"What caused you to shrink?" asked the giant. "Maybe we can duplicate it."
Bryan's tiny mind whirled with the implications of this. "Duplicate it?!?! Why would you want to do that?"
Derrick looked down at Bryan as if the little man were crazy. "So I can shrink more people, of course. Do you know how much money I could make off this?"
This seemed like such an incomprehensible question that Bryan couldn't possibly answer it. "I don't even know how I shrank," he realized.
"How could you not know how you shrank!" the giant demanded. He knocked the glass off of his captive and took him into his huge, sweaty hand. "You're six inches tall, and you have no idea why?!?!"
"I-I was at work when it happened," Bryan managed to squeak. He could barely breathe in Derrick's angry grip. "Everything just started getting bigger--"
"And where is this work?" It was obvious that Derrick's mind was working overtime. He was determined to gain the power of shrinking! And in his impatience, he was squeezing Bryan even harder.
"Th-the rest-au-rant--"
At the sound of the tiny man's choked response, Derrick realized how brutal he was being and released his grip a bit. "Where? Which restaurant?"
"Where you found me," Bryan choked.
"Hmmm. Maybe if I took you back there, we could find out what made it happen," Derrick mused. "Or maybe I should just dissect you and see if I can cause someone else to shrink if I infect them with your blood..."