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With the strategic potential of size alteration technology, international watchdog groups are extremely wary of Indian shrinking technology companies coming under the influence of Russian oligarchs; some of the lesser-known oligarchs still have family ties in Kazakhstan.

Oddly enough, not everyone who has these ties wants them.

***

Муми: Mom, what's this?

Ана: It's a surprise, Бал. I know you were heartbroken when your Canadian visa got denied, so I thought I'd bring part of Canada to you, to watch you win the tournament. This is... Toronto, if I remember correctly.

Муми: You shrank Toronto?! Mom, it's on the chess board. How am I supposed to play?

Ана: Well, I'm sure you remember where the squares are.

Муми: Mom, that's not the point. There are buildings where I'll need to put the pieces. And people. How do I move them out of the way?

Ана: Well, you can just play over them. What are they going to do?

Муми: You want me to smash the city?! "Well, we were GOING to accept Mumi's visa appeal, but that was before she leveled half the waterfront castling her king! We'll never let her into the country since she killed a thousand people with chess pieces." Mom, if my visa had been approved I could have been IN that city. Do you want me microscopic and stuck on a board in a giant tournament hall, getting crushed under some regional player's pawn?

Ана: I wouldn't have shrunk any city YOU were in. I'm sure you know that.

Муми: You're missing the point again, mom.

Ана: By the way, бал, here are your next two opponents. I took the liberty of shrinking them so they'd have a harder time seeing the board.

Муми: You did what?! Change them back! Right now!

Ана: Well, I sort of left the shrinker at home, so I can't do that right now.

Муми: This is so embarrassing. I'm sorry, Toronto. This is my mother. Her entire world consists of about fifteen people, and she has zero empathy for anyone outside of it. And this is the woman that raised me.

Ана: Don't be so melancholy, бал. You want to win, don't you? I just wanted to make sure that happened.

Муми: Mom, that's an unfair advantage. It'll get me disqualified.

Ана: Well, if any of the judges object I can just shrink him.

Муми: I thought you said you left the shrinker at home, mom.

Ана: Details, details.

Муми: Alright, mom. Two things. One: I'm a grown-ass woman. I'm twenty-three years old and I've been a regional champion since I was nineteen. I don't need you or атасы to help me win. And two: you're acting like an American. This kind of attitude is why I want to move to Canada, not the US.

.....and three: why is she naked?

Description
With the strategic potential of size alteration technology, international watchdog groups are extremely wary of Indian shrinking technology companies coming under the influence of Russian oligarchs; some of the lesser-known oligarchs still have family ties in Kazakhstan.

Oddly enough, not everyone who has these ties wants them.

***

Муми: Mom, what's this?

Ана: It's a surprise, Бал. I know you were heartbroken when your Canadian visa got denied, so I thought I'd bring part of Canada to you, to watch you win the tournament. This is... Toronto, if I remember correctly.

Муми: You shrank Toronto?! Mom, it's on the chess board. How am I supposed to play?

Ана: Well, I'm sure you remember where the squares are.

Муми: Mom, that's not the point. There are buildings where I'll need to put the pieces. And people. How do I move them out of the way?

Ана: Well, you can just play over them. What are they going to do?

Муми: You want me to smash the city?! "Well, we were GOING to accept Mumi's visa appeal, but that was before she leveled half the waterfront castling her king! We'll never let her into the country since she killed a thousand people with chess pieces." Mom, if my visa had been approved I could have been IN that city. Do you want me microscopic and stuck on a board in a giant tournament hall, getting crushed under some regional player's pawn?

Ана: I wouldn't have shrunk any city YOU were in. I'm sure you know that.

Муми: You're missing the point again, mom.

Ана: By the way, бал, here are your next two opponents. I took the liberty of shrinking them so they'd have a harder time seeing the board.

Муми: You did what?! Change them back! Right now!

Ана: Well, I sort of left the shrinker at home, so I can't do that right now.

Муми: This is so embarrassing. I'm sorry, Toronto. This is my mother. Her entire world consists of about fifteen people, and she has zero empathy for anyone outside of it. And this is the woman that raised me.

Ана: Don't be so melancholy, бал. You want to win, don't you? I just wanted to make sure that happened.

Муми: Mom, that's an unfair advantage. It'll get me disqualified.

Ана: Well, if any of the judges object I can just shrink him.

Муми: I thought you said you left the shrinker at home, mom.

Ана: Details, details.

Муми: Alright, mom. Two things. One: I'm a grown-ass woman. I'm twenty-three years old and I've been a regional champion since I was nineteen. I don't need you or атасы to help me win. And two: you're acting like an American. This kind of attitude is why I want to move to Canada, not the US.

.....and three: why is she naked?