Not A Toy 092

At Sophie's yielding, Jenna was the first to step away from the ruler. The feeling of the thin wood against her form was all kinds of uncomfortable. Maisie was less sudden in her movements, still taking a very quiet solace in the fact that she wasn't the shortest woman in the room. Her eyes scanned the teacher's form as she peeled herself from the measuring tool.

"Well?" Came Jenna's curt question.

Sophie took in the sight of the shrunken teacher; proud and defiant. She was mildly shocked that she still maintained her attitude, yet the redhead concluded this was likely a defense mechanism, a shield against the reality of her dwindled status. If she could cling onto her agency and pride, then it made this bizarre situation less real.

Yet the scientist was less interested in the emotional workings of Jenna, and filed away that the tiny teacher's mind didn't seem at all affected by the reduction in size. The other girl, Maisie, showed no signs of increased defiance and pride, and so Sophie was confident this was their disparate personalities responding in their own ways. 

Sophie answered at last. "'Well', what?" 

Jenna rolled her eyes, stammering slightly over the awkwardness of her words. "You got to measure me, now I get something to wear. We had a deal." 

Her tone was firm, and yet the scientist couldn't help but feel mildly amused by the display. This was a phenomenon that Sophie had to be mindful of in herself; there was a risk of 'dehumanising' these two in her eyes, and if she was being intellectually sincere with herself, she had already fallen victim to that. She had stuffed the twosome into her bag, and handled them much like she would a pair of dolls. Still, the afternoon at the day care center had been a desperate affair. That was then, this was now.

"As I said, I have questions..." Came the calm voice of the redhead.

"No, that wasn't the deal. I'm not answering a thing until you..."

"Give you something to wear, I know." Sophie said smugly.

Maisie watched the two interact, it was at once an indictment and a compliment of Jenna's personality that she seemed to have little fear here. Sophie could surely do great harm to them at this size, or even turn her device on them further, but Maisie felt like she was gleaning more of this very large woman's personality as they interacted. If she had wanted to do them harm, then that would have happened already. The graduate had to quietly acknowledge though that harm had been done to them, she recalled screaming as she was pulled from beneath a desk and carried across a room upside down before being dropped into a huge purse...

Still, Maisie felt her own tactics differed from that of Jenna's...

The shrunken teacher looked up at Sophie, who brought her other hand forward and discarded something held tight within her palm. The speed at which the giant woman was able to move still catching the tiny pair off guard. Jenna breathed a sigh of relief, however, at last she would have some clothes and could reclaim some dignity...

As Sophie's hand pulled away, Jenna's heart sunk, and her blood boiled. Maisie approached from behind and took in the sight with wide eyes.

Jenna stared down at the garment before her. "You're not serious." She said flatly. The tiny teacher bent down and lifted part of it with her hand.

Before her was a positively absurd doll's dress. Pink and covered with polka dots!

Sophie took away the ruler and leaned in. She was curious as to how the two would react to this...

Jenna wheeled on Sophie angrily. "You're not serious!"

Sophie's expression was one of innocence. "My niece had a few things stashed away from when she was a bit younger. If my math is correct - and it often is - it should fit you quite well."

Jenna growled. "You have a shrink ray! Shrink me down something... something an adult, a human, would wear!"

The scientist shrugged. "Jenna. Getting the settings to correctly properly scale something down could take some time, you and I have different shapes, plus the result could be unstable. Something I reduce could just come apart shortly after you put it on. That sounds rather embarrassing, don't you think?"

Jenna hoisted the doll's attire slightly off the wooden surface, gesturing towards Sophie accusatorily. "Oh, and this isn't embarrassing?!" As the teacher held it, the garment itself was far more stiff than something made for humans

"Is pink not your color?" The towering woman was being snide now.

Maisie felt an unbidden grin curl across her lips at that and covered it as best she could. As the youngest of the three, she was perhaps the quickest to find the amusement in something.

"Find something else!" Jenna demanded.

The redhead would not budge. "You were the one so adamant about our deal. I got you something to wear. So, either put it on or go as you are - it really makes little difference to me."

Jenna sighed angrily, looking down at the stiff garment in her hands. She could feel her grip on her pride becoming less and less certain...