Zane stood up and turned around, all three tinies looking at him. Getting a better look at them was terrifying. They were all extremely malnourished to the point of ribs sticking out of two of their bodies. The one who was still a little well fed was a hispanic guy. He must’ve been the newbie before Zane showed up, because he still had a rebellious look in his eyes that had vanished from the other two. That was the person Zane had to talk to.

Coincidentally, that was the first person to approach Zane. “Get out of there,” he said, lending Zane a hand. “That’s where we dump all of our shit. That bitch Lorenza refuses to clean our tank, that’s why the glass is so disgusting.”

“God Lorenza.” snarked a sickly looking man. His voice barely reached Zane, and he couldn’t help but feel bad for the man who looked like he was only hanging onto life by a thread. “She’ll clean our tank when she sees us as worthy. Don’t say such vile things about our God!” The man looked like he’d attack them if he had just a little extra strength in him. 

The man in front of Zane took a breath, trying his best to ignore the other man and address Zane. “That’s Seth,” he said. “We don’t know how long he’s been here for, but he’s been here for about a month and even back then Seth looked like he'd been hanging around for a long while. He’s a bit delusional, treats Lorenza like an ancient deity. Truth is the bitch is just a lazy sack of shit. I should’ve fired her when I had the chance.” 

“You were awful to our God, Jose!” Seth fell to his knees and clawed at the pebbles under him to inch closer to Zane and the man. “I heard her preach about you, You were the one who treated her like shit. You vile, sixist, disobedient pig of a man. Now you’re getting exactly what you deserve! We all are.” 

“Oh yeah?” Jose stepped forward. Seth desperately wailed his hands to try and scratch him, but he didn’t have the strength. “Is Chris getting what he deserved? He didn’t even know Lorenza when he got shrunk. Wrong place, wrong time.”

The third man, who Zane assumed must’ve been Chris, was walking towards the group from an area of the tank that Zane hadn’t seen him walk to. He approached with a bowl of water and placed it down in front of Seth. “Drink up, you’ll need your strength for when our God returns.” His voice was deep and aged like fine wine, somebody you couldn’t help but listen to.

“I don’t know why you waste our water on that dog.” Jose spat as Seth lapped up the water. “We don’t know when we’ll get more, or if when we do if it’ll be actual water.” 

“Humble yourself, Jose.” Chris looked up at him from the floor. “This man remembers not who he is. He likely made a choice a long time ago to survive and did what he had to, a choice I’ve made too. If I were him, I’d hope somebody would treat me as kindly.” 

Jose huffed. “Well I guess there are worse things than dying if surviving looks like this.” Jose turned back to Zane. “What’s your choice, huh? You want to live like that?”

Before Zane could answer the question— not that he knew what he’d answer given the state of the three men in front of him— a giant shadow cascaded over the group. Jose diverted his eyes to the ground while the other two looked up behind Zane. Zane knew what it had to be but didn’t have the courage to turn around. 

“Burrrrrrp, wooooo.” The giantess blew her burp into the tank, instantly filling it with the foul smell of mountain dew. Zane fell down to the ground and gagged. The smell of her armpit made him forget how awful her breath was. 

“Bro!” Lorenza laughed. “If that’s too much for you dude, I don’t even know how you’ll handle the rest of the day. We haven’t even started.” Large fingers appeared around Zane and plucked him and Jose up. While he was being suspended into the air he saw Lorenza’s second hand come down to pinch Seth and Chris together. 

Zane closed his eyes. There were so many smells coming from all around him he couldn’t tell which belonged to what. His nose still burned with the scent of soda, and he couldn’t mistake the smell of sweat coming from Lorenza’s large hand. There was something that smelled like expired milk and something that smelled faintly of pee

Through the cracks in her fingers Zane could make out the carpet they were being lowered on. He expected it to be soft, but the strands of fiber scratched against his back as he was dropped under the girl’s desk, the fibers stiffened from all the filth dropped onto it. All Zane could see was Lorenza’s large feet and tanned legs and up to her hip where her ass sat in her gaming chair. He couldn’t see anything above that, and soon his vision focused on the large toes being planted in front of him. 

Without ever being told, Seth ran up to the giant’s feet and dived between her big and second toe on her left foot. He started licking it up, moving faster than Zane ever thought possible from the way he was acting in the tank.

A loud sound screeched from giantess’s computers, a sound Zane recognized at the starting up sound for Overwatch. “I’m gonna play a couple rounds to complete today’s battle pass, make sure you guys clean the sweat of my dogs.” She snorted and laughed as she wiggled her toes below. Soon the sounds of gunshots and voice acting filled the room.

Chris stepped forward, climbing up on Lorenza’s third and fourth toe and started licking up the sweat. Zane remembered the taste of the giant’s sweat from when he was in her armpit. He couldn’t imagine what her foot sweat might taste like. Just the thought made him queasy. But he had no other choice, so he stepped forward. 

Jose clasped a hand on his shoulder. “Don’t do what she says.” 

“What?” Zane asked, not looking back at him. He was too engrossed in sight of two grown men licking some girl’s toes. Zane could see the sweat glistening from here, and when the girl would tap on her foot he could see the dirt underneath it. Everything about this girl was filthy. 

“We could jump on her foot and it would just feel like a tickle to her, a scratch she barely recognizes.” Jose said. “She can’t feel our tongues, and soon her air conditioner will cool her off and get rid of all her sweat for us. She can’t see us under her desk either, so we don’t even have to do this if we don’t want to.” 

“Don’t tempt fate, boy.” Chris said from atop Lorenza’s toes. He had his legs wrapped around the forth one, trying not to fall off as she tapped her foot on the carpet. “Jose is still new here, he didn’t have the displeasure of seeing what happened to the person he replaced. 

Jose ignored the older man and spoke to Zane. “Look, there are worse things she’s going to do to us when she gets off that game— stuff that will make you feel even smaller than you already are. I haven’t cleaned her feet in a week, there’s no need to degrade yourself anymore than you have to.”

Zane was torn. He didn’t want to invoke the giant’s rathe, but he especially didn’t want to crawl between her toes and start licking. If he could trust Jose he could skate by on cleaning her disgusting feet, but if he were to listen to Chris he might get on the giant’s good side.

“I’ll stand by it.” said Zane. “Just so in case she looks down I can say I was doing work. I’m still covered in her sweat, so it’ll look believable.” Zane marched forward, approaching the foot with the hesitation that somebody might a sleeping lion. The closer he got the bigger the pudgy toes became, and the smaller he realized he was.

The smell emanating from them was putrid. Zane covered his nose with his hands, but the scent was so engraved in his nose from earlier that he couldn’t remove the smell completely. Zane was the same height as Lorenza’s big toe, and her smaller toes came all the way up to his chest. He felt pathetic, and was starting to see what Jose was talking about earlier without degrading himself more than he had to. 

Zane sat between two toes. Over the end he could see Seth licking the side of Lorenza’s other foot. He looked happy to do so, and her foot glistened more with his spit than it did with sweat. Meanwhile Zane struggled not to be consumed by the smell. He tried to pretend the toes around him were just giant rocks, but his delusions would be destroyed when she started scrunching her toes and the awful smell from underneath would over power him. 

Zane wondered if what Jose said about Lorenza not being able to feel him was true. He didn’t want to touch his hand to her foot, but he was feeling tempted to test the theory, so he stuck a hand out and wiped it against the web between her toes.

This was a mistake, because as soon as he touched her foot Lorenza squished her big and second toes together, trapping Zane between them. Sweat lubed him up and Lorenza rubbed her toes all over his body. Zane tried to push himself out, but he couldn’t get a firm enough grip on the top of her feet to push himself off because of all the sweat. He was stuck, trapped between the toes of a giant girl he doesn’t even know.

After another minute of this he was dropped back onto the musty carpet. The gaming chair rolled back, and Lorenza’s face peered down at him. “You look so cringe down there bro.” She laughed, rolling her chair back up to her desk. Zane wondered if Lorenza saw that Jose wasn’t doing what she told him to.

The sounds of Lorenza’s game filled the room once again. Zane was traumatized, his body covered in dirt, sweat, and some toe jam. Across from him he could faintly hear Seth’s lips smacking hard against Lorenza’s other foot, his low voice declaring how grateful he’d be if she’d do the same thing to him that she did to Zane. How could somebody actually like this?

There was a loud bang from atop of the desk. “Fucking hell bro!” Lorenza slammed her fists against her keyboard. “Fucking heal me!” Her toes scrunched in anger, the three tinies getting caught in between them. Zane couldn’t breath until she let go again, but he didn’t have any time to collect himself before Lorenza’s large foot raised above him. He saw all the dust from walking around barefoot in a house that hasn’t seen the wet end of a mop in years, and all the grime that has accumulated from how little the girl probably showers. 

Then the foot came down on him. The smell was worse under her foot than it was above next to it. Here, Zane could smell every bit of filth Lorenza had walked on. Not only that, but being rubbed into the carpet didn’t give the bottom of Lorenza’s sole didn’t have any time to cool off the sweat, so there were gallons of it being rubbed all over Zane.

He regretted not taking Jose’s advice, but Lorenza was so much more powerful than him. This proved it. Her giant foot crushed him into the ground. Zane prayed that she’d start doing better at her game before he popped like a grape under the angry goddess’s foot. 

Afraid, Zane licked up the sweat under him. The ball of the giant’s foot pressed into his chest, preventing him from breathing while his skull threatened to crack under her massive weight. The taste was awful, but nothing Zane wasn’t used to by then. The giantess twisted her foot back and forth, further smooshing Zane into either end. He didn’t want to die, he wanted to live. No amount of kissing or licking would do anything, Jose was right— Lorenza couldn’t feel anything they did down there. Zane felt some of his ribs give way, it would only be a matter of time before… 

“Shit shit shit!” Lorenza rang, scooting her gaming chair back. Cool air rushed over Zane as the foot was removed from him. He flinched as her giant hand came down, but it wasn’t reaching for him. It dug between the toes on her other foot, pulling out a crushed and bloody body. It was Chris. 

“God damnit!” She yelled, throwing his broken body back down on the floor. Zane noticed Seth crawling forward to lick Lorenza’s toes again, completely unfazed by the death of the man who was right next to him. Zane realized he mustn’t have been the only person in danger a second ago, but was too scared of dying to grieve the man or even process his death. 

“Useless fucking old boomer. That was not kek bro.” Lorenza moved her foot forward to kick aside the man’s body. Just like that, his remains were tossed aside like trash. “Okay smol people, time to get back to cleaning mommy’s feet.” She laughed, but Zane wasn’t sure what part she found funny. 

Scared, Zane picked himself back up and awaited her feet to return. He’d do whatever the giant asked now and worry about escaping later. 

“No, fuck you bitch.” This came from Jose, who was rushing forward to look at her. “You can’t treat people like this, that’s exactly why you were on my shit list but at work.”