In her desperation Nala tried to work the controls again, which proved to be a very bad idea. For a few moments nothing happened, then her stomach lurched as she felt to flow actually increase.

Realising her mistake, Nala waddled back, trying to pull the hose out of her throat. This proved to be less than effective, because she'd never been very good at backing up, and her weight reduced an already slow pace to a crawl. By the time she was finally starting to feel the hose go taut her stomach already held a fair amount of the oddly heavy liquid, impeding her movement just that bit further.

Finally, Nala reached the point where the hose was absolutely taut, but it still didn't come out, and reversing any further was just too painful. Like it or not, she realised, there was no way out of her predicament.