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As I prepared to meet my end light suddenly flooded my vision and a massive blast of warm air came rushing over me as the tongue rolled out rather than dragging me in.  I suddenly felt myself in what was becoming the all too familiar feeling of free fall as I hurled through the air, the massive sound of feminine laughter echoing behind me.  The impact of landing was less intense than I expected as I was still mixed in with the butter and it absorbed some of the blow.  It still hurt but it didn't feel like anything had broke.  


The laughter continued to echo above me coming from both sides.  "Damnit Sam.  Did you have to show me that picture right when I was eating?"  Alice's voice rumbled like thunder in the sky.  "Of course I did."  Sam's voice.   Loud, closer to my position.  Slowly climbing to my feet I looked around and realized that Alice's laughter had almost sent me across the entire table.  I was looking at that glass full of orange liquid.  Sam's glass of orange juice that rose high above me.  


I started walking around the glass immediately.  I had to get Sam's attention.   If she and Alice left I had no idea where I was and if anyone found me it'd be a total stranger.   As I went around the corner I once again saw Samantha.  Seeing a giant eat was scary.  Not as scary as what I'd just gone through but still freaky.  I was watching what to me was enough food to feed an entire city was just rising and being casually devoured as if it was nothing at all by a single entity.  The sound of mountain sized quantities of food being chewed was a horrible reminder of the scale of things.  


As I continued to walk over to Sam I saw a chunk of egg that stood higher than I was sitting on the table cloth.  Salivating I ran over and bit into it.  Finally food.   I scarfed quickly, quite literally a starving man with a meal in front of him.  I realized as I ate that the egg seemed to have a slightly off flavor that I had trouble placing at first.  Not enough to ruin it, just strange.  As I finally had my feel and thought about it I realized what it was.  That flavor had probably been saliva.  This was probably come out when I had heard the girls laughing earlier.   I was reduced to eating people's partially chewed food.  Still at this point if it allowed me to live another day I'd do it.  


Looking at Samantha I realized I was running out of time.  I couldn't see anything on her plate.  Maybe there was stuff on the far end out of my vision but she was either done eating or very close to it.  Probably done seeing how she was pulling out her phone again.  Looking back over at Alice I could see she still had at least one pancake sitting slightly over the edge of her plate so I probably had at least until she was done eating.  


I should've been paying more attention to Sam.  Or more precisely paying more attention to Sam not paying attention to what was around her.   "Oops".  Sam's words were the only warning I got before I found myself dragged under a tidal wave of orange.  I attempted to keep my head above water so to speak but the pressure made it difficult.  Fortunately it was over almost as fast as it had started and I soon found mysef standing in a waste high mass of orange juice.  


"Don't worry.  I'll help."  Alice's voice this time.  Help with what?   I found myself covered in shadow once more and looked up to see a field of white descending towards me.   There was nowhere to run, it went on in all directions from where I stood.  It soon covered me and I shouted in pain as I was suddenly pushed down into the orange juice and dragged along the ground by whatever it was that had me.  Fortunately I wasn't scraped along too much as whatever it was seemed to fold up as it moved and I felt myself pushed up into one of those folds.  


The movement seemed to go on for a bit before I felt whatever I was trapped in rise into the air and then the feeling of freefall as it was dropped.  Whatever it was wasn't moving quickly although I did feel like I was in a weaker version of those rides at the carnival.  You know, the ones which use speed to push you against the wall.   Just this wasn't as fast which mean I had to brace myself against the wall to prevent myself from falling out.  The object I was in slowed down and then stopped quickly and after making sure it wasn't going to move anymore I crawled out of the crevice I had wedged myself into.  As I came out I noticed the strong smell of orange juice and the fact that it seemed to be dripping out a bit.  Further seeing small stitched decorations in it made me realize I was looking at a paper napkin.  Alice must have used it to dry up the orange juice.  


The question now though was where was I?  I didn't see the white table cloth at all.  In fact the ground I was on was a red coloration.  Looking around some more in the distance I could see dozens of pillars rising high into the sky above me.  And for the first time I saw multiple giants.  Men, women, children.  People of all ages sitting at tables enjoying their breakfast.  A normal morning.   I was on the floor now and I had to get out of here.  


Fortunately something had finally gone right.  Not too far from where I was I saw a large black object that rose high above me but seemed longer than it was high.  More importantly was the equally huge strap that told me I was looking at a purse.  And it was laying on it's side.  The metal of the zipper of one of it's side pouches glinted faintly almost like a welcome ramp.  While there would be the problem of getting out later, I'd be with Sam instead of lost in the middle of a restaurant waiting for someone to clean the floors and me with them.  


Running towards the purse, I couldn't help but grin.  I had eaten.  I had avoided being eaten.  And while there were problems ahead of me, compared to this morning they'd be far easier.  After all I wouldn't be on someone's pancake again.  As I reached the zipper, I quickly climbed up it.  Hell, the purse was only open a crack, more than enough for me to climb through.  Thinking about it this was probably a good thing.  After all I could always try and get out the same way later.  Wiggling through the opening I found myself in a massive dark cavern.  I could only see a bit in front of me near where I entered.  Despite my fears I needed to go further in.   After all when Sam picked it up it wouldn't be on it's side and I'd rather not injure myself by falling to the bottom.  The trip to the bottom didn't take too long fortunately.  Reaching it I settled in.  It wouldn't be long now I figured.


I heard something or maybe multiple large things scraping against the ground outside.  Breakfast was over apparently.  The ground below me tilted and I rolled with it a little until my former wall was now the ground and my floor now a wall.  I felt myself rising once more and soon felt the steady rhthym that I had come to recognize as someone walking.  This continued for a bit.  More than had expected in fact.  After ten minutes I was curious where Sam was going as it was clear that she hadn't returned to her car.   


It wasn't too long after this that music suddenly started blaring in my ear.   "Shot through the heart and you're to blame!"  Why was I hearing Bon Jovi?  Looking I saw a faint green light coming from the other side of pouch I'd hidden myself in.   I realized the music was playing from a phone.  Except if I recalled wasn't Sam's phone set to vibrate earlier?  And for that matter didn't she keep it in her pocket? 

 
The sound of metal scraping against metal came from above me and light flooded over me as the pouch opened.  I watched as five gargantuan digits descended wrapping around the phone.  Five fingers with long fingernails painted bright red that pulled the phone up and out so the music was just a faint melody.   I looked up and saw a collossal face.  Alice's face.  I wasn't in Sam's purse at all.  I was in the hands of a stranger and she didn't even realize it.   As the sound of the zipper once more heralded my encasement in darkess and the steady beat of Alice's footsteps against the ground echoed into my ears I couldn't help but wonder if there was any hope at all.  

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