The voices (which sounded like female voices) alerted Jim and Sharon to the presence in a far corner of the room of a door that they had previously overlooked. Jim entered his security code into the keypad and the door slid open.
The light was already on in the smallish room that was revealed. Jim was puzzled by it. "It sounded like there were hundreds of people somehow crammed in there, but it's empty," he said.
"No, it isn't," Sharon replied. "Look down."
Jim lowered the gaze, and saw what she meant. There were scores, perhaps even hundreds, of women crammed into the room, but none of them was more than nine inches tall. All of them wee naked.
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