So, a sort of semi-sequel to the previous picture ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25204778/ ) made by an awesome guy called ScottGuy on telegram. He doesn't use FA but he's a fantastic artist who does very good art at very affordable prices!

Looks like Ester got a makeover, and a gender swap!

The attached story below is the edited roleplay between  JordilianVector and I that inspired this picture to get made, so I thought it'd be fun to include it!

The story involves fatal digestion that has instantaneous effects, so be forewarned, if the prey turning into vapor in seconds isn't fun for you then you may not like it. Anyway, enjoy!

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"I dunno I still think it would have been fair to let you live if I'd won back then." Ester said in response to the little human's question. "Lucky for you though you juuust managed to outdo me." The Sergal chuckled and readjusted his hand on the handle of the picnic basket which little Bryan was currently sitting in.Ester was referring to how the pair had met, coming together in an arcade after the sergal spotted him in the distance. Little did the human know, the arcade was a favorite hunting ground for the sergal. Like a good predator, he approached the human, probed him for a preyish inclination, and challenged him to a game. If the human won, they’d go on a date, and if he lost, Bryan would become nothing but another snack. Either fortunately or not, Bryan had won, and decided on a peaceful picnic.

The tiny human had a comfy spot arranged specifically for him by stacking the food items just a little higher along the outside layer thus creating a small indentation for the human to occupy. A piece of cloth was draped over the basket to both cover the food items for the time being and create a comfy spot for the little human to occupy.

"I'm glad you did though." Ester continued. "I would never have known you're a fellow retro gaming fan." The fluffy creature chuckled and carefully set the basket on the ground next to a tree providing a nice bit of shade on this sunny day. He carefully lifted the edge of the cloth and pulled out a nice picnic blanket to lay on the ground.

The giant stood up to his full height once more leaving little Bryan to admire the view of the massive furry body stretching high, high up, the little human's gaze following the legs towards the giant's upper body just in time for a loud flapping noise as the massive blanket suddenly displaced a massive amount of air before slowly coming to rest on the ground. "There we go." Ester said reaching for the basket again and moving it atop the blanket instead. He sat down and crossed his legs looking a little Bryan with this smirk. "Hope this spot is good enough?"

Bryan felt the sway of the picnic basket with each step as it rested against the giant sergal's side with each step, the action jolting him a little, but it was fun enough to enjoy.He giggled, knowing it was a little cheeky of the sergal to give him such a seating placement. Inside the basket with all of the food that they were going to eat as their first date after Ester had tried to eat him as part of a bet?

Of course, the preyish human enjoyed it a great deal. He was fondly thinking of Ester as a friend despite his clear intentions to send the human packing into his stomach one of these days. Ester's reassurances that he would have spared the human were kind, but fairly unbelievable to Bryan regardless. "Oh? So me being put where all your food is during this picnic is just coincidental?"

Bryan looked as the massive towel came down on the ground, the act of throwing it across the grass causing what felt like a tornado for Bryan. He stumbled back, grunting from the force of the gust and adjusting his hair afterwards. When he looked again, he got to admire Ester's relaxed position on the ground. Seeing such massive legs and arms relax like that was like watching an earth mover in the distance, only Ester could practically eat those for breakfast. "It's excellent! Plus the view isn't bad either." Bryan flirted, rather shamelessly.

"Not exactly." Ester admitted though there was nothing devious about the way he said it. " I just didn't feel like carrying both you and the basket in either hand." As he spoke his hands reached for the edges of the cloth Bryan rested on. "And I thought I'd make you a nice cozy spot to rest in and admire the scenery." He said and carefully lifted the cloth along with little Bryan and gently set it next to the basket so that the human would have to trouble himself with getting down from it himself.

The attempt at flirtation made chuckle again. "So smooth. little guy" A smirk appeared on his face as he leaned in closer. "Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't agree." He added leaving the meaning purposefully vague as his nose bumped the top of Bryan's head gently.

"Now then." The sergal's head turned to the basket as the huge hands reached inside over Bryan's head pulling out a small box in plastic wrapping containing everything the little human would want. If anything, Bryan's size made it easy to transport even the larger goods and so lugging around a portable fridge wasn't much of a problem for the giant. The sergal's claws tore at the wrapping and carefully set the fridge down next to the human to let him pick and choose his own snacks for the occasion. "Sorry, I won't be putting peanut butter on your sandwiches or anything." The giant smirked as he reached for a considerably bigger box filled with his own treats. "For obvious reasons."

Without so much as a hint at what was about to happen Ester took off the lid and reached inside pulling a tiny human and tossing them in his mouth. His face briefly held an expression of pure bliss before the giant predator's muscle flexed sending the (un)fortunate first victim down into his stomach. "Ahhhh... Want something to drink?" The giant offered casually, reaching inside the basket once again.

Bryan chuckled at Ester's comment, enjoying being lifted out from the basket, dangling for a moment before being set in the serene area. The air was warm and comfortable, yet a gentle breeze was there to make sure it was consistently nice. As Ester leaned in to give him a cozy little nose bump, he reached up and pet the giant's fur, giggling warmly at it. For once, when close to the mouth, he found himself not staring down into it.

Bryan watched as the fridge came out, rubbing his hands as he certainly felt a bit hungry. He opened the door as Ester got out his own sandwich toppings and some bread, turning around in time to see a dangling human with a nervous expression on his face, but an excited one. He yelled out with joy before disappearing inside the maw. Bryan was then treated to the sight of Ester's lips shifting as he moved his prey around before swallowing. His eyes traced along the sergal's body, stopping at the stomach at the same time when he expected the human to arrive in his new home.

"Uh... no thanks there's root beer in the fridge here." He said casually, admiring the nature that Ester seemed to bear. He couldn't tell if this was a bit of a power play of the sergal, or just him enjoying a snack. But Bryan felt inclined to ask anyway. "So uh... That's what you meant when you said you were hunting for groceries...thinking about anyone in particular when you're swallowing down those... humans?"

"Hmmn?" Ester was taken out of his blissful state as he directed his attention back at Bryan. "Not really. Just brought my favorite snack, you know?" A smirk crawled on his face as one fluffy finger reached down to boke Bryan's stomach gently. "Don't see me complaining about you bring sushi rolls on a picnic." He teased as he casually reached for another human and plopped him in his mouth without much ceremony. His mouth was shut tight as a pleasured hum emitted from the sergal’s throat. Soon after, yet another swallow was heard and the human was erased, becoming only a bungle in his throat before sliding behind the abdominal wall.

The sergal than reached into basket for a can of a lemon-flavoured soft drink, popped it open with ease and took a few sips leaving Bryan to only imagine the human just eaten soaked in the drink on his way down at that very moment. "Ahhhh..." The sergal exhaled and sat the can next to Bryan's fridge, both objects standing at relatively the same height.

Ester leaned back a little, propping himself up with his hands behind his back and looking at the sky for a moment, taking a look at the leaves swaying in the wind before he switched position once again, lying on his tummy right in front of Bryan and looking at the human with a soft smile. "I'm really glad we went out today, little guy. It really is a lovely day."

"Well sushi rolls aren't conscious living beings that get a slow melting inside a stomach." Bryan attempted to retort. He moaned a bit at the thought. Two people were gone now, both being digested chemically into piles of slop along with whatever else Ester was planning on having today.

He brought his own snack to his mouth, for once not enjoying it as much not from displeasure, but from distraction. The feeling of such a powerful poke against his body was gentle, but its force was evident. Bryan quietly imagined himself in the hand, being brought to the fuzzball's mouth, and eaten in whatever way the sergal deemed fit. As Ester laid on his belly and brought his face closer to Bryan, the human chuckled a bit, leaning in to give him a bit of a peck on the nose, coming back to his senses once the stomach he was staring at was hidden from sight."I'm glad we came out too... you know despite what I said I actually do enjoy watching you eat people. I can't help but think about being in their place when you do."

The sergal's tail flapped about behind him as he reached his hand for little Bryan once again, this time the finger poking at the human's back and pushing him towards the sergal's face, the giant giving the little guy a gentle nuzzles. The giant's mouth opened for just a moment and lapped up the human's sushi roll. "Mine." The sergal said with a playful laugh and swallowed the morsel up with ease.

"And I know you do, little guy." The fuzzball responded. "It's a good thing too, since eating those little guys keeps my mind off of eating the little precious guy I've got in front of me." Ester smiled and reached inside the basket for another treat, some manner of exotic vegetable neatly tied together with a thin rope. The sergal diligently unwrapped the stuff, laying it to rest atop the remains of the plastic wrapping from before. He took one stick and stuck it half-way into his mouth, playing about with it for a bit as if threatening to poke the end of it at Bryan before a soft crunch came and the rest of it disappeared inside the sergal's mouth as well.

Bryan felt his heart flutter when the sergal approached him, or actually, he approached Ester! The pressure on his back and the proximity to the pointy muzzle made the human think that he was about to end up inside it. The fact that he was instead nuzzling Bryan rather than eating him did not entirely reassure the human, as he could end up inside any time. He gasped as the glowing tongue came out, deftly sliding along the sushi roll and lapping up the human's snack. He grumbled a bit, but was frankly a bit relieved to know it wasn't him that was making that chilling gulp within the sergal's throat.

After a few moments though, Bryan shifted in place along with his thoughts, realizing that he was a little disappointed about that rather than happy. He watched the vegetable slide about between the sergal's lips, imagining that being him as well, eaten purely for the pleasure of the giant alien above him, his life coming to a pleasureable end.

"Mmmh, you know fluff butt..." Bryan stepped forward, stroking along the sergal's lips, admiring the almost leathery feeling they had under his fingers, like a dog's lips. He sniffed at the giant's mouth, only catching a whiff of of saliva rather than the foul odors of the meal passed. "I wouldn't be too opposed if your mind was on eating me... But I don't exactly just want to throw my life down your throat... Competing for it like last time was the most thrilling thing that has happened to me in a long while."

Ester chuckled at being called fluff butt, somewhat amused by the nickname only to raise an eyebrow at the human's next words. "Oh?" He hummed, contemplating sticking his tongue out to lick at the human's hands but ultimately deciding he didn't want to get little Bryan messy, at least not quite yet. "Feeling mighty adventurous aren't we little guy?" He smirked. "Well... I didn't plan on it but how can I say no to a willing snack?" He smirked.

"Though how about we make it a little bit more interesting this time around?" The sergal idly reached inside the basket for the rope that was tight about his veggie treats. "I'd like you to get a good look at what you'll face if you lose so... If you want to challenge me to a game, you'll have to bungee jump down my throat, little guy." He asked taking the box of treats from before and setting it beside him. "Hmmm... Two little guys left. So... I'll ask you some questions and eat one of them for every time you get one wrong. You'll get a safety net of two 'lives' but the third's going to be your own, Bryan. So how about it?" The hand moved in a circle up above bryan laying out the rope neatly around the human as Ester moved closer. "Oh... And I won't go easy on you this time, since you're challenging me." He warned.

Bryan chuckled at the willing snack remark, realizing that was what he was. Meat, ready and willing to dive in the sergal's stomach and never come out if he was so inclined. But, then came the proposal. He cocked his head at the notion of bungee jumping down the throat. Would he actually get a chance to see Ester's stomach and live? He shivered excitedly at the thought, and he probably would have jumped on this opportunity as soon as that idea was made clear.

But a small portion of his mind hesitated, is this really what he wanted? He had played hard to earn his life earlier, and now was he going to put it on the line just for a fun little game. His rational mind compromised through to the fact that he would really try hard to survive this. He looked over at the remaining two people. They were doomed regardless, and now, he would get the opportunity to watch them splash into the stomach! He sighed with enjoyment, as he knew that was just icing on the cake that he was evidently substituting for as dessert. He grabbed the rope, carefully tying it around his chest, beneath his arms in a comfortable yet snug manner, looking up to Ester and nodding. "I'm game big guy... just make sure that rope is secure okay? I uh... I don't want you to win this game because I disconnected. You might think I rage quit." The human winked at this joke, referring to the multiplayer games they'd engage in on occasion.

Ester smiled and gave a wordless nod for a response. He stretched out the small rope and tugged at it a few times with a force much greater than what the human's little body would be able to muster. he then measured it against his own body to figure out just how much he should leave outside exactly. "Hmmm I think it's alright. Shouldn't be a problem to hold up a little pipsqueak like you." The sergal gave a devious smirk. and gently pulled the rope around the little guy swiftly tying a neat knot on it to hold the little guy's body before lifting him in the air by the end of it. "Now I'd give it a good spin to see how secure it really is, but I doubt you'd appreciate it." Swinging the little human back and forth on the rope, Ester chuckled. "Heheh... look at you... like a carrot on a stick."

"Now... it's gonna be best 3 out of five little guy. You sure you're up for this?" Ester asked just to be certain. "I won't let you back out once you're in there and my stomach won't be taking it lightly either. It feels all buzzed up right now from thinking about eating you right here and now. I doubt you'll make it more than a few seconds once you're down there once you’re swimming in the acids. Though we'll know for certain once you're inside. I don't think that little guys from earlier are still kicking by now." The giant said licking at his lips, the faint trace of the human's touch making him even more excited for the whole thing.

Bryan admired the power that seemed to be within the segal's body at the moment, the force of his hands and arms easily outmatching anything he could ever produce himself. He then watched as Ester laid the string along his body, stopping at the belly. Bryan moaned, knowing he'd be on the end of it, just on the other side of that fluff and muscle.

His mind was drifting back to the previously eaten prey, who was likely dead from the stomach being "buzzed" as Ester put it. What that meant for Bryan, the human wasn't certain, but entirely willing to venture down the throat to find out. He hollered as he was dangled, enjoying the swinging as he was held above Ester's mouth. As the sergal spoke, he admired glimpses inside, while understanding the rules provided. He took a deep breath, steadying himself for yet another very dangerous adventure. "I'm ready... eat me up big guy!"

"Careful little guy." The sergal warned. "If I didn't know any better I'd think you wanted to skip right to the game over." Ester said with a smirk and carefully lifted the dangling human over his maw. Slowly, teasingly so, he lowered little Byran down into his open mouth. The insides of it shining with a bright neon blue as the tongue lapped at the teeth around the sergals maw in anticipation of the little guy that was about to land on top of it. Just before he did though, Bryan was suddenly jutted upwards for a moment. "Oh and... curl your legs or something just in case, wouldn't want to melt your legs off before it's actually time for that." The sergal chuckled and then lowered the human into his mouth without any further ceremony.

a moment passed as Ester hummed in pleasure around Bryan, allowing himself a quick taste before swallowing Bryan down with relative ease. The rope rapidly zipping deeper into the beast as well just before Ester grabbed hold of it, having marked the spot on it back when he measured it against his body. Carefully he tied the other end to the top of his snout, not the most comfortable place to do so, but one that served the purpose of keeping Bryan above the acidic pool within the stomach.

Inside Bryan would find himself dangling dangerously close to the chyme that almost seemed like it was letting off steam. It was probably a similar feeling to being suspended above a pool of lava. Though the color, the lack of heat and the presence of a pair of human shaped globs of mush below, bubbling gently as the digestion had already worn down their flesh and bones, leaving only an outline below the surface.

The whole area was lit up by a bright shine emanating from the walls, a sight that Ester would explain to the human a little later, provided he survived their little game of course. "Hmmm I'm feeling a little funny today so I think I'll make it a riddle challenge for you little guy. You know like one of those... sphynx creatures does, I believe?" He wasn't really sure on that one. "Ready for round one?"

Bryan grunted as he was jerked up, the warning sending a chill down his spine as Ester mentioned it. Was that how active a "buzzed" stomach was? Ester was an experienced predator, so he would be the person to know it. He sighed, trying to calm his nerves fruitlessly as he was tossed around inside the maw, before feeling himself pressed on all sides, ushered down towards the stomach.

After he felt his feet begin to breach into the "open" air of the stomach, the human did as his predator suggested and curled his legs, just in time before he almost dipped them into the acidic pool. He was about a foot away from the juices that could kill him, and while it wasn't lava, the danger was just as real. He swayed side to side, feeling the rope tug a little as Ester spoke around it. He took a deep breath, the air being sour and strong, enhanced by the flesh that once surrounded those skeletons. "I'm... I'm ready big guy!"

"Hmmmrr..." Bryan would hear a pleased purr from all around him, the very chamber resonating with it, just as it did with the predator's voice that followed shortly. "Alright little guy. Let's get this party started then shall we? So tell me, the first question for your life... What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?" The sergal's words spoken with a practiced rhyme, almost as if it wasn't the first time he played this game with someone.

"That's... a river! I remember hearing this riddle before!" Bryan remarked, his heart pounding as he answered the first question. He reflected back to when he was in junior high school, after a particularly long test. He and a friend were looking up riddles online and having fun with them. He sighed, fairly certain he got this question right. "That bit about eating at the end... hehe, it's ironic isn't it?"

"Not bad. And here I thought you'd make this too easy." The sergal chuckled, half-pleased, half-disappointed as his eyes settled on the human he decided would go in first, should the human fail to answer the next riddle. "Let's go for the next one." Ester smiled and paused briefly as his tone changed back to the slightly more melodious one. "What am I? Every morning a noggin I shed, and every evening I regain my head."

"Ah... um... Let me think." Bryan worked hard to ponder the answer to this riddle. His struggling with it reminded him of his own mortality, dependant solely on if he were able to find the right word that this giant around him was expecting based on the wordy clue phrase. His nervousness grew, and so he decided to spitball his answer. "A pencil? Because you break the tip, and have to reinsert it into a sharpener... and it's... dark in there?" The human knew he just ended up sentencing someone to digest.

There was a short moment of silence followed by a soft chuckle. Ester’s voice was quiet now, as if she was talking to someone else outside. A few wet squelchy noises resounded from above and just as Bryan looked up he saw a fellow human entering the stomach, and collapsing down into the caustic mixture below. He managed a quick glance at the one whose failure brought him down into Ester's stomach, followed by a brief expression of bliss before he sunk right back into the liquid, polluting its surface with what once made up his body. "That's a your first strike, little guy. Careful." The teasing warning came from above. "It was a pillow." He explained. "A bit obscure, but the guy that you just saw... falling apart had no problem gesturing the correct answer for me."

"Anyway... On to the next. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in a thousand years?"

Bryan felt the shifting motion as Ester leaned over to pluck his latest prey out from the box. He felt the human bump into him on the way down, gasping as the man sank below the surface with a sizzle and a bunch of bubbles in the slime. Soon enough, the fluid was clouded to the point where he couldn't see into the fluid. He chastised himself at failing and getting his first strike, but gleefully enjoyed the sight of seeing someone instantaneously digested right before his very eyes.


"Anyway... On to the next. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment but never in a thousand years?" Ester asked, a brow raised even though Bryan couldn’t see it.

Then came the next riddle. Bryan couldn't help but laugh at the first thought that popped into his brain, and bursted out with his response. "Pfft, I'd say that describes my ex-boyfriend." The human laughed at himself but then paused, as a feeling of dread washed over him. "Oh crap you're going to accept that as my answer aren't you?"

"Oooh... Feisty." Ester chuckled somewhat amused by the comment. "But actually yeah, I think I will." He nodded. "Don't worry though, you've got another try still." He said deviously ast the second human was soon sent down his throat with an exaggerated gulp. The force of the push sending the little guy speeding into the acids below, the harsh landing causing quite the splash with a bit of aicd getting onto Bryan and quite easily burning through his sleeve and leaving a slight burn on his shoulder."Just out of curiosity though what do you actually think it was, little guy?"

"Oh fu-" Bryan was interrupted as the other human splashed down into the mess below. He hissed a bit as he watched the acids eat through his clothes, his pants peppered with holes from the compound making contact. He watched the man writhe a little as he sank in, clearly coming to his untimely end fairly quickly. He shuddered, knowing that would happen to him as well. Bryan looked up towards the entrance of the stomach, as if he were looking up at the sergal himself, realizing that was fairly fruitless. "Well...I honestly had no clue, I would have lost that one anyway."
"Think about it little guy, once in a minute, twice in a moment... never in a thousand years." Ester held out a meaningful pause completely unfazed by the fact that he just killed two living creatures in a fairly gruesome manner. "It's the letter 'm'." He clarified with a chuckle.Having that resolved he paused once more before speaking. "I have a head but no arms to flail. I have no legs yet I have a tail." The sergal spoke calmly, his own tail though wagging back in forth at the anticipation of the human's failure. The uncertainty of it though was what made it fun, his fingers pressing gently at his stomach from the outside, causing the brightly colored flesh to shift about, giving Bryan other things to look at than the gruesome scene of death below him.

His attention focused on the bulging stomach wall that was the sergal pressing on his belly. Bryan watched as it shifted the pool of acids below him, and remembered what Ester's fingers felt like around him fondly. He then thought back to Ester's comment about retro games, this riddle reminding him of it fairly well. He gasped and kicked excitedly. "Ah! That's a king's quest riddle! It's a coin isn't it? Ahhh I loved playing that game with my uncle."

"Hmmmnnn... Right you are, little morsel. Jutt one more to go and you'll juuust manage to escape the fate you condemned those two little guys to." He said, poking fun at the human, teasing him with the death of his kin. Hmmm... And what a fate it must have been. You've seen it well, haven't you? A living being, a person, plops in and in a moment, just few seconds later with the bubbles fizzling away they're nothing but a decaying chunk of meat inside me, going on to nourish my body just like you no doubt one day will. Though whether that day is today is entirely up to you little guy...We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?"

The reality of the situation sank in for Bryan. As he gently swayed there with each churn of the stomach. He laughed a bit a second ago at the letter 'm' being the answer, but now, as the acids finished with the meats within the stomach aside from himself, the fluid cleared up a little more, and he saw two more skeletons in the mix below. While the bones clearly were more resistant to acids, the first two prey's were already starting to whittle away. "Ester... if I get this wrong... will you just keep me around for a minute, just to let me digest the fact I lost?"

"Of course!" The sergal immediately responded. "What fun would it be if I didn't get to tease you about it a little? Good luck though regardless little guy, hope you'll be happy with the outcome whatever it happens to be." For a brief moment a bit of genuine care and concern made itself evident in Ester's voice, something to let the little guy know that he wasn't just food for the giant, but something much more dear.

He thought long and hard about the answer to this riddle, gently rumbling and moaning. He found himself fortunate that none of the acids splashed by the other two food bits got the rope early, because this was one of the best experiences of his life... and possibly also the last. He sighed, as he thought about his answer, before deciding it was time. "A politician?"

And again there was a moment of silence that allowed Bryan just enough time to think to realize what happened. "Aww.... Too bad little guy." A mocking tone replaced the affectionate one from before. "The answer was 'words', you know? You were pretty close but politicians still have to move, at least a little bit to hurt somebody." Ester smirked to himself, knowing full well that Bryan would never get to see it or the outside world for that matter. "Don't feel too bad about getting it wrong though, maybe that was the goal all along and the fabulous prize you get is becoming fat somewhere around my thighs, hm? I hear it's not all bad...I have to ask though, how does it feel knowing that you've brought this doom on yourself? Knowing that you wanted to participate in this game of life and death and that you've doomed yourself instead of having a nice date with a handsome gentleman?"

Upon learning that he was doomed, the human sighed out in relief, moaning happily and closing his eyes. He kicked his legs carefully, swinging himself over to the stomach to stroke along the brightly glowing blue wall, a small gesture of appreciation to the monster that would be the end of him. He got himself into this mess. Sure, the sergal didn't really help with suggesting this and actually doing the eating, but he only doomed himself.

"It's wonderful..." He confessed. "I really do like you Ester, and I wish we could have fleshed out our relationship better... but I'm just nutrients and soon to be thigh pudge. I hear it's not bad either, I mean just listen to these guys!" Bryan pointed to the pit, hearing it gurgle warmly as the stomach churned and shifted, happy at its most recent kills.

"I hope you enjoyed me Ester... I'm ready to go. I was probably going to end up inside of here anyway so do to me what you've done to so many others."
Ester honestly couldn't suppress a laugh at the comment but true enough, Bryan was right. "Yeah I hear you can make a living like that. A bit demeaning maybe, but don't worry, little guy, my body will take good care of you from now on. And i'll keep an eye on you too." A bit of an empty promise but in a sense it was true, despite everything Ester would cherish the memory of who Bryan once was, even if his thoughts wouldn't often wander to the little guy who was about to lose his life.


"I hope you enjoyed me Ester... I'm ready to go. I was probably going to end up inside of here anyway so do to me what you've done to so many others." Bryan looked down, now with four of the vague shapes below, soon to be five. The glow around him comforted his tense body, soothing him to the end.


"I did little guy, and I'm about to make it final." With those words, Ester swiftly cut at the bit of rope on his snout, feeling a weight splash down into his stomach. Bryan felt a sharp tug on the rope, and then gravity carried him down. He roughly splashed into the gastric fluids, feeling the debris and flotsam of the others kicking up briefly. In the next few seconds, he was destroyed. Acid tingled at his skin, softening it instantly and his body falling apart, like a piece of paper on fire. He closed his eyes and exhaled a final breath, every fiber of his being overloaded with bliss as it fell apart and settled down at the bottom of Ester’s stomach, any defining features soon whittling away until he was another unrecognizable pile of mush down there behind Ester’s abdomen. What used to be Bryan would gently float away from the rope as the final bubbles of the chemical reaction rose to the surface.

Ester sighed contentedly and after a brief paused carefully pulled off the rope with a loud burp. He lay on his back looking up to the sky as his hand absentmindedly reached for the snacks the rope was supposed to hold together, putting one into his mouth he crunched at it, thoughtfully chewing it as he carefully considered where he was going to spend his next weekend.