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| That�s odd,� the coroner reported to his recorder. �I have opened the abdomen of subject Melissa Anderson per the request of the patrol officers and an FBI agent on the scene. Preliminary observations indicate human remains. I have in my hands what appears to be the arm of a male. What is unusual is the fact that this is a mostly intact without any of the usual marks to indicate mastication. This arm is also too large for the stomach cavity. How did she swallow an arm too large for her stomach with chewing it at all? The size of what I have here is too large for Melissa to have easily fit into her mouth as well�.� Tina bounced through the front doors of the hotel and dashed into the elevator. Her new husband would be back from his visit with some old friends who hadn�t been able to attend the wedding. She would be ready for him when he showed up. She donned the thinnest white shirt she had, nothing else, and filled the ice bucket with water from the tap. Tine playfully dribbled the water down the front of her and watched the fabric turn invisible and her nipples stiffen. He would be back any moment and she could hear him fumbling with the keycard. �Hi, baby, I�m�.� His voice trailed off at the sight of his bride. He wanted her more than ever and stripped down quickly. �Are you ready for me?� she asked, pausing when she felt her voice raise an octave on its own. �Who�s your daddy?� He hopped into bed and pulled her close to him. Her wet body clung to him and he enjoyed the feel of her hardened nipples. He tried to enter her and noticed it wasn�t as easy as before. He pulled off her wet top and cast it aside. A tingle of pleasure swept his body and he found he could enter just as easily as he remembered. They awoke much later after enjoying the best sex they�d ever had. Tina got up and went to the bathroom and hollered for him. He came running and noticed they each only came up the doorknob. They ran back to their bed and hopped up on it in panic. �What happened to us?� Tina asked. �I don�t know, this just can�t be real.� �I have to call someone,� she insisted. She jumped down and ran for the phone. The table it was on was now out of her reach unless she climbed up onto the chair. Her damp shirt was in the way and she grasped it to push it aside. Water trickled out onto her flesh and gasped. Her size faded away faster while the liquid poured over her. Her husband ran to her side and tried to help dry her off. His efforts only earned him a reduction as well. They clung to each in fear as the wet shirt finally came loose and fell over their dwindling bodies. They each took off running, pushing their way from the thing that robbed them of their height. By the time they got free, each was a little over two inches high. Their size faded further and they ended up an inch high apiece. Tina had dashed for the door and slid under it before noticing the roar from the other side. Her momentum carried her under a vacuum cleaner and she was sucked inside. Her husband merely hid under the bed and awaited his demise. �The police report that the woman has finally been found and is in stable condition at a local hospital even if she is only eight inches high. Doctors are working very carefully to treat her without harming her further.� The reporter�s voice droned on and Kylee caught virtually none of it. Her husband came on the screen to give his story. �After spending nearly five hours at what I believe to be only an inch high, I felt myself growing. Sadly, it has been over twelve hours since then and I�m still not even a foot.� He paced across the surface of the podium and cameramen worked to focus in on the diminished figure. �Everyone jokes that size doesn�t matter, but right now I wish I was six feet again. Size becomes very important when you can be stepped on so easily and so many other terrible things can happen only because someone can only see you as a bug. I would like, now, to thank the dedicated staff and guests at the hotel who searched the trash for my wife�s shrunken body. I only regret that I was unable to get a maid�s attention sooner, or before the vacuum bag was thrown away.� The reporter came back on. �He also reported that he himself was nearly swallowed up by a vacuum cleaner when a maid came in to clean their room. He had only gotten up to three inches by that point. I understand the maid nearly mistook him for a bug, but thankfully looked closer and discovered a tiny person at her feet. His wife was found unconscious and her lungs were filled with dirt. This really is a tragic story that makes us all think. No word yet on how the water was able to make these newlyweds shrink, or even if it truly was the water. We�ll have more details later as they become available.� A stern state trooper issued a generalized report about the shrinking and several warnings. �God, you have got to shitting me,� the beleaguered agent groaned. At that moment her cell phone rang. �Whoever this is will be dead tomorrow.� �You do know I once gave the president your number,� her boss replied. His tone was perfectly tailored to ensure she would never know if he was joking. �I was serious and would say it again. Cut the crap and get to business.� �A packet of information, a sidearm, and a kit are being delivered to your room as we speak. I would e-mail you what we know, but someone didn�t take their laptop. You�ll need to run an analysis of whatever chemical is causing the shrinkage.� �I can tell already that it�s the most unstable shit I�ve ever seen. Am I the only one worried about the booster in my system?� �It also helps the chip operate, so don�t worry if you lose height. You should still be able to regulate your size easily.� �I�d prefer something more definite, but I�ll take what I can get. I assume I�ll have to find the source and an antidote?� �Our lab boys say the dosing will be tricky. We don�t know how much will need to get into the water to neutralize however much will be left at the time.� �If the compound even does get diluted by water, or if it�s like that gasoline chemical.� She didn�t want to even mention the idea that it could be reacting with the water to create more of itself. She didn�t have to either; they both remembered learning about the plan during the Cold War to develop just such a substance to use in Moscow. It had proved highly effective but too unstable. LSD had become the cover story and had been circulated well by the right sources. �We�re working on our end to locate the source as well. I�ll give you a teaser of something that just came across my desk. It seems that girl who ran into traffic five days ago had the remains of a drug lab in her place. A team found chemicals spilled near the toilet so I�d bet she flushed it all before killing herself. The medical examiner found body parts inside her that were too big to have been swallowed. Preliminary toxicology shows a Junior Chemistry Kit in her bloodstream.� �Depression over accidentally eating someone while high, or devious plot where you can never be arrested? Did she get high to celebrate her plan, or make the stuff by chance while stoned?� �That�s what you have to figure out. I�d send more agents, but this is a tough one. Too many federal agents show up for this and people will start talking.� �Understand, I�ll report back when I have something.� Kylee hung up and flung her phone into the wall. The image she burned into her mind of the electronic nuisance fragmenting into a burst of sparks and plastic provided some relief. �Every fucking vacation.� |
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