Unable to look anywhere else, Blake continued to stare at Aliyah's reflection while she rubbed the sides of her bloated, gurgling belly. She looked so satisfied and content, the mage figured that she wasn't planning on going anywhere for a while. She also still had soda and saliva stains on her top, and crumbs and icing and cinnamon on her face. Rather than being disgusted by this unkempt appearance, however, Blake couldn't help but find it oddly cute. Maybe it was the contrast between his own mental image of angels being so pure and pristine and the messy reality of the angel in his dorm room right now.

"So, um, Aliyah," Blake asked, "you got any other magical abilities I should know about?" This question brought Aliyah out of her reverie and she hummed as she thought about her answer.

"Well, for starters," Aliyah replied, "angels like me are capable of consuming more food in one sitting than any human." Blake couldn't help but laugh at how obvious that one was. "Most angels stick to eating the same amount as humans, though. I just have a big appetite," she added sheepishly, giving her bulging belly a few pats that made the food inside it slosh around a little bit. "We can also fly, and we possess magical knowledge and can perform minor miracles. Speaking of which, there is one I ought to do now." Aliyah then spread her arms out and spent a few seconds chanting in a tongue Blake didn't recognise. Once she was done, a bright light shone from her entire body for an instant, and then when it disappeared, so did all the muck on her face and top, leaving her as squeaky clean as when she showed up.

"Wow, my mom would love that power!" Blake remarked, thinking about his mother's workouts and how they tended to make her work up a sweat. "I wonder, though ... you got anything to speed up your digestive process? Not that I have a problem with it taking a long time or anything!" The mage looked up at Aliyah's face and saw the kind of smile that suggested she had a trick up her sleeve.

"While the metabolism of an angel is a bit faster than that of the average human," Aliyah explained while rubbing her protruding gut, "we do not have any inherent ability to speed it up further." She paused for a second and then slowly rose to her feet before continuing, her engorged belly drooping a little from the weight of all the food inside it. "But I have been working on some techniques to help my food digest more quickly."

"Techniques?" Blake was getting more and more curious.

"Indeed." Aliyah moved her hands to the bottom of her belly. "I have a huge mass of food in my stomach right now, and the acids are only working on the outermost layer, so the aim is to get my stomach acid to work on the deeper parts too. Not unlike stirring food in a pot to ensure it is all covered in sauce."

"So how do you ... stir your belly?" Blake asked, bracing himself for however Aliyah was going to get her belly moving.

"Like so." With that, Aliyah pushed her belly up and let it drop back into her hands, and she did this over and over again. As Blake felt himself jumping up and down along with the rest of the angel's rotund belly, he could hear the stomach acid inside sloshing around. The sight, sound, and feel of Aliyah's belly bouncing like this made the mage giddy with excitement.

Then, all of a sudden, Aliyah slid her hands a little way up the sides of her belly and began pushing it from side to side. Blake yelped as he was swung from side to side, still transfixed by the way the angel was making her big belly move. In addition to the acids sloshing around, he heard some muffled splashing sounds as bits of food were dislodged from the large mass of consumed food. He also heard the sound of something bubbling up in Aliyah's gut, and that was when he remembered all the soda she drank earlier. A rumbling noise built up behind the mage, rising in pitch and location until it reached the top of the sentinel's stomach and made its escape up her throat.

*OOOOOOAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP!*

Aliyah, having been caught off guard by that burp, covered her mouth with both hands. Her eyes had widened and her face was turning bright red. She and Blake both felt themselves heating up and neither one could say anything for several seconds.

"Anyway," Aliyah eventually said, trying to move past her massive burp, "I have a second technique to help properly mix my food and my stomach acid. I call it the digestion dance." Blake was about to ask her what that was, but he didn't even have time to repeat the name of the technique before she started showing him. For the next few minutes, all he could do was watch as the angel shook, swayed, and gyrated her hips, causing her big belly to bounce and slosh and jiggle and jostle in every direction. It quickly became clear that Aliyah's digestion dance technique was a belly dance, and while Blake could hear the contents of her stomach sloshing and tumbling and crashing into the walls, he was more enraptured by the sight of her swollen belly's hypnotic movements. Not to mention the swaying and swinging sensation he was experiencing, like being on a roller coaster with lots of twists and turns.

Aliyah wound down her dance until it came to a stop and sat back down, taking a moment to catch her breath. Blake also needed a moment to pull himself together after not just witnessing but being part of one of the most amazing things he had ever seen and experienced. As he regained his composure, he noticed that Aliyah had a somewhat cheeky smile on her face. Was she about to tell him about another, even more alluring magical power she had?

"Oh yeah," Aliyah said, "one magical ability I forgot to mention earlier: I can read minds."

"Shit!" The excitement and bliss Blake was feeling instantly vanished, replaced by a combination of guilt and terror. Aliyah surely knew that he had been turned on by her, and now she was going to punish him even more for it.

"Well, that is stretching the truth somewhat," Aliyah clarified. "What I can actually do is detect when someone is having less-than-pure thoughts, like if they are being dishonest or having lewd fantasies. I do not automatically know exactly what the thoughts are, but I can usually guess." Unfortunately, this did very little to assuage Blake's dread. "So shall I guess what you have been thinking, or would you rather just tell me?" The mage noted that Aliyah's tone was more curious and playful than stern and disgusted, which made him feel a little better. He also saw her slowly and seductively stroking her stuffed belly with her fingertips. He figured that, even if he didn't tell the angel what thoughts he was having, her guess would be pretty accurate, so he took a moment to pull himself together.

"Aliyah," Blake confessed shakily, trying to choose his words wisely, "I really like how your belly looks. I mean, you are such a beautiful woman and your whole body looks incredible. I'm just really drawn to your belly. Something about how round and curvy it is, and the way it sticks out, and the way it bounces and jiggles ... I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be perving on you like this, it's not respectful-" Before he could say any more, Aliyah started gently patting his spot on her belly to silence him.

"Blake," Aliyah said softly, "it's okay."

"R-really?"

"Yes. In the hundreds of years I have been a sentinel enforcing the laws of the cosmos, many people have found me beautiful, and many people have had thoughts similar to your own. Though they were always more interested in my breasts or my rear than my abdomen." As she pointed that out, Aliyah squished her boobs together and Blake couldn't help but notice how big they still were, even after the angel had transferred a bit of the fat from them to her belly. "But you have been very kind and respectful towards me and, for a young man, you have shown a good deal of restraint. So please do not feel ashamed of your attraction to me and my abdomen."

The next thing that came out of Blake was a huge sigh of relief. Upon hearing that Aliyah didn't have any problems with his feelings about her and her belly, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders. In fact, with how understanding and how willing to satisfy his curiosity she was being, he almost no longer considered his entrapment in her belly a punishment. Almost - after all, he was still restricted to a small area and unable to do much in his current form.

"In fact," Aliyah continued, "you have been so kind and respectful, I can scarcely believe that someone like you would turn to something as profane as dark magic. So why did you?" Another awkward question for Blake. Still, he had already admitted his attraction to Aliyah and she had shown him more kindness than he initially expected, so once more he took a moment to compose himself before answering.

"I needed to get better at magic," Blake said. "I'd hit a roadblock in my studies, I needed to get better so people would like me, and I thought maybe I could learn more from someone with a natural affinity for magic."

Aliyah mulled over Blake's reason for performing the summoning ritual while her belly continued to work on her large meal. While people turning to dark magic for greater power was nothing new to her, her current prisoner's plight seemed more sympathetic than most. Maybe she should help him. Besides, if she didn't, he might get desperate enough to try summoning someone else, and there were far worse beings than her out there.

"I find it hard to believe that people would not like someone as generous and considerate as you," Aliyah said, "but if you truly wish to improve your own magical capabilities, I am willing to help you."

"Really? Oh thank you so much Aliyah!" Blake jumped with joy at Aliyah's offer to help him, causing his spot on her belly to vibrate excitedly.

"Starting tomorrow," Aliyah continued. "I am still keeping you in my body for today, but I will endeavour not to make the experience too unpleasant for you. For example, if you grow weary of being in my abdomen, I can use my body sculpting ability to move you to a different part of my body."

Blake couldn't believe his luck. The incredibly beautiful angel he was a part of was not just going to help him improve his magic, but she was also offering him an opportunity to get closer than anyone else to another part of her body! Sure, he was very fond of Aliyah's distended belly, but maybe being in a different body part would also be fun.