Kayla looked down at the shivering, sodden speck on her tongue, her expression a mixture of genuine amusement and mild disgust. Terry looked like a drowned rat, if the rat were an inch tall and smelling faintly of stomach acid and bile. He was blinking rapidly, trying to shake the disorientation from his head, his tiny chest heaving as he gasped for air that wasn't eighty percent humidity. To her, he looked pathetic; to her, "pathetic" was just another word for "adorable."

 

"Ugh, look at you," she drawled, her voice booming in the small space of her mouth before she gently used the tip of her tongue to sweep him toward the front of her lips. "You're absolutely drenched in me, Terry. If I let you walk around the house like that, Mom would have a fit about the smell, and Hazel would probably try to put you in a dollhouse bathtub with a scrub brush. We can't have that."

 

She carefully reached in and pinched him between two fingers, lifting him out of her mouth. The transition from the sweltering, claustrophobic heat of her interior to the cool air of the bedroom was jarring, making Terry shiver violently. He looked up at her, his clothes clinging to his small frame, dripping a mixture of saliva and gastric juices onto her palm. Kayla didn't immediately set him down; instead, she walked toward her ensuite bathroom, her stride confident and slow. "Since you were such a 'diligent' assistant, I've decided to be merciful. I'm going to give you a proper cleaning, though don't expect me to be gentle about it."

 

Kayla stepped into the bathroom, the white tiles reflecting the harsh overhead light and making the room feel clinical, almost like a lab—which was fitting, given the "experiment" that had just occurred. She didn't bother with a towel or a gentle approach. Instead, she walked straight to the sink and turned on the faucet, letting a stream of lukewarm water run for a moment before glancing down at the shivering, sodden boy in her grip. Terry looked absolutely miserable, his small chest heaving as he tried to process the sudden change in temperature. The smell of the stomach acid was still clinging to him, a pungent, organic scent that seemed to amplify the power dynamic of the last hour.

 

"Hold still, shrimp. If you wiggle too much, you'll end up down the drain, and I am *not* calling a plumber to retrieve my brother," she teased, her voice dripping with a mixture of mock-concern and genuine mischief. She carefully lowered him into the porcelain basin of the sink, the white walls of the bowl towering over him like the cliffs of a marble canyon. To Terry, the sound of the running faucet was now a deafening roar, a waterfall of cascading water that threatened to sweep him away if he didn't find a foothold.

 

She didn't just let the water run over him; she used her fingertips to pin him gently but firmly against the smooth porcelain, creating a small, contained area where she could direct the stream. The water hit his back with a sudden, splashing force, instantly soaking through the remaining dry patches of his clothes. Terry let out a startled yelp, his small hands flailing as he tried to shield his face from the deluge. The water was warm, but the sensation of being manipulated by those giant, manicured fingers—the same ones that had just been rubbing his "prison" walls—made him feel completely exposed.

 

Kayla spent the next several minutes treating Terry less like a human being and more like a piece of fine jewelry that had fallen into a gutter. She wasn't just rinsing him; she was meticulous, using the pads of her fingertips to scrub at the stubborn, sticky residue of gastric juices and mucosal slime that clung to his fleece tunic. Every time Terry tried to protest or scramble away, her nail—painted a sharp, glossy black—would gently but firmly pin him back against the porcelain, acting like a living anchor. To her, the sensation of his small, frantic struggles was vaguely reminiscent of a vibrating phone, a tiny buzzing energy that only fueled her amusement.

 

"Stop squirming, Terry. You're practically marinated in me; it'll take a lot more than a quick rinse to get the smell of my stomach out of your pores," she teased, her voice echoing in the tiled room. She adjusted the faucet, letting a concentrated stream of water hit him square in the chest, knocking him backward into the curve of the sink. He gasped, coughing out a spray of lukewarm water, his small body shivering as the remnants of her internal heat were finally stripped away. The contrast was stark: just moments ago he had been encased in a sweltering, pulsing darkness, and now he was exposed to the clinical chill of the bathroom, his only shelter being the oppressive proximity of Kayla's giant hand.

 

As the last of the amber fluids vanished down the drain, Kayla finally turned off the tap. The sudden silence was deafening, leaving only the sound of Terry's ragged breathing and the rhythmic *drip-drip-drip* of water falling from his saturated clothes. She didn't reach for a towel; instead, she simply scooped him up in her palm, holding him aloft so he could drip-dry. She looked at him with a smug, triumphant grin, noting how his hair was plastered to his forehead and his eyes were wide with a mixture of exhaustion and disbelief. He was clean, but he was utterly spent, a tiny, shivering wreck held captive by the sister who had just used him as a biological probe.

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