Peter was stunned. He was still processing the words she had just spoken.

 “I… I don’t know.”

“It would be very special, for both of us.”

“There’s something different about you. A giantess named Diana brought me here to meet giantesses, but I don’t know if I’d ever forget you.”

“Will you let me do it then?” asked Mrs Yeo.

“If you be nice to me tonight and tomorrow, I’d be prepared to let you have me for your dinner after that.”

“You haven’t told me your name yet,” she said.

“It’s Peter.”

“Well Peter, we’ll consider it a deal, but you need to give me your solemn promise that you won’t change your mind by tomorrow night.”

“You can trust me,” he said.

“You need to be able to trust yourself. Once I’ve given you the affection you’ve asked for, you’ll be honour bound by our deal. When I first asked if I could eat you, I was giving you the chance to say no. There’ll be no chance to back out of the deal, once we’ve started on it.”

“I understand,” he said.

“Alright then. I’ll hide you until dinner’s over.”

She put him on a shelf and asked him to hide behind some jars and peek out while they had dinner. She would serve him some after her daughters had left the room.

She stood up and walked away.

Later they had dinner together and went straight to her bed afterwards. She enjoyed the feel of the tiny boy snuggling against her all night. In the morning they prepared for a day of each other’s pleasurable company. Her daughters went out to enjoy their holidays and to visit a friend’s place for a sleepover.

Late in the afternoon, Mrs Yeo was sitting by the window, with Peter on her shoulder. She looked out at the beauty of her garden. Peter looked up at the profile of her face. Her huge soft white cheek was almost within his reach.

His time was running out. He saw the contented state she was in. She had enjoyed her time with him, without facing any of the costs that it involved for him. She would live a long fruitful happy life after this. He would be gone at the age of 10. He began wondering if he should have made the deal or not.

He was briefly tempted to try to escape her, but he dismissed the idea. It would devalue the love he felt for her, if he went back on his contention that he loved her so much that their day together was worth making the deal in the first place. He thought of the implications of honouring the deal and a wave of strange feelings went through him. He looked down at her stomach, and across at her neck. Within hours he would be travelling into those places. It was a haunting thought.

Dinner time drew nearer, and she was gentle and kind about warming him in the saucepan while she talked with him. Then she took him to the table and licked him gently and gave him a farewell kiss, before placing him into her mouth and gobbling him down.

Alfie and Lera would never know what had happened to Peter. The two recent newlyweds were very much in love, and their happiness together was only just beginning.

A few weeks after the honeymoon, Lera held a party at her house, and invited a number of her female friends. Alfie was there in attendance as well. On earth, an 11 year old boy named Ted snuck out in the night, and explored the forest, just as Peter had done. He found the trans-dimensional tube into Lera’s garden and started walking through the flowerbed towards a party, where he could see lots of giant ladies enjoying themselves.

Suddenly he saw a beautiful lady reach down into the garden in front of him and pick up a boy who was a few years older than him. Without stopping, she opened her mouth wide and put the boy into it.

“Hey!” called the boy, just before the giantess closed her mouth.

She had short dark hair and a cold dispassionate facial expression as she swallowed the boy whole, right before Ted’s eyes. He quickly crouched down, so that the giantess wouldn’t find him too. As soon as the giantess had eaten the boy, she returned to the table for more party food.

Ted made a hasty retreat from the garden, back through the tube and decided that it would be far too risky to take a chance on encountering that particular giantess again. He was not aware that the giantess did not live there normally, as she was one of the teachers at Lera’s daughters’ school, and was a divorced lady named Mrs Haye.

Ted went home in surprise. He could hardly believe that he had found some sort of warp into another world and seen a giant woman eat another boy whole. The other boy was older and taller than him. If the giantess ever caught Ted himself, she would find it even easier to gulp him down whole too. He would make sure that he never gave her the chance.

Ted climbed into bed and thought over all that had happened. It was not uncommon for boys to sneak out and have adventures in the middle of the night, but this was like no adventure he’d ever imagined before. He had come that close to being eaten!

By now, he realised, that giantess would probably be enjoying the comforts of her own bedroom too, oblivious to the fate of the boy who had moved into her tummy.

Mrs Long sang another song to Casey:

Peter decided to give school the slip,

And altered a workable flying spaceship

From a toy that needed its remote control,

To something a mite could fly from its console.

He used a shrink ray to diminish his height

To an inch, and then started a wonderful flight

To a girls boarding school, where, the size of two pennies

He noticed a face, which he knew to be Penny’s.

He stepped from the plants, where he’d hidden his craft,

And saw tears on she, who had so often laughed,

When they had been friends just two years in the past.

“I’m alien Ilpu. What’s up girl?” he asked.

He thought that the truth about him could be told

Much later. For now she would have to behold

A tiny young boy far too small to be known.

“Small Ilpu, I’m Penny. I’m here all alone,

Because I’m unhappy. I sneak out at night.
I’m lonely at school, where the other girls fight,

And make life no fun; and they say I’m not short

Enough to make friends in this place where I’m taught.”

“To me you’re much taller, and very polite.

Would you still care much for a friend, who’s a mite?”

“Of course,” she replied, as her face blushed bright red,

“I’ll use my old jumper to fold you a bed.”

She let him ride off to her room on her shoulder.

“I’ll grip your hair tightly for balance,” he told her.

The next day, while Penny was buried in books,

Young Peter, exploring, met one of the cooks.

She served him as part of the boarding house lunch.

He looked out for Penny from inside a bunch

Of grapes. Soon he saw her and gave her a wave.

So now it was up to dear Penny to save

The boy from relieving a girl’s appetite;

Since his bones would snap at the very first bite.

From out of the bunch, lovely Penny then snatched him

And opened her mouth, where she quickly dispatched him.

Then gripping her throat, so he couldn’t be swallowed,

She ran from the room. But a teacher then followed.

Jen let Peter out and then told him to hide,

While she met the teacher and rapidly lied:

“Don’t ask me why I have been feeling so sick.

I’m sorry my flight from the hall was so quick.”

Then later that day Penny’s words met his ear:

“The cook’s gossip means that you cannot stay here.”

“Then let’s leave together,” said Peter, “It’s prudent.”

“We cannot,” said Penny, “For I am a student.”

“Oh why did that cook serve me up with such haste?

She didn’t know whether I had a nice taste.”

”You taste nice,” said Penny, “I found out for sure,

With you in my mouth. Oh I hope no-one saw

You hiding in grapes that were meant for our meal.”

“If there were some place that would always conceal

Small me from the others, then you could still hide me.”

“There is, Tiny Ilpu. The place is inside me,”

Said Penny, “My tummy is perfectly hollow.

You’re tiny enough that I’d easily swallow

You down with one gulp, and you’ll be nice to keep.

It should be as soft as you’ll need for your sleep.”

“But Penny I don’t wish for such an existence,”

He said, looking up at her face from a distance.

“Well Ilpu, I’m going to do it,” she giggled,

While Ilpu protested and struggled and wiggled,

“So Ilpu, tomorrow, I’ll eat you for breakfast.

You’ll go to my tummy with ease, head and neck first.”

He woke up before her the next day at dawn,

And saw that a part of her jumper was torn.
He pulled some threads loose, and then tied them like rope end,

And lassoed the knob of the window, still open.

He swung through, and landed somewhere in the garden.
He ran off, while thinking, “I hope she will parden

My hasty departure across this big large lawn.”

He hadn’t gone far, when he heard Penny’s first yawn.

“A thread on the window!” she said and looked out.

She’d woken and seen him. Of that he’d no doubt.

She stepped through the window, though bumping her head,

As Peter soon came to the next garden bed.

In no time at all, she announced her pursuit:

“I’ll catch you, and this time you can’t hide in fruit.”
She grabbed him, before he could take to the skies,

Tore open his ship and said, “You told me lies.

This craft is an earth toy. Now who are you really?
You’ll tell me the truth, or I’ll make you pay dearly.”

He told the full story, and added with joy,

“So Penny, you can’t eat an alien boy.

You might as well help me to fix up my ship,

So it can be used for a fast return trip.”

“No Peter. Your hopes must be met with defeat.
You’re still the first shrunken earth boy I can eat.”

“But Penny, don’t eat me for breakfast now please!”

“There’s no escape … Ilpu,” she laughed, just to tease
The boy; and she put out her tongue, keenly waiting,

And then placed upon it, the boy she’d been baiting.

Casey reached out and rubbed his hand shyly over Mrs Long’s lower lip.

“That was nice,” said Mrs Long.

“I’m so lucky you don’t want to eat me,” he said, “But I think your mouth looks lovely.”

“I think you’re a lovely little boy,” said Mrs Long and suddenly gave him a giant kiss.