Mage of the Magic Tower (4)

I'm hungry.

You really shouldn't say that in front of Grandma.

"Ugh..."

I groaned inwardly as I rubbed the area around my solar plexus.

My stomach felt so bloated it seemed ready to burst.

How should I put it... it feels like there's a life growing in my belly...

Even though it had been a long time since we left the dining hall, what I'd eaten still hadn't gone down.

As I gagged with meat packed all the way to the end of my esophagus, Grandma Eleanor clicked her tongue from the rocking chair across from me.

"Don't you have a rather small appetite?"

"...How many people can eat an entire cow?"...