Half as long as one of mine? Come on. I mean, I'm sure I wrote at least a couple reviews that were this short!

I don't know if you've ever gotten into an argument with someone over how a theme song goes before, but I've actually done this several times. And I'm undefeated in these arguments (as far as you know). I thought the tapping system and the argument was a nice way to freshen up a classic fetish scenario. It was meant to be a way to show off Callie's dominant side in a way that still fit who she is as a character. What better way to bring that out of her than a petty fight with her tiny boyfriend?

I'm so glad you referred to Callie enjoying Duncan's fetish as a process! I didn't want this to be something they shared outright, nor did I want it to be some switch she flipped and was suddenly as into it as he was. I wanted her to do it because it made him happy and she wanted him to know that she wasn't judging him, but then come to realize that, hey, this is fucking fantastic! Peek relationship goals indeed!

It's awesome that you loved that Brooklyn and Callie scene so much! I was afraid that seeing things from Callie's perspective (and therefore having to miss out on the description from Duncan's perspective of being under her toes while Callie walked) would limit how erotic people found the segment. I love that Callie's reaction to Duncan's "machinations" was so enthralling for you! And yeah, I figured that someone had to notice Callie's altered sandals, and Brooklyn multiple times before that she knew some dude was in Callie's head, so it only made sense to me that she would assume Callie did that for him (I mean, she misunderstood why she did it for him, but still!).

The hotdog test was a real thing, as my editor (breastclimber) was really insistent that tinies under toes are implausible and that they would squish within the first step. Once he was proven right, I knew Callie would figure something else out, and what do you know: She did! Very innovative, that one.

It's very rewarding for me that you noticed the Dunky/Duncan stuff. I didn't want to overdue using Dunky (how often do you actually call somebody you know by their name or nickname, anyway), but I found a couple of times in the narrative that I thought were cute, which you noticed! I also love the idea of her shifting back to Duncan when she's annoyed or pissed (or pretending to be upset or pissed). 

You used another word a really liked in this review when you talked about how Kristie's backstory "recontextualizes" past scenes. That's exactly what I wanted here! She may have seemed like just a hateful, two-dimensional bitch before, but it turns out there are reasons why she is the way she is. As for whether you're wrong for thinking this makes what she did to Duncan even worse, I don't think there's a wrong way to feel about that. You actually make a great point for both sides of the argument, noting that her past means she should understand what she did to Duncan better than most and that being a victim of sexual abuse could have numbed her to what she was doing to him. We'll be delving deeper down this road next chapter (I actually just finished the segment; it was 4,000 fucking words on its own!).

Thanks for the compliment about making such an unlikable character sympathetic. And yeah, Stillwell is definitely the most unlikable character I've written so far. You think he makes your skin crawl, try getting inside his head to write him some time. It's fucking gross in there!

Believe me, the irony of such a sweet, kind person asking if she's mean wasn't lost on me when I wrote it. It's all about standards, though. While Callie being a little more playful and controlling with Duncan at very limited times might not seem like much, it was a lot to her. She's not the type of person to go, "Well, Sally Sue from 'Sally Sue Swallows Seattle' is way meaner than me, so it's fine.

More importantly, though, she's been questioning her desire to dominate Duncan since way back in chapter two. Those feelings are just now starting to actualize because they're now a couple and things like pushing him over with a finger and rubbing his chest can be played off a just being sexy without admitting that she enjoyed having the power to do that. And she just knew that Duncan wouldn't call her out on it, that he'd just keep on taking it because he loves her that much. She never counted on him being into it, too, as she was too concerned with feeling guilty to notice.

Duncan has known about Callie's confidence pretty much from the start, and he hated how she never felt comfortable coming out of her shell. So instead of being concerned (even with his history with giantesses before meeting her) he was honored that she trusted him that much and was comfortable enough around him to really let her hair down. I'm thrilled that you found him telling her that he was proud of her and trusted her to be powerful. There was no way she was going to hold back after that!

I'm also 100 percent with you on casual actions being ridiculously hot! That might be my favorite aspect of this fetish (and I like a lot of things about it)! Duncan's a smart dude to realize this too!

I've also noticed that a lot of these stories focus on tiny dudes being into giantesses but never pointing out why the big is into the tiny. Relationships are a two-way street, and I like to take the time to remind everybody how into Duncan Callie really is. As fortunate as he is to be with her, she feels fortunate to be with him. She also finds him to be hot as fuck!

I appreciate you saying that about that body exploration scene. Like with the sock scene, I tried to find little ways to differentiate it from other body exploration scenes I've read. Her holding him between her toes and bobbing her foot over her knee was another one of those casual things that drives me crazy (in a good way)! I thought getting the "extended" view of the landscape before embarking on his journey was a nice way to set it up. Her pretending not to care about what he was doing but not being able to actually do it was so fun! She loves him moving all over her body and doing little things to tease him and make his trek harder, so she can't resist "peeking" (read gawking) constantly. Going back to her being into him, I really enjoyed the way she stopped and stared as he took his shirt off atop her knee and threw it over the side.

And yeah, changing the plan for things like him kissing his way up her torso was something I really enjoyed, too. It's funny, even though Callie not only has all the power in that situation but also flat out permission to use it as she sees fit (knowing that Duncan will be into it), he's still in control at that point. Without even trying. She so wet for her and loves him so much that it even surpasses those diffident domme urges she has!

That played itself out on her nipple, too. The façade of her dominating him faded away by that point and she practically begged him to play with her nipple when she could have ordered him to do so or even just pushed him into it and mushed him around on it. No matter how into their game she gets, she can't keep it up when she's truly ready for him.

Wait, there was plot somewhere? How'd that shit get in there? Yeah, it wasn't much, but now we know that whoever did this isn't just a someone, but someones. And when Arnold says organized group, he's not talking about a bowling league; there's something more going on here. What? I don't know. Well, actually I do, but I'm not going to tell you!

Thank you once again for your very kind words about this chapter and story and for continuing to follow it!

I wasn't sure how people would respond to Kristie's backstory, given what she did to Duncan before, so I'm really encouraged with your reaction to it!

Deep-seated trauma is a really good term for what's wrong with Kristie. She's not a good person, but then she never really had a chance to be one either. An entire life of being made to feel like she's not good enough, culminated in being sexually abused by a spoiled, manipulative brat who suffered pretty much no consequences for his actions, has shaped her into a bitter, hateful person. I'm so glad that you're able to empathize with her, as that was something I knew was going to be tough to pull off after I wrote that first segment of chapter two.

Obviously Monica is in a really tough place with everything as well. She was already feeling guilty before this, maybe moreso because of the action itself than feeling sorry for Kristie, but now that she understands why Kristie is the way she is, how much does that change things for her? Doing what she did to a victim of sexual abuse certainly can't help her conscience, and understanding why Kristie does the things she does suddenly makes her seem a lot more sympathetic. Of course, none of that changes the fact that Kristie raped Duncan. You're correct in that things between them just became a lot more complicated!

Who would have guessed that Callie would get into having her feet worshipped indeed. It's funny how these things just always seem to work out! I'm glad you found the foot stuff with Callie and Duncan to be worth the wait. That was always going to be a conversation that came up at some point in the relationship; they just had "other things" that they needed to do first (like everything in chapter nine, for example!).

And yeah, Callie noticed a shift in her behavior with Duncan, so it bothered her, even if she's still really tame compared to most other giantesses on this site. I tried to hint as early as chapter two that she had some deeply buried desire to be more dominant, although not necessarily change her personality. It's more like there's a part of her that she keeps hidden, something that doesn't necessarily fit what was expected of her growing up (she was told women are supposed to be more submissive), so she assumed it was wrong. So it's actually kind of a big deal that she trusts Duncan enough to let that side of her come out and have some fun; she knows he's not going to judge her for it. She was just afraid that he didn't like it but just wasn't saying anything.

No comment on any potential disruptions or theories. We'll certainly see more of Kristie, though. It just remains to be seen whether that has anything to do with what happened to Duncan.

Shit! I didn't expect you to actually trademark Dunk ... that nickname. It's too good, though, so I I guess I have to figure out how to transfer those star-based royalty payments your way. Damn it!

Oh, and you forgot Alyssia in your list at the end there. That was an accidental oversight, I'm sure. Maybe I need to include Aly more so that she's not so forgettable? Oh, I know! Maybe I can write a single vore scene for the story and have her do the eating! Sounds great, right? What do you think?

In all seriousness, though, I do love how certain scenes (and not always the most obvious ones) stick with you. When you told me about how her poking her head into Duncan's video call, I loved that so much! It was such a small part in the grand scheme of things, but it's great how things like that can have such an impact. And, believe it or not, the chocolate on the nose scene was what I would have guessed (if, you know, you would have actually given me time to guess!). I felt that same kind of vibe when I wrote that scene, and I'm so happy that someone singled it out! I'm not sure why you didn't "never mind" at that part, though. Do you not have a chocolate nose fetish?

As always, it means so much to hear any compliment relating to mouthplay coming from you, as I know that's your thing (well, the first part of your thing, anyway; can't get to the stomach without going through the mouth, after all) and you've provided some fantastic vore and mouthplay scenes to never mind to (that scene in Echoes where Jen eats half the bar is one of my favorite vore scenes of all time, by the way; I don't know if I've mentioned that before). I'm glad you enjoyed all the detail and that you found that anatomy diagram to help you through it!

I love you centering in on that romantic dinner. You've never seen anything like that in the community before? That's fucking awesome! It feels great to hear that I've actually introduced something kind of new (or at least rare) with this story.

You know, I actually wrestled with the idea of Dunky (I'll start making payments now, I guess) throwing that dough ball at Ada instead of the backsplash. I agree that seeing it bounce off of her would have been a cool moment showing the scale of weakness the size disparity has left him with, but I ultimately decided that, even though he was upset, it would have been too much of a dick move for him to have thrown it at her, even if it wouldn't have hurt her (it's the thought that counts, or whatever the negative equivalent to that phrase is).

Reading that you made a legit connection to Duncan here and felt like him impressing Callie was you doing it was so satisfying, especially since a lot of giantess/shrunken man story male protagonists tend to get lost in the shuffle and come off as a bit generic at times. I really didn't want Duncan falling into that trap, and seeing a reader actually being able to relate to him is incredible!

The question of what Duncan would do if given the chance to get his size back is a good one. Before he met up with Callie, he had long since given up on the prospect of returning to normal, electing just to try and survive instead, but he started to regain hope since making/reuniting with some regular-sized friends. So, now that everything is seemingly going perfectly for him, how does he feel? I don't know if he's devoted a lot of time to thinking about that lately, which may or may not be telling in and of itself. Then again, the prospect of finally being able to hold Callie in his arms and giving her a proper kiss (and fuck) has to be appealing to, right?

I'm intrigued that you immediately went back to Kristie now that our lovely couple are finally together. Obviously I'm not going to give you a straight answer, but I will say that we'll find out more about Kristie's history in the next chapter. Whether or not that has anything to do with what happened to her (or Duncan, for that matter) remains to be seen.

Right off the top, I want to make clear that Duncan was temporarily moved out of the state during the time of the male cop scene. I couldn't risk having the male cop be in the same general area as Duncan, let alone ... touch him. Ew!

Ha! I'm not sure if I should take you asking "Where the hell is this going?" to be a good thing or a bad one, but I choose good. Now that I've decided this, the polls are closed and you're now no longer allowed to correct me!

Agreed on the #metoo movement for Stillwell. Just to clarify, Alyssia and Ada were slashing his tires because Duncan asked them to. He thought karma hitting Stillwell would pull her out of the funk she was in (not knowing that he was the reason for said funk). They didn't realize he was going to confront Callie and snitch on himself. He did that shit on his own, which I think makes it even sweeter! youdumbbitch.jpeg indeed!

Alyssia does know that Callie was into Duncan at that point, but to be fair, that game was never intended to be sexual. She was getting wet at feeling big because Duncan was struggling to climb her, not so much that it was Duncan doing the climbing, and she certainly didn't expect to feel that way. She didn't even think he'd make it past her ankles! It was supposed to be a way to fuck with him a little bit for always calling her short. That's why she stopped fucking with him once he got high enough that she was worried he'd seriously get hurt. Honestly, when she was trying to shake him off by tapping her foot, she was really trying to get him down before he got too high but trying to save face at the same time. I tried to point out along the way that she was prepared to catch him once he got too high and that she was kind of freaking out about it, but maybe I didn't drill this point home enough.

There's nothing wrong with being protective of Dallie, though. Yeah, you've got me using the couple name again. There's another familiar name you might recognize in the next chapter, too.

I love that you said "figuratively" killing you, as Callie and Duncan weren't stabbing you at the time. So many people misuse the word literally (not so much on this site but in general), so I really appreciated this!

Having said that, I hope you were able to make it to the hospital in time after your heart literally broke! But aside from the near fatal injury, I'm glad that scene had the desired effect. I was hoping the reader would be yearning for her to stay, as it seemed our future couple were moving further apart in that moment.

But seriously, thank you for such a nice compliment about those club scenes. I wanted to show her frustration with Duncan (and moreso herself) while also acknowledging that her feelings for him were too strong to just move on from. I thought these two elements would clash well together, and it sounds like they did for you!

Also, I'm calling the fact that you even considered that Callie would hook up with any of those dudes a win! I wasn't sure if those scenes would create that kind of tension, given that these guys are all brand new to the scene, but to hear that you were sweating it out makes me feel like I pulled it off! 

Yeah, when I started writing this story, this was exactly how I wanted it to play out, but I didn't realize it was going to take me 100K words to get there! It felt damn good to finally get this scene out of my head, though! I'm glad you found it so cathartic.

I think you're really going to like the next chapter whenever you get a chance to have a look at it. I'm pretty sure you've already seen the title for it, so you probably do have a pretty good idea of what to expect.

I really appreciate your continued support! You saying that this was worth the buildup is probably the highest compliment you could pay to this chapter. I have to admit that, after all that waiting, people were just going to go, "That's it?" once this chapter hit. So thanks for letting me know it worked for you!

Yeah, I really wanted to take my time and set things up with the date before we got into the smut. I figured people have been waiting this long, what's another 4,000 words or so. I'm choosing to interpret that exclamation point at the end of your sentence to mean that this was a good thing. No one can tell me different!

I probably shouldn't comment too much on Duncan's last foster family either way, as leaving it open rather than confirming or denying their involvement kind of ruins the little mystery I've got going on. I find it interesting that you were immediately drawn to his foster sister, though, and I can agree that there can be something wholesome and sweet (or not, based on a lot of the stories on this site) about a tiny dude confronted with a foster, step, or blood-related sister. I mean, the teasing possibilities alone are endless!

I will say that what Monica saw in that folder will come out in the next chapter. It just made more sense to me to tease it here and build up the reveal for later. We'll get some more snippets of plot in the next couple chapters, but there's still a lot of smut I want to get to. I've been building this up for so long, I want to stretch that payoff out a little bit. You're not wrong about that looming threat, though.

Like with the Brenadines (Duncan's foster family), I'm not going to say too much about Kristie here. I will confirm that we'll figure out exactly what makes her tick at some point, though.

Thank you for the review and the kind words! As much as I enjoyed your story, I'm glad you're still enjoying mine as well. I guess we'll have to see about whoever it was that shrunk Duncan and/or Kristie, won't we?

I just wanted to start by saying that I'm good with a review about a controversial reception or even a downright critical one, so feel free to do that if there's something you don't like in a chapter of the story. Now, if you just decided to wait for your own sake and not to spare my feelings, cool. I just wanted to make sure that you don't feel limited in what you can talk about in a review here.

I don't even have a problem with Monica's actions last chapter being considered dubious. That's actually a great way to describe them! We've gotten to see a lot of her softer side in this story, but she's still that cutthroat corporate type who's willing to do anything to get ahead, even if she's trying to move away from that a bit and finally have some real friends. Chapter seven was a reminder that she's still who people thought she was going to be going into chapter three, and even if her heart was in the right place (being upset over what happened to Duncan and how little Kristie seemed to care about it), that doesn't make what she did right, either. Honestly, I don't even consider this a complaint!

And I agree that Kristie's terror here makes Monica look worse, even in Monica's own eyes! We're not done exploring this, either, and I'm happy that the mystery behind it has your attention.

I also agree with you that it's about damn time Alyssia gets her due! Who's in charge of organizing this shit, anyway? But seriously, I've had to bump Alyssia out of a chapter a couple of times, so I'm happy that I was finally able to give her the attention she deserves. I love her dynamic with Duncan so much! And yeah, short woman getting off on feeling big is an oldie but a goodie, and I really liked how well that trope played into both the climbing scene and the way her ominous nickname fell flat. But it made me smile that you singled out that "drops the routine" moment. It was brief, and she jumped right back into in almost the same breath, but I felt like it was a really meaningful moment between them, and I'm glad you felt the same!

As for Brooklyn, I'm pleasantly surprised that you brought her up! I really appreciate you saying that about her natural rapport with Callie and that you can already see them as best friends despite Brooklyn having barely been in the story. It makes me feel good about the way I wrote those scenes. And I've always been a fan of the "I have a secret" concept, having to keep something hidden from those closest to you. While that won't be a major part of the plot, I do like that you called attention to it!

Karma catching up with Stillwell seemed a fitting way for him to go out, and getting arrested by the police officers he brought into the boutique is about as karma as karma gets, I think.

Another drunken Callie fan! I love it! I also agree that it could have easily been dumb, and that actually makes me more happy that you called it great! I felt good writing the scene, but it's always great to get confirmation that I was able to pull something off.

I also figured that you would be especially happy to see Duncan and Callie finally get together. I know you've been big on their relationship in particular (which also makes me happy that you pointed out that there are a lot of good character interactions in the story). And thanks for the compliment on "No more worries." I liked that line a lot, too!

Your groans are much appreciated! That was exactly the reaction I was hoping for, especially with that garbage pick up line at the end. Although, now I have to ask, it was obvious that he did that because Callie was complaining about how he basically ruined those lines for her (how she used to find them kind of cute, even the kind of gross ones), wasn't it? I think it was, based on your "that's not the point" line at the very end of your review, but I just wanted to make sure.

Yeah, I always planned to give Alyssia her own alone time with Duncan before he became spoken for. Of course, that became more true after I had to move the first two segments of the chapter a couple times, but I think they ended up fitting here better than either of the two places I planned on sticking them before (also, they were initially going to end a chapter, so I got to expand on them a lot more than I originally planned at the beginning of this one, which I liked as well).

You also caught on to Alyssia's closet nerdiness right away, mentioning how that "Qui Gon Nerd" line back in chapter six was odd for someone unfamiliar with the Star Wars franchise to say. It made for a nice way for the two of them to bridge the gap between them, and I like how that cute little olive branch moment got your imagination going a little bit!

And yeah, that 3D insult was so bad. I knew I had to come up with the corniest, most terrible nickname when Alyssia made that threat back in chapter three, as I was really looking forward to that hand closing and opening bit, and dumb dinky Duncan won the day! I just love how ominous the threat was, only for it to turn out to be, well, that! But what I really love about that hand bit is how Duncan is openly laughing at and mocking her from the palm of her hand, knowing she's not going to do shit about it. It was meant to be funny (and I'm glad you found it to be!), but it was also a sign of just how much he trusts her and how close they are as friends as well.

As for Stillwell, he was so worked up and his arrogance got so far ahead of him that he made a series of bad decisions. Looking back, I don't know if I emphasized it enough, but I hope it came across as creepy that he not only knew where Callie worked but what time she was working as well. I think Brooklyn picked up on that and asked him. But yeah, he was so sure that he couldn't be wrong that he expected the police to take his word as evidence, even though there was actual evidence proving that he was wrong. Not a good look. I'm thrilled that you found his downfall satisfying, though! And the cops were pretty frustrated that they couldn't do anything about Stillwell's predatory behavior, so of course they ended up jumping on that opportunity.

You're right about Callie's reaction being sad here, as well, but at least it's starting to register with her more and more that she really didn't do anything wrong during the whole Stillwell thing. Even though she had that moment of realization back in chapter four, those doubts just don't go away, but seeing people who care about her try to comfort her instead of judging her helps with that quite a bit.

Buzzed Callie was not kind to those clubgoers, was she? I did really like her response to that "do you believe in love at first sight" line, though. Brutal! Then again, I wrote it, so I'm maybe a little biased, I guess? Possibly.

I'm glad the double dose of Alyssia's tits wasn't too much for you! And thanks for the compliment on the climbing scene. I was hoping that cutting back and forth between that and Callie at the club would both divide the "non-giantess time" up with that scene and that it would make the climb seem even longer. Being short (and Duncan having teased her about it so much before he became tiny) made the idea of her being too much for him to climb seem appealing to Alyssia at first, but once he started succeeding, it made her feel even bigger than him not being able to get past her ankles (which is how she thought it was going to go down), and that, in turn, was an incredibly arousing feeling for her. "Awaken" is a good word for it.

But she kept Duncan as far away from her crotch a she could, because as hot as him climbing her was, the embarrassment she would have felt if he, of all people, knew about it would be that much worse when he teased her about it. In case I hadn't made it clear, a lot of their relationship has to do with getting the upper hand on one another, and that would have been something she couldn't come back from, even if her opponent was less than three inches tall.

I can't tell you how happy I am that people liked that drunken Callie scene. This story started in my head as three scenes: that first meeting back in chapter one, the drunken Callie scene, and something that's going to happen in the next chapter (which I'm really, really excited about). So I've been waiting to get to this point for some time, and I'm thrilled that this scene landed for you. I just really liked the idea of an out of control Callie still focused on keeping Duncan safe, even if he doesn't realize it!

I'm incredibly excited about the next chapter as well! I've had this chapter on my mind since well before I started writing this, and I'm so happy that we're finally here!

Thanks! As I said in my review of Shrinkie Haven the other day, I'm enjoying your story as well!

I really like how you mentioned getting worked up over both Duncan's relationships and his safety. I'm always concerned that there isn't enough tension in this story, and reviews like this make me feel a little more confident that there actually is, so thanks for the confidence boost!

Awesome! I really appreciate you having such a high opinion of the story and even just my writing in general. Thanks!