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sixwordstories2013-07-13 06:33 pm
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[Exploring a shelf, among the knickknacks.]
[Key word: borrow. Aglet lifts his head, wanting to be sure he hears everything this strange Bean says. What he says next is of particular interest, though Aglet can't imagine how he'll get down without waiting ages for the Bean to go away and let him do it unseen.
...Wait, friends? So does the Bean know about Borrowers, or...wait. Does he think Aglet's a mouse?]
...Wait, friends? So does the Bean know about Borrowers, or...wait. Does he think Aglet's a mouse?]
"This is my proper size! Are you crazy?!" Since when could Beans make themselves little, anyway? Aglet feels sure he'd know about that if it were true.
"That's-" Jennifer starts, about to tell him that it's plainly nonsense... and then she notices his clothing. Brow furrowed, she gives it a closer look, eyes widening a little as she realizes none of it looks store-bought. If anything, it looks hand-made, and a little bit crudely, at that. A standard shrinking spell would include the clothes he was wearing, so he ought to be dressed in normal (albeit tiny) clothes, not... whatever he's wearing, now.
"What sort of clothes do you call those?" she asks.
"What sort of clothes do you call those?" she asks.
Oh God, why is she looking at him like that? Aglet squirms under her gaze. "Summer clothes," he replies defensively.
What, she wonders, are the odds that he not only shrunk himself (or allowed someone else to shrink him), but also dressed in weird hand-stitched clothing for the sole purpose of passing himself off as a legitimately tiny person if he was caught? No one is that adept at lying.
"... You really are that tiny," she says, finally willing to believe him on that point.
"... You really are that tiny," she says, finally willing to believe him on that point.
"You're really that big," clarifies Aglet, still miffed about that. He pauses in his halfhearted struggles to give her a surprised look. "You believe me now?"
After a moment's hesitation, Jennifer sits back down and gently sets the Borrower back onto the desk, once again keeping her hands at the ready to stop any attempted escape. She'd known how she felt about some media spy sneaking around her office to gather information, but she has no idea how to feel about the revelation that she's discovered a new species of tiny person. Well, perhaps she's not the discoverer, but this seems like the sort of thing she should've heard of before.
She considers his size versus the size of Zambini Towers, then guesses, "You live here."
She considers his size versus the size of Zambini Towers, then guesses, "You live here."
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