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Yes, noctivigant is an adjective applied to beings who are active during the night.

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Tia inhaled deeply, causing Chad to hang on for his life.  She secured him with a hand as she spoke.  "Wherever should I begin?"  She pondered.

   After a moment, she looked down.  "Is something troubling you?"

   Chad's face was deep red.  "Won't Teddy… see us like this?"

   Laughter caused Tia's amplitude to jiggle erratically. "Honey, I severed his ARAS.  He'll sleep until I restore it."

   Fury caused Chad to forget that he was less than a foot tall.  He remembered an experiment in which a cat with a severed ARAS spent the rest of his life in a comatose state.  "You performed brain surgery on my son?!"  

   "No, not surgery.  I just temporarily drained him of certain neurons.  It's one of the uses of sarcophrenia."

   "Where did you get this power?"  

   An overcast frown marred Tia's beauty.  "I was born with an enigmatic disorder.  Known generically as Failure to Thrive, I was placed in a hospital ward.  I recovered, but I didn't grow any more until I was placed in preschool.  For the next couple of years I experienced a growth spurt, but all the other students came down with baffling disorders.  Osteoporosis, acute sarcopenia, marasmus.  One day I realized that I was absorbing their somatic tissues and integrating them into my own structure.  As my powers and body grew, I realized that I could fulfill my odd metabolic requirements by draining any humanoid creature, and that I could reverse the process, using the material of my own body to reconstitute the forms of other people.  Thus, I carefully healed my classmates, never letting on that I was the cause of these transformations."

    "Amazing!  Most children that age are purely egocentric…"

   Tia nodded.  "Yes, but I also appear have this psychic empathy.  It literally pains me when people are suffering."

   Chad gazed into her eyes."That's why you are a nurse…"

   "Exactly.  I can heal people while having a nearly unlimited potential for growth."

    Chad's microscopic eyebrows twitched.  "You heal by draining yourself, but you grow by draining others… I'm getting confused."

    Another seismic laugh brought the shrunken man to his knees.  "You don't fully comprehend my endowments.  Now that I have mastered my gifts, I can decide which tissues to drain.  I can leach muscle and bone away from people, but this same ability can remove tumors, fat, bone spurs, and other virulent things."

    "What about the couch?  It wasn't alive."

   Tia looked at the remnents of the furniture.  "Actually, I can drain any organic substances, but only concomitant to draining human tissues.  It's rather vitalistic that way."

    Chad clung to the flesh around him, slightly anxious about sliding off.  "Why did you shrink me?"

    Tia grinned.  "Mostly to get raw material for these delightful boobs!"  

    Chad restated himself.  "Those look extrememly uncomfortable."

    Tia yawned. "They are a bit cumbersome, but I can put up with it for the pleasure that it entails."  She lifted the breast that didn't support Chad and kissed it playfully."

    "Thanks…"  Chad blushed again.

    "Ha!  This isn't just for your pleasure, Although I can tell you are enjoying it.  By the way, feel free to fondle something while you're down there.    

   Anyway, I find my size very arousing.  Do you know how thrilling it is to be able to crush a man with the flick of your wrist?"  A thumb loomed over Chad.

   "What about your empathy!"  Chad whitened.

   The thumb descended, stroking Chad affectionately again.  "I would never be so barbaric as to enjoy the injury of another human being, but I love having the power to do so.  Have you had everyone you know stand at least a head taller than you?"

   Chad rolled his eyes.  "…ahem!"

   "I mean before I miniaturized you.  I used to be a miniscule girl, infantile even at school age.  Some would jeer at me overtly, others would patronize, but everyone dismissed me.  Things are different now! Someday, I'll be the largest, strongest, and sexiest woman in the world!"

   "You could have easily attained that goal by now…"

   "True, but I want to do it subtly for a very important reason.  If I'm too overt about my supernatural capacity, people will fear me."

   "I thought you enjoyed scaring people!" Chad observed, rubbing the fatty mountain beneath him.

   Tia tittered "Well, sometimes it is fun to frighten people a little, but I'm talking about a deep seated phobic aversion that people tend to harbor against immensely powerful forces."

    "I'm not afraid of you at all."    

   Tia smiled, gently lifted Chad, and placed her in the valley of her cleavage, aloowing him to hear her heartbeat.

  "That's because I love you dearly, and I use my psychic ability to calm people within range.  You see, I truly care about people and I want them to be able to live to their fullest potential.  I'm walking a rather fine line, here."

   "What line is that?"  Chad asked from the depths of her sternum.  He began squirming, prompted by a sudden intuition.

   "A woman must be strong to love, and also to protect and support those she loves, but a bastion of fortitude as alienate as well as inspire weaker people."

    "What about a man?"  Chad massaged an escarpment of breast as he awaited his answer.

   Tia shrugged.  "I suppose that it's true for men too but men just seem a little weaker than women.

   "I suppose it would seem that way to you."

  "No, I wasn't just speaking constitutionally.  It often falls incumbent upon women to balance work and relationships.  Furthermore, women seem to be more attuned to their emotions, whereas your average man is more psychologically brittle."

  Chad stopped carressing Tia and climbed up to her face.  "I am a superlatively devout parent."  He roared.

  In response, Tia kissed Chad, etiolating his indignation.  "I know, and I respect you for that.  That's one of the reasons why I'm choosing you as a mate."

"How many reasons are there?"

   Tia counted.  "Well, I reserve my rights to privacy, but I'll tell you: at least one I haven't told you about yet."

  "What's that."

   "There's one more power I want to show you, but I'll have to return you to your original height, ready?"

   "Um-hmm…"

   Pop!  Chad was again six foot two.  His body was his own, but not quite familiar.  He felt thicker, and denser.  "What's this feeling?"

  Tia giggled.  "All your snuggling put me in an erotic mood, so I enhanced your strength so I won't inadvertantly crush you."

  Chad inspected Tia.  She had to have gotten that mass from somehere, but it certainly wasn't her muscles.  Her formerly flowing tresses had almost completely receded into her head, and her body fat had been all but eradicated, increasing the definition of her already voluminous muscles.  Chad also realized that ice was forming on the window, and his exhaled air was visible.  

   "It's cold in here…"

   "Oh, yeah, I can convert thermal energy to mass too to an extent.   I know how to warm you up, though."

   Tia's limbs began to encircle him, but Chad halted.  "Wait."  Tia backed off for a moment while he wrapped his son in a nearby blanket.  

  "Okay..  I'm ready now.."

   An hour later, Chad and Tia held hands as they panted, sprawled on the floor.

   "Did you enjoy that?"

   "It was magnificent."

   When Chad was fully rested, He sat up and looked pensive.  "What is that last power you wanted to show me?"

   Tia smiled and commanded in a sultry voice.  "Look at me now."

   Chad inspected his paramour.  Her hair and curves had returned, and her muscles were slightly larger.

   "Umm… very sexy… but where did you get it?"  asked Chad, eyes searching the room.  The furniture was untouched.  Teddy wasn't any smaller.  His own body retained the puissance that Tia gave him.

   "That's the power I wanted to show you?"

   "You have a power that makes you grow during sex?"  Chad asked.

  "No, it's not a sex power, nor is the power even mine. It's actually yours."

  Chad stopped putting his pants on long enough to gape at Tia.  "What?!"

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Teddy watched his father from the balcony that was Tia's lap.  "What's daddy doing?"

    "He's assisting the doctors with a coronary bypass."

   "What's that?"

    "This patient suffered a myocardial infarction, so they're rearranging his vessels so his heart can work properly."

    "Tia?"

    "What is it?"

   "You are real smart, aren't you?"

   Tia laughed.  "I graduated summa cum laude from my college.  How's that?"

   "If you are so smart, why aren't you a doctor?"

   Tia inhaled.  "Professions aren't distributed solely on ability.  I would like to be a doctor, but I don't have the money for a Phd."

   Teddy shrugged.  "How much does a Pee Atch Dee cost?"

    Tia sighed.  "Millions!"  She threw up her arms in despair, causing Teddy to emit a peal of laughter.

   "Tia?"    

   "What?"  

   "What's that snake thing on your chest?"  He poked at her brooch.

    "That's a cadeuceus.  The snake is a symbol from ancient Greece, and it is worn by those in the medical profession."  

   "Who were the Geeks?"  Teddy bounced up and down on Tia's sinewy thigh.  

    "That's Greeks.  My father came from Greece.  That's a country next to the Mediterranean Ocean.

    Teddy's mouth seemed to suddenly stretch beyond his face as he grinned.

    "What are you so happy about?"  

    "Do you like me?"

     Tia playfully squeezed Teddy and tickled him.  "Of course I do.  We're buddies."

     Between the howls of laughter Teddy uttered.  "No,  Do you like my daddy?"  The boy's face assumed a sobreity behind its youth .

   "I care for him very much."

    Teddy shook his head furiously. "Dad's been depressed lately.  You'll take care of him, won't you?"

    "I'll do my best."

     His face relighted.  "Yay!"  Teddy began to run around the row of seats, but Tia scooped him up in a single tall arc of her arm.

    "You can't do that!  You promised your father that you'd be good.  

    "I'm bored!  Bored Bored Bored Bored bored!"  Teddy began bouncing to punctuate the tedium.

    "Stop that, now!"  Tia's lip twitched in displeasure.  Teddy was immediately obedient.  

   A while later, Chad approached the two figures in the theater seat.  

    "Hi, Chad."  Tia said, not turning around.  

    "Hey…"  He responded, noting his somnulent son.  "How did you pacify him?"

   Tia shrugged.  "The boy became so restive that he must have burned himself out."

  Chad furrowed his brow.  "That sounds unusual!"  His visage broke out into a smile reminiscent of Teddy's  "Thank you so much."

    At that moment, Tia gingerly moved Teddy to the chair and took her friend's hand.  "I've heard that you are unhappy."

   Chad's features twisted themselves into a knot as he grumbled.  "He's lying.."

   Tia spoke matter of factly.  "No, you are.  And I have a feeling it's not just about your dead wife either.  Disclose."  Commanded Tia, rubbing Chad's hand.          

   The man began to stammer wildly.  "Nothing at all!  positively I only—   love you and want to spend our lives together!"  Their eyes locked.

   Chad broke the gaze, blanched, and covered his mouth.  Tia smiled enigmatically.  "Don't be afraid.  Emotions are extremely powerful forces.  And as far as I know, you are a loving, generous man whom any sane woman should find worthwhile."
 
    A few welling tears betrayed the male nurse's emotions.  Tia continued, ppressing herself up to his ear.  "But it wouldn't be fair to begin a relationship with you without demonstrating something.  

   Chad's face braced against Tia's "What?"

   "I will not be with a man unless he accepts my totality, including my power."

   Chad chuckled.  "I realize that you can bench press over 500 pounds!"

   A long tan finger carressed his neck.  "No, my other power."

    "Hmmm?"  

    "Sarcophrenia!"  She whispered emphatically.

    "Is that a disease?  I've never heard of it."

    Tia released a laugh from the depths of her abdomen that reverberated across the room.  Still, it did not rouse Teddy.  "It's nothing that you will find in a nosology text.  Do you still want to know?"  Tia asked rhetorically as she read her friend's face..

"Alright.  I can show you better than telling you."  Tia carried Chad by two fingers, supporting his son in her other hand.  

She took them to the lounge, where she lay Teddy on a recliner, locked the door, and began to take her clothes off.

"What are you doing!"  Chad cried in fear.

  Tia stripped him in a matter of seconds and placed the clothing by the sofa.

   Chad reached down to retireve his sartorial possessions, but Tia grabbed him by the throat.  He tried to scream, but he felt his scream leached away by a mysterious force.

    When his cognizance returned, he realized his body had been likewise tampered with.  Chad, now the size of a G I Joe figurine, sat in a sea of chest.  Even Tia seemed fazed by her own poitrene, which had preternaturally gained two hundred kilograms.  At that point, Chad realized that all the organic material had been extricated from the couch as well, leaving a pile of foam and springs in the corner.

   "Now that you are comfortable,"  whispered the mountainous face of Tia, "Allow me to explain my ability."

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Crap! I have to rewrite that chapter all over again! Oh well…. 🙄

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Your protagonist is an interesting hybrid of scientific detachment and altruistic sentimentality.

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Sweet

Though I wish that the artist had included something for reference, a man, or a house, or the collosus of sardia.

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If you do want to do age regression, I suppose someone would enjoy seeing mega uber digi fetuses… 😉

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However, it would be preferable if you opted to not shout it.

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The next day, Chad sat at home, pondering the scrap of cloth in his hands. He peered at the fibers, then suddenly wrenched the shred in opposite directions, applying all the strength in his tenuous grip. He managed to rip the cloth slightly, but he knew it had no unusual durability.

"Breasts that large should rationally need support! Something rather subtle is at work here…" Chad muttered.

At that moment, Meredith walked into the room. She descryed the silken rag on her fathers lap. Her glare impaled him.

"Hi Daddy, where did you go tonight?"

"I was at school."

"Was she a muscular one?" scowled Meredith, the cords of her neck thickening.

Chad sighed ecstatically, Remembering Tia. "Indeed!" He backpedaled "How did you-??"

Meredith tacitly seized the silk, threw it in Chad’s face, and stormed out of the house.

Chad sprung to his feet. "Honey, wait!"

But then a mop of disheveled hair ran into the room. Beneath it was Chad’s son. "Dad! Play video games with me!"

"Okay…" He yawned and sat in front of the television set. They began to play.

Teddy pulled out suddenly in front of his father’s car. "What’s wrong with Meredith?"

Chad shrugged as he grazed the outer edge of the track, causing him to lose more position. "I don’t know anymore."

Teddy lapped his father for the second time when he asked. "Is she always going to be this moody?"

"I doubt it. Girls her age exhibit notorious volitility in their moods. Some never seem to grow out of it completely." Chad sniffled, and slammed his digital vehicle into a wall.

"You’re playing awful today!"

"Perhaps the inexorable senectitude is descending already!" the young man laughed. His laughter wilted slightly at the end, but Teddy kept playing the video game untrammeled. This ensued until a strident tone issued from Chad’s waist.

"Do you have to go again?" Teddy pouted.

"Yes, It’s an emergency." Chad rolled his eyes.

"You’re always leaving in the middle of things. Can we at least do stuff after you come back?"

The nurse sighed. "After it’s over, I have to go to night class.

-But if you promise to be good, I can let you go with me…" Chad reversed in mid sentence.

"Yay!" Teddy jumped up and down and clapped until Chad grasped his shoulder.

"You can only do this if you promise to be on your best behavior. Only mature people are allowed at our destinations."

"I promise! I promise! Let’s go!" Teddy charged to the car.

At the hospital, Chad was outside the locker room when a doctor accosted him. "You can’t bring a child into the operating room!"

Chad was mollified. "I was hoping he could watch the operation from the balcony for a while. He has a considerable amount of restraint…."

"Preposterous! That child must be supervised by someone."

"Pardon me, boys, but I can watch him." A mellifluous voice behind and above the men resonated.

"Auntie Tia!" Teddy cried. He ran up and embraced the woman’s leg.

"Hello Teddy, Youve gotten so big since I saw you last." Tia smiled sweetly and ran a couple fingers through the boy’s hair.

"And you’re freaking huge!" The child took a moment to assimilate the statue and demeanor of the gigantic woman, causing her to laugh lightly.

Chad was dumbfounded. "I could never… You’ve just worked twelve consecutive hours… you..errr"

"Relax! I can supervise him."

"Thank you Miss Juno." The doctor interceded.

"Your father is going to help operate on a patient, and you can watch!"

"Cool! But don’t I have to stay out of the OR?"

"Yes, but we can watch in the theater from a front row seat! What do you say..?" Tia looked to Chad. The man stared into her eyes. For an instant his jaw clenched at the idea.

"Knock yourselves out." He smiled.

"Come on Teddy, I’m going to make some popcorn."

The titaness hulked gracefully into the breakroom, Teddy balanced comfortably on her shoulder.

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An awesome opening. Continue, please!

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