The beams of light that pass through the last remnants of smoke reveal that the lid of this chest is hundreds of feet beyond your new height. You lay here, too stunned to believe that you've just been shrunk!
"This can't be happening..."
Everything is still the same.
"This can't be happening..."
There's no waking up from this nightmare.
"This can't be happening!"
Your mantra doesn't change the truth, you have been forced down to a quarter of an inch high! The tunic you once wore has become a thick tent of leather and wool, more suited for the giants told of in ancient legends than a speck of an adventurer, this towering bundle of fabric could cover a small town! Your jacket, trousers, blade, various pouches and bags, and especially your backpack! Everything that you'd carried with you now towers like mountains of your own design! A drip of water suddenly falls from the cavernous ceiling. The bulk of it misses you, but the bouncing blobs that spring from the giant drop's impact spray over you, chilling you to the bone!
You huddle into a tiny crevice in the neck of your tunic for warmth. Sodden, shrunken, and seeking warmth from your own fading body heat... This isn't what you wanted in the slightest! You want to scream for help, claw up this chest's walls, anything to get out of here and back to normal!
Thoom...
But that isn't in the cards right now.
Thooom...
The floor begins to rumble, wet footsteps slowly grow in volume and intensity until they're practically on top of you!
Thooom!
You lay flat against your tunic and try to make yourself as small as possible. Whatever size this creature was before, you have no doubt that it could crush you under a single toe now. Your heart pounds to no end as a dark figure steps in front of the lantern's light. The giant's face comes into focus, now peering into this chest is...
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