A backyard scene.

You step back out into the sunshine of the day, bringing your hand up to cover your eyes as they adjust after walking through the house.

One of the perks of being friends with Nicole, especially on days like these, is sitting in the middle of the back lawn. Sunlight reflects off the surface of the pool, and the scarce wind blowing around you creates little ripples that you blink at when they pick up the light too strongly. Casting your sheltered gaze about you, it's not your friend who first catches your eye, but the shapes lounging over the fence at the back of the house. There's a group of guys there - squinting at them a couple look like they're wearing football jackets, and they're large enough to probably be a part of the team. Their focus, though, is such that they don't even notice you - and when you see what they're grinning stupidly at, you can see why.

Nicole is sunbathing at the side of her pool. She'd been sunbathing yesterday, too. You can tell partly because she always loves sunbathing whenever the weather's good enough to do so, but mostly because her lounger is facing the tower in the middle of town and she's currently got huge tits. Her bikini top is lying on the grass next to her lounger; she doesn't look as though she's realised that there's no chance she's going to wear it again. In fact she doesn't look bothered at all that she's sunbathing topless while three guys leer at her.

Well, you can put a stop to that.

You walk over the lawn and down the side of the pool to where your best friend is lying, and she smiles and waves. "Hey, Taylor! I was gonna call but I thought you had classes today. Pull up a lounger."

You blink, and grab the one lying on its side a little away from Nicole, and heave it over so you're sitting on the edge next to her. "Nic, don't you want to... I don't know.... cover up?"

"Huh?" Pulling her sunglasses off, she chews one end in blank uncertainty. You gesture at her chest, and she looks down, unconcernedly. "Oh, right. I guess... but you know, the guys're there...."

"Uh, yeah?" You look over at them. They shoot admiring looks at you, but given that you're not currently topless with porn-star tits, it's not long before they return to ogling your friend. "So... shouldn't you.... stop them looking at your boobs, or something?"

Your friend's innocently curious expression briefly makes you think that something must be wrong with you, not her. "Uhm, well, I guess. But my top was so tight, I guess it shrunk in the wash or something, and they saw me having trouble with it and said I should take it off, so...." Her voice takes on a triumphant, problem-solved tone. "I did!"

You flash your eyes over to the guys again. They're still leering. You'd have thought they'd get sick of it by now. None of them seems to be glowing, though, and if they could do this to Nic then they'd certainly have done it to you, too. So it couldn't be something to do with them....

A laugh brings you back out of your thoughts. "Taylor, seriously, what's up with you today? Come on, lie down and relax."

Your back hits the lounger before you even register the suggestion. This isn't any time to lie down, you tell yourself, and try to pull yourself up again, but it's a difficult task - your limbs just don't want to work with you, until finally, with far more effort than it should have taken, push yourself up to a sitting position again. Nicole looks at you like you've grown a second head, then shrugs and slides her sunglasses back on. "Suit yourself."

That was.... weird. You stretch - there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your muscles now. Your friend hadn't glowed. It couldn't be her that did that, and you were able to shrug it off, so.... You glare at the guys as they briefly switch their focus to your own chest as your stretching rips it a little more. Typical. They -

Wait. You look down at your breasts, now noticeably bigger after having caught that tower's light in your eye a few times. What if... what if that isn't the only change it makes? You think back, rapidly. You've already seen that the strange power can change minds. If it's that that's causing every woman you've seen to suddenly grow, why couldn't it change minds, too? It's already made sure that no-one but you has noticed what's going on. If it could make people that... unaware of what was going on, couldn't it make people more gullible, or... easily told what to do, or something?

You sat down when Nic asked, laid down when she asked, without even thinking about it. It's a big leap, but with everything else it seems at least possible.....

No. That's not enough. If it's something that can affect you, you've got to be sure what's happening. And as luck, or otherwise, would have it, you have a test subject right in front of you. If you can tell Nic to do something she normally wouldn't do and she does it, then you'll know for sure. Or as sure as you can be right now.