Katie closed her eyes trying to stop the forced regression of the two girls in the park. "Stop, just stop," she thought. Opening her eyes she could see the two girls were still getting younger. Even worse they seemed to be aware of the changes.
The two girls were now only 10 and frantically trying to keep their clothes in place. The looks of fear and confusion covered their face as they continued to grow younger. Katie watched in horror as the girls frantically clung to their oversized clothing as they re entered the signal digits of their lives.
"Why won't it stop," Katie thought as the girls became 8. Cries of fear filled the air, their voices gradually rising in pitch as they went from first graders to kindergarten. The two tiny blond girls clung to their clothing and now cried for their mothers. Katie could see tears streaming down their youthful faces. The two continued growing younger, exiting elementary school. The girls childish faces became chubbier as the toddlers of 3. Katie could only watch in dismay as the process continued.
The two toddlers could barely cling to the large clothing as they became two. Katie noticed their eyes begin to glaze over as they wobbled slightly before collapsing into a pile of overly large clothes. The girls were now babies, perhaps no older than one. The voices reduced to infantile banter and their pudgy legs unable to walk. The two infants eyes seemed devoid of the intelligence the college age women once had replaced with the look of infants beholding the world.
Katie glanced down at the ring on her stomach. The ring still glowed brightly under her shirt. She hadn't stopped the regression, it had stopped on its own. The ring had reduced the two girls into infants in both mind and body. Looking around she thankfully noticed no one else around. Quickly deciding to leave Katie stood up and quickly walked away from the the two infants. She wasn't sure how but she seemed to know that the two girls would be okay if she left the area.
Katie walked quickly away, scanning the area to avoid anymore unnecessary regressions. Turning the corner Katie accidentally bumped into an elderly woman. The two women stumbled and fell to the ground. "Oh my god," Katie exclaimed. "I'm so sorry. Are you okay?"
The elderly woman slowly got to her feet, brushing dirt off her pant legs. "Oh I'm ok dearly," she croaked. "My eyesight isn't what it used to be. Guess we both need to be more careful."
Katie looked over the elderly woman with concern. The ring was still glowing, worrying Katie that the woman would suffer the same fate as the two college girls. Thankfully the woman appeared to be in her eighties meaning it would take awhile before she too would be reduced to infancy. Katie needed to move away quickly though to keep the woman from getting to young.
"I'm sorry miss," Katie stated. "I'll be more careful in the future."
"It's no trouble dear," the elderly woman replied as she left her eighties and re entered her seventies. "I was lost in thought myself. A woman my age daydreaming on a walk through a college campus. I forgot just how quickly you young folks can be sometimes. Always in such a hurry."
Katie smiled politely and now began to search for a way to exit the situation as quickly as possible. The woman was now in her mid seventies. Her mostly white hair was beginning to fill in with grey with a few stray brown hairs. The wrinkles on her face while still prominent, seemed less deep than before. "Anyway I should probably get going," Katie said. "I don't want to trouble you anymore than I already have."
"Oh nonsense," the woman responded. "It's no trouble at all. Such a rarity for me to be able to hold a conversation at my age. You'd be surprised how often the young people now a days avoid talking with the elderly. Besides child I didn't catch your name."
"Katie," she smiled and looked over the elderly woman. She was slowly getting younger with each passing moment. She needed to leave quickly before things got worse.
"Pleasure Katie I'm Sofia," Sofia said warmly. "May I ask where your off too in such a hurry today?"
Katie sighed. She had run into a chatty old woman at the worst possible time. She watched as Sofia slowly left her seventies and reentered her sixties. The white in hair had almost completely vanished leaving it mostly grey with some brown sprinkled in. Katie needed to find a way to end the conversation quickly before Sofia became to young. Sofia seemed determined to talk though and Katie had no desire to be rude to what appeared to be a sweet albeit chatty old woman. Katie's mind raced as she tried to figure out a way to get as far away from Sofia as possible.