James shook his head angrily, no way was he dressing up in a schoolboy's uniform for this woman's amusement on top of everything else he had already endured. He would just have to manage how he was.
James quickly realised, however, that wouldn't be as easy or practical as he had hoped. For a start he had shrunk to the extent that he was in genuine danger of slipping right through his usual work shirt and finding himself completely naked in public. Walking barefoot through town was hardly going to be much fun either and he was acutely aware how odd he looked in his current semi attire. Still, he had so little control over his present situation he resolved to stick stubbornly to the one decision he had been allowed to make.
As the unlikely pair came towards the exit from the park, James was momentarily distracted by a dog running past him, failed to notice a dip in the ground and quickly found himself tumbling to the floor. To his horror, along with his footing he also lost his shirt which was subsequently taken completely from his reach by an extremely inconveniently timed (and highly suspicious) gust of wind, leaving a fully nude James floundering on the floor, desperately trying to cover his most important bits.
"Are you sure you didn't want the school boys uniform?" Elspeth asked, as she watched James suffer his most significant reduction of size yet.
"Eek! Eek!" James squeaked and nodded urgently.
"Very well" Elspeth sighed "but try not to be so indecisive in future"
Elspeth waggled her fingers once more and the young man was instantly clothed again - in an ugly wooly green jumper that had been placed over an uncomfortable blue shirt, with dull grey shorts, socks and shoes completing his unwelcome new look. He looked down at something woven into his new clothing on the right side of his chest. Was that a ladybird?
"Sorry, after that latest bout of shrinking only the most junior uniform would fit you. And even that was one of the smaller ones" Elspeth shrugged "still, if it's any consolation I've given you your voice back"
"Oh great, thanks I guess!" James replied in a disturbingly high pitched, child like tone "hey!"
"Sorry, you would have been completely out of place dressed like that with your usual deep voice" Elspeth explained, as if there were any logic to any of this "I had to make an adjustment so you didn't look ridiculous"
James was sure he looked ridiculous anyway. While his clothing, voice and size were all appropriate to a small child his post pubescant body, features and mind were still very much those of an adult and this was beyond humiliating now. Still, he had to make sure not to keep getting embarassed by Elspeth's treatment of him. He really couldn't afford to get much smaller than this.