The bandit that had originally shrunk Lyn had a devious expression on his face. He had just grabbed another glass jar with something that terrified the tiny heroine. While just a little bit of the powder was able to shrink her so small, seeing half a glass jar filled up with that powder filled her with dread. "Dammit, they're really going to shrink me smaller! I need to find a way out of here, and fast."
But despite her desire to break free and run, she was held tightly in a giant hand. She didn't want to admit it, but it really seemed to be the end of the line for her. The bandit had placed the jar on the table nearby and opened it up. "What the hell is he planning?" And it was as if he could hear her thoughts and approached the one-eyed bandit. Lyn was quickly handed over to him like a doll and had no chance to make an escape attempt.
"What are you going to do to me?!" the tiny girl yelled out in anger. There was no response from the bandit except for his audible chuckling. He was making his way to the glass jar filled with the shrink powder. And with every step he took, it became clearer to her what was going to happen to her. Slowly but surely, adrenaline filled her body and struggled more than ever. "You can't do this to me, you monster! When I return to normal, I will make you pay!"
And it was then that the bandit reached his destination. He opened his fist and Lyn did not hesitate to jump out of his hand. But was caught mid-air by his other free hand by her leg. Making it so she was now dangling upside down by one leg. She flailed her body around trying to break free, but it was useless. The bandit dangled the helpless Lyn in front of his face "Do what to you? Make you smaller? I'm sure it will be a fun challenge for you. You already survived at a small size for so long, so why shouldn't I just make you even smaller?"
As he finished his sentence, he directly looked at the prisoners who were powerless to stop him. This demonstration of power would surely show them that they have no choice but to obey their commands. That is what he thought at least, but all it did was fill a number of them with anger and resentment. As Lyn continued to dangle, she kept trying to break free while yelling at her captor. Eventually the bandit proceeded to hold the tiny heroine above the opening of the jar. And if he let go now, Lyn would fall head-first into the powder. Her long green hair was almost touching the contents of the jar making her more and more determined to get out of this situation.
But just as it seemed it was over for Lyn, the bandit pulled her out to rotate her again and hold both of her harms with two fingers of his right hand. "What is it? Haven't had enough of me yet?! You don't scare me." All the swordswoman had was her words to fight back against the bandits. She tried to kick them with her legs, and all she ended up kicking was the air. Which at this point was incredibly amusing to them.
The bandit sighed as he saw how much Lyn was fighting back still "I confess that it is a shame we have to get rid of you so quickly after I went through all that trouble to find you again. If you hadn't resisted like that you might have become the happiest pet in the whole world. But you just had to show off. You were quite the looker too... Fortunately for us, we'll have plenty of candidates to take your place!"
With him finishing his sentence, he opened his fingers and for a moment it was as if time had stopped for Lyn. It was really happening now, the end of the line for her, unless some miracle happens before she falls in. But in that split second nothing happened and time resumed back to normal. With fear in her eyes, she fell into the jar. She attempted to hold onto the ledge, but fell too fast to reach it in time. And a second later, she fell into the powder, her landing causing some powder to lift in the air. The bandit had put the lid back on the jar and forced everyone to watch what was going to happen to Lyn.
Lyn was in full panic mode now, she tried to crawl out of the powder but that only seemingly made things worse. While she struggled, she even directly inhaled some of it forcing her to cough and repeat that process. Some of it had already made its way into her clothes and hair. She tried to make her way towards the edge of the jar, that was what her instincts were telling her to do. She looked up to see that the lid had been closed, but it also seemed farther away, way farther than she thought. But it didn't take long for her to accept that she was shrinking rapidly again.
She had no idea how small she was now, she used to be three inches tall, but was now losing more of her height by the second. It didn't take long for her to look outside and see the bandits laughing and pointing at the jar as they watched her shrink and struggle.
"No! Dammit, I can't let it end this way!" she thought to herself. But no matter what, it seemed that the powder was increasing in volume. It didn't take long for the shrinking girl to become a single centimeter tall. At this point her only goal was to remain on the surface and not shrink into the powder her lower body was stuck in. The speed of her shrinking also seemed to increase, and within a few more seconds she was a single millimeter tall and eventually a tiny green dot barely visible to the naked eye.
The last thing Lyn saw was the bandit that shrunk her looking unimaginably giant, her hatred for him continued to grow as she shrank. But before she even realized it, she eventually passed out from exhaustion and the rapid shrinking shutting down her body, rendering her unconsciousness.
And with Lyn having now shrunk out of sight, the bandits turned around to showcase the jar to the prisoners who all had many mixed feelings of fear, anger, sadness, despair and even some curiosity. "Look at that, our little friend here has shrunk out of existence, bahahaha! This is quite interesting, isn't it? I don't think I need to tell any of you what we plan on doing to you if you disobey us. We'll let you all sit on it before we really decide on what to do with you all next."
The bandits had big plans with this powder and they didn't have a lot of it. But what they did have would surely help them get rich. The prisoners were eventually left alone where they were, leaving the jar with the shrink powder in sight. To remind them that they might share the same fate as Lyn if they disobeyed their commands. Some tried their best to see any sign of Lyn, but there was no point. All they could hope for was that there was still a way for her to be saved and rescued. And that if they were shrunk to doll size, that it wasn't permanent. Though the thing they hoped for most was that someone would come to rescue them soon, it hadn't been that long since the bandits plundered their village. And surely some would find them soon.
An unknown amount of time later...
Lyn slowly woke up, she had quite a headache and her entire body felt stiff. "Ugh... What...happened? Where am I?" she asked herself. The environment surrounding her was completely unknown to her and there was nothing in the distance she recognized either. But then what had happened quickly came back to her. "Oh no..." She desperately looked around and ran around to see if there was any point of interest in the distance. But there was nothing.
Everything looked the same and she was unaware how small she was. Unfortunately for Lyn, she was currently located on a single tiny particle of powder inside of the jar. And that single particle was the size of a whole province to her. At least she stopped shrinking, for now.
She would never make this realization while she was there, being doomed to wander the very particles of the powder that shrunk her for the rest of her days. The only ones that knew what had happened to Lyn were the other prisoners and the three bandits that did this to her. Fortunately, it didn't take long for the prisoners to be rescued by Lyn's old companions, who were desperately looking for any leads on finding her. But by the time they had rescued the prisoners who had been shrunk to doll size by that point, it was seemingly too late for Lyn. The rescued prisoners told them everything regardless.
Despite this, Lyn's companions were able to safely return the women to their village. They vowed to look for a way to restore them all to their normal size and find a way to save their now-microscopic ally from her terrible fate. As they held out hope there was a way to undo all of this.
And while all this was happening, the microscopic heroine was oblivious to what was happening in the world of normal-sized people. Who was aimlessly wandering, hoping for a miracle to happen. But while feeling hopeless, for some reason she felt that everything would turn out okay and that her companions would save her. And it was as if they were close, she could feel it. But had no evidence to prove such a thing. But it was enough to keep a smile on her face for the time being. Her sense of hunger and thirst had also mysteriously vanished. Making this experience even stranger, but also giving her more time.
With Lyn's companions leaving the village with the glass jar in tow, their next objective was to find the original owner and creator of this powder and look for answers and solutions. Everything else would have to wait...
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