Mary gulped as she reached her measurement lines on the wall and found she was only two and a half inches tall. The half-inch marking was slowly getting taller meaning Mary was still shrinking away.
Gasping in shock, the impossibly tiny woman looked around the room and the full realization hit her as she approached two inches tall. The gigantic room loomed around her, as large as a city. She was going to shrink into nothingness! The growth potion wasn’t doing anything at all! She didn’t drink enough!
As Mary lowered to two inches tall she screamed and broke into a frantic run towards the carpet again. Maybe there was still some potion she could lap up off the ground! To her mounting alarm Mary could see the individual fibers of the carpet now came up to her ankles. She ran faster, pushing her body to its limit before it was too late, and reached the empty vial panting and sweating.
Mary reached the empty growth vial, now bigger than her entire one-inch tall body, and looked around the carpeting desperately for the wet spot where the potion had spilled. There, sure enough, was a small puddle surrounding the vial. Mary kneeled down in a hurry and scooped up as much of the liquid as she could in her hands, quite horrified by the fact that the carpet now reached her thighs. She poured the potion in her hand into her mouth and slurped it down and repeated this until there was nothing left.
Mary was half an inch tall and still shrinking. She gasped and could only gape as she stood up and found that the carpeting was now chest high to her. She put her hands to her mouth and began to cry as very swiftly she melted away to nothing. Soon, the carpet fibers were towering over her. Moments later she was standing in a giant forest. Mary let out a tiny pitiful scream as she shrank to microscopic size. She was an invisible dot on an invisible dot and she began to suffocate, as oxygen molecules became too large for her to breathe.
As she gasped for air and felt light headed there was a sudden jolt to her body. Mary fell to her knees about to pass out, gagging, when suddenly her shrinking slowed, stopped, and then began to reverse! Mary’s eyes widened as she quickly regained size and she gasped as air hit her lungs again. She coughed and sputtered, having just about died, and sat on her hands and knees getting her breath back.
Soon, she was able to stand and found she was raising out of the thick carpeting back to a couple inches in stature. To Mary’s teary-eyed relief she reached four inches tall, then five… and her growth stopped.
The woman looked over herself and breathed in and out slowly. She had a massive headache from nearly suffocating and she was incredibly tired. Mary glanced over to the empty vial nearby, her eyes felt heavy, and the tiny woman passed out on the carpet.
Nearby, a tiny mosquito trapped inside the house set down on the remaining puddle of growth potion, instinctually thinking it was flower nectar, and she began to slurp it up through her proboscis.