Who the fuck did she think she was? That was her brother-in-law, a good man, and she had promised him that he would be protected. In an instant Sasha had made her a liar. Abigail was a lot of things but a liar was not one of them. At least not often. She had left the house soon after Sasha had whisked Daniel out of the room. Not wanting to be there when she forced him to do, whatever it was she was going to have him do. 

As she walked to clear her mind she tried to come up with something, someway, to get Daniel out of his current predicament. The thought hit her about a block away from her house. She knew what she had to do but she didn’t know if she had the heart to do it. 

She had to find a sacrificial lamb. Another shrunken man that she could offer up to Sasha in tribute. One that there would be no boundaries for. One that she could do whatever she wanted with. The thought made her stomach flip. The truth was Saha wasn’t the nicest person in the world. She was loyal, yes, and Abigail was thankful to be able to call her a friend but she was not kind.

She was also controlling. Everything had to be her way. With those two personality traits alone she feared for any shrunken man that would be in her hands. Including Daniel. Yet to save him she knew that she had to find a man. So she glanced downwards and as she walked she began scanning the ground beneath her feet. Hoping that some unlucky guy shrunk as he was going for his nightly or morning jog.

“So here is how this is going to work,” Sasha said as she unfurled her hand looking down at Daniel who hadn’t yet stood up.

In fact he was looking up at her at all. Instead looking at his feet. This annoyed her more than anything. The disrespect on display. 

“Look at me,” She snapped and to her delight he did indeed look up. 

Rather quickly as well. 

“As I was saying. I am going to place you down on my desk. I am then going to put my feet right in front of you and then you are going to massage them. Tenderly. Like you would have your wives. If you do a good job then I won’t knock on your door for a week but if you do a bad job… Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. Well lets just say we are going to have to train you and that is going to be an everyday affair. If not multiple times a day. So I expect you to massage them really really good. Do you understand?”

Daniel mouthed something and Sasha took it as yes. She figured that he wouldn’t be stupid enough to say no to her. He was ant size and she was a legit goddess right now. So with that she leaned for and ever so gently placed him on the desk. 

She promised Abigail that she would take good care of him and wouldn’t hurt him and she was going to keep that promise but he didn’t have to know that.

“Before we start I only have one last thing to say. Do not try to get away with not massaging my feet. I know you believe that I won’t feel it and maybe you are right but I still want you to rub my feet anyway. If you don’t there is going to be hell to pay. What that is, I am not saying, but I think we both agree that you do not want to find out. I don’t think that I have to remind you that Abbie left.” 

With that Daniel watched as she leaned back and placed her gigantic feet right next to him, not in front as she had said. One foot and then two. Crossing them at the ankles. He stared at how massive her shoes were knowing that very soon they would be taken off and he would have to do a very dirty job. 

Abigail found herself at the park which was vacant due to the news of the day. No doubt everyone was huddled in their houses. In truth she had only seen one other person going for a walk, an older gentleman of about eighty, who looked stark white. 

She wondered if she should follow him. Hoping to catch him shrink but realized that Sasha would probably want someone a little younger. Perhaps a lot younger. So she went to the park. She was huddled on all fours. Carefully parting the grass as she looked for anyone.

As she did so she couldn’t help but think of the shrunken kids in that one movie she used to watch as a child. She made a mental note to ask Daniel or Liz the name of it later. It was a few seconds later when movement to her left made her look up.

Sitting there, on the swingset, was a man in his late 20’s. Would he shrink? She stood up and walked over to him. He looked up at her while she approached and she raised her hand in greeting. He looked back down at the chips.

“Hey,” Abigail said as she took a seat next to him.

Mind if you shrink for me so I can bring you back to my friend, She thought.

The flip in her stomach returned.

“Hey,” He said, not looking up.

“You ok?”

“What the fuck you think? How would you feel if all over the globe women were shrinking?”

He didn’t yell, he didn’t even snap, he just stated it like he was discussing the weather. She extended out a hand and touched his shoulder.

“I’m sorry,” She said, “It sucks. My brother-in-law was affected.”

He turned to look at her as he stopped swinging.

“Will he go to the hospital?”

“No?”

“Smart guy. I don’t trust the hospitals one bit. Fuck em.”

She removed her hand from his shoulder and in the next instance he was gone. In a flash. Abigail jumped up off the swing seat and slowly walked over to the swing the young man was sitting in. Shit. She never even got his name. 

She got down on her knees in front of it, ignoring the chips digging into them, and bent forward. There he was. Waving his arms at her widely. It was clear he was trying to say something.

“I am sorry,” Abigail said as she reached forward quickly. Scooping him up and bringing him up to the bridge of her nose. She made sure his head was poking out so he could continue to look at her, “You are going to help my brother-in-law. Ok. You are not going to like it but look at it this way. Out here no one would have found you anyway. You would have probably been eaten by an animal, maybe starved or died of dehydration, or would have been crushed the next time someone sat on this swing. So I am kind of doing you a favor. Besides, you didn’t want to go to the hospital anyway.”

With that she shoved the man into her pocket and with a quick glance to make sure no one was watching she began to head home.