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Flattened and stuck under the foot of this random woman, Alia really wished she had mastered the language before coming here. If she had, she wouldn’t have been squashed by this Italian local. Then again she had said it perfectly, so…it wasn’t her fault. With no way to be heard by her, she couldn’t even ask her to peel her off.

Alia’s trip to Italy started off pretty innocuously. She spent time going to a few small villages, going to local restaurants, going into markets, and looking at all the beautiful scenery. The first five days were the pretty standard tourist affair, at least until she suddenly shrank. While she was in a village street she suddenly dropped down in height.

After a moment of rage and confusion, she reasoned that she must’ve gotten the shrinking virus. Normally, though, it didn’t act this fast. At least, she thought so. It probably had to be a new strand, but anyway. While gathering her bearings a middle-aged local came up to her.

“Woah, all'improvviso ti sei rimpicciolito.” she said. “Yeah…um…Lei parla inglese?” Alia slowly responded, not being the best at speaking and understanding italian. “No, parliitaliano?” “Very little, I mean, Molto…poco.” Looking at her for a moment, the woman responded, “Va bene, hai bisogno che ti aiuti?”

“Sì grazie!” she shouted. “Cosa hai bisogno che io faccia?” “Beh…ho bisogno che…tu mi calpesti!” “Veramente?” “SÌ!” Alia responded .“Ok allora, suppongo che tu voglia che ti lasci appiattito sotto i miei piedi?” “SÌ!” Without as much as a warning, the woman brought her foot up above her and brought it down.

Barely having any time to react, Alia didn’t move out of the way as she flattened under her foot. The woman squished her into the ground a few times before, feeling satisfied, walking back to her nearby house. With no way to see, it took her a moment to process what happened. Though she could still feel.

Pressed into her foot, she could feel her rough calloused sole and the rough stone ground that she was dragged upon once she started walking away. Why had the woman done this? She had spoken perfect Italian, so why did she flatten her, and why did it seem that she was going to leave her down there?

It would only be a couple of hours before she realized that she said to flatten her, instead of don’t flatten her. But what good would it do now? With her mouth flattened shut, she couldn’t speak, and under a tremendous amount of weight, she could barely be heard, if even. So, for the time being, Alia was to be stuck, flattened underfoot to this random Italian woman, so much for the rest of the vacation. 

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