A sketch from Redflare500.

It was sort of a random idea, so here's sort of a random story to go with it.

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"You know, I'm getting a little tired of you laughing about this," Meeta said with a pout.

After the fairy opened a cabinet to fetch something, a heap of glasses and jars had tumbled out and clattered atop her. She had the good luck to not have any of them break, but the terrible luck of having a heavy glass jar end up overturned, trapping her while a heavy wooden platter kept it pinned. It turned out to be one of the mystically shielded jars she'd intended to use for a potion later that week, so she couldn't summon wind or any other manner of spell to free herself until Wendy returned home.

For a brief moment, the vixen jokingly slipped her hand underneath and held the jar firmly in place, keeping her little friend trapped.

"It's just that you fairies are so easy to trap!" Wendy said. "You don't see that sort of thing happening to us vixens.

"You think it isn't easy to catch a vixen?"

"You only caught me the first time because I didn't know you could suck people inside you. I think you'd have a hard time now."

Meeta gave the hand beneath her a firm stop, encouraging her friend to let her free. As Wendy continued to giggle, the fairy darted out of the room. A moment later, she returned with an odd wand dripping with soapy solution. She waved it back and forth and fluttered her wings, conjuring a gentle breeze that first produced a flurry of little bubbles, then one progressively larger one.

"I'm not afraid of bubbles," Wendy said with a snicker.

The big bubble popped free of the wand and drifted toward her. She didn't even bother trying to avoid it, instead reaching out with a finger to pop it. The bubble merely stretched around her hand and continued to press forward. Its slippery surface stretched across her face, chest, and legs, then with a disorienting *FWEEP* she bounced inside.

The bubble wasn't large enough for her to stand, and though she tried, any stretching and shoving against what should have been a flimsy skin just stretched and slid.

Slowly, the bubble drifted up into the air, causing her weight to sag its membrane just a bit.

"Well... ahem..." she said, her voice thrumming inside. "This is embarrassing..."

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