Of course, the situation was not all bad, since Jean at least managed to get over the most dangerous part of his journey. Getting up the throat really was like a gamble, and obviously Jean won by reaching Grandis´ mouth, only inches away from freedom. But the most difficult task had yet to be done: actually escaping Grandis´ mouth. With the vile woman knowing about Jean´s presence inside her body, things got even more unpleasant than they already were. There was no way Grandis would let him or the Blue Water escape the prison of her insides, that was for sure. Or maybe the Blue Water soon, but certainly not Jean. Jean could have blamed Nadia for his new misery, since she was the one who actually told Grandis about her tiny friend being stuck inside her throat. Yet he would never even think of blaming Nadia for anything, and there wasn´t time for such thoughts. He had to get out of here, or at least an idea on how to get out of the moist cavern he was trapped in. And Jean really got an idea. He remembered that the Blue Water had some sharp edges; that was one of the reasons why he went inside Grandis, after all, trying to save the woman from an unpleasant fate: her innards getting slashed by Blue Water. Although he was wondering why he even bothered to protect such a mean person like Grandis in the first place, he knew how he could use the Blue Water´s shape in order to get out of Grandis´ mouth. If he slightly slashed Grandis´ tongue or another soft part of her mouth, it would certainly hurt as hell. And maybe the pain inside her mouth would cause her to spit him out. It sounded far fetched, but he couldn´t think of anything else. Looking once again at the enormous rows of perfect white teeth being shut tightly, with almost no space between them and seeming like a huge wall, he knew that this was the only choice he had.
Outside, Nadia was trying in vain to make Grandis open her mouth. At first she tried to open it with her own hands, but then she decided to "discuss" with her.
"Grandis, please let Jean out! You can have Blue Water if you want, but please don´t harm him!"
Grandis just smiled viciously, not responding as she didn´t want to open her mouth and provide little Jean with a way to escape.
"Why are you tormenting him like that?! He didn´t do anything to hurt you! You´re a monster!" Nadia screamed, but Grandis wasn´t in the least bit interested in Nadia´s words. Instead, she prepared a terrible move that would put poor Jean into lots of trouble.
As he tried to get the Blue Water off his back, he felt that Grandis´ tongue slowly began to rise.
"Oh no!!!!! She´s gonna...!"
Jean knew what awaited him. She was going to swallow him! With the surface of the tongue shifting Jean lost his balance and bounced against the slimy piece of flesh beneath him. He was helpless as the tongue actually shoved him towards the back of Grandis´ throat, with her uvula coming nearer and nearer. There wasn´t even time for Jean to react to all this, as her tongue took care of him quickly. Her fleshy and wet tongue indeed pushed him past her uvula and into the abyss of her throat. There was no way Jean could avoid his return into Grandis´ stomach. He couldn´t cling to her uvula or her molars, and of course not to her tongue as well. As the process of her tongue pushing him into certain doom went on really fast, he had no opportunity to jump off the tongue or to react in any way. He could just wait for the things to come and witness himself being some sort of Grandis´ meal. As he looked around, he found himself inside the large, reddish and organic tube of her throat again, awaiting his final descent into her stomach. As he experienced it earlier when he was inside Nadia, the area throat provided him with so much space that the muscles didn´t even have to work on him, and he simply fell deeper and deeper back into the humid and hellish cavern of Grandis´ stomach. Looking at the red flesh of her throat he was passing, he was disgusted once again by its sheer sight; the sight of the fleshy, organic folders of the throat wobbling and contracting, trying to move him down - which they couldn´t, of course, but Jean still hated this sight.
During his nearly endless fall, he wasn´t even scared, and he wasn´t afraid of landing inside Grandis´ stomach again. Strangely, he felt sorry for Nadia. Not only did she loose her precious amulet once again, she also must have been worried sick, looking at the movements of Grandis´ mouth and throat, indicating that she was swallowing.
"Nadia...I´m...so...sorry..."
Jean whispered these words to himself as he slowly passed out. The events that occurred in such a short amount of time were simply too much for a tiny boy like him. That, as well as the mere thought of being imprisoned inside a detestable living being. Unconscious, the boy´s teenie tiny body finally was near the valve that lead into Grandis´ stomach, the pathway back to his worst nightmare.
Outside, Grandis, despite being in a not so pleasant position, as she was still "captured" by Nadia, started mocking Nadia, although it´s not clear whether it was intentional or just her stupid, senseless talk.
"Ah...delicious! That tiny boy really didn´t taste bad! Hehehe!"
"...You damn fool! Jean tried to save you! You swallowed the Blue Water, and Jean went into your stomach in order to protect your insides from being slashed!"
"How brave. Well, he´s being rewarded with a comfy place inside my belly."
"You idiot! The Blue Water is back inside your tummy! Don´t you know what this means?!"
"Oh, don´t worry, I´ll get that thing out of my body soon enough. As for your friend...I´m not sure yet."
"You...you´ll see! Jean cannot die inside you! You´re gonna have to live with him forever if you don´t let him out!"
"Ugh...might as well be entertaining."
Nadia couldn´t take it anymore. These words were stubborn, so offensive...it actually brought tears to her eyes. Her tiny, beloved friend, trapped inside such a foul woman...it just wasn´t fair. A kind and gentle person like Jean didn´t deserve such a terrible fate inside a scary stomach. But it was her fault that her lovely new friend could not get out of his living prison. It was because she told Grandis that Jean was inside her throat. How could she have been so stupid? She knew that Jean wouldn´t think like that of her, but still, she had to reward him with something special in case she was able to get him out of her stomach again. She didn´t even want to imagine the horrible ordeal Jean had to go through. That thought was unbearable, the thought of Jean being scared in there and suffering. But how was she supposed to help the man who changed her life entirely?