Smiling, Todd kept his finger on the button. "Let's test how far this thing can go," he thought.
The horrified girl stood stunned as she continued to shrink down into her clothes. The sweater she wore that once fit her now hung down past her knees. When she became kindergarten aged the collar slid down revealing one of her tiny shoulders. Her face was rounding out with baby fat. At 3 years old, the bottom of the sweater rested on the ground, and she could nearly slip out of the neck hole with her narrow shoulders. Then her balance gave way, and she plopped down on her little baby behind. Her leg muscles had grown so weak she could no longer stand.
And there she sat, eyes wide in horror. Her mind unable to fathom how she had suddenly become a one-year-old baby. Piled in front of her were her now giant clothes. She knew she should have been screaming right then. She knew that something impossible and horrible had just happened to her, but fascination and curiosity overcame horror for the moment. The horror was too big to face. She felt like investigating this strange change.
For some reason, her shoes caught her attention. They were so huge to her now. She imagined she could stick her arm in one of them up to her elbow.
After a little wriggling, she escaped from her giant sweater. Finally, her small body was visible to her. Her hands were pudgy little things with stubby fingers. "Like a fat man's hands," she thought. She touched her round belly with one of her tiny hands, and felt how soft it was. Next she looked at her feet, fat little blobs with nubs for toes. She remembered that babies were very flexible at this age. "How high can I lift the leg," she thought. As she reached for her leg, she found that she had a hard time coordinating her baby arm. Eventually, she got a hold of her leg and lifted it up in front of her face. But, she lost her balance and tumbled onto her back.
Looking up, she noticed how enormous the library seemed now. The aisle of books felt like a canyon to her. With some effort, she rolled herself over on her belly. A shiver ran through her. She was naked, cold, tiny and alone. She tried to stand, but found that she didn't have the leg strength to hold up her own weight and kept falling back down. Crawling felt natural when she tried it. She noticed that the book she had dropped was as big as she was now.
Looking at her crawling around, still hidden from her, Todd thought he might try something new with this test subject.