"So, anyway I didn't mean to swallow him… it was accidental I had him in my mouth and I changed my mind and I was going to spit him out and then, I dunno he did something, he kicked me in the back of my mouth, here,” she opened her mouth wide and pointed at her uvula, they all peered inside Ruby’s mouth looking. Millie shuddered at seeing inside her friends mouth and imagining being shrunken in there and completely out of her own control.

“And what he did made me accidentally swallow him, out of reflex, and by the time I realised what had happened he was already travelling down my throat and then into my stomach…”

"You could have stuck your fingers down your throat and sicked him up!" Millie growled in a judgemental tone. 

"She's been judging me for like two days now. Anyway, this guy wanted to be eaten, it was like his whole life dream or something. Like an ultimate fantasy,” Ruby shrugged nonchalantly. “Who am I to stand in his way?”

“It’s against the law, is what it is!” Millie frowned.

“Can one of you speak sense… would you eat someone for $350,000 dollars?" Ruby asked looking at Rosie and Henry.

"Fuck me!" Henry nearly fell off his chair in surprise. "$350,000 dollars?"

"Well $354,000 to be precise," Ruby smirked, blushing. 

"Woah," Rosie stated in surprise. "Okay… I'm completely on Ruby's side on this one…" she glanced at Henry nervously, with a 'how much do we tell them?' look. 

He decided to lead the charge in driving the discussion forwards.

"I mean, I would swallow someone for free, especially if they begged me to do it," he said with a wicked chuckle. 

"Henry!" Millie gave him a judgemental stare. 

"What?" He put his hands in the air, "If someone begged me and said it was their life fantasy and they were already shrunken down… you know,"

"Meat's meat," Rosie nodded in agreement with a knowing smile. 

"Eeww!" Millie cried out. "You fricking meat eaters are sick, what's wrong with you? These are human beings we're talking about," she protested. “It’s illegal… and its gross too!”

"Well, are they still human being if they are shrunken down? Are they still actually classified as humans? There is new legislation that has come through and they have reclassified humans as a certain height and size, above one foot tall I think, anything else below is… 'shrinkies'," he raised his fingers into inverted commas.

“Yeah,” Ruby nodded in agreement. “See? Its legal!” she looked defiantly at Millie.

“It wasn’t legal when you did it during Covid!” Millie growled. Ruby merely shrugged.

"I can't believe this… so, if I was shrunken down what would you guys do to me, like right now?" Millie asked with genuine concern. 

They all went quiet, thoughtfully.

"Henry?" Millie asked, her eyes were big and round and slightly angry looking.  

"Henry?" Millie prompted again with a bit more urgency. 

"Oh sorry, err… I dunno. I haven't thought about it, why, what would you do if I were shrunken down?" Henry spun the question on its head. 

Millie looked taken aback and her eyes widened. 

"Nothing… I would gently pick you up, cup you in my hands and look after you…"

"Hahaha," Ruby laughed heartily. "Yeah right… like you did with Rob?"

"Shut it Ruby," Millie gritted her teeth threateningly.

"What?" Ruby held her hands up defensively. "You blurted out what I've done!" 

Millie grimaced, crossing her arms angrily.

"Go on, tell us," Rosie prompted with a beaming smile, sensing a dirty little secret.