There was no doubt about it, when Carrie looked into the mirror she saw a little kid looking back at her. Carried pinched her chubby cheeks to see if she was dreaming. Her work shirt was huge on her now, her skirt was barely hanging around her hips and her leggings were trailing behind her.
"I-I look like a little kid!" Carrie said, unable to look away from the mirror, she estimated herself to be about twelve years old... Half her age. "I knew this place was weird!"
Carrie looked behind her, looking at the unlit candles. It was hard to see in the dark... but she if she had to guess, she figured she'd passed by twelve pairs of candelabras.
"The candles are magic! I need to go back and warn the others... Who knows what other weird stuff might happen!" Carrie said, hoisting up her skirt, tightening her belt as much as she could and turned back towards the unlit candles... And fell flat on her face again, her leggings still hanging loose around her feet. "OW! My poor little nose... Well, I guess I'm lucky I've got that childlike resilience back!"
But the sight before her froze her blood cold, the candles going back the other way had re-lit themselves.
"Th-that's not fair!" Carrie cried out. "If I try to go back to get help... I'll lose another twelve years! How long's it been since my birthday... Is that even how the magic works..."
Carrie looked back up at the way she came.
"I... I could risk it... But would I even be able to warn the others if I'm too little to talk?" Carrie turned back the other way, the light of the candles and how far apart they were made it hard to tell how many there were in the other direction. "If I go that way... Maybe I'll at least still be able to walk. But what if it's even more than twelve candles that way!?"
"AAAHHH, what do I do!?" Carrie called out in her squeaky tween voice. "I'm gonna kill you Stacey!"
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