<span style="color: #00BF00">"Well, that's sweet of you!" Merrin said. "Can you swallow one of the pillows now?" she teased playfully in her shrill-shrew voice. Merrin looked herself over. She didn't appear to have suffered any partial digestion just yet. With the aide of the light, she found a little cove in D's stomach where the mild acids were quite shallow. She swam over to it and rubbed the side of her stomach. "Can you feel that?" she asked.<br/><br/>Merrin started to feel a little lonely inside of D. "Chris, if you can hear me, you'd better get in here or we're totally not seeing each other anymore!" she demanded, as if they'd not just met that very same day.</span>