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// A day in Griffinstone: Mika (ALL from the same guest) 
// Story: Tales from Tinies. 
// by MrAquino 
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I stretched and yawned as I got up for the day. Slowly, I started to make my way to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the family. I pull a small carton of eggs out, some strips of bacon, and a loaf of bread out of a cooler. I organized them on the counter along with a pepper and salt shaker. Then I turn my attention to the stove; I set some wood and kindling in it, lighting the fire. Grabbing a couple of pans, I start making our breakfast. Nothing's better than the basic scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast. The irony, a bird eating eggs, at least they aren't mine. Though I kinda feel bad for the chickens that laid them. Oh well, this'll be a good breakfast.

I start to cook breakfast when Ami came in. "Good morning Sis. Have you seen Kyle?" She asks.

"Hmm, now that you mention it, I haven't." I respond before turning back to the food I'm cooking "Could you go look for him? I would but I have to finish making breakfast. He couldn't have got too far, after all, he's too small to go up the stairs by himself."  I heard Ami turn around and made her way through the house. Unlike most homes, most of my kind preferred a second story on their homes, but with my home, I have a basement. The ground level has the kitchen and the living room, while the basement is our bedroom. It's small, but at Kyle's size, everything is absolutely massive. After all he is only six, and while adult humans are about four inches tall on average, he's barely a paltry inch in height.

Then I feel something move in my gullet. "Hmm?" Then it starts to walk around and everything from last night comes flooding back to me. "Ami I found him!" I call out before turning my attention back to my stomach. "Good morning Kyle."

I feel him push up against the wall of my stomach, giving me as good a hug as he can in there, causing me to clutch at my gullet, partially giving him as much of a hug back as I can, and partially just because it feels so weird, yet oddly so very nice.  "Good morning Aunt Mika!" I heard him inside, albeit, muffled. 

"Breakfast is almost ready, it's time to come out now Kyle, might want to get ready, I'm kinda new at this." Slowly, I started to forcefully gag myself, and I feel him enter my throat. My throat muscles were doing their work to attempt to keep him down, making it hard, but I keep going. Eventually he's back in my beak, and I give him a few internal kisses with my tongue, before letting him out onto my talons and placing him on the table. I quickly dried him off from any saliva that was on him, much to his amusement. 

Ami walks in and gives him a nuzzle as she passes by. She goes and sits in her chair. "So where was he?"

I bring the breakfast over and start dishing it out, getting some crumbs for Kyle's breakfast. At his size, I'm still just not sure he'll even finish these. "Oh, um, he was-"

"I was in Auntie's tummy!" Kyle blurtted out happily.

Ami looks down, her jealousy clear on her face. "Lucky..."

To play a joke on her I give her an incredulous look. "Well Ami, I don't think you'd fit in there, maybe next time a unicorn comes by we-"

"You know what I mean sis!" She seethes for a moment before resuming her grumbling. "He never offers to go into my tummy..."

We ate our breakfast and each of us got ready for our day. I got ready for work, while Ami and Kyle start planning whatever activities they want to do today. I put on my uniform and nuzzle them both goodbye. I head to the office, ready for a day of flying light packages around Griffonstone, and maybe down to the nearby pony towns. 

Most of the shift passes by rather typically; flying letters and some small boxes around town, and then a couple small packages to a small pony town nearby. Being an Equestrian postal worker, I stop there for a quick break. I was surprised that, all around town, ponies were actively hunting humans all around them, something that I kinda wanted to join in on, but I figured that, even as a predator, this is a bit too much. These ponies were really loose when it came to eating humans, though I could see that they had some control over themselves when it came to human hatchlings & their families, though I could see their parents standing close to their child, almost as if their child was an enchanted shield. The post office wasn't too bad; I saw a certain, wonkey eyed Pegasus, holding and patting what was a human boy, probably a bit older than Kyle, until she opened her mouth, letting the boy walk in, and she swallowed him, leaving the place as if nothing happened. After a while, I start heading to the door.

"Before you go, there's a different kind of job for you today." The pony post manager stops me. He points to a human couple standing on the post counter. "These humans are looking for a couple of children they're missing and would like a quick flight up to Griffonstone. I figure since you're already headed up that way, you could take 'em up."

"Um, okay." I reply before looking at them. Something stirs in me, a slight fear. Could they be Kyle's parents? "So, um, any specific way you want to travel, I mean my post bag is probably safe enou-"

"Well, considering it's a flight, I think we'd be safer, well, on the inside." The male human says, cutting me off.

"Don't cut her off, that's rude!" The female gives him an angry look before looking to me apologetically. "I'm sorry for that, it's just we're so desperate to find our daughters."

I couldn't help but sigh in relief, before coughing and straightening up again. "Well, um, in that case, uh..." I walk up to the counter, lower my head so my beak rests on it, and open wide. They both walk inside, a slight tinge of fear on their faces. I can understand though; they've been around the ponies for a long time, and though they're herbivores, they have "trappings" of Omnivores. This is probably their first time with a full fledged predator, though griffons too, are omnivores. I savor them for a moment before swallowing. "Okay then, um, don't worry, this flight will be as smooth as it is quick."

It proves to be so, and we make great time getting up to Griffonstone. I fly to the nearest orphanage, which is where they want to start their search, and drop them off there. Of course before I go, I gave them the lowdown on Griffonstone, what they want to look out for, which griffons are a little more trustworthy than others, and, of course, where the orphanages are. They also tell me the description of their daughters, just in case. One is fifteen and the other thirteen.

The rest of the day passed without much incident, though I do feel bad that I couldn't find their daughters. I stop by the office to write in my times and then head home. "Mika, hey!" The large, yet elegant form of my friend Sasha lands gently next to me. She's both a mix of Eagle and tiger, unlike me, with a brown head & near golden body, covered in black stripes. As mentioned, she's much larger than me, but not fat at all, but she was mostly built for strength & endurance. 

"What's with the timidity all of a sudden Sasha?" I reply, giggling. She usually showed off her strength and endurance whenever she landed, preferring to land hard and kick up a lot of dust. Can't exactly say I'm not grateful for the change.

"Well, you know how you've got Kyle? I decided to adopt a human of my own too." She declares merrily, softly patting her stomach. "I did a lot of looking and digging, and found the perfect one; she's about Kyle's age, maybe slightly older, probably eight or nine. No parents, lived in an orphanage on tiny Earth before she ended up on our Earth. Best of all, she's a really sweet little girl." She then lets out a little giggle. "Literally too. Oh but she's just so precious. I mean, sure I may have hunted her, and well, when she found out it was a little too late, it scared her pretty badly, but she got over it pretty quickly." She continued to gently rub her belly. "When I told her that I was adopting her, it changed her view of me completely, oh she couldn't help but give me a hug. She's asleep now though. Oh it's so precious feeling her in there. You've got to hear her, she's talking in her sleep."

I put my head up to her vast stomach and listened. Sure enough, past Sasha's gurgling stomach & heart beating, I hear a little girl dreaming. "Aw, she does sound really cute in there." We walk together for a while. How can she have such a large build, yet be so petite? I mean, if we hadn't grown up together I'd be scared to let her into my home, especially since she could probably swallow Ami with a little effort. Heck she could probably easily fit all three of the kids in there, though it'd be a bit tight for Ami though. Of course, since our builds are smaller and slimmer than most griffons, it isn't too surprising.

Eventually, we parted ways, I congratulated Sasha and hope she has a grat time with her adopted daughter, right before I head home. I entered my home, and inside, Ami was taking a snooze on one of the couches. I walked over and nuzzle her for a moment before noticing that her stomach feathers are moving a little bit in a more unnatural way. I listened closely and, sure enough, I hear Kyle in there, scared as ever of his massive 'cousin'. "Ami, you know you aren't supposed to swallow him unless he allows it. I clearly established that little rule so let him out."

Ami sighs. "Well it was fun while it lasted." She then coughs him out. Kyle coughed hard into my claw, but hugged tightly, shivering a bit hard. The rest of the night continues about as well as yesterday's; we ate dinner, played some games, and went to sleep.

Kyle woke me up once again in the middle of the night. I picked him up and nuzzled him before, like last night, curling around him. He stands up before I can lay my tail on him though, and walks up to my beak as it rests on the floor of my nest. "Can I sleep inside again?"

I raise my head and sigh. "Oh, but I want to cuddle with you, it's hard to do that when you're in my belly." I giggle at my own childish tone. "Besides you were quite scared inside a tummy earlier today, I'd think you'd want to avoid stomachs for a while."

"But that was cousin's tummy, and she still scary sometimes. You don't scare me Auntie, that's why I like your tummy."

"Kyle, it sounds like you're scared Ami will hurt you." He nods at me, confirming my suspicions. He still doesn't trust her, though, with the first time she ate him, I can see why he'd have a hard time. Ami had thought he was more a pet than anything else, and had decided to play an impromptu game of griffon and mouse. She caught him and, of course, dropped him in there. It had scared him, the only reason he isn't scared of mine is because I had let him walk in there on his own the first time. "Kyle, you know Ami loves you, she wouldn't play games and read with you if she didn't. In fact, if she didn't, she'd probably just leave you home alone. She'd be devastated if something happened to you. I bet the only reason she had you in her tummy today was because she thought you'd sleep better in there." He looks at me a little guiltily. "I'll make you a deal: You can sleep in my tummy tonight, but if you have a bad dream tomorrow night, you have to go sleep in Ami's tummy. Deal?"

He starts going over it in his head. For a moment it seems like he's going to refuse. "Okay." He says a little begrudgingly.

I lower my head back down and allow him in. When he was far enoigh, I closed my beak and swallowed him, then I rested my head back to the floor, feeling him just landing inside. "Now remember Kyle, you promised." I tell him sternly after he settles into my stomach.

"I know." He replies, "I love you Auntie."

I nuzzle my stomach. "I love you too Kyle."