@littlest-lily I had a poorer reaction to the cop’s appearance than Evie did. Cops are worse than vermin.
Bravo to Aiden for keeping his composure. Time to fabricate some interior cuffs for his pant legs. And shoes for Evie.
It’s probably too soon for Aiden and Evie to share a bath to get all that grime off.
Potential anti-climax: the flash drive only contains Dr. Little’s SW porn stash.
@mrgoblinging7 Get caught in the candy jar, get sucked like a lemon drop.
@i-am-insane said:
Side note, but I’m pretty sure Stockholm syndrome was disproved, because the robbers were relatively normal people, and the police were such assholes the people ‘afflicted’ just didn’t want to help them.
This is correct. The police were incompetent and endangered the lives of the hostages, and afterwards one of the hostages (a woman) told reporters “At least the robbers expressed some concern for our safety.” The police were indignant and smeared the hostages as emotionally unstable and brainwashed by the robbers.
“Stockholm Syndrome” might have been forgotten as baseless slander but a couple of years later the Patty Hearst trial was all over the media and defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey (whom you might remember from the OJ Simpson trial) tried to use a “brainwashing” defense for Hearst, who had actively participated in crimes committed by her kidnappers. The defense failed, but the “syndrome” was implanted in the public consciousness.
@littlest-lily 🤩 Jesus, Lily, I have to go to work now.
I’ve been able to develop feelings for him without any kind of size-related kink.
I’ve been waiting for her to figure this out, but I couldn’t say anything. A crucial aspect of their relationship is that for almost the entirety of the time that they’ve known each other they’ve been at different sizes. That conversation would have gone much differently had they already known each other and checked each other out before Evie got shrunk.
I just hope Aiden doesn’t turn into a size geek and dump a bunch of new jargon and scenarios on her. 
@tiny-ivy said:
A jar just traps a tiny, but it gives them no privacy and no coziness. It’s not shelter. It’s a prison, fit for a mere object or for a curiosity.
Yup, jars are for callous-to-cruel custodians.
However, I get the need to be able to see your tiny at all times. Might I suggest a terrarium? It can be furnished, including separate areas for watering, feeding, and toileting.
My ideal setup would have the terrarium on an extendible bookshelf that can be rolled back inside the shelving unit with a retractable front panel when concealment is necessary. When extended, the terrarium would be next to my desk chair with the top level with my desktop so I could keep an eye on her/them while I work.
@littlest-lily Many thanks for sharing this story with us and leaving us at a nice place for the chapter break!
@jitensha Listening to others and taking them seriously is a rare enough talent to be considered a superpower.
@littlest-lily It would be a lie to say that my opinions about police hasn’t evolved in the ten years since I wrote Little Trouble in Big Sky. Nevertheless, I think I was rather cynical in my depiction of society in general and cops in particular as corrupt and craven. There are very few “good cops” IRL and even fewer in Big Sky.
If the flash drive is Dr. L’s size porn stash, it might be somewhat educational for Evie. 
@sloppy_amy She’ll be doing the milking for the moment.
@ripper I always say that, to be realistic and vivid, size fantasy needs the full range of personalities, moralities, and philosophies. The sweet guys seem all the sweeter when there’s ogres out there too.