, as he cares too much about her to do that. That's the source of her desire to do whatever he tells her or why, despite it being bigger than him, she let him stop her finger from playing with him on her knee. It's also why seeing him so boldly declare this while standing on her body only reminds her of why she loves him rather than find the smugness with which he made the declaration annoying.

There's just so much depth to these two, both in personality and in their relationship in general, and that's what makes this story so special. I mean, we're 25 chapters in, and I'm nowhere near tired of reading about them. I have to admit that I was briefly concerned in the early chapters that once they got past the drama and the "will they won't they" phase of the budding relationship the story would struggle to maintain its intrigue. But you've built off that start so masterfully that I'm way more interested now than I was even then.

So I guess what I'm saying is, great work and I look forward to more as it looks like we're starting to creep up on the endgame!