Amidst an endless forest of grass, an ant-sized amazon was taking a stroll. Yes, that human she’d captured had proven to be a disappointment, but thankfully a brief one, and now she’d never bother the village again. Just in case, though, the tiny woman had backtracked to the scene of the crime, in case there were any other humans coming to avenge their captured friend.
As she walks across the scattered shrinking powder, her steps cause clouds of the stuff to shoot into the air. Not that it worries her, of course— it stands to reason that the amazons would be immune to their own magic. However, the same cannot be said for a certain straggler stuck between her toes…
After what must have been a mile of treacherous walking, you are at your wits end. Trapped in this toejam hell, you’d rather have anything, anything else the amazons could threaten you with. However, you would soon come to regret that thought as a purple sandstorm washes over you. You cough at the sudden vapor flooding your lungs, and try to wriggle your arms free to get this discolored gravel out of your eyes. To your surprise, you are able to free them with ease. In fact, the gap between these toes feels more spacious all of a sudden…
It’s only after rubbing your eyes that you discover the ugly truth of your scenario. Your fleshy landscape is growing in all directions at an alarming rate. No… you’re shrinking even more!!
You have mere milliseconds to recognize this purple substance as the shrinking powder from earlier before another pile of it washes over you. “Oh god no, I’m so small already! I need to get out of here!” By now you’ve shrunken enough that the gap between the amazon’s toes can no longer hold you, and you quickly scramble up the shorter toe before you’re dropped into the sandal floor far below.
You don’t know where exactly on this ever-growing woman you’re headed— her toenail, her big toe, her insole— but you’re not gaining much ground regardless. Each step this giantess makes causes more powder to fill the air, shrinking you more and more. By now you’re small enough that the particles themselves are like meteors, and you weave left and right to avoid being embarrassingly crushed by them.
After the seventh or eighth shrink-inducing step, you find yourself at a cavern’s edge and decide to cut your losses. Running into the cavern until your legs give out, all you can do now is lay there, trembling, as you wait for your shrinking to finally end.
Before long, you feel you size finally stabilize. But you know it’s far too late. As you step out into an utterly alien landscape, you can only begin to guess where you are.
You stand alone, amidst a vast canyon of skin. Zooming out, this canyon runs parallel to countless others, stretching for miles across the land. Zooming even further out, these canyons form a print, the toeprint of a pinky toe big enough to level continents. A toe belonging to a woman who herself is no bigger than an inch tall…
Before, you were ant-sized to an ant, a mere speck in the world you once knew. But now you were infinitely smaller, a speck under a microscope, if even that.
This realization breaks you. You want to scream, to cry, to run until you find a way out, but instead you can only fall to your knees. As you stare blankly at the planetary toes that will be your eternal home, the amazon’s words from earlier echo in your head. If only you’d accepted your purpose while you had the chance. But now…
“I’m… nothing…”
——
Some time later, an ant-sized amazon girl lets out an exhausted sigh as she enters her equally-tiny abode. The perimeter check had been longer (and dirtier) than she’d expected, but it was all worth it to keep her village safe. As she rests her tired legs on a makeshift futon, she feels a twinge of regret for her actions that day.
“Perhaps I should have spared the life of that little human… right now I could use a foot massage!” She laughs to herself and soon falls asleep. If only she knew that that right now, her human is exactly where she wanted…
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