Height

Daniel watched from his seat as the long legged man towered over the rest of the people in the station.

Those legs could be a fine addition to the perfect woman. Could height be taken from the ball of tangible colourful strings? Daniel shook his head before getting up, he needed to do it to figure it out.

Being unnoticed in the more crowded part of the station was easier than Daniel had initially thought. His hands glided over random people’s essences as he made way to his target. It was absolutely perfect. The man was facing him with a friendly smile as he slowly reached out pulling a green string that seemed longer than the rest.

The man’s smile froze as slowly but surely his height was falling. It was like watching a video game character slider in real life. Daniel could almost see panic behind the man’s eyes as his bones shrunk and his fat redistributed across his body. His pants would have fell down had it not been for the trusty belt the man was wearing. Though he didn’t need to fret about that because as soon as it was noticed the pants shrank, forming themselves to the now slightly over weight average man.

His smile was less so now, and Daniel smiled brightly back at the diminished former giant. Daniel was greeted back with a shy acknowledgment as the man shuffled into the crowd into his new reality. Well Daniel’s reality. For that man he presumably was never tall in his life.