It Started with Slime - Part 1

Chapter 110 - Full

Aarav had never been so satisfied in his life. No, never in both lives! He currently sat on the cart that had brought the food and was now empty, all of the contents currently sitting comfortably in his body. Well, about eighty per cent of it at least. The other two had eaten some of it after all.

"By, Ursa, you can put it away!" Haemish exclaimed after a minute of nothing but watching the Slime endlessly devour morsel after morsel. Through his food coma, Aarav could see the look on both human faces. They were in awe of the Slime as they should be! I am a magnificent specimen.

The more time he spent as a Slime, the more he appreciated being one. Who wouldn't want to be what he was? Incredible, flexible and above all, able to be anything he wanted to be. What was not to love about being a Slime.

He had easily exceeded the five kilos he needed to eat. If Aarav were a betting man, he would say he had doubled that. Never had he felt the bloated feeling of being full more than right now. "Woah, too much. I think I might be sick!" True to his words, there was a small amount of retching but nothing more. It was a gut reaction from his human days. Slimes don't barf.

"Okay, stop that; you should learn to control yourself. You are behaving like an animal and a particularly greedy one from what I see." Haemish retorted, and his expression said the Slime deserved what he got after behaving without civility.

"It will take me most of the night and tomorrow to digest all of this. I really need to exercise restraint." Aarav said, more to himself than to the two people in the room.

"I would say that is an understatement, new friend!" Marasa laughed at the Slime's predicament and the two men's back and forth. Aarav saw the look she was giving both men and ignored it. He had more significant problems to deal with, literally.

"Right, well, I can't do anything for at least an hour. Need to digest." Aarav stumbled off the cart and almost fell to the floor on his head when his legs would not cooperate. "Urgh, wish I could learn to balance on these damn things." Was it always this hard to balance on legs? It seemed to effortless as a human. But then Aarav reflected, you always started on all fours first.

"Haha, if you only knew how long it normally takes humans to manage that feat. You, my friend, are surprisingly adroit at it already. We start on hands and knees before we learn to walk, and you seem to be trying to go straight to walking!" Haemish chuckled again at Aarav's attempts.

"Ahh, maybe that's the problem. Let me try that first. Aarav promptly got those knees and hands to touch the floor and shuffled along. Balancing on four points was much easier than trying two straight away. I suppose I should have known it would be a simple case of getting back to the basics. "Right, this is a lot easier! I wonder why we don't just stay on all fours?"

"Haha, can you imagine being on all fours? Everyone would struggle to have a conversation! Anyway, we to walk on our legs because we are built that way, and it is the reason they are longer than our arms!" Haemish quickly replied.

Marasa was a little more contemplative. "You say that Haemish, but I wonder. If humans adapted that way? We find it odd to walk on all fours because we associate it with infants and childhood. Hmm, an interesting proposition Resh!"

Aarav had not intended to start a philosophical debate, but if Haemish to stop ribbing him, he would take it! "Hmm, yes, that is what I think, and as a non-human entity, I think I can provide some much-needed perspective on the topic." The Slime said from the floor. It is hard to have a conversation like this; even with Haemish and Marasa seated, it was still an awkward angle. Aarav turned his head so that he was facing them, arms and legs sprawled out. He still had to look up at them, but the human range of motion norms didn't bind him.