Tiny caged family
The Women Are Shrinking!
chapter 7
by
copier
· original author:
inverseprime
Christian, still stunned by the discovery of his miniature family, carefully lowers a hand to the bed. "Just... move slowly. I don’t want to hurt anyone," he mutters, his voice booming to the shrunken women.
Carrie steps back, flinching instinctively from his fingertips booming down next to her. "This is humiliating," she huffs, crawling onto the palm, arms crossed.
Julia looks up at her towering brother. "You owe me, like, a hundred smoothies for this." She followed her mother, who steadied her carefully along the indents of the wrinkles.
Christian turned to Angela, who proceeded to drop Lauren from her finger directly onto the other two women on the hand. "Ugh, you have a way to reverse this," Lauren exclaimed.
Christian gently lifts them and walks over to his desk, where he approaches his used terrarium, typically to hold any insects to observe. He moved towards a segment that was currently, clean and unused, opening the lid and gently tipping his hand, letting his three tiny relatives slide onto the soft substrate below. A few pebbles, a branch, and a small plastic water tray sit inside. He then closes the mesh lid.
Angela peers over his shoulder. "You're seriously putting them in a cage?"
"It's not a cage," he protests. "It's temporary containment. Besides, I need somewhere safe to keep them until I can ensure the reverse function would work. Plus, I need to monitor their condition, orientation, muscle density, what have you. I didn't expect live human testing today."
Inside the terrarium, the shrunken women take in their surroundings, with annoyed expressions. Julia uselessly kicked the glass wall, screeching silent obscenities. Lauren grumbles pacing back and forth, inspecting the water tray at the same time.
Carrie sits on a pebble like it's a fainting couch, glaring up through the mesh lid. "I am your mother, not a hamster."
Christian, now in full science-mode, starts typing frantically at his workstation, monitoring readouts from the ray's pulse logs. "Okay, so the pulse interacted with estrogenic resonance... if I reroute the conversion node through the phase modulator..."
Angela taps the glass. "Hey, Jules. If he can't fix this, I call dibs on keeping you in a dollhouse."
Julia flips her off with a groan.
Lauren had spent the time making a message in the pebbles to be understood, which read as "GROW?"
Christian looks at it, then turns to them gravely. "So... here's the thing. I don't know if it does wear off. Yet. I need to keep working on it, so you all will have to be in there in the meantime. I'll fix it. I just need time. And maybe... a few more tests."
The women groan simultaneously, voices rising in pitch and frustration, even though the giants couldn't hear them at all.
Angela grins as she crouches down next to the terrarium, her face framed behind the glass. "Well, at least they're adorable like this."
Inside the terrarium, Carrie growls softly. "You will be so grounded when this is over."
What happens next?
Carrie steps back, flinching instinctively from his fingertips booming down next to her. "This is humiliating," she huffs, crawling onto the palm, arms crossed.
Julia looks up at her towering brother. "You owe me, like, a hundred smoothies for this." She followed her mother, who steadied her carefully along the indents of the wrinkles.
Christian turned to Angela, who proceeded to drop Lauren from her finger directly onto the other two women on the hand. "Ugh, you have a way to reverse this," Lauren exclaimed.
Christian gently lifts them and walks over to his desk, where he approaches his used terrarium, typically to hold any insects to observe. He moved towards a segment that was currently, clean and unused, opening the lid and gently tipping his hand, letting his three tiny relatives slide onto the soft substrate below. A few pebbles, a branch, and a small plastic water tray sit inside. He then closes the mesh lid.
Angela peers over his shoulder. "You're seriously putting them in a cage?"
"It's not a cage," he protests. "It's temporary containment. Besides, I need somewhere safe to keep them until I can ensure the reverse function would work. Plus, I need to monitor their condition, orientation, muscle density, what have you. I didn't expect live human testing today."
Inside the terrarium, the shrunken women take in their surroundings, with annoyed expressions. Julia uselessly kicked the glass wall, screeching silent obscenities. Lauren grumbles pacing back and forth, inspecting the water tray at the same time.
Carrie sits on a pebble like it's a fainting couch, glaring up through the mesh lid. "I am your mother, not a hamster."
Christian, now in full science-mode, starts typing frantically at his workstation, monitoring readouts from the ray's pulse logs. "Okay, so the pulse interacted with estrogenic resonance... if I reroute the conversion node through the phase modulator..."
Angela taps the glass. "Hey, Jules. If he can't fix this, I call dibs on keeping you in a dollhouse."
Julia flips her off with a groan.
Lauren had spent the time making a message in the pebbles to be understood, which read as "GROW?"
Christian looks at it, then turns to them gravely. "So... here's the thing. I don't know if it does wear off. Yet. I need to keep working on it, so you all will have to be in there in the meantime. I'll fix it. I just need time. And maybe... a few more tests."
The women groan simultaneously, voices rising in pitch and frustration, even though the giants couldn't hear them at all.
Angela grins as she crouches down next to the terrarium, her face framed behind the glass. "Well, at least they're adorable like this."
Inside the terrarium, Carrie growls softly. "You will be so grounded when this is over."
What happens next?
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