This choice: Sit down and listen, causing no disturbance • Go Back...Chapter #17Playing It Cool by: Doom   Your movements just now on Maggie's bare leg drew her attention, so logically crawling any further would summon similar vengeance. Likewise, to drop to the carpet would relinquish the high ground you've already seized, rendering you nothing more than another bug.
So you stay where you are, waiting for the girl's itch to pass, and listen to her words. It's not like you can block them out anyway, given the volume of her voice to li'l 1/8" you.
"Oh!" Maggie says, clapping her hands with another horrendous explosion of sound. "I know what we can do!"
You slump down and shake your head to recover, Taylor's more distant voice blessedly less intrusive: "Oh? And what's that, cuz?"
"If we each come up with a shrunken scenario, swap them around, and then come up with an interesting answer!"
"Trust you to try and make a game of it!" Abby snorts.
"Hey, I think it might be kinda fun..." Ethan mutters.
"I'll get some paper and pens!" Maggie gushes, and you are quick-thinking enough to properly orient yourself before throwing yourself flat and grabbing tight to the girls' skin.
With another monstrous quake, Maggie rises to her full height, and you gasp at the speed of it. She walks with the same thunderous tread as when you were at ankle level, but each step shudders through her thigh.
This is a chance! She won't be upright for long, and with her mind focussed on something else you can scale Maggie, get off her skin and onto her shorts. Your climb is made more difficult by the living, rolling flesh of the cliff-face, but necessity drives you: to survive, you must get higher on this behemoth!
Your fingers touch the thick threads of the shorts, and you haul yourself up onto them, just as Maggie stomps back over to her cousins, the Andersons.
"Take a sheet!" she instructs. "Take a pen!"
She's going to walk past each in turn, even stop before them. As you secure yourself onto her clothing, you ponder how this might be an opportunity. Sure, Maggie is the safer bet since she's not directly involved with your note, but the Anderson house is the place you staked out, and was where you left your shrinking device. This might be a chance to get back there, but it's risky...  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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