Your faith in your climbing skills is undeniable. However, the vertical side of a giant tapping shoe did not house favorable climbing conditions. Nevertheless, you persevere. The heel end of the shoe was the most stable, climbing the off-white rubber sole was easy enough and the black fabric above took more time but you eventually made it to the cuff of the shoe. Still clinging to the side, you peer anxiously over the edge into the chasm between Ellie's sock and the shoe. Already the smell from within made your eyes water and the last thing you wanted was to fall in there. But the movement around the ledge was intense, it didn't stay dormant like everything below it and no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't get up onto it. Instead, you decide to roll over it, hang off the inside of the shoe, and heroically leap across the canyon onto Ellie's sock. You had easily made it over the ledge and were about to jump across when disaster struck. Ellie's foot twisted in the other direction and your perfectly timed leap fell just short of your mark. Instead, you are sent tumbling against the sweaty sock down into the dark abyss below.

Inside the shoe felt like you were suffocating, tainted oxygen was breathable but each breath felt like it was corroding your lungs and throat. Next to the sock, you gradually make your way deeper inside until you are parallel with Ellie's toes and then at the very end of the shoe. You hug the soggy insole as the foot begins to tap again. You watch Ellie's foot rear up, the darker space created beneath her lifted foot and the subsequent crashing back down expelling toxic air and droplets of sweat into your face. This, among other scenarios, had been your nightmare leading up to this mission. Owen had once suggested using the device in bed but your mind was obsessed with something going wrong. Getting eaten, falling into a toilet, and being near people's rank feet, had to be avoided at all costs. Yet here you were inside a giant shoe watching and smelling the equally giant, filthy foot of a complete stranger. Before long the inevitable happens. One powerful tap sends you flying out of your spot and straight into the putrid sole of Ellie's foot. You collapse onto the insole and embrace the descending foot and it crushes you under its weight...