Sally reached out to catch the small flying object. Her cupped hands make contact but she fumbles it. The thing tumbles off her cupped hands and then spins on behind her chair. There is a audible thud but Sally dismisses it looking over her shoulder but not seeing where it landed. Aw well. "Never mind. Care to go inside? I'm hot."
The red-head smiled. "Yes you are." They get up and move indoors leaving behind the whatever it was that Laney had found. If it had been important the children wouldn't have left it outside to begin with.
=============LATER:===================
Todd came too slowly. The first thing that he recognized was pain...alot of pain. Everything hurt. His arms, his back, his legs. Everything. This wasn't fun. This was dangerous. Of course that was a bit too coherent for him at this point. Slowly Todd licked his broken lips. He taste copper. Blood. He was bleeding. Where's the remote. He had to unshrink and get help.
It was so dark. When did it get this dark?
Todd had landed on hard, jagged concrete, and while being a smaller mass did come with some benefits falling from the equivalent of a low-flying air-plain without a parachute could still break bones.
Slowly and with great effort Todd fumbled the controls of he device. His fingers weren't working like they should. For several moments it was too much and he just lay there broken.
"Hey, I left it out here!" Someone's voice. Todd tried again to activate the remote. He needed help and the proximity of someone, anyone, was just the push he needed. He felt the switch. He couldn't see what power level it was at. There had to be something. His index finger managed to work the control applying pressure. There was the sound of activation....
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