The floor vibrated. A shadow fell over me, cold and sudden. I looked up.
It came out like a mouse squeak. She didn’t even twitch.
My coffee table loomed above me like an overpass. The ceiling was a sky. The sofa was a cliff face. -VR- Height 15cm Looking at VR Get smaller and ...
My roommate. The one who always joked about squishing bugs.
The carpet rose up like a shaggy jungle. Each fiber was a pale, twisted tree trunk as tall as my chest. I landed on my hands and knees—soft, thank God, but the impact shuddered through my tiny bones. The headset had tumbled off somewhere in the drop, and for a second I was just… there. On my hands and knees. The size of an action figure. The floor vibrated
She hadn’t seen me. Why would she? I was fifteen centimeters tall. Her bare foot—each toe the size of my torso—came down two meters to my left. The wind of it nearly knocked me over.
“SARAH, LOOK DOWN!”
The moment I slipped the headset on, I knew something was wrong.