I dunno man, could just be that smug big girls gonna win and be smug. Just my hot take.

Amy is definitely manipulating Tina to some extent, but there's one reason against shrinking Tina. One missing person is an isolated incident. Two missing people who worked at the same place and knew each other is pattern that the police will not ignore.

Tina set out wanting to break Eva's spirit. Despite her telling herself and Eva that she wasn't a bully, she wasn't cruel, and that she's only doing proper karma towards Eva the cracks are forming from what I've been thinking. Tina, what you been doing towards her isn't isn't jailtime or punishment, it is abuse. Her durability from the shrinking only encouraged you to do some very violent things she would survive but still feel. Of course Eva is still fighting and resisting you. In her mind none of this is justified and fair. Her treatment has kind of been like living with an abusive lover who beats you and degrades you. Heck Tina never even ahd to do the usual most of us do with a horrible boss, pack up and quit. Eva was fired and out the door with Tina getting her job. In a way the proper punishment was already delivered.

The ironic thing is that now that Tina's thinking maybe I am being too cruel, maybe I am going to far, and that when she brings Eva back she's going to take it easy and slow for a bit is that it might be too late. It wouldn't surprise me if the experience finally breaks Eva's will or mind. Especially if Tina let's slip that the police finally started looking for her but have no leads but even the investigator didn't have confidence in discovering foul play. Thing is if Eva finally breaks down when Tina's finally feeling guilty and ready to reverse course, what will she do? Be overcome with guilt and try to put Eva's mind back together. Just convince herself she was worrying over nothing, the bug's will has finally broke. Or spend a good amount of time either ignoring her or halfheartedly interacitng with her before deciding to change?

I'm curious if Amy has a role to play in an investigation into Eva's disapperance. As Tina claimed, Eva really didn't have any friends at work and I doubt Amy would start a tip off without a plan, so the missing persons report could've came from some random friedn Eva knows outside of work. If Tina finally has a guilt trip and confesses to Amy she's thinking on growing Eva back and letting her go, I can easily see Amy betraying her. If Eva grows back, she can name-call Amy as someone who knew she'd been shrunk and kidnapped and even tormented her alongside her kidnapper when she found her. Unless Tina has some convincing character development about hwo she's putting it all behind her, at some point I can see Amy and Tina fighting to shrink the other, one to cover her tracks and the other in self defense.

Tina has now completed her journey toward the Dark Side, and for her, it's probably just dealing with the consequences of that from now on (or not). Eva, I think, it about to reach her turning point, though I can see her going either way: she breaks, or she becomes unbreakable. Thinking about where the story can go from here, it seems like the former would almost make things too simple. Eva submits, Tina wins. You could throw in an external complication from Amy or Dana, but that's the end of their character arcs. But if Tina, in her current mental state, figures out that she can't break Eva, that'll keep their character development going for the rest of the story.

So... does Tina even comprehend how many orders of magnitude there are between bad boss that she could have quit at any time and her shrinking, kidnapping, raping, and torturing that boss? On a surface level, she knows she's doing something wrong, but she doesn't seem to have the maturity to understand. Amy understands and doesn't care.

I'd say you've made a far more effective shrink torture story than any I've ever read by having it largely from Eva's perspective, over so many chapters. Giving Eva several glimmers of hope and forcefully nullifying them. But Eva is stronger than Tina. Anyone else would have been broken already. Weeks ago. The Gym incident or being used as a sex toy in her own bed, or sleeping on coins would have broken even the strongest spirit.

If Eva survives this then she cannot be broken. I hope this finally backfires on Tina in some way. Caught by someone, or the magnitude of her crimes finally hits her, or she turns herself and Amy in after seeing the result of shrinking Eva subatomic for a weekend, or Eva evolves to be able to control her own size or learns the secrets of matter manipulation from being shrunk so small and becomes a god, but a kinder one than Tina.

Now THIS is nano. Great job describing the changing perspectives at each level. Looking forward to more.

Great chapter again. So much detail and possibilties.

Tina will never be satisfied and will have to deal with so much stuff.
In this you can clearly see she admits she would never lasted if she were shrunken.

She sees to much qualities in Eva and doesn't hate her anymore.

I like how Tina sees some things as to awful, but not noticing that letting someone understand that they aren't a person anymore and remove all self worth at the deepest levels is a faith much worse than death.

Eva gets clearly the hardest mental hits of everything, but slowly but surely Tina also gets her karma.

Where Tina and Amy are on the losing side with is that they are forced to go over boundries they don't want to cross. It is already clear to both of them, the crossed many boundries.
In the last two chapters it is clear that they have to justify to themselves with reasons or the guilt pops up.

Also wondering if the police have already taken her stuff from the office.
Or was in the Eva's house where Tina had visited.

I also wonder if Amy and Tina will keep seeing eye to eye on everything.

There is another boundry I have in mind, that the two will maybe cross.
Destroying someones possesions, something that has sentimental value for Eva, like a car, house, are a precious gift from a loved one.

I love how every action have consequences for everyone and not for Eva alone. That what I like so much about this story. Realistic logistics and real people with feelings, moods, morals and values, etc.

Thank you for this story again, with so much rich detail.

Eva going through this is an interesting mental journey. What Tina and Amy go through is also an interesting mental journey. Tina more calmer demeanor is because of Amy. Tina still a sub to Amy and Dana. Maybe they are in a subtle way bigger bullies to her.

I wonder if Tina visiting Eva's house is going to give problems.
Always having to be carefull and therefor concentrating on to many things is also not easy to live with. I wonder if Tina likes a little bigge Eva. A six inch Eva is more fun to play with than a 1 inch Eva.

This is one of the few times i'm anxious to see how this played out.

Super good work again on the details.

Very good how you keep these transitions in behavior interesting and believable. That keep the story great. And the logitics are very interesting.

I love these subtle uncomfortable feelings Amy and Tina have in the background and interesting to see this develop over time. Very good wrting in that part again.

@Barrowman: It's subtle, but I see it now. Tina is now fully dominant over Eva, but she still has not learned to dominate people her own size. With Amy, it's easy to see how this will go. Tina will become Amy's unwitting research assistant in observation of a test subject. But with Dana, there's a major conflict. Tina cares about Dana's opinion, but she has to go against what Dana would think of Eva's situation. This seems like a conflict where something's going to have to give, and the most obvious course of Tina's character arc is to dominate normal-sized people the way she dominates shrunken people, in which case Tina would become a force of nature. The hatred of bullies that was set up earlier would pay off there, and the rationalizations needed to justify kidnapping somebody will give that quite the dark twist.

As for Eva, she does still have her will. I wonder if she could fully process what it means to be helpless and bullied, while keeping that will at least somewhat intact?

@Asterisk: Don't worry, I enjoyed the beach story as a fun diversion.