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Author's Chapter Notes:
Madly in love with Kayte, Tennyce teleports into her room, undetected, and hopes to read her diary.

The a-vore-said mystery remains.
On the Saturday, when Kayte had let her captive run and hide,
For a game of hide-and-seek, she’d thought she’d soon have him inside
Her big tummy. But she’d searched the room, and simply couldn’t capture
One, who’d teleported back to earth and thought of her with rapture.

Though still mindful of the dangers, Tennyce yet retained his crush
On the girl who’d tried to eat him. Yet he couldn’t blindly rush
To her dolls house and expose himself to dangers of digestion.
Neither could he drive her from his mind. He asked himself the question:

“Is there value in admiring her from places that conceal
Me from being seen by Kayte and ending up as her next meal?
Yes it is.” This time he reached the dolls house. Then a new position
Underneath her cupboard helped him beat her woman’s intuition.

Maybe Kayte would lift the dolls house roof, if she’d kept her door shut
And believed he’d stayed inside her room; and kept on searching. But
He could not just lift that amulet and cart it through her bedroom.
Yet he’d need it for eluding her, and dodging aforesaid doom.

She was writing in her diary; and he wished he knew her thoughts.
Yet he couldn’t go and ask her, having played the risky sports,
Which had saved him. Then he saw the girl of whom his heart grew fonder
Put her diary down and open up the bedroom door and wander.

“If she’s left it open, she must think there’s no more need to play
Hide-and-seek, because she’s realized that I somehow got away,”
Tennyce thought. He used his amulet to travel to the diary,
Which was open on the carpet, there to meet his first enquiry.

So he read about her social friends at school, who all were girls,
And considered he’d be better off if he’d found sunken pearls;
Since that amulet had made his life a trifle complicated.
There was nothing in her diary to suggest that this girl dated.

“What a lovely fancy amulet!” came Kayte’s voice. Then he turned
To discover she had then crept back. The girl who might have spurned
His affections, if she knew of them, now thought she’d found a jewel.
He could never make another trip, since Kayte now had the fuel.

She was not aware that something made to be an ornament
(For a girl her own size) had in fact been used to circumvent
Her attempts to find and eat him, last time he’d been there to see her.
If he’d only stayed away, he’d be much safer and much freer.

With her other hand, Kayte lifted him, and then her big head leaned
Back, below him, as she dangled him above her mouth, and preened.
Then she lowered him towards her. Tennyce knew that he had tempted
Fate and lost. The dice had consequences. He was not exempted.

“Kayte! Unhand that little boy at once. I’m always here to feed
You with everything, despite your father’s death. But this is greed.
He’s a harmless traveler, like the ones our queen and princess courted;
And a third one dates another of our girls, it’s been reported.”
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