“Fine, you can enter through my ear,” Ms. Goldfinger says at last, “but be careful inside my body. And please, Lucian, don’t try anything weird in there!”

Nodding to the comparatively-gigantic teacher, you give her the signal to move her hand - your current perch - up to her right ear, which is adorned with a brilliant gold earring. You carefully tread from Ms. Goldfinger’s palm into the pitch-dark ear canal, taking your cell phone out before activating its flashlight and camera features (you’re surprised that she hasn’t asked how your phone and clothes managed to shrink with you). Thanks to your phone’s light, just about every detail of the redhead teacher’s inner ear is revealed in great detail, from the fleshy cartilage walls to the tiny blobs of wax scattered around. You snap a good amount of photos while taking care not to make direct contact with the ear wax - who knows what might happen if you got stuck in that stuff? At your size, Ms. Goldfinger would be completely unaware of your plight!

Keeping your phone’s flashlight on, you continue navigating the tunnel that is Ms. Goldfinger’s ear canal before…