Liliana's Gift (Chapter 2)

“N-No?” David replied.

“I didn’t expect it to,” Lilliana laughed. She paced back and forth, her own inexplicably bare sun-kissed feet striding over dusty earth, yet still not losing their model-polish. “I’ll put it a little clearer for you, then. Let’s face it. You’re never going to get to have your way with Haley’s feet, not without some help, at least. So that’s what I’m here for. Is that clearer?”

“What are you going to do?” David asked. Though still delirious from the surreality happening around him, for the first time he spoke to Lilliana without dread. No matter how scary it was to be addressed by someone so obviously powerful, a decade of longing after his friend’s soft, pretty, grungy, stink-broiled feet made him morbidly curious where this was headed.

“Why, I’m going to shrink you, of course. Down to… oh, let’s say one-twentieth of an inch?” Lilliana casually continued. “That way, you’ll be small enough to make yourself a very cozy permanent home between Haley’s two smallest toes. Believe me, though, they’ll seem anything but “small” after I’m through with you. In fact, it’ll already be more than you can handle at first. Now, I know what you’re thinking, literally: won’t this kill you? No, of course it won’t. I’m going to make you impervious to all harm, because I want you to spend a very long and fulfilling life in close orbit of Haley’s foot. Next order of business: how will you keep from falling out of her toes, you might wonder, and getting lost in a world where even the tiniest insects could eat you for lunch? The answer is that you’ll not only be permanently glued to the side of her pinky, but paralyzed, unable to move forever, so there’s never a danger of you getting lost, or seeing, smelling, or tasting anything except your best friend’s toe. I hope all of that makes you feel better, though if it doesn’t, just try to keep it all in mind, since I’m really looking forward to showing you your new home. Besides, why explain it all when it’s so much more fun to show you?”

Lilliana waved her hand, fingers fluttering, over the head of a deeply perplexed David. In a blinding flash of light, the frozen world around him began expanding, swelling to dizzying proportions, or rather he was diminishing in stature, and fast.

Inches at a time vanished from his height, and all David could do was bug his eyes and let his jaw hang agape, looking up at the increasingly-colossal blonde, who was swiftly now occupying a titanic body like a Greek deity which matched her omnipotent talents. Lilliana became a mountain of a woman, leveling off only when David was stranded before the imposing grandeur of her peachy bare feet, each a hundred stories long. His time on the ground before her asteroid-sized toes was short, however, as she hunched over, extending a hand with a smoothly creased palm that became a sky to David. With two ringed fingerpads separated into a fleshy vice, the giantess pinched the recipient of her “gift” and airlifted him upward at a sickening pace.

“Good. See, isn’t this better? If you don’t mind my saying, this height suits you much better. Now, let’s just give the lucky lady a little tickle in between her toes, shall we? Right… about… now!”

Muted by vertigo and more terror than he’d ever felt in his life, David watched over the horizon of Lilliana’s fingertips cinched around him, to the now mile-and-a-half-tall leviathan that was his best friend Haley beyond, and briefly forgot that he was shrunken and imprisoned in the grasp of some all-powerful trickster entity.

Haley was cute as ever, and the sight of her brought David comfort, even after all he’d heard from Lilliana. Another wave of the woman’s hand, and the brunette came unfrozen. Not seeming to notice she’d been trapped, or that everyone else around them was locked in space, the “petite” five-foot-four titaness happily marched to the nearest bench and propped one sturdy boot-sole onto the platform, to address the “little tickle” she’d been enchanted to feel. Gripping the upper lip of the leather tunnel, then, the girl proceeded to pry her foot out inch by inch, and finally pluck the damp sock from the sticky contours of her sole and wiggling toes, until the object of David’s affection was planted naked on the surface.

Ordinarily this was a sight that would’ve filled David with rapture, if not sent his libido into overdrive. And indeed he still felt some elation at viewing the emergence of Haley’s feet from such an expansive perspective, as though her peds were projected on a larger-than-life movie screen; still, it was hard not to feel alarm while locked between the delicate yet immovable hills of Lilliana’s fingers. She’d laid out for him step-by-step what was going to occur, yet it didn’t become real for him until now. With Haley’s bare foot pressed into the bench, glistening with sweat glaze in the beating sunlight and speckled with sloppy smears of rainbow-colored lint over the pale landscape of her elegant flesh, Lilliana took a seat beside David’s ginormous friend and began lowering him toward it.

“H-Haley?” David uttered, as he passed down the steep slope of her black legging, all the way to her exposed ped. Though she appeared “alive” again, breathing and blinking, the dark-haired giantess kept her gaze affixed to her foot, without noticing either the regally-clad goddess-woman or the shrunken speck-sized man descending toward the tepid, perspiration-soaked behemoth of her foot. “HALEY! L-LOOK! I’M HERE! HELP!”

“Save your breath, little David,” Lilliana kindly stated, with her nickname for him only now making sense. “You’ll certainly need it for later. And forever.”

Carefully, Lilliana plied her finger into the crevice between Haley’s slender yet pudgy-tipped fourth and fifth toes, creating more than enough space for a one-twentieth-inch inmate to be stored. Even with the stranger’s hand on her foot, though Haley didn’t acknowledge anything happening around her, leaving David to be helplessly brought into the canyon of pinkish-white flesh, where even her smallest digits constituted entire walls of oily, toejam-flecked skin running astride Lilliana’s intrusive finger.

“Oh, my, just look at you in there. You really are almost nothing next to even her smallest toe. Do you realize that?” Lilliana chuckled. “Miniscule. Insignificant. It’s almost too pathetic to see. Fortunately, you’ll never have to worry about being embarrassed at being caught having a lifelong pervert-party between your best friend’s toes. Oh yes, by the way, you’ll be invisible forever, never to be noticed by another living being as long as you live. I suppose I forgot to mention that part, didn’t I?”