Twinkle

By VivettaVenray

(WARNING: Contains clean sweat, among other things.)

(NOTE: As a heads-up so-to-speak, this story has a bit less editing than my usual works [which aren't exactly heavily edited either perhaps.])

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Chapter 1: Socks Go Off

It had been a long day of lectures at Momo University. It was the kind of day where classes were back to back sparing only a 45 minute break for lunch and less than half that between courses otherwise. Those scant latter chunks of time hardly enough to sit outside the classroom door and breathe while noise from whatever’s in the room currently, if anything, drifts muffled through the walls.

A long day of walking, loafers clacking against the floor, black socks brushing against the skin from the toes to the shins. A day where a young woman shifted her feet, time to time at her desks, as she pretended to be interested in a boring lecture: as she pretended to not already have mastered the boring material on the first day of classes if not earlier, let alone weeks into the spring semester.

It was boring, yes, but she was not bored. Far from it. Etsu knew how to keep herself entertained. Every shift of her feet in class or step while walking between destinations proved quite the show for her. Every careless curl of her toes jostled galaxies. Every iota of heat that emanated from her feet sweltered universes. Every minute bit of moisture from her body, seeping into the warp and weft of the black fabriced socks, brought water to desolate desert worlds while flooding others.

So, it was with a coy smirk on her face that Etsu walked into her dorm room once her day’s schedule of classes was done. Hands-free, the young woman slipped off her brown loafers with a bit of pressure from one foot’s toe region to the other’s heel, repeated twice.

Etsu splurged on a single dorm room, and the other women on her floor were away for now. Etsu’s neighbors were gone, around campus or off and occupying themselves for just as much time as Etsu desired and all for reasons they thought were their own: having to stay after class to help a professor, a call from an injured boyfriend, or even just a sudden urge to go off campus for french fries were all some examples.

Etsu moved to her bed, sitting her black-skirted bottom down on its cushioned surface. She brushed a hand through her purple hair, moving it behind the shoulder and white collar of her black college school outfit. She didn’t have to wear such a comparatively stuffy garb now or in general, but she immuned herself to any displeasure of the more starchy parts of the outfit and, well, she thought it was cute. Plus, school spirit and all.

Her mind, expansive as it could be, didn’t dwell so much on her attire overall but rather two parts of it: her comfy black socks. She was eager to inspect the outcome that such a busy lecture-filled day had on them and what was inside.

First, though, she slipped her foot under the bed and, with the toe of that foot, slid out her gym bag. Her volley ball club was meeting soon, so that meant she’d have to change.

That done, Etsu bent her right leg up and grasped at the toe of the sock. Immediately, from her pinching grip, she sensed the extinguishment of sextillions of lives and hundreds of universes. Immediately after, she brought them back, and protected them from the crushing cosmological pressure the pinch of the fabric had exerted.

Slowly, Etsu tugged. The sock, loosened from a day’s casual exertions, slid down from her foot with ease. The universes stuck in the fabric jostled; many were ground against her heel as the fabric slid by. Etsu’s angle of tugging wasn’t exactly even, but rather pointing towards the top of the foot a bit, resulting in some extra pressure of the sock’s interior towards her sole.

Entire universes, woven into the black sock by her will, were pressed and smeared against her flesh through the process. Not most of them: only a scant few really, as most universes were a bit too deep into the fabric to have the privilege of touching the young woman’s skin.

Not that it mattered though. All the universes that were or would’ve been broken as the sock slid off were reverted or protected, once again, by Etsu’s will. Just before the sock slipped off, she curled her toes, making a game of fighting the tug of her sock against the grip of her toes. An unstoppable tug versus an insurmountable grip. A stalemate resulted, naturally. In the heat and pressure at that curl of her toes the universes within the fabric there erupted, only to have their matter compressed to start a big bang, from which they erupted again, evolved, and more all in the span of a few seconds and all for Etsu’s entertainment.

Alas, she grew bored of that in time, and eventually tugged the sock free. Etsu’s bare right foot was finally exposed to the fresh air-conditioned air of her dorm. As soon as she felt the cooler air against her skin there, she let out a satisfied.

“Aaaah~”

She wiggled the toes that had shred universes moments earlier, working that cleaner, fresher air in the space between her toes some. Her foot still radiated heat however, with enough of it reaching the nearby, now removed sock held in her hand hanging limp near the ped’s side. The skin was certainly a bit moist there too. She allowed herself to sweat, though not smell the least bit ‘sweaty’. She didn’t sweat enough for her foot to be slick or anything, but there was the occasional sparkle where the LED lights of her room highlighted the bits of moisture here and there on the foot’s surface.

Etsu didn’t distract herself with her foot for long though. She intimately knew every molecule of her body after all. So, soon, after a quick glance she, instead, held up the recently removed sock to her face. Holding it by the cuff, she took in the sights, sounds, and every other sensation that could be intercepted to the going-ons of the black foot-garb.

The college student pierced the black fabric with her amber gaze. She saw entire planets and star-spanning empires going about their daily business, having recovered from the calamity she had inflicted earlier. She saw the rise and fall of many more worlds from the recently big-banged universes prior. Thousands upon thousands years unfolded to her in mere seconds.

Indeed, she had dilated time for the sock-dwellers during their stay in the sock. When she put the garbs on this morning, the universes within had just barely big-banged. Now, she could see how the sweat she exuded during the day brought life to worlds that were but barren wastelands in the morning. She peered through time itself, into the past, to take in every state of the space stuff from then till the present. She could see how the casual heat her foot had exuded sent some stars super-nova between class periods, while at other times it gave stars just enough heat to proceed to stages of size and radiance where they could support life.

For many other worlds, the heat she radiated from her foot, to them, simply made their planets tropical. In fact, the vast, vast majority of life-supporting worlds were tropical simply from the ambient heat and humidity of her foot. The only ones that weren’t were advanced societies who had developed various forms of planet-covering climate control and air conditioning and, of course, those who abandoned their worlds entirely in artificial constructs that sailed through the stars. Alas, they did not know that in that process they were drifting, merely, between two or more threads of a young college student’s socks.

The most advanced civilizations had conquered their universes entirely. They were confident they explored and dominated all of creation but, in fact, they hadn’t even bridged the distance a width of Etsu’s pinky toe. For all their ‘progress’ and ‘conquest’ over their universe, they had no idea the true and diminutive extent of their travels and the true worth of their achievements.

Etsu was about to change that. It was time for them to properly meet her. Smiling, with a blink, Etsu un-dilated time for the many universes dwelling inside the loose sock. She then spoke to them, both aloud and in their minds. Her voice rattled their bodies with its power, but she stopped it from dusting them or any of their makes to atoms.

“Konnichiwa miiiii-naaaaaaaaa-saaaa-nnnn”~”, she said. With the utterance, she imparted to them understanding of her language; the words of which ripped between the speck-sized stars.

She drank in their responses: every single one. The individual’s, those sent in panic hurries via advanced interstellar messaging equipment: all of it. The stew of responses was made of mostly confusion, with some spices of reverence from the many civilizations who ascribed divine purpose to the sudden humidification of their worlds in ages past. Inter-planetary and inter-galactic wars were momentarily halted at the cosmos-wracking utterance.

“I hope you are all doing well! Seems you developed quite nicely of the course of a day, kehehehe.”

Confusion kept rippling through the multitude of sapient beings within the sock. Etsu didn’t normally like to read minds, but she made an exception here. They were so small, so fragile, that the thought of treating them highly enough to respect their private thoughts was out of the question. That wasn’t even mentioning the practicalities of the matter but, those aside, Etsu imagined a normal sized, mundane person wouldn’t be able to think of these shrunken sapients as people. So, why should an extraordinary young woman like herself deign to?

“Ah, keheh, of course you don’t fully understand yet. How could you, without my help. Let me open your minds a bit, just a tad.”

With her words, it was done. All those many sextillions of minds across thousands of universes within her sock saw the situation from a new and changing perspective. The sights and sounds didn’t replace their own, but were layered on-top their normal senses. It was a peculiar thing for many of the lesser minds to process: like the lowly human-like races many of the sock-kept universes had evolved. However, Etsu had them covered. She temporarily advanced their minds enough to withstand the new layers of sensory information without breaking down, yet not so much that the experience was pleasant.

Every single being on every planet in every universe got their own unique view at first. It started with a view above their heads, zooming out to show their town or city, then their country then continent, then the planet and so on, zooming out faster and faster till they could see their star one moment and their entire galaxy the next second. From there it zoomed out and out till the blackness of space was replaced with towering, alien spirals of black that wasn’t quite as dark. From there, with a bit more zooming out, any tailor could recognize the pattern of warp and weft. A bit longer and people knew it was a sock. The view settled to just a few inches beyond the sock, centered around where their particular universe would be, and behind the garment was Etsu’s smiling, smug, visage.

Fear, an always present sensation among many since her voice rung out, quickly subsumed much of the remaining confusion as it percolated in the minds of many and more.

“Do you get it now?”, said Etsu.

Holding the sock by its cuff, she gave the garment a bit of a wiggle, and let the vibrations from that reach all the universes and those within. Dampening it with her unfathomable powers, it still reached the masses as quakes. No one died from it all for long, though, as she put the pieces back faster than any mind but her own could process.

“This entire time, your entire lives, have been spent in my sock. Not floating around but actually *in* the very fabric of it, between the weavings.”

She giggled.

“All those tropical planets you have, or left ‘years’ ago, were like that cause of how close they were to my body. Every rainfall you’ve had was probably, in one way or another, a consequence of a single drop of my sweat, every foggy day in part due to humidity from my body. Every earthquake could’ve been just the dampened experience of my steps, the reverberations of which shattered universes without your notice! Maybe yours one was of them, dozens of times perhaps~”

She laughed again, as more waves of existential horror and dread spread through the universes in that loosely held limp sock.

“Oh, I of course restored everything each time. I wouldn’t want you to have all died on the way to my first class of the day after all. Then I wouldn’t have anything to entertain myself with. That’s what you were, all of you were, every single universe here was my entertainment for the day. Couldn’t have that die off so soon.”

She smirked.

“Now though... now it’s a different story.”

Etsu set that sock aside on the bed, making sure not to damage the universes in the process. Then, the college student lifted her other foot, the left, up and quickly slid that sock off. This time, she undialated time for the universes in that sock right away. Not wanting to explain herself so slowly again, she just filled in their minds with the new zooming perspective that ended on a full view of her sliding the sock they were in, off.

To save even more time explaining she also just filled in their minds on the events of the day from a perspective not too dissimilar to hers. They were filled with the knowledge of millions and millions of years, before the time of all but the immortal species which had come to be within the sock. Every person of every sapient race was flooded with the utter banality that their universe’s evolution was associated with. They were forced to assimilate the true notion that their entire development, extinguishment, resurgence and so on all took place in a worn sock, and all over a time-span not even a day.

Etsu held that sock up a fair distance from her face, then reached for the other on her bed. She moved the two close together, letting her sigh roil over them as her other foot was now free and enjoying the breath of fresher air with its sister ped.

“I’d say I can only imagine how humiliated you must be, but I don’t need to imagine it. I know it. I know every atom’s placement in your little worlds and bodies and, with a thought, I can let them all fade away. This kind of thing isn’t natural you know. One thought and your cosmos won’t be protected from the laws of physics. Shrunken so small, you’d destabilize in seconds. Some might over heat, others might cool to ice real fast. I could just do that too, simulate the natural death of a universe by letting all the heat die out. But...”

She giggled.

“That’s boring! Doesn’t that sound boring? Do you really want to go through billions of years--to you--just to experience the heat-death of the universe? Even if it’s just seconds to me, that seems so lame~”

She grinned. There were a lot of thoughts to take in. Most were centered around pleas and begs to not die. That amused her greatly. The servile prayers were a nice touch too when they showed up on the order of sextillions.

“Aww don’t be sad. You lived longer than a lot of universes I’ve played with. This is a much better end than many get, trust me. I have no reason to lie when I hold your lives in my hands.”

She wiggled the socks some.

“But, I’m bored with you. We’ve had enough fun together. Spent enough time. The difference between toys and clutter is time. I don’t want any useless dust or lint ruining my perfectly good socks. So, it’s time for you to go out, and what better way than with a bang!”

Etsu grinned, squinting with delight. Inside her socks, perceived with ease by her, every star in the universes began to vibrate. Their luminescences surged. Every star started to erupt all at once. Black holes, collapsed stars, included as well in displays that would perplex and astonish any physicist. The light and heat from the septillions of super-novas spread well beyond it had any right to. Every star kept glowing, its eruptive shockwaves growing, until an entire shrunken universe was consumed.

Great star spanning empires and humble towns-bounded civilizations alike were immolated in a flashes of searing light. There was no escape. The pain was beyond compare yet mercifully brief given the sheer speed of the cosmological collapses.

All of it went on in her socks, one similar end for every universe she had stored there. Not even a single mote of space dust was left. All was released as energy. She had to unmake some matter herself to do so though, as otherwise the remnants of burst stars would be scattered among the fabric of her socks once every flicker of life was gone. Alluring as that idea could be, cleanliness did come first here to her.

With her socks now ‘clean’ of the existences once dwelling in them, back to normal garbs, Etsu tugged back on the toe regions of the pair. Her thumb and index pinched the cuffs, then she shot them to the other side of her room like a sling.

She giggled, looking at them laying there a moment before bringing her gaze down towards her feet as they hung off the side of her bed. She curled her toes slightly.

“Not too much time out for you two.”, she said, giggling at her feet.

“Volley ball practice is next after all. Let’s get my gym socks on while you’re both still warm. It’ll make the next entertainment all the more fun~”

Chapter 2: Socks Go On

With her left foot, Etsu deftly maneuvered her gym bag a bit more to her front. Leaning down with an unnatural balance that’d make gymnasts envy, she fished around the sack for two black socks, neatly folded from the previous day’s laundry.

Though the dark color might fool one for a moment, these were sports socks. Their fabric was thinner, and their cuffs shorter, than the pair she had just chucked across the room.

One of these clean socks, the left, was set to her side on the bed. The other she held forward and stretched the opening of. She bent her right knee up close to her chest to get ready to slide it on. Of course, she wasn’t going to just do that. That’d be boring! The young purple-haired woman had another fun idea in mind.

Smiling at the anticipation, Etsu thought a thought, and a distant universe, from another multiverse, was tugged out of its cold dark home and made to hover just before her naked toes.

The twinkling, pulsing mass of star stuff had been adjusted when Etsu stole it. For starters, all the galaxies and such were clumped much closer together, though she tweaked the laws of physics to preclude that from causing a cosmological catastrophe or even just getting into gravity based hijinks with her toes. She also shrunk it down: down enough to be roughly the size of a small fruit.

The universe’s shape was oval-like and amorphous. Its colors, manifold and beautiful. Its people, utterly terrified and confused, emotions which ramped up as they heard the second-year student’s voice echo in their minds, completely understood and intelligible.

“Miiiii-naaaaaaaaa-saaaa-nnnn”

She paused for a few seconds, using the time to bask in the reactions of the universe’s denizens. It was one of the numerous universes very much similar to Etsu’s own. There was a duplicate of Earth with slight variations, like a change in the date when denim was discovered, and the names of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans being reversed.

Etsu gave herself full awareness of everyone and everything in that sparkling cloud of a universe near her toes: from the tiniest sub-atomic particles to the largest stellar structures. Yet even the largest grouping one could make, that is, the shrunken universe itself, hovered smaller than Etsu’s foot looming above it.

“Nice to meet you all. My name is Etsu, and today your universe will be keeping me company. You see, I’ve got volleyball club soon, and there’s a lot of running and jumping going on there. I could use some extra padding in my socks, and your universe seems perfect, kehehehehe”

Across the stellar blob, chaos and despair erupted. Confusion, too, as it would seem unbelievable if not for the brief yet undeniable vision Etsu gave to them of her toes hovering over the very boundaries of their stars.

“See, you believe me right? That heat washing over you is mine. My body heat. A gift from me to you~”

She snickered as she wiggled her toes closer. The heat radiating from her toes did quite a number on the closer parts of the universe. Though not by any means overwhelming to Etsu herself, due to the sheer difference in the scale the body-heat reaped chaos on the cosmos before her. Stars were erupting nearest her flesh, and farther down the universe planets were experiencing sudden climate shifts and fast-whipping storms.

Etsu enjoyed the spectacle, letting it go on for a bit before she reversed the damages and dampened any further effects.

“How utterly pathetic that simply being close to my toes can ruin your puny worlds? That it can blow up your stars? I haven’t even gotten my sock on yet. That’s next kehehehe”

Chortling her curious laugh, Etsu started to actually slip the sock on. Her fingers stretched the cuff of the sock enough to get it past the width of the cosmological blob, but no further. The black fabric rubbed against some of the stars at the far sides towards the back of that pillowy lump of space stuff, wiping them out for mere seconds before Etsu’s power brought them back.

Across night skies, stars dimmed slightly as the black fabric began to work its way around the cosmos. Towards the back of the cuff, bits of Etsu’s thumbs briefly knocked out billions of stars and trillions of lives, but she adjusted her grip soon after, keeping her fingers on the outer surface of the garb in her tug.

This meant all the universe, and those in it, had to contend with was her sock fabric and, of course, her right foot. Of the two, the latter was by far more of a threat. She taunted them as she basked in the chaos it caused while they basked in its destructive proximity.

“Ehh, just from tiny bits of sweat, already worlds are being flooded. Is it getting humid for those that aren’t? I know it is. Your climates are at the mercy of how stuffy my sock is. Isn’t that hilarious? Those storms rattling your cities and worlds, just a consequence of my stuffy socks. Stuffy sock storms, keheheh”

Indeed, a pervasive, thick heat enraptured all worlds and stars caught in the proverbial shadow of the sock. Humid mists clouded regions, thick dark clouds heralded humid hurricanes. All were made aware via Etsu’s taunting voice that this was but the byproduct of a young woman’s foot.

The sock slipped down further, about the arch. Stars sheared against her soft, balmy sole. Stars and planets were lost in the celestial-trenches that were the wrinkles and whorls of the ped. Minute wiggles of her toes or flexes of the foot ended trillions of lives in an instant as wrinkles briefly shifted to smush their occupants. She had the courtesy to bring them back immediately after the fact at least.

“Khehee, so fragile. So soothing. Nothing like a nice warm universal insole. Every dying twinkle of your stars is a tiny tickle, a nice, pinpoint massage. The burst of heat from your stars aren’t bad, too. Kehehe”

She wiggled her toes, driving in the point as she snuffed out trillions more stars that way and this way, bringing them back between the wiggles. All this while she pulled the sock on, causing the stars to be pushed deeper up the foot through the fidgeting, warm toes which served as the ‘Great Filter’ for the universe’s life which none could pass without her aid..

“But...”

Etsu thought a thought and that was all that it took to change reality. She paused her progress of putting on the sock right about where the cuff met the start of her heel.

All across the universe against her sole, sapient beings of all sorts were contending with the intense heat and humidity emanating from her body, her foot. Others were dealing with the crushing pressure exerted by the minor fidget of her toes against their particular region of the amorphous universe.

In one advanced civilization, the humanoids looked to the sky to see the sudden blackness, cast from her big toe moving to crush them. They could see only the barest, most minuscule fraction of her body above their heads. With what light they could spare to inspect it, the surface looked utterly alien--even to the rather ‘alien’ looking folk themselves. A veritable landscape of white-pinkish flesh. A single pore could engulf their planet. A drop of sweat could extinguish their star.

The toe came down towards them, their world, and all they knew. They prepared to be wiped out and resummoned as they had been before. Yet, though the crushing pressure and pain came, merciful release and respawn did not. They boiled in the heat of her body, were crushed beneath the might of a casual toe clench. Yet, their bodies would not break. The buildings did, if they were in-between the tiny bit of Etsu’s toe and people, but their planet didn't crack, nor did their mountains crumble. All the stars and planets and people on them were unharmed, yet subject to unimaginable pressure, heat, and humiliation nonetheless.

Etsu kept her right toes clenched, hard as she felt she should. She could feel the stars in the digits’ paths and everyone living near them squeeze, yet not pop. She felt their solidity with her sublime senses, and she found it all similarly sublime.

“Kehehehe, this is even better. Now you won’t even break! I can squeeze you as much as I like. Press down against you with every muscle of my foot, and you won’t even crush. You’ll just be there, stuck, humid, and at the mercy of every step, every twitch of my toes. At the mercy of every bit of heat my body shares.”

She rapidly wiggled her toes again, shifting the star-stuff around but, true to her words, not breaking any of it.

She continued the wigglings as she finished sliding the sock on. Her hands gripped the cuff and tugged it up past her ankle. She tugged hard, tight, and all the way up to make the sock as snug as possible against her foot. All the while, the universe-turned-insole positively roiled against her sole. It rewarded her cruel touch with massaging delights of shifting stars. The heat from her body, the minute bits of sweat from her pores, were offered to the universe and in return she got to bask in the anguished, humiliated cries of quadrillions.

Etsu lets out a sigh.

“Aaah, what a feeling. What a lovely, warm, feeling.”

Wiggling her toes to help the sock settle, she eyed her bare left foot. Kicking it forward a moment, she gave it a small spin as another universe was pulled from its rightful place in another multiverse to hover before her awaiting sole. She smiled with anticipation as she leaned forward, the other athletic sock in hand, and began bringing it behind the second universe, pulling it towards the toes of her left foot.

She debated taking her time, but decided to enjoy the chaos that comes with rushing things. She said no words to them, simply filling in their minds directly as to what was going on with them. She gave them the same treatment she did for the right-socked universe, only this time she did it from the get-go. Their stars and worlds also didn’t break against the pressure exerted by contact with clenching toes, nor did they fully boil from the heat her body emitted. Any rising tides caused by the humidity were, too, limited.

Altogether, she put on the left sock in little more than a few seconds, finishing with a tight tug the sock and, by extension, the universe against her left sole. Its warmth delighted her as she, quite literally, squeezed all but the life out of it against her pampered sole.

Then, she let go and the cuff snapped against her ankles. Both socks on, she set her feet to the hard floor of her dorm. The young woman shivered.

She felt--and heard and saw and more--the protest the universe gave as her weight settled on it. She drank up its soothing warmth, giving that of her body back in turn, unasked. She greedily took every single massaging twitch or twinkle the stars could give her as she dominated their mass.

Etsu paused a moment, eyes closed, and sighed. She was tempted to stay a bit longer and enjoy this, enjoy herself. There was an undeniable appeal, unique only to her. As she teased herself by slowly dragging a socked foot back and forth on the floor, she debated just letting lose a bit.

She had time before volley ball club. She could have all the time she wanted. She could freeze time, even, or just roll it back after she’s had her fun. Her fingers glided towards her skirt, then underneath it to tease at her panties. She rubbed her crotch there.

Etsu could, if she wanted to, subject entire universes to her rituals of her pleasure. She could bring them all into it. She imagined delighting herself and letting the rivers of her sticky ecstasy flood over her own world, just outside her window. The entire Momo University, the city of Tokyo too, inundated in her bliss. The visual was pleasing, the follow-up of an entire universe drenched, dying, and re-evolving in a single strand of her fem-cum even more so.

However, Etsu let out another sigh and opened her eyes. She would refrain. She wanted to to play volley ball more than that at the moment, so that’s what she would do, and she could do anything she wanted, after all.

So, Etsu sat up fully from the bed and walked towards the door. Her clothes almost entirely changed to her athletic attire at a thought.

Her top became a comfortable jersey with the numbers “01” on it, and her skirt was gone with red shorts in their place. Fresh undergarments, too, were swapped with her old ones, which were laundered and neatly folded at a thought along with the rest of her previous attire.

The only thing left before being fully ready was to put on her shoes. White sneakers rested near the door, and she slid those on. As she did so, she did so slowly.

Etsu savored the slow shuffling of the universes in her socks. Bending over to tighten the laces, she further savored all the quintillions of screams, and the trillions upon trillions of delightful little twinkles against her feet.

“Ah, I just love cushioned socks, kehehe.”

Fin