For a long few seconds, Alizome's just... confused. What's going on? The problem is- though she's heard the sounds of being swallowed many, many times, she's never *quite* heard it through layers of flesh between her and the throat doing the swallowing. She figures it out around the time Xarces's lips get to the bulge she makes in the mermaid, pressure squeezing her more than the mermaid alone was capable of. "XARCES!" She yells. "THIS ISN'T WHAT I HAD IN MIND!" Unclear how much of her words are able to get through now two layers of thick flesh, she lapses into silence as she feels the throat seize her through the mermaid's flesh, bundling her down into a second belly. She doesn't dare squirm or fight- to do so may help the mermaid wriggle loose, and if she got free than even this weak stomach would melt her down slowly but surely. And if Xarces was going to the surface... at least there was air up there, and leaving the mermaid wouldn't be a short path to drowning-<br/><br/>-no, it'd be a short path into another hungry stomach! And she was damn sure, having watched him, that his stomach was a lot more potent than the mermaid's! The stomach claimed the mermaid and her meal, and Alizome reflected that she was now a meal twice over with only the mermaid's weakness preventing her from being just a pleasant aftertaste on Xarces' tongue as he ate the fishy female. How much more of a bulge would she make stuffed with Alizome than she would without? Would anyone even notice- No, that made her think. Xarces could get to the surface, say he hadn't seen her, and find somewhere quiet to digest both of his meals. She could, after all her struggles, just end up feeding the healer. Of course, a treacherous thought added, that wouldn't be the... worst... fate in the world, but... she hadn't thought it would come like this! Nobody would even hear her if she yelled for help topside, not through two people. All she could do was hope for Xarces' charity and that she'd be able to win free of a hostile stomach without help.