It felt like hours before Natalie finally drifted off to sleep, even though in reality it was no more than ten to fifteen minutes. Her breathing became deeper and the tiny women felt her grip loosen just a little bit. Sam breathed a sigh of relief, taking one of the gigantic fingers in her tiny hands and gently curling it away. Trisha saw what her friend was doing and copied as well, lifting each finger away individually as she slowly freed herself.

*snort*

The shrunken women froze as they watched the little girl turn her head back and forth, trying to get comfortable. Much to their relief, the child did not awaken and soon she was still and breathing normally again.

“Careful,” Sam whispered as she finally slipped away from the gigantic hand. Trisha followed a moment later, joining her friend as Sam stared down over the edge of the bed.

“It’s kind of far…how are we going to get down?” Trisha said with a small frown. Sam scanned the floor a moment before pointing at a small pillow that lay at the foot of the bed.

“There…we can jump onto that.”

The doll-sized women scurried over to the bed’s edge, peering down at the pink softness below.

“You go first…” Trisha said, taking a step back. Sam frowned, starting to doubt her plan, but the next moment she took a deep breath and leapt off the bed. The world sailed past her as she fell and she closed her eyes as she braced for impact.

*FOOF*

The tiny woman squeaked as she landed on the soft surface, the momentum of her fall causing her to bounce and roll off and onto the floor. She couldn’t help but laugh a little as she did a backward somersault, staring up at her friend who was still up on the bed.

“It’s okay!” she said in a loud whisper, flashing Trisha a thumbs up. The other little woman also held her breath as she leapt into the air, her legs cartwheeling in the air as she also landed on the pillow with a soft FOOF. She rolled off the other way, landing on her head, also squeaking with laughter.

“Shh,” Sam said, putting a finger to her mouth. She helped her friend up and the two tiny women stared in awe at the massive room that stood before them. Natalie was a very lucky girl indeed, with all the toys and dolls and playsets that a little girl her age could want. The two women walked together hand in hand, silently taking in the veritable wonderland of plastic and painted wood that they were surrounded by.

“Hey um, Sam?” Trisha said as they walked by the entrance of a huge, three story dollhouse.

“Hmm?” Sam responded, looking at her friend.

“Do you mind if I…can I just pop in for a bit?” Trisha asked, biting her lip. Sam raised an eyebrow but let go of her hand and the doll-sized woman scampered to the door and into the house. Sam followed along, running her hands over the smooth paint of the doorway. Once inside, she was blown away by the sheer level of detail and effort that had gone into creating this house. Trisha was walking around, her cheeks glowing a bright pink as she walked around from room to room, admiring each and every detail from the walls to the furniture.

“I always wanted a dollhouse like this when I was younger,” Trisha said. The woman took a seat at the table, which had been set with little plates, spoons and cups as if for tea. Trisha picked up the cup which looked normal sized in her hands.

“A friend of mine had one and I would go over to play with it as often as I could.”

Trisha smiled and pretended to take a sip of tea before putting the cup back down.

“I have to admit, if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t trust that woman at all, this would be an absolutely amazing experience.”

Sam nodded.

“Also if not for the fact that five-year-olds have no sense of boundaries,” Sam added with a smile.

“Yea,” Trisha said, absent-mindedly swirling her finger around the edge of the cup. Sam put her hand on her shoulder.

“But for now,” she said, squeezing Trisha’s shoulder with her fingers, “I think we should explore the house to get a ‘lay of the land’. If this woman isn’t going to help us, maybe we can figure out an escape ourselves.

Trisha sighed but nodded before slowly standing up. She smoothed out her dress, which was beginning to feel less uncomfortable every minute and looked into Samantha’s eyes.

“Good idea.”

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Karen grinned as she threw off the covers, revealing the tiny Kayla beneath. Kayla drew in deep gasps of fresh air.

“There she is! I told you she was around here somewhere,” Karen said with a chuckle. Kayla looked up and saw Lily in the giant woman’s hand and gasped.

“Oh no! She got you too?!” Kayla exclaimed, quivering slightly as Karen’s grin grew wider.

“Yes I do…and the two of you are going to help me out.”

In one quick motion she snatched up Kayla, the tiny woman squeaking with terror as Karen lowered both shrunken girls down to the ground. The Giantess rose from her bed, stepping over the tiny girls as she made her way to the other side of the room. The moment her gaze was off of them, Kayla ran to Lily and embraced her.

“I’m so happy to see you…I thought I might never see you again,” Kayla said, trembling as she squeezed Lily far too tightly.

“Kayla…are you alright? What happened?!” Lily asked, alarmed at how her friend was acting.

“It’s been terrible…this woman, she’s evil. Do you know what she made me do? She made me…”

“Here we are, girls!” Karen’s voice boomed as the Giantess returned. She placed two small bottles of polish down on the ground and Lily raised an eyebrow.

“What is this for?” she asked.

“What do you think?” Karen said. She sat down on her bed and the next moment her two massive feet came slamming down in front of the two tiny women, causing Lily to squeak in shock as she fell backward on her little bottom. Karen roared with laughter. Kayla looked over at the bottle then back at the Giantess.

“You don’t mean….”

Karen nodded her head.

“One foot for each of you. Whoever does best gets to take a break. Whoever does worse, well…” her gigantic toes wriggled in front of the two tiny girls.

“Whoever does worse has to clean them.”

Lily’s jaw dropped open. Kayla eyed the bottle up and down before looking at her friend.

“Kayla…is this what she’s been making you-”

Kayla did not even wait for her friend to finish her sentence. She dashed to the bottle as quickly as her little legs would take her, throwing her tiny arms around the cap and starting to twist off the top of the bottle.

“I’m sorry Lily…but I’m not licking her feet again!”

Lily’s jaw dropped as she looked up at the Giantess, only now beginning to realize what this woman had been putting her friend through. Karen simply grinned back.

“You’re definitely not going to win by sitting there and doing nothing,” the woman said in a sing-song tone. Lily shivered a moment before jumping to her feet and racing over to her bottle. No matter which of them won, it would take a while for the girls to paint the woman’s gigantic toes at their current size. And Lily would try and use that time to figure out a plan….

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The car pulled up in front of the house and Agent Miles turned off the engine. She quickly flipped through the file one last time: single mother, no criminal record, five year old daughter. It was a little odd that she hadn’t contacted the local authorities, but there could be any number of reasons for that. She closed the folio before exiting the vehicle with her briefcase. Scanning the houses next door, she approached the house and rang the doorbell.

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Lily panted…she had barely finished the second toe and she was already getting tired. She looked over and saw Kayla rhythmically pumping her hips as she painted the gigantic woman’s third toe. Lily groaned as she came to the realization that she was at a high risk of losing this contest.

“Looking good so far, little ones,” Karen said with a grin. “Looks like I’ll have a fresh little doll to help me with my-”

DING DONG

Karen frowned as she stared toward the hallway.

“Who the hell could that be?” she practically growled, obviously greatly irritated by the interruption. Lily slowed down, feeling a slight flutter of hope in her chest over the possibility of getting a break from her task.

DING DONG

Karen looked down at the two tiny women and narrowed her eyes.

“Don’t get any funny ideas while I’m gone…when I return, it’s right back to painting my nails.”

The Giantess rose and bounded out of the room. Both Kayla and Lily sat down, panting as they took a rest from their task.

“Kayla?” Lily said after a moment.

“Mm hmm?” Kayla responded, looking over at her friend. Lily took a deep breath.

“I don’t know what happened to you…but I’m sorry it happened. I don’t know how but I promise you…we will get out of this and this woman will get what’s coming to her.”

Tears squeezed out of Kayla’s eyes as the stress all released at once. Lily walked over and wrapped her arms around her friend, holding her close.

“What are we going to d-do,” Kayla whimpered, licking away a tear. Lily looked around the room, her eyes settling on the dark recesses beneath the bed.

“We’re going to hide.”

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Agent Miles watched as the door opened before her, revealing the very annoyed face of the woman from her folio.

“We’re not buying anything and we already have a religion, so go away,” Karen said, starting to shut the door. It was an easy task for Agent Miles to rotate the briefcase and insert it into the gap between the door and frame, preventing it from being closed.

“You misunderstand me, Ms. Lyle,” Agent Miles said in a polite but authoritative voice.

“I am from the government. I’m here to rectify the…little…situation that you have on hand.”

Karen stared at the slightly shorter woman for a moment before it slowly began to dawn on her what was going on. Her eyes widened as her tone changed immediately.

“Oh…uh…you’re here for the um…for the lovely little women that I…rescued?” Karen said, only slightly stumbling over her words. Agent Miles nodded her head, taking note of the woman’s sudden change in tone.

“May I come in? My hope is to rectify the situation quickly and be on my way.”

Karen smiled and begrudgingly let the woman in. The government agent stepped inside, politely removing her shoes and noticing Karen’s only half-painted toes.

“Take me to them, please.”

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DING DONG

The tone rang out just as Sam and Trisha were making their way across the room. The sound was followed by a sharp snort and the sound of rustling coming from the bed.

“Uggmmmmm,” Natalie groaned as she slowly began to rouse from her nap, causing the doll-sized women to look at each other in a panic.

“Crap…we gotta’ hide!”

Peering around a moment, Sam took Trisha by the arm and dashed behind the toy box with her friend. The two women squeezed themselves behind just as the gigantic five-year-old reared her head and yawned.

“Dollies?” the little girl said, looking at her empty hands. She looked around her bed, turning over her covers but found no trace of the two dolls that she had started her nap with. She frowned as she got out of bed.

“Dollies?” the gigantic child said as she made her way across the room, each one of her footfalls shaking the floor beneath the tiny women. Natalie carefully checked beneath the pillow by her bed as she slowly but surely checked every nook and cranny, looking for her new favorite toys.

“Dollies? Oh dollies? Where are you?” the child sang as she turned over everything in search of the two women. Sam felt Trisha tremble as she held her closer.

“It’ll be alright…she’ll get bored soon. Then we can-”

“Girls? Are you in here?” came a loud, booming voice from down the hall.

“This is Agent Miles from the government. She’s here to help you!”

Trisha gasped and Sam felt her heart flutter in her chest.

“Did you hear that?” Trisha said, her voice squeaky with excitement. “Someone came for us! They came! We’re going to be rescued and put back to normal!”

Before Sam could respond, Trisha dashed out from behind the toybox, making her way across the floor as quickly as her little legs could carry her.

“Trisha wait!” Sam yelled but far too late.

“Dolly!” came the booming, high-pitched voice of Natalie as the huge child bounded across the floor and scooped Trisha up into the air.

“Eep! No! Let me go! They came! They came!” Trisha squeaked pathetically as the gigantic child held her close and snuggled the tiny woman to her face, not listening to a single word.

“I thought you were lost! Yay!”

Samantha sighed…she knew they needed to reveal themselves, but she also knew that Natalie would never listen to anything they had to say. Unless…

Samantha took a deep breath and stepped out from behind the toybox. The motion caught Natalie’s eye and she turned and spotted the little woman.

“Dolly!”

Samantha held her breath, spreading her arms out as the gigantic child descended upon her, grasping and lifting her up with her pudgy hand. The huge child gave Sam a gigantic, wet kiss.

“I thought I lost you.”

Samantha looked the huge child directly into her eyes and smiled.

“Hi Natalie,” she said slowly and clearly, trying her best to be understandable despite her tiny voice. “I’m very glad you found me.”

“Me too!” the little girl said, focusing entirely on Samantha. Natalie smiled. “Now we can play.”

“Yes, that is a nice idea,” Samantha said, again stating her words very clearly while she smiled as widely as possible, “But Natalie…could we go and see your Mommy first?”

Natalie frowned a little.

“I want to play,” the little girl said, her grip tightening slightly. Sam swallowed the lump in her throat, steadying her voice as she continued to address the five-year-old.

“That is a good idea, but I want to show your Mommy my nice dress first. Please Natalie? Just for one minute.”

Natalie looked deep in thought for a moment and Sam swore she could see the tiny gears turning in the child’s brain. Finally, the gigantic girl smiled.

“Okay! Let’s find Mama!”

Sam breathed a sigh of relief as Natalie turned and carried both her and Trisha out of the room.

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Kayla and Lily watched from their hiding place as not one, but two pairs of adult-sized feet entered the room.

“Girls? Are you in here?“ Karen called out loudly. “This is Agent Miles from the government. She’s here to help you!”

Lily was shocked…she had hoped that the doorbell had been someone who could help them, but a government agent? That was amazing. Kayla seemed to be thinking the same thing as she rushed out from beneath the bed and into the open.

“Here! I’m here!” the tiny woman squeaked, jumping up and down and waving her arms. “Thank goodness you’re here!”

Lily joined her friend and the two tiny women stared up at the new arrival. Agent Miles smiled down at them as she put her briefcase down on a nearby table.

“It looks like you’ve had a little fun with that one,” she said, pointing at Lily who was wearing the doll dress. Karen’s cheeks went a little pink as Agent Miles cracked open the suitcase. She removed a metal object that looked like an old ray gun from a 1950’s cartoon.

“What’s that?” Karen asked with a raised eyebrow.

“It’s a portable version of the thing that shrunk these two,” Agent Miles said. She activated the device, entering a passcode before the main menu appeared on the screen.

“I’ll restore these two. Can you go retrieve the other two?”

“Oh…of course,” Karen said in a deadpan voice, slowly slipping out of the room. Agent Miles looked behind her for a moment before crouching down closer to the two tiny women.

“Are you two okay?”

Lily nodded while Kayla shook her head.

“She’s a monster! Do you know what she made me do? She…she….”

“It’s okay dear,” Agent Miles said in a soft voice, “After you get big again, you’re free to make a police report on anything illegal or unethical she may have had you do while small. Don’t worry, we will make sure that justice is ser-”

There was a sudden flash of metal followed by a dull thread. Agent Miles grunted uncomfortably before her eyes rolled back in her head and, suddenly, the gigantic woman was falling down toward the two tiny ladies.

“Look out!” Kayla yelled, leaping to the side and pushing Lily out of the way just as the woman’s head crashed down where they had been previously standing. The two tiny women looked up and were shocked to see Karen standing there holding a large, metal pole in her hand. The Giantess, her knuckles white as she stared down at the scene before her. Lily and Trisha watched with horror as, slowly, Karen put the pole down and picked up the portable size device. She looked at the screen, finding it was still unlocked. Tapping on the main menu, she found the two options that she hoped she would: Enlarge and Reduce.

Lily felt her blood go cold as Karen looked down at them with a malicious, triumphant grin.