5th of Spring, 514 AV
Anna awoke to the constant rocking of the boat, a feeling she had gotten used on the long voyage to Sahova so many seasons ago. Her grey eyes fluttered open slightly, before closing again as she tried to just block out the concept of coming back into a reality she loathed. It had been three days since her capture at the hands of Queen Aka, the Dhani she had enslaved for months. Three days on her back in the ship’s lavish bed, moaning and wailing whenever Aka desired it or screaming in agony. The damning thing was that her mind was starting to slowly corrupt itself, though she was trying to remain defiant.
The rocking was preventing her from drifting off to blissful slumber; the ground was hard as well signaling Aka must have been enjoying another round of humiliating her new slave by forcing her to sleep on the floor like some animal. Anna set her jaw, annoyed by this fact and feeling a flare of anger rise at her new station. The Viper’s pet, that annoying lisp of ‘insssect’ or ‘ssslave’ echoing in her skull, a bitter pill to swallow as she almost wished the other woman to just tire of her and kill her. Surely her own race boasted a few women suitable, yet now that she was free she took a human she should very well hate. Perhaps it was merely vengeance.
Wait… she had set her jaw. Anna moved her mouth experimentally, finding her mouth free of the damnable gag Aka just loved to place around her mouth. The weight and cold sensation of the collar around her neck was there, but apparently there was no more gag. The tall woman opened her eyes fully, moving her hand to her mouth which was rather sore from the continued presence of the gag. That damnable device made her treasure every single word spoken in ways she hadn’t thought possible, if nothing else she had gained perspective from her enslavement she hadn’t had before.
Strange, the wooden ceiling seemed further away than it had before, rather blurry really to the degree that she rubbed her eyes and thought it was the sleep still in her eyes. Anna’s lips formed a line and her brow crinkled slightly as her vision didn’t come back to clarity, prompting her to sit upright and nearly feel her heart leap into her throat as the distance remained the same. Any traces of sleep or grogginess fled her body as she immediately got to her feet, looking all around the room in growing horror at Aka’s lavish bed chambers on this ship.
The bed behind her seemed to span upwards into the sky like some great monument, the desk and chair off to the far side massive constructs in the distance that looked like they would take chimes to reach at a running pace. A discarded robe on the floor, Aka’s as Anna herself was lacking clothing of any kind, was a massive mess that the sorceress could make a city’s worth of tents out of. The door in the distance was a monolith that would have been impossible to construct by mortal hands alone. Anna stumbled backwards and fell onto her backside as revelation took her, her hands gripping the chain to the collar around her neck.
The once tall sorceress was reduced to somewhere between two to three inches upon the floor near the foot of the bed, having reduced to a size more suited to one of the clay Pycon race. Her chest was rising and falling at a great speed, fingers running through her messy hair and even slapping across her face as she tried to come to terms with this being real. It was most certainly real; she was once again robbed of her height though this manner was somehow more devastating.
Her mind raced, trying to think straight and find some logic in her predicament to grab onto. The pills, perhaps this was a side effect of her side of the pills that she had been forced to take when she and Aka had swapped bodies. Or perhaps some god had decided to be especially cruel and play this kind of a joke upon her, really anything was possible. All she knew was that robbed of her powers, and reduced to the size of a real insect she felt more vulnerable than she ever had before. Even when she had been trapped in Aka’s body it hadn’t been so bad.
Aka… oh gods, if she found her like this… Anna shuddered to imagine the depravities the Viper would be capable of if she found her slave reduced to a size less than that of her index finger. She already had something of a tat about Anna being taller than her, if she learned about this then Anna wondered if she’d ever be able to convince the Viper to return her to normal. Images of being squeezed in the Viper’s fist, bones shattering as hissing laughter echoed in her ears shuddered her to the core.
Unfortunately… Anna didn’t have much a choice here, alone out here she was fragile but at least with the Viper she’d likely be safer. At the end of the day she’d take the taunts, hissing cackles, and torments over possibly being crushed underfoot like a common bug. With this in mind the dark haired woman stood shakily to her feet, taking a few deep breaths as she started in the direction of the pile of clothes nearby. If Aka was still sleeping she’d probably want to pick them up, if she wasn’t and was out of the room then at least the diminutive woman would have a starting point to work from.
OOCI leave where Aka comes in up to you.