“I meant that you’ll soon be living in my tummy for as long as you’ll remain aware of it,” said Trudi, “I’ve given a lot to my viewers on screen, and been well paid. Tonight, I’ll get back something extra from one of them. You’ll be able to participate in a celebrity dining event in a way that nobody else has ever participated before.”

Her face beamed with amusement. The look in her eyes was more arousing than anything he’d seen her do in the Easter Special or the Reunion movie.

He was startled beyond belief. The 37-39 year old Trudi had spent two years with him as his friend and fellow captive in the giant widow’s kitchen, had experienced the threat and eventual fate of being eaten by a giantess herself. Yet this past 24 year old Trudi was willing to eat a known shrunken fan for her own dinner enjoyment and amusement.

He had to remember that 24 year old Trudi had never met him before. She knew nothing of the history he had shared with her in the other timeline, and didn’t even know that he had brought his mind back from 15 years in their future. She wasn’t aware of the giant land or the threat of being caught and eaten by a giantess. To her, she was the only one in the situation who would ever have a major size advantage, and she saw every reason to make use of it. He looked across at her folded arms in front of her chest, tilted his head back a little and looked up at her grand elegant neck, which would soon be gulping him down, and then up to her highly amused facial features.

Then he turned and leaped blindly off the verandah wall.

In the few seconds that he was in free fall, he looked down and saw a lot of high long leaves, the height of reeds, but wider and stronger, below him. He didn’t know the name of  these plants, but had seen them in the school gardens and his own home as well. He grabbed onto the nearest one as he fell.

It bent a little, as it slowed his fall, and he landed on the garden bed and started running.

He soon saw Trudi running around the long way, using the veranda steps, and then darting across the lawn in his direction. She closed in on him and cut off his escape, reached down and snatched him out of the garden, and took him inside.

She sat down on her bed and opened the palm of her other hand in her lap and placed him into it.

“You’re not a very devoted fan, are you? Fancy trying to cheat me out of a nice dinner!” she teased.

“I’m not even as much of a fan as you thought, because I never had the chance,” he said, “My mind is from the future. It time travelled fifteen years into the past and into the body of my 14 year old self. The only flaw in the time travelling process is that it made me shrink too.”