Their final battle with Ashera complete, and peace restored to Tellius, Micaiah and the Dawn Brigade had returned to Daein to continue rebuilding their country. King Pellas had announced his intentions to cede rule of Daein to Micaiah, now renown as the heroic Maiden of Dawn, who had helped save all of the world. In addition to the promises she had made to her people, she and Sothe had made promises to each other, and were now to be husband and wife in only a few short months.
Micaiah sat at her desk, trying to write a statement to give to Crimea’s Queen Elincia, when she felt a strange, yet familiar feeling wash over her; something akin to a cool breeze on a sunny day. Her vision dropped just a touch, now slightly lower to the ground before the feeling faded away.
She turned her head to look at Sothe, who was sitting up in their bed. A glowing blue crystal rested in his hand, and a smug expression lit up his face.
As an engagement present from Micaiah's sister, the happy couple was gifted a pair of magical artifacts. Two crystals fashioned into necklaces, one big and one small. They were connected so that when the one wearing the large crystal activated it, it would cause the person wearing the smaller crystal to shrink in size. Micaiah was given the smaller one, meaning for the past few weeks, Sothe had been able to control her size.
“Sothe” Micaiah chided. Smiling at his antics. “I told you, I have work to do. I shouldn’t shrink now.”
“Oh, come on. How’s losing a few inches going to stop you from working?” Sothe walked over and leaned on Micaiah’s desk. As he did so, he touched the crystal again, and the feeling washed over her again as the paired crystal around her own neck glowed in tandem. He smiled as her head lowered by just a tad once again.
Another feature of the magical necklaces was that if the wearer was shrunken, the necklace couldn’t be removed. This was likely to prevent the necklace from being lost while one was tiny, leaving them unable to be restored. Although it had the side effect of putting Micaiah completely at Sothe’s mercy once she was shrunken even a bit. Often he would abuse this power by leaving her shorter by an inch or two. Not enough to be noticed by anyone, but enough to prevent her from taking the necklace off, meaning she was helpless to prevent him from shrinking her whenever he chose to.
Micaiah sighed. “It always starts out as just a few inches, doesn’t it? Remember that time you couldn’t turn the crystal off for a full minute?”
“Hey, it was still new to me then! I wasn’t trying to make you that small, and it’s not like you were hurt.”
“I could have been if the magic hadn’t protected me!” She said, exasperated. “Sothe, I was so small you could barely even see me.”
“If you hated it so much then why’d you ask me to make you that small again as soon as I regrew you?”
“Sothe, that’s not-” Micaiah blushed at the memory of their night a few weeks ago. “I know you like shrinking me, but please, I’m busy now. Isn’t making me this small enough to satisfy you for now?”
Indeed, she had already lost quite a bit of her height between the two rounds of shrinking that Sothe had performed on her. The first spurt had taken only a bit of her height, maybe a handful of inches, just enough to loosen her clothes a bit but not enough to hinder her. The second time, however, he had taken more of her height, likely almost six inches in one go. Micaiah wasn’t particularly tall to begin with, so she was already beginning to look quite tiny.
“Hmm, perhaps you’re right. You are pretty small right now..” Sothe said, rolling the crystal between his fingers. “Although, you could be smaller. You look so cute when you’re tiny…”
As long as the crystal was in contact with his body, Sothe could activate it at any time. From experience, Micaiah knew they rarely stopped when she was still as big as she was.
Not wanting to be any smaller than she already was, Micaiah lunged for the crystal, trying to grab it before Sothe could react.
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