Lillian explains her desire
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"I don't really know where it came from, but I doubt I'm alone in how I feel Charlie, I've seen the news and all the stories," Lillian began, as she took a sip of water from her cup on the coffee table.

"All my life, since I was a young girl, I've wondered about what it would be like to swallow a tiny person...a tiny man," she said, looking at Charlie.

"I see," Charlie replied silently. He studied Lillian's face, his eyes passing over her soft brown eyes, the pink in her cheeks, her inviting lips that he loved to kiss. He looked at her as she leaned against the side of the couch, looking back at him, not wanting to say more, but he knew that she had more she wanted to tell him, he knew the way she was looking at him and he did not want to scare her away.

"Tell me more sweetheart," Charlie said quietly, waiting for her to continue.

"I don't know where to begin Charlie, I've never told anyone," Lillian said.

"Do you still wonder what it would be like? To eat a tiny person?" Charlie asked.

"More than ever, and...I'm sorry Charlie, but ever since the news of the virus, sometimes..."

"Sometimes you think about me?" Charlie said, preempting her thought.

"It doesn't mean that I actually want to, but...I don't know...I just don't know," Lillian said, her voice beginning to falter and her eyes beginning to tear up.

"It's alright honey, you can tell me," Charlie said, doing his best to reassure his wife.

"It was all just fantasy up till this whole thing started, I never thought it could actually happen and now I don't know what I would do, whether I could actually look at you that way if you ever...if you ever caught the virus and you..."

"Shrunk?" Charlie said. The word had a sinister sound to it as he said it, and the reality of what Lillian was telling him began to really dawn upon him. She was serious, even though she loved him, and he loved her, she wasn't sure what she would do.
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June 3, 2023