Olga turns around, allowing you to watch three women cross the threshold into your test tube-distorted view. Your giant captor holds up the tube containing you like a prize, and greets the very serious looking trio. She gives it another quick, violent shake, making you bounce against the glass walls again.
"Don't do that too much, you'll hurt him," says the skinny blond woman who just entered, by far the tallest of the three. She pushes her wide-frame glasses up her nose and continues, "It won't be any fun to hunt him down and step on him if his leg's broken." You recognize her as Emma, someone you'd had a literature class with the previous semester, and while you found her attractive even then she towered over you. Apparently you made an impression anyway.
"That's dumb, why would you step on him?" asks the petite Asian woman to her left. Even the refracted light reaching you conveys the borderline maniacal spark in her coal black eyes as she twirls a strand of long black hair around her finger. "I'm not paying for another shrunken man, and this is my one chance to eat someone whole. Just imagine the taste..." she licks her lips, and you just now recognize her as Amy, though you don't remember what from.
"Ugh, that's disgusting," says the third, standing on Emma's right. Her dark brown hair is cut to perfectly frame her face, and her soft brown eyes make her look like the most sympathetic of the three. "Eating him is barbaric and stepping on him is wasteful, if I catch him I'm going to torment him without him dying... for a while at least." So much for her being kind. From her voice alone you know it's Elena, an incredibly athletic girl from one of your history classes.
"And if he gets to me before any of you catch him," Olga offers, "the hunt's over and I get to keep him for whatever I want. Hear that, pipsqueak?" She flicks the glass, causing a pinging thud to resonate throughout the test tube. "I'm home base. If you touch me before they get you, you're safe. But if they get you at any time - today, tomorrow, a month from now - they get to do whatever they want to you. There's no time limit."
Before you can say anything Olga shoves a cork into the test tube's rim, cutting you off from any clear sounds. She then completely palms the vessel within her massive hand, hiding you from the world and shrouding you in darkness. When her fingers uncurl you look around and know that you've been taken to...
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