by Victor Freud » Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:33 pm
Victor's cheeks flushed a little bit. He didn't think his abilities were very cool, but it felt nice to hear others say they were.
"T-thanks. I can go down to, like, a couple of inches. I don't know if I can go smaller than that, honestly the world gets really scary by that point and..." He trailed off for a moment, deciding better than to continue. But his thoughts were plain enough. Worry about not being able to stop, just getting smaller and smaller, forever. He shook his head to clear his mind a bit.
"Yeah, I'm a tough little cookie! But, like... stuff becomes awkward. I could lift a steamer trunk that weighs eighty pounds right now. And little, I could lift, like, a lego block that weighed eighty pounds. But I couldn't lift the trunk, it's just too big. Could lift the corner though... maybe flip it or something.
Haley'd gotten a guy to start talking about himself, so of course now he was never going to shut up. He started to peel his orange, the unattended scrap of paper twitching in the light breeze before tumbling against her leg.