She was pretty startled. Her scream nearly blew my ears out from the inside, and she squirmed and thrashed all the way down. After she was safely in my tummy, I reached over and picked up her iPad, and glanced at what she’d been reading. It was actually a pretty good story.

“MMPH! MRRRG!” I could hear her screams echoing up my esophagus, but couldn’t quite make out the words. Well, I’d heard them all before anyway. I gave my tummy a pat. “Don’t worry, hon, you’ll be all right.”

The squirming eventually stopped and my stomach shrank back down to its usual slightly-paunchy shape. Meanwhile, I could feel her consciousness drifting into the back of my mind as my body dissolved hers. She was going to become fully a part of me now. I closed my eyes and visualized myself next to her.

It took her a little while to pull herself together and get over her surprise at finding herself inside my head. After I explained things to her, she blinked, then frowned.

“You know…I have to admit, I guess that was kinda hot.”