Description
At first, Lysithea had been proud. Proud of her growth, both as a mage and a woman. Over the past five years, she had grown taller, and seeing her past self in Askr was a potent reminder of that.
However, there were many heroes taller than her as well. She didn't expect to be as huge as Dimitri or anything, but there were many women who were bigger than her. It wasn't long before Lysithea felt rather inadequate, despite her growth. The knowledge that she was one of the shortest heroes undermined her growth somewhat.
One day, during a break, Lysithea decided to conduct a secret investigation. One of the mages she studied with offhandedly mentioned a curse that could alter body size. That sounded perfect for Lysithea's purposes, so she sought out information on this curse. Despite the immense size of the Askr castle library, the prodigy didn't take long to find what she needed.
"So this is a growth curse..." Lysithea mused aloud, "hmm... maybe I should test it on something first."
But the mage was confident in her abilities.
"No, I can handle this. I'll cast it on myself right away!"
Taking a deep breath, Lysithea began the incantation, ready to add a few inches to her height...
"There you are."
The voice from behind came at precisely the wrong moment. Startled, Lysithea yelped, losing control of the curse power. She felt a tingle as she quickly snapped her tome shut, turning to see her visitor.
"Oh, it's you, Edelgard. Don't surprise me like that!" Lysithea huffed.
"My apologies, but I did call out to you several times before now," Edelgard pointed out, "no matter. I was hoping we could..."
Edelgard stopped mid-sentance. Lysithea saw what was happening immediately. Before her eyes, the Adrestian Emperor was dwindling in size.
Am I growing? Lysithea hoped. No, I'm not. Then...!
"No!" Lysithea screamed as everything around her grew in size, the mage rapidly shrinking down. Luckily it stopped, but now she and Edelgard were tiny in a giant library.
"What just happened?" Edelgard gasped, looking over her suddenly tiny body. Lysithea barely heard her, her voice drowned out by rapid, thudding footsteps.
"It was from over here!" came a familiar voice.
"Wait up, will you?"
Two giants emerged from down the hall. The immense figures of Dimitri and Claude. Luckily, the eagle-eyed archer spotted the tiny women before they were trampled.
"Hey, look down there! That's..."
Lysithea was glad to have been found, but then suffered the mortifying experience of having to explain what she was doing, and how she ended up so small. With the tiny women in hand, Dimitri looked genuinely concerned, while Claude laughed. But Edelgard seemed to take it worst of all, glaring at the equally small woman.
"I hope for your sake that you can reverse this," the shrunken emperor squeaked.
"O-of course I can," Lysithea laughed nervously, as she remembered how frightening the Edelgard of her world had been to face in battle. But in that moment, looking towards the small woman in Claude's palm, something occured to her. Edelgard was even shorter than Lysithea herself was, both before and after shrinking. She decided then that, once she made it back to normal size, she would swear off tampering with such curses, and be happy for the height she had.
Maybe my original height wasn't so bad after all...
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