“I’ll enjoy licking all of that off your nice little face,” said Miss Lamb.

“So will I,” admitted Brody.

She began spooning pavlova into her mouth, and then Brody had an inspiration.

“My normal size won’t help me now, but maybe this will,” he thought.

Brody shrank himself to tiny size and sank to the bottom of the pavlova.

“That won’t help you, Brody. I’ll just spoon you up with it eventually,” said Miss Lamb, who was now like a giant giant woman to him, “You might as well grow back, so that I can enjoy more of your tasty little self.”

Brody made his way to the edge of the pavlova, before she could find him with the spoon. He jumped off the plate to the table, and scurried across, looking up at her mountainous form. She tried to reach for him with her fingers, but he was like a speck to them and could dodge her easily.

“I’ve done it,” he thought, “She can’t pick me up and put me into her mouth now.”

Even the spoon could not help her to coordinate any seizure of him.

“I’ll have to teach you a lesson another way,” said Miss Lamb.

He looked back to see her stand up and sit on the edge of the table, and then she reduced herself to her normal size, so that she had the same size advantage that she’d had that first day in the forest. Now she was able to chase him across the table, and grab hold of him and pick him up.

“If you revert to your normal size, I’ll revert to my giant size. Either way, I’m going to put you into my mouth now, so there had better not be any more silly tricks,” said Miss Lamb, “In fact, I’ll grow anyway.”

She grew back to full size, got onto the chair and held the tiny boy in her hand, just in front of her mouth.

“I know what you’re thinking. You believe that you can stay that size, so that I won’t enjoy eating you enough to do it,” she said, as he looked in at her ocean like tongue, “But I have the final solution to all of your manoeuvres. I am going to put you into my mouth and shrink myself back to tiny size. After that my mouth will fit around you, but it will be small enough to taste you more effectively. You will be unable to grow back to your full size when you’re in my normal sized mouth. Now either I do that straight away, or you can return to your normal size and I’ll eat you as a giant.”

He restored himself to normal size.

“That’s more like it,” she said.

“Could you do something for me in return for promising not to shrink again?” he asked.

“Alright, if it means you won’t delay me any longer. What?”

“Could I have a giant kiss?”

“Of course,” she said, and gave him a few kisses.