“They do say that television EATS UP a lot more story plot material than movies,” said Murray.

Trudi was grinning from ear to ear in the most adorable manner. Below her teeth, the smiling shape of her lower lip was driving him wild with excitement. He could have looked up at that smiling face for the potentially available nine years and for many more years after that, if she’d only been willing to continue their romantic involvement indefinitely.

“I think we’d better get on with this before your joking has me choking,” she said.

She picked him up and licked him twice.

“Was that an improvement on what little you saw of my fifteen year old tongue in the Easter Special?” she asked.

“A visual extravaganza, and an unprecedented tactile sensation for my skin,” said Murray.

“Now it’s time for the final act of the lost episode,” said Trudi.

She opened her mouth again, placed him inside it, and let him come to rest on her tongue.

It was only then that he realised how radically he had altered fifteen years of his own timeline. Having brought his mind back with him, he remembered the original events that he’d lived through, but his body would not walk those paths now.

He suddenly felt her gulping him into her throat. There was nothing more he could do. He felt her gulping him down her throat. He felt her soft comfortable throat all around him, holding him in place, preventing him from climbing back up to her mouth again. Even if he had been able to turn around vertically in her throat and make the attempt, he would have found the portion of her tongue which began in her throat to be far too wet and slippery to give him any traction.

Murray knew that such hypothetical fantasizing was even more of a moot point, in any event. The moment he reached her mouth, she would simply gulp him down into her throat again, and might even find the strength in her relatively larger throat, to gulp harder and faster, taking down quicker than she had just managed to do.

One memory after another flashed through his mind in a matter of seconds. He recalled the day that he had first seen her fifteen year old self sticking out her tongue on the ‘Mountains Family Easter Special’ video. Then he remembered the stunning beauty of her elegance when she had reprised the role on the ‘Mountains Family’ reunion movie video. He thought of the happiness he’d felt at the sudden discovery that the woman he’d been trying to pass on the path was the very same Trudi Northumberland that he’d fallen in love with while watching videos and never imagined he would actually meet in person. His mind skimmed over their adventure in the giant land in the previous timeline. The one thing he’d liked about that was being with her for such a long time, when she would otherwise have been called back to make another film or television show. Then he thought of his mental time travel, and her two decisions to eat him book ending an incredible night of unparalleled romance.

Even if he called out back up her throat and she was able to hear him, there was nothing that would change her mind. She was in charge of the situation, and enjoying the effect of his fate on her immensely. There was no way that he could ever talk her out of making that final gulp. Within seconds, or at the most, within minutes, he would be inside her stomach.