“Hello! Excuse me, Ms. Johnson?” Niko peeped as he ascended in the elevator up the side of his supervisor’s desk, arriving at the surface where he could see her hard at work. The intern had been nervous all during his first week at the company, not only in anxiety of impressing his employers, but particularly around Cate Johnson, his lovely twenty-something superior who also happened to stand at more than three hundred feet tall. “I was told to come see you for your… um, lunch order?”

Seeing the comparatively miniscule eighteen-year-old newbie appear over the edge of her desk, the young woman smiled winsomely, wagging her fingers at him to say hello. She completely refocused her attention from her work over to Niko.

“Oh, Niko. You’ve really got to call me Cate, not Ms. Johnson. I’m, what, ten years older than you? You’re going to make me feel like one of the old ladies in upper management,” Cate said, sharing a mischievous giggle with Niko that actually got him to crack. He enjoyed being in her company, on the few occasions this first week he’d had the chance, but it was nonetheless overwhelming to stand in the presence of a giant, and even though he saw giants all the time, Niko never quite got over it. “Well, don’t be shy. My desk is more like your floor. Why don’t you come a little closer, and make yourself at home?”

“Right! S-Sorry about that. I’ll… remember next time,” he said, clearing his throat. “And thank you.”

Cate gestured to a chair beside her computer keyboard, doll-sized for her, but perfect for Niko, who took a seat and again found himself nearly speechless at the grand visage of his perky, pretty, dark-haired goddess of a supervisor smiling so warmly at him. To keep himself from awkwardly gawking at her, the intern whipped out his phone to take notes on her lunch request.

“I’m… ready to take your order!” Niko said.

“Good thing, too. I’m getting hungry,” Cate replied, winking at him. Below the horizon of the desk, she rubbed her hand in a slow revolution over her stomach, which grumbled softly.

“Do you have any idea what you’d like to have today?”

“Oh, yes. In fact, I know exactly what I want.”

“What is it?”

His supervisor studied him silently for a moment with a raised eyebrow, combing her fingers through her hair, as though trying to determine whether she was being pranked, and then finally smirked again in quiet amusement.

“Well, it’s you, of course,” she said.

“P-Pardon?”

“I believe there’s been a small misunderstanding here. You weren’t told to come here to take my lunch order, Niko. I already made it myself,” Cate explained matter-of-factly, though not unkindly either. In fact, her tone was just as sweet as it was on the first day when she gave Niko a tour of the office. “As in, I requested to have you sent here so I could eat you for my lunch today.”

At this, the tiny lad froze in his chair, paralyzed by shock and creeping thoughts of his unknown future. Granted, being eaten by a giant was a fairly common occurrence, and it didn’t even kill the living “meals,” who were spat back up just fine a while later, but even knowing that factual information, Niko wasn’t at all comforted. He’d never been eaten before, even by any of the giant beings he’d known for longer than a week. After all, they were still talking about swallowing someone, him specifically, and Cate was speaking on the subject so breezily that there was obviously no doubt in her mind that she was going to eat him now. And sure, there was something strangely appealing about his towering supervisor’s gorgeous smiling lips, but looking at them now struck Niko’s heart with a whole new frightening meaning.

“Let me guess…” Cate said, leaning in a little closer and tucking brunette locks behind her ear. Her warm breath wafted over Niko, causing him to quiver for multiple reasons. “…you haven’t been eaten before, have you?”

“N-No, ma’am,” he gulped.

“Oh great, we’ve gone from Ms. Johnson to ma’am now? We’re moving backwards here, Niko,” Cate playfully stated, then reached up, setting her massive hand down beside the little guy’s chair. Niko expected those soft manicured fingers to open at any second and snatch him, tossing him like popcorn into her gaping maw, but this didn’t happen. “Trust me, though, this is going to help us get to know each other much better. And believe me, after you’ve gotten comfortable with being eaten, you’ll hardly even think about it in the future when others decide they want to have you, too.”

It was bizarre for Niko to hear her speaking about him not like a person but instead some edible commodity, which of course he was for someone of her stature.

“I’ll be honest, I don’t decide to make every intern into my food. Just the ones who catch my eye, like you,” Cate said.

“M-Me?”

“Yes, you. You’re a good little worker, respectful, and kind of cute, I have to say,” Cate continued. She smiled again, gently drumming her fingertips on the desktop beside Niko’s chair. “Believe me, I wouldn’t just swallow any ol’ person off the street. I’m a picky eater. Now, to help put your mind at ease, let me show you what’s going to happen when I have you for lunch.”

Feeling simultaneously powerless and soothed, Niko continued sitting in stock-stillness while Cate gradually parted her lips. As though at the dentist, she extended her jaws all the way open, showing off her gleaming pearly whites, her glistening inner cheeks, her dangling uvula, and of course her sleek and slimy tongue. Another blast of hot breath scented of mint gum carried stickily over Niko, who was practically hypnotized by the wet landscape within Cate’s mouth. Though the intern had grown up around giants, and met some even taller than Cate, he’d never felt quite so small as he did at this moment, staring past the soft lips into the damp sweet-smelling blackness of her open maw, realizing just how conveniently bite-sized he was next to it.

“Like with any good meal, I believe my food should be savored. Which is what I’m going to do with you,” Cate said, still just as sincere and even concerned for Niko, though it was also obvious no part of her regretted her choice to eat him, either. “I’ll get a taste for you first. A sample of my food, before I put you all the way inside. Once you’re there, I’ll be… letting your flavor settle in. Moving you around, trying you out with every part of my mouth. It won’t hurt. I promise. I’m always gentle. The next part won’t hurt, either, though it may feel a little odd at first, when I’m ready to swallow my food. And down you’ll go…”

While explaining, Cate kept her mouth open whenever possible to illustrate, pointing to the various corners of her mouth with a fingertip, in her cheeks and under her tongue. Niko watched all this with rapt attention and morbid fascination, shivering whenever she referred to him as her food. Then, he watched her hand sliding down along her throat, mapping his eventual path through her gullet and finally below, to her belly, where Cate’s hand stopped.

“And this is where it ends. You’ll stay there for a few hours, completely safe. Think of it as a little break from your regular internship duties. Then, I’ll just… bring you back up later. And you’ll go on your way,” Cate said, making this all sound like the simplest thing in the world. “I don’t know if you’re feeling ready yet or not, but I always find it’s best to learn by just doing things. That’s a good tip for your future at this company. So, why don’t you go ahead and get undressed, and then we can get started on my lunch?”

“Undressed?” he uttered. “A-All the way?”

“Yes, you silly little thing. All the way. You don’t want to get your clothes wet, do you? Plus, it’s just much easier to swallow you that way, and to taste the “real” you. Don’t worry, I won’t lose your clothes. I’ll keep them safe for you, just like I’m going to keep you safe in my stomach.”

“Okay,” he mumbled. What else was there to say? This was his supervisor, and on top of that, she was large enough that Niko didn’t really need to consent to being eaten or not for her to have the lunch she desired. It also seemed preferable to have some agency now, before he was gulped into her gut anyway. Somehow the prospect of getting naked in front of his beautiful boss was almost as nerve-wracking as the thought of her swallowing him, but Niko managed, stripping one article at a time and folding his clothes on the chair, until he was 100% nude before the giantess who’d ordered him for lunch.

“Great! Now, just relax. I’ll take care of everything, my little morsel. Try to be tasty for me, okay?” Cate teased, granting him another wink as her resting hand moved finally. Those elegant fingers wrapped one at a time around Niko’s bare frame, pinning his arms down, her tender touch sending goosebumps along his spine as she took him into a soft fist. “You’ll have to indulge me for a minute, Niko. Like I said, I don’t like to just wolf down my meals. My mother always told me I play with my food too much, but… I still think it’s important. Come here, now.”

Niko went limp in Cate’s grasp as he was drawn toward her grinning lips, which parted once again, this time so her pink bud-coated tongue could press through the fleshy barrier. Then, as her spit-glossed muscle firmed to a point, it flared again into a flat shape, extending all the way out of her mouth as Niko’s head was brought toward it. Cate lightly stroked the little man’s head along her tongue, globbing his hair with warm saliva. At the moment before impact, survival instinct made Niko turn so his face at least was spared the gooey massage on his supervisor’s muscle. This, however, turned out to be the wrong move.

“Don’t be so shy, now,” Cate encouraged a bit more forcefully now, her other hand rising behind her fist. “I told you I’d take care of everything, and I will. And I’m going to taste all of you, Niko. So just relax.”

Delicate as ever, Cate’s thumb and index fingertip fastened around Niko’s head, not squeezing, but forming enough of a vice that he couldn’t turn away. Again she brought him toward her curious tongue, and this time he experienced the wet, steamy, rubbery terrain firsthand against his nose, mouth, and eyes. Her giant tongue swabbed to and fro, lapping at Niko’s skull like a personal lollipop, and eventually Cate’s fingers loosened around Niko, deciding that he understood now what was expected of him. He’d gone soft as a ragdoll in her fist, surrendering to his boss’s hungry will.

This preliminary stage of the meal carried on for quite some time, the only sound coming from the moist smacking of Cate’s lips and the squishy slide of her tongue working its way to every square millimeter of Niko’s face. She spared no nook or cranny, and seemed to be enjoying herself immensely, taking continually longer and deeper tastes of her chosen meal. Her mighty tongue was caressing him now while sampling, with a degree of passion the intern usually thought was reserved for French kisses. In no time the little guy’s whole head was sopping in her gummy spit, drops of saliva spilling between Cate’s fingers and onto the rest of the Niko’s tiny naked body as well.

“Hmmm… what’s that…” Cate murmured to herself, at last withdrawing from her tasting party of her personal intern-lunch.

She examined the tiny boy in her hand, watched the saliva dripping down his cheeks, and realized then that her own spit wasn’t the only fluid on his face: Niko had been crying for several minutes now, his miniscule salty tears licked clean off his head by Cate’s ravenous tongue. Now with more perspective, the giantess also noted that her charge was trembling violently in her soft grasp, which she responded to with a reassuring smile.

“It’s okay. Don’t be scared now,” she whispered, wiping away fresh tears from Niko’s face with her thumb. “It’s time.”

“I know,” he sighed in whimper, then added just as he watched Cate’s lips parting again all the way: “P-Please, be… g-gentle with me?”

“Of course I will, you cute little thing,” Cate said rather affectionately. She shrugged then. “Who knows? You might even like it yourself. And I think you will.”

Though hard to believe, Niko hoped that was true as Cate’s jaws opened wide to receive her lunch. Her fingers passed him over the pink threshold of her plush lips, past the hardy fencing of her teeth, until he was right above the drippy slab of her tongue again, where she pressed him down. In a last show of visible kindness, Cate’s hand waved merrily to him from outside her mouth as her jaws clamped back together, sealing him in wet muggy darkness. Before Niko could even think to be frightened anew by the eerie stillness, he felt Cate getting to work on savoring her lunch. Her tongue now had access to his whole little naked body, and made use of it, cupping him along the slippery organ and pressing him into the side of her cheek. He was passed from corner to corner of her mouth, just as Cate vowed, until Niko could feel the squelchy walls enclosing and compressing while she began to suck on him like a jawbreaker. The buildup was intense, and made Niko’s heart race at first, until he noticed that it indeed didn’t inflict pain, but was merely a surreal sensory experience he had to get used to.

Niko traveled in circles around Cate’s mouth, the giantess in full control of his every move. She swished him on a bedding of her strong tongue and frothy saliva, which was rising higher like a moat all the time around him, her salivary glands sensing an edible object’s presence and preparing for a smoothly lubricated swallow. But she wasn’t ready just yet. The young woman gently yet firmly indulged her mealtime ritual, either suckling or massaging her tongue around her yummy little intern at any given moment. This went on for quite a while, like the licking, and in time Niko got comfortable with being swirled through his boss’s mouth. In fact, once he started picking up on the relaxing, massaging, even titillating feeling of that tongue fondling his naked body over and over, the boy started to like this, against all odds.

A new gesture took Niko by surprise when he felt Cate’s tongue bunching behind his legs and pushing him closer to the front of her mouth, over her teeth and into her pinched lips. Then, just as his head was forcibly kissed into the wall, the giantess’s lips parted, and the spit-slicked little man started to spill out of her mouth, but she skillfully kept him from going any further once Niko’s head and shoulders alone had escaped. Blinking through the gluey saliva collected on his face, the tiny intern was startled to realize he could see himself in reflection, as Cate had walked to a mirror and was standing in front of it with a big smile on her face, with her pitifully small employee poking out between her lips like a stray noodle.

For a full silent minute, Niko stared in wide wonder at the visage of his tiny helpless face peeking out from the center of the giantess’s tremendous mouth amidst the even-more humongous mirror-reflected image that was her face. Her adoring smile while still keeping him pinned in place, half-in and half-out of her mouth, only compounded the effect. Even more than seeing Cate’s mouth open to claim him before, this mind-blowing sight put things in humbling perspective for Niko. He truly was just an insignificant mite by comparison to this gigantic, smart, self-assured beauty. Just when the sight was becoming too much for him, Cate slurped hard, and Niko’s fleeting vision of himself poking through her lips was replaced with soggy darkness again as she pulled him fully back inside her mouth with a thunderous giggle and a twirl of her tongue.

Instinctively, Niko knew the time had come. He felt gravity shift on its axis as Cate tipped her head back, slowly so her lunch could acclimate. Her tongue wrapped around him again, aligning Niko with Cate’s throat somewhere below in the blackness. Frosted in her sticky salivary juices, the little fellow just awaited his fate now. There was a pause, a last breath, and he was launched into her esophagus. The passage was pain-free, yet again just as promised, and surprisingly easy; Niko had subconsciously feared getting stuck on Cate’s uvula, choking both of them in the process. The young woman was clearly practiced, though, and managed to swallow him just as easily as any ordinary bite of food. Which, of course, he was to her now.

Niko descended quickly through the tunnel, the ribbed walls hugging him and assisting his tractor-beam motion toward the next stage of her digestive system, where he’d come to rest until it was time to come up again. Rivers of saliva followed behind him as she gulped several times to add additional lubricant, and a light pressure from outside the wall of her neck suggested to Niko that Cate’s hand was tracing his journey down her gullet, just as she’d demonstrated before.

With a splash he landed in her stomach, feeling very much like he was lazing in a jacuzzi hot tub with the lights off, and even more quickly than he had while being licked or tossed around in Cate’s mouth, Niko felt right at home. There were no haunting gurgles, no suffering or terror, or any of the other awful things his imagination used to tell him would happen if he was ever eaten by a giant. This was… actually pleasant. Heck, it was far more comfortable than sitting at that hand-me-down desk for his internship, or even his own bed. Niko felt like he was having an out-of-body experience, though in fact he was deeply in a body instead.

Cate leaned back in her chair, her palm gently clasped over her flat belly as she sensed Niko’s movement within, and then moaned quietly with utter satisfaction. She’d made the correct choice for lunch. That much was certain.

“I hope that was all right for you, Niko, and that you can relax in there for a while,” Cate said, loud enough for her words to reach the inside of her stomach. She patted her tummy, knowing he would feel it. “Can you hear me, little one?”

“Y-Yes, I can hear you!” Niko replied, his tiny voice just barely getting through. “It wasn’t so bad. I… I actually liked it. It’s nice in here. Y-You were right… Cate.”

“You remembered this time!” she cooed, and couldn’t help but blush at his compliment. “Wonderful.”

“D-Did I taste okay?”

“Did you? Oh Niko, I have to say, you were even more delicious than I thought you’d be when I first laid eyes on you a week ago. If I’d known how tasty you’d be, I’d have eaten you by the time your internship orientation was over,” Cate swore, and he knew she meant it. What’s more, it made Niko glad to hear. “You were the perfect lunch. I think I know what my food order is going to be tomorrow, too. And the day after. And the day after that. We’re going to be spending a lot of time together around here, little one. You’ll learn soon enough that I’ve got quite an appetite for delicacies like you.”

This, too, filled Niko with happiness as he settled into the lukewarm nest of Cate’s stomach for a soothing rest, already looking forward to his next trip within as her food.