“No,
I’m not angry, but I want you to understand how pointless it is for you to
entertain thoughts of avoiding your eventual journey to my stomach. Think how
much energy you wasted and the risk you took jumping out the window, when I
soon caught you again in a fraction of the time. I know that being eaten’s not
what you had in mind for yourself, but there’s really nothing you can do to
prevent it. So why not just be reasonable?”
“Are
you being reasonable by doing this to me?”
“I’m
six years older than you and an awful lot bigger,” she said, opening her mouth
wide as she spoke in assertive tones, while he looked in at her tongue, “I
don’t need to be reasonable to you! I have my entire adult life ahead of me to
enjoy after you’ve gone your tasty way. And I told you just before I kissed you
that there was nothing you could say to change my mind about it. Think about
that.”
She
popped him into her mouth for several minutes, and then took him out.
“Have
you anything else to say?” she asked.
“I
suppose you’re right,” he said, “Only, I hope you’ll still give me more
kisses.”
“Of
course I will,” she said.
She
closed her eyes and brought him to her lips and pressed hard against hisneck
and face.
“You’re
certainly a beautiful girl to be eaten by,” he said.
She
smiled radiantly.
“And
you’re certainly a tasty boy to kiss.”
She
slowly placed him into her mouth again, left him there for a ver long time, and
then put him on a high cupboard, and walked away, let down her hair and walked
around outside and then came back in and sat with him and kissed him for
several minutes.
Then
she lay down and let him climb on her shoulders and neck and then bade him to
climb into her mouth for a while. She let him out later and took him to the
dining room table with her dinner and
sat down.
“I’ve
decided that there’s no time like the present,” she said.
He
watched her gulping neck as she tilted her head back high above him and placed
other food items into her mouth and then drank some water.
“It’s
been lovely to meet you, little Dillon,” she said.
“You’ll
meet me again,” he said, as a sudden inspiration.
“I
doubt that,” she said.
“In
the future. You’ll have a student called Dillon, who will invent a time machine
that takes me back to today.”
“How
could a boy invent a working time machine?”
“It
didn’t work as well as it should have. That’s why I shrank to this size.”
“Well
then eating you now is going to be even more interesting,” she said, “And you
can be sure that I’ll enjoy getting to know your younger self in the time he
has left.”
She
was going to eat him anyway!
Then
she picked him up and placed him into her mouth.
The
back of her tongue looked strangely exciting, and he rested his head and
shoulders on it and waited, thinking frantically for ways to return from both
her mouth and her time period and restore his size. When he felt her gulping
him eagerly into her throat, he knew for certain that there was nothing he
could do.