I could feel the woman wriggle down into a position of relative safety, but for the moment, I chose to leave her be. I would have a very unpleasant surprise for her later. For now, I simply stroked my large stomach a few times, before entering the maze. I was not entirally familiar with it's layout, but if worse came to worse, I could easily escape it as a scarab. As I turned a corner, I noticed a tall woman of a species I had never seen before. This struck my curiosity, and I decided to have a bit of fun with her. Tapping into one of my sleeping pets, buried deep within my royal palace, I took on the visage of Ammit, my lowerbody sinking into that of an enormous hippo. My jaws extending, becoming the great maw of a crocodile, and my arms and torso sprouting golden fur and sharp claws. As I fell forward, belly now hanging down to the floor, I had become a hybrid monster. But I had chosen this form for another reason. Reiko was now hiding out in my apparently safe appendix. This form was madeup of a vastly inhuman system, with a completely different arrangement of organs. As my innards changing with my external appearance, she would find herself now trapped in a second stomach, tighter and more sweltering then the last. As I casually began digesting her, I walked onward, looking up at Arianna with golden eyes.