You drive with the device next to you on the seat. You're more excited than you thought you'd be. The thing actually works! But you'd have to be careful. Nothing too obvious, or you'd get caught. But shrinking things isn't a crime, is it? As long as they were things no one would miss.
But you really want to know if it would work on a person. You nervously fumble with the device's controls, turning the percentage dial up to 0.90. That way, you figure, you won't do too much harm.
There's a number of other, more-specific, controls that you discover. They pop up on the digital display as small icons. The first seems to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects with a setting for both. There are others, too, including a duration setting and a single target setting.
Just to be safe (for the moment) you switch it to inanimate. Then an idea sneaks into your head, and you can't help but smile.
You cruise downtown, parking until you spot a suitable subject, a raven-haired jogger who has paused to catch her breath against a street sign. Tuning the duration bar, you level the device in her direction.
The lightning blast engulfs her and jumps to the sign beside her. She looks up in shock at the blue-white beam that has now vanished. You're not sure if she's reacting to some kind of electrical shock from the gun or from the flash of light.
She doesn't see you, but you certainly see her. You watch carefully as the white t-shirt she's wearing gets taught across her sizeable chest. Her pants are creeping up her legs. She looks down at herself in shock. Her clothes are shrinking!
But, as they stop at 90 percent of their original size, she's left still clothed, tightly clothed, and awfully confused. Is that street sign shorter than usual?
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