Colleen
picked him up at the far side, and rose to her full height and walked back to
the picnic basket, and placed him down beside it on the ground.
“I’m
sorry we didn’t find any,” he said.
“You
did all that anyone could, your very best; and I was fairly sure we wouldn’t
find one. I’ve always known that it’s highly unlikely that leprechauns and
their overseas counterparts are anything more than legends. It was worth using
you at that size to confirm that theory, and now that you’re here this way, the
machine will still have served the more likely purpose for which I built it.”
“How
do you mean?”
“Well
it’s reduced you to that size. I did say ANY kind of little folk would do,” she
said, taking the rug from the basket.
“Do….you
mean…. me?” he asked, as she stood up and unfolded the rug and spread it on the
grass.
“That’s
why I built the machine. The only solution to my quest was to make a
representative of the little folk. You’re already a representative of folk in
general. All I needed to do was make you little.”
She
sat down on the rug and pulled the basket onto it. Then she clasped him in her
hand and placed him on the rug in front of her.
“Well
the only problem is … How can I put this politely? … How would you go about
retrieving me from your tummy after you’ve swallowed me?”
“I
thought you asked the question very eloquently, and to answer it in the same
way, I don’t think that being eaten involves any kind of retrieval process
afterwards. Once I’ve eaten you, I will have at last fulfilled my quest, and
that will be the end of the matter, except that I’ll always have the happy
memories of doing it.”
She
placed him in the lap of her dress.
“But
what about last night? I gave you the flowers, the candy man, a nice dinner,
and we had a very special time together. We said we love eachother.”
“I’ll
always remember that too. When I first looked up and saw you here yesterday, I
knew that you were the one I’d been waiting for when I built the machine. I was
hoping all afternoon yesterday, that you’d be watching me while I was eating
the dinner you bought me at the restaurant. Then when you gave me the candy
man, it was even better opportunity to show you what being eaten would look
like.”
“It
looked amazing, Colleen. Every movement of your tongue was thrilling, like the
way you licked your lips afterwards too.”
“Thank
you,” she said, and picked him up and licked her lips from side to side in
front of him, and swished the side of her tongue against his face as she did
so.
He
felt her soft moist tongue sliding against his cheeks and his forehead and his
neck in slow sweeping movements, while his eyes couldn’t help be excited by the
point blank visual appeal of it as well. He thought about the fact that he now
realised that she had been planning to eat him from the moment she first saw
him. The hunting expedition had been merely a last attempt to explore the
possibility of using him to catch a leprechaun as an alternative that would
have presented a reason to presumably restore his size and continue being his
girlfriend.