Story about very small (few inches tall) girl.
First scene, introduction. Girl running across her miniature landscape, good feelings all around. 'Father' comes in, picks her up, talks to her, leaves. Mean assistant takes her, almost gives her hypothermia before the nice lady doctor puts her back. (Note: Establishes that she can’t leave the tank for long.)
In uncertain order:
While father is out (manipulation of mean assistant?), girl escapes tank and finds the bones of someone her size in the trashcan.
Girl finds out that if anyone were to discover her and what was going on, it would be bad for the nice lady doctor.
Girl finds a way to sneak out of her tank.
The mean assistant disappears, father and the nice lady look to be in much better health.
Ongoing: (Learns about calendar? Has it taken away, but makes hidden marks to count time. Or maybe finds marks without knowing what they are.) Girl wonders about gaps in her memory.
Truth: Girl often dies, is replaced and reborn with the memories of her younger self. Dies to accidents, dies to experiments, kills herself, etc.
Truth: The man has a magical device that manipulates life (but cannot create it). A sacrificial altar, of sorts.
Truth: For the girl to be reborn, the nice lady has to become pregnant, and the fetus is sacrificed on the device. (Corollary: Implied that Father impregnates the nice lady, who does not resist due to his hold over her. Learned helplessness?) (Even more subtly implied that he’s father and she’s not mother because she’s not the original woman who created the girl.)
Girl almost kills herself when she finds out that she dies and is reborn.
Girl sneaks out, finds notebook about her recent deaths. Hears father coming in, and gets back in the tank before they can see that she’s out. Doesn’t see the book again. (Note: Implied that if she had read further in the book, she would have killed herself out of hopelessness, as to remove the memory.)
Girl wants to die, but needs to find a permanent way. Asks the nice lady, nice lady tells her not to ask that anymore, if father finds out, he’ll kill you to erase the realization. Looks stricken at the thought.
Girl plots to find a way to destroy the device. Is caught in the act and stopped by father. Father tortures her to find out how far back he has to revert her. She tells him that she won’t tell him no matter what. She doesn’t want to lose herself. He says that he will start way back from a time he knows she is pure. Girl asks if he can change her personality, so she won’t be willful, so she won’t be inquisitive. He tells her no, that she’s all that’s left of ‘her’. Throws the girl into the trashcan, and she slowly dies of her injuries, while the father and the nice lady ‘talk’.
Ends on copy-paste of the first scene’s start. Girl running across her miniature landscape, good feelings all around.
