Marco felt the book swelling in his hands as his pants fell down around his ankles. His shoulder started to come through the neck of his shirt. He set the book down
and kicked his oversized clothes off, reducing all the while. Naked, he looked around the room while its furnishings grew taller and strangely more forbidding. Even
his clothes in a pile seemed a little threatening all of a sudden.
Mr. Mendes watched as this incredible god stripped. At first it wasn't clear why, but as Mr. Mendes watched he saw his giant lover becoming less and less of a
mountain. He knew he had to get to Marco so the two would be able to confront the giant world together.
Marco sat down with the book in his lap and kept reading. He had definitely shrank more than six inches... even more than 12, although he had read the spell
twice. Continuing down the page he found more text:
If you think it's nice
To stay where you are put
Read the spell twice
and shrink to half a foot
"Uh oh," Marco said. He had read the shrinking spell twice. He wasn't shrinking BY six inches, he was shrinking TO six inches. The book was getting too heavy to
rest on his small legs, so he set it on the floor and started flipping pages