“Alright,” he said, ruffling Dani from her spot within his jacket. “I guess we should have dinner and turn in for the night?”
“I guess,” said Dani. She slipped out from Felix’s jacket and fell to the ground on the thermal pad, taking her glove with her and climbing inside of it immediately.
Felix pulled some beef jerky out of his backpack, along with dried fruit and a rubber water bladder that had been riding against his back to stay unfrozen. He ate in silence, carefully setting out small portions for Dani. He felt fatigued, more than he should have, and by the time he’d finished eating, he was having trouble moving.
“Felix?” Dani came up beside him, a worried expression on her face. “Are you okay?”
Felix groaned.
“I just need to… get in the sleeping bag, I think,” he muttered. “Must have… done too much traveling.”
He pulled off his winter outerwear and carefully set it inside before climbing into the heavily insulated sleeping bag. Dani slipped out of her glove and moved to climb in next to him, frowning as she examined his face.
“It’s the cold hex,” she said, voice a whisper. “My mom said it might still be affecting you tonight.”
“I’ll be fine,” said Felix. “Just need… to get some sleep.”
“You won’t be fine!” said Dani. “You’ll have no energy in the morning, or worse!”
Felix shook his head and felt his eyes slip closed. HE was so tired, and there didn’t seem to be any real harm in drifting off to sleep. He felt Dani shaking his shoulder with tiny movements and tried to ignore her.
“Felix!” shouted Dani. “Come on! Listen to me!”
“Relax… Dani,” he said. “I’m… fine.”
Even as he said the words, Felix could sense that he clearly wasn’t. His breathing was slowing. His body felt heavy and sedated. Dani pounded tiny fists on his chest and called out his name, but it didn’t do much other than make him blink.
“Felix…” said Dani. “I’m going to have to… do what my mom did.”
“…What?” Felix tilted his head up, feeling groggy. Dani was red faced and fidgeted nervously as she slowly made her way to the lip of the sleeping bag.
“I know what happened last night,” she said. “And I know it was necessary. I have innate magic of my own, and I can give you some of it to fight the hex.”
“Dani…” Felix tried to think clearly about what she was saying. “That would mean… how would you even…?”
Dani set her hands on her hips and glared at him.
“I’m tiny, but that doesn’t mean I’m useless!” she said, fiercely. “If I don’t pull you out of this stupid cold hex, we’re both going to die out here, anyway!”
Dani slipped under the edge of the sleeping bag before Felix could say anything more in protest. He could feel her moving across his chest, crouched low like a spelunker in a cave with a shallow roof. She stopped after a pace, and Felix felt her shifting. A moment later, a tiny makeshift handkerchief dress slipped out of the sleeping bag.
“Hold this for me,” said Dani.
Felix took it in a fatigues hand and stared at it.
“You’re… naked, under there?” he muttered. He felt Dani continue across his chest, and then stomach.
“Take your jeans off,” commanded Dani. “It will be impossible for me to do something like that on my own.”
Felix was only dimly aware of her words, and it took a moment for them to make sense. He slid his hands down to the zipper of his jeans, undoing it and sliding them down to the bottom of the sleeping bag. It was still warm within the bag’s insulation, surprisingly so.
“Alright,” said Dani, in her tiny voice. “This… might be a little weird.”
Felix felt her small hands touching the fabric of his boxers, slowly working his half hard cock out of the front hole. He felt an odd stab of shame strike him in the chest. Something felt fundamentally wrong about letting Dani, barely 18 in her own right and now the size of an action figure, touch his member.
“Dani…” he managed to mutter. The cold hex had him pinned down. He tried to lift a hand down to her and failed.
“Hold still,” she said. “I’ve almost… There we go!”
Felix felt her drag his cock out of his boxers, holding the head of it in both hands as though she was moving a body by the shoulders. She let it drop once it was free, and Felix felt her crouching behind it, catching her breath.
“This thing is heavy!” she announced. “And huge!”
“…Thanks,” Felix mumbled. He felt one of Dani’s hands running across the skin of his cock, a tiny, but remarkably warm sensation.
“Alright,” said Dani. “It would help if you were, well you know… Hard.”
“I can’t just… flip a switch,” said Felix.
“Oh, for heaven’s sake!” Dani gave his cock a shake with both of her hands. It felt good, but not the kind of good that inspired arousal in him.
“Just… be gentle,” said Felix. “If you’re going to do it…”
“Should I… massage it, or something?” asked Dani. “I’ve never done this before.”
Felix blinked.
“You’ve never… What do you mean?”
“Sex,” said Dani. “Regular sex or tiny sex. Never had it before.”
Felix felt a joke burning on his tongue, but the cold hex hit him with another wave of fatigue. He rolled his head to the side, wanting nothing more than to close his eyes and give in to exhaustion.
“Felix?” called Dani. “Felix!”
She panicked for a moment, pacing up and down a length on his crotch. Then, Dani seemed to regain her resolve, refocusing her attention on Felix’s tool.
She used her hands to rub across it, gently letting her fingers and palms trace gentle patterns on the surface of the sensitive skin of Felix’s cock. He felt her movements as a gentle tickle, something that he might have been able to ignore if not for the knowledge of what it was.
“Felix…” whispered Dani, in a half mockingly sultry voice. “I’m touching your dick.”
Felix frowned slightly. It was weird hearing Dani attempt dirty talk. Hot, but definitely weird. He felt her hands continue to move, down to the base of his shaft. A tingle shot through Felix’s loins, and as though a spell had been cast, his cock began to harden.
“There we go,” said Dani. “That’s good. Get nice and hard.”
Felix felt her press her body into his cock. The tactile sensation of it was surprisingly vivid. He could feel her arms and legs, and even the soft mounds of her tiny, naked breasts. She climbed on top of Felix’s cock, which was still lying flat against his stomach, and began to rub herself on it, almost as though she would to straddle a man in regular, full sized sex.
“Ooh…” cooed Dani. “It’s really warm. And so-“
Felix felt blood rush down to his cock, and it hardened enough to shift angles, with Dani still on it. She let out a surprised gasp as it stiffened underneath her, shifting to point straight up like a drawbridge lifting.
“Whoa…” said Dani. “And if I were regular sized… this would be going inside me.”
Felix tried to mutter another joke, but his mouth was too tired to make the noises happen. Dani ran her hands up and down his hard cock, doing what she had before and gently rubbing his shaft. It felt good, but Felix wasn’t sure if it would be enough.
“Hmm…” Dani paused what she was doing for a moment. “I wonder…”
Felix felt arms and legs wrapping around his cock, and Dani’s body pressing directly against it. She clung onto it, making it lean slightly, which made it easier for her to keep hold of. She gave her legs a squeeze, and then her arms, and Felix felt her breasts smooshing across the sensitive skin of his cock.
“This is kind of hot…” whispered Dani. “And it… feels kind of good for me, too.”
Dani shifted again, grinding her crotch against Felix’s crotch in the same way a woman might lean into the vibrations of a motorcycle. He
squeezed a muscle down there, making his cock twitch slightly, and Dani let out a sound of pleasure.
“Mmm…” she whispered. “Let’s see what we can make of this, shall we?”
Felix felt her moving, sliding herself up and down the length of his cock like a stripper working a massive pole. It felt weird, but good, a sensation amplified by the fact that Felix was all but paralyzed in the sleeping bag. He couldn’t stop her. He couldn’t even tell her if what she was doing was working or not. But Dani seemed to have the right idea.
Her small body continued its work, gliding across Felix’s cock. It felt almost like a handjob, but with more depth and detail to it. He could feel her breasts. He could even feel the wetness of her cunt as she rubbed it against his shaft, an order of magnitude too small to be an actual home for his cock.
“And what if I do this?” Dani squeezed her arms around the head of his cock and began to undulate, moving her hips back and forth as though trying to keep her balance on a mechanical bull. The sensation was incredible, and almost teasingly elusive, the pleasure ebbing and flowing with her movements.
“Ohh…” groaned Felix. “Dani…”
“You sound like a soon to be satisfied customer,” said Dani. “Hold on. I’ve got one more trick up my sleeve…”
Something warm, wet, and suspiciously tongue like slid across the skin of the head of his cock. Felix let out another moan, and felt Dani flinch back as her mouth encountered a dab of precum. She hesitated for a moment, and then licked again, apparently resigning herself to the taste.
All of it together was too much for Felix to handle. It was small, constrained, and sensual, different from any sex act Felix had experienced before. But most importantly, it was Dani, young and innocent, and now tiny and more vulnerable than ever. It was Dani working his cock, giving him pleasure, pushing him to his breaking point.
“Oh…” whispered Felix, his breathing intensifying. “Dani!”
He tried to reach a hand down, to move her out of the way as he felt himself reach the brink. Dani didn’t seem to get the message. She was high up on his cock, squeezing and rubbing herself into it, when Felix exploded.
“Ewwwww!” cried Dani. Felix felt her slide down and fall backward, her movements suggesting that she was cringing, and trying to cover her face.
“Sorry,” muttered Felix. His energy was already beginning to return to him, Dani’s cure for the cold hex having been at least as effective as Stella’s. He sat up slightly and reached for the backpack, digging through it for the tissues Stella had sent with him.
Dani emerged from the sleeping bag just as he found them. She was still covering herself with her hands and arms, preserving her modesty despite their newfound intimacy. And she was dripping wet, sticky with cum, from her hair, to her face, to her stomach and legs. It looked as though she’d been dipped in a vat of milky white goo. She kept one of her hands held protectively over her crotch, and Felix understood why.
“I’m really sorry,” he said, frowning. “I couldn’t warn you in time, at the end.”
“Just give me a tissue already!” snapped Dani. Felix handed her one and she wrapped it around herself, using her hands to wring cum from her brown hair.
“My bad,” said Felix. Dani rolled her eyes at him.
“It’s fine,” she said. “Though I know that you probably enjoyed it a little, on some weird, masculine, caveman level.”
Felix shrugged.
“I’m only human,” he said.
CHAPTER 16
The two of them spent the rest of the night sleeping. Dani joined Felix in the sleeping bag once she was clean and had her dress back on, sleeping on top of his chest. Felix had to move her a couple of times throughout the night to stay comfortable, each time taking care not to wake her.
They awoke before the sun was officially up, and ate a small breakfast to start off the day. Dani didn’t say much, and Felix felt a little uncomfortable. He busied himself with packing up the sleeping bag, and waited for her to finish eating.
“I had a crush on you, you know,” said Dani, quietly. “Back when you first arrived in the tower.”
Felix smiled at her.
“Yeah, I kind of picked up on that,” he said. “Bet you wish you had made your move sooner now, how?”
Dani shrugged.
“Better late than never,” she said. “And it’s not like I’ll be stuck like this forever.”
A chilly breeze blew past the cave’s entrance, scattering snowflakes in their direction. Dani ducked her head into her glove to avoid a splash of white powder, poking it back out to meet Felix’s gaze afterward.
“Dani…” he said.
“You don’t have to say anything,” said Dani. “I said that a had a crush on you, past tense. Things have changed for all of us over the past few days.”
Felix smiled at her.
“Let’s focus on getting you back to your regular size,” he said. “Then we can talk about where to go from there.”
She flashed a tiny, dimpled smile at him, and Felix felt something warm in his chest. He reached down and carefully picked her up, sliding her back into place inside his winter jacket’s hood.
“Ready?” he asked.
“Ready,” answered Dani.
The two of them continued through the snow. Felix felt refreshed from the night’s sleep, and free of the effects of the cold hex. The snow on the ground was relatively light and compacted in most places, and the two of them made solid time across the frozen landscape.
Mt. Kratos loomed over them, though it was actually smaller than some of the other mountains nearby. Felix kept his eyes peeled for an easily climbable slope, or a dedicated pathway or trail leading up. There wasn’t much, and he felt his frown deepen as he looked at how the mountain appeared to be even steeper as they moved around to the back of it.
“In the pack,” whispered Dani. “There should be an ice axe.”
Felix shook his head.
“And? What good would that do us?”
Dani flicked his earlobe as though he’d said something stupid.
“There is no way to get up Mt. Kratos without climbing,” she said. “Do you see that ice cliff ahead of us?”
She pointed with her tiny arm, leaning so that it moved in front of Felix’s field of vision.
“I see it,” said Felix. “And I sincerely hope that you aren’t suggesting what I think you are.”
“That’s the only way to get up,” said Dani. “And no, it won’t be easy, but…”
She trailed off, and Felix knew what she’d left out. IT was the only way. Turning back wasn’t an option for her, and it wasn’t an option for him, either. He would keep his word and return to North Spire with what Stella required to restore Dani back to her normal size.
“Alright,” said Felix. He swallowed, feeling a few of the hairs on his neck stand up as he remembered a childhood fear he’d had of heights.
The ice axe was easy enough to find inside the pack, and as soon as Felix removed it, he realized that it alone had accounted for close to a third of the weight he’d been carrying. Felix hefted it in his hand, looking back and forth between the gleaming steel tip and the ice cliff, thinking carefully about what he was going to have to do.
“Dani,” he said. “You should get inside one of my jacket’s pockets. I can’t guarantee that I’ll have a free hand to grab you with if you come loose.”
“Alright,” said Dani. She wiggled down the neck of Felix’s jacket, opening one of the interior pockets and dropping inside.
“Comfortable?” asked Felix.
“I would be if you had better taste in deodorant,” said Dani. “You smell like a hospital’s operating table.”
Felix rolled his eyes. He walked over to the ice cliff, picking out a small section that was slightly less steep than the rest.
“Alright,” he said. “I’m going for it. Don’t move around much. Seriously.”
“Okay,” said Dani. “Be careful, Felix.”
> He gave the ice axe a couple of solid test swings before letting it bite into the ice for real. It was sharp, and several backward facing prongs allowed it to pinch into the ice and hold steady. As long as he picked sections that were thick and strong enough to hold him without shattering, it would serve him well.
The ice cliff extended upward for hundreds of feet. Felix hoped that as he climbed, he’d eventually reach an easier path forward of some kind, but there was no sign of a relaxed route from his view on the ground. If he made it all the way to the top, the rest of the climb up the mountain would be relatively smooth traveling, but staying on the ice cliff for that long would be risky in its own right.
“There’s no point in wasting anymore time,” he said, more to himself than to Dani. “Let’s go.”
The first few feet of the ice cliff were less about Felix making progress and more about him figuring out how and when to use the axe. The cliff had cracks in places, solid hand and foot holds for him to use to haul himself up.
When he reached the first section without a crack above him, Felix tried relying on the ice axe, the lanyard of which he’d looped and tightened around his wrist. He held it in a steady grip and swung it hard while keeping his free hand and feet solidly anchored to the ice wall.
It took him two swings to get it in deep enough to trust his weight to. With all the care he could afford, Felix let the axe hold him as he transferred one of his feet up to what had been a hand hold a moment earlier, and his free hand up to the next crack, now within reach.
“Whew,” he muttered. “This is going to be hard work.”
“You’re already starting to sweat,” whispered Dani. “Not to rush you, but it’s kind of disgusting to be reliant on breathing your body odor.”
“Deal with it,” said Felix.
The first hundred feet of the climb went smoothly, primarily due to the fact that the slope wasn’t as steep as it had initially seemed. In places, Felix was even capable of walking upright without falling. He was careful with each step, the slick surface of the ice always warning him that he was a single misplaced step away from falling.
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