Milan is a human with evenly tanned skin, light pink hair, and bright green eyes. She's only average to a human eye, but sharks see her as something special. When she works at the aquarium and enjoys company with the sharks, she wears a bright yellow one-piece with matching aqua socks. This is issued by her employer, but seeing as she did pay for it, it is hers to wear as she chooses. She's a friendly person, and a lover of animals.
 
  Big Blue is a great white that is bigger than big. He was caught about twenty years ago by a research vessel and sent to the aquarium. He is very gentle despite his size, and many times the aquarium allows guests to swim with him, as the other sharks steer clear of him. No one has ever come to harm from this. He has, instead of black markings, brilliant blue ones, and he retains every one of his teeth.
 
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 Milan had been working at the aquarium for a few weeks now. Her job wasn't anything special, she was just to ensure that the tanks stayed clean. Recently though, she had come into fondness with the sharks. It started when she waded around with some shallow water sharks that would come and rub against her. She later went into the deeper tanks, and found that all the sharks would come up to her for petting. Today was no different. She finished her shift and put all of her equipment away.
 
  Milan did do something different here though, normally, she would visit the shallow waters and then move deeper, today, she simply went to the great white tank. She never just dove in the water though. She would step in casually and wade to the center of the pool. There she waited for a shark to come up to her. Never suspecting the largest of them was coming at her with something more than love and attention on the mind.
 
  The largest shark in the tank, Big Blue as called by the staff, glided gracefully under the water. He was heading toward the center of the pool, where a familiar scent had gone. He was wondering why that person would be in the tank before feeding time, but this curiosity was overshadowed by hunger. He crept under her and nudged the human's leg, testing to see if she would flee.
 
  Milan didn't move much when Big Blue had nudged her, he did it a lot on her normal time slots. She was curious about why he was the first to approach her though. She reached out with her feet to caress him as he swam by again, but she felt a light pinch on her ankles instead of a smooth glide under her feet. She also noticed that she was now moving in the water against her will. She looked down to see her feet inside Big Blue's mouth.
 
  Big Blue had grasped the girl's feet in his mouth carefully. He knew that she was something special, and didn't want to hurt her despite his hunger. He continued swimming, opening hismouth lightly then closing it again. More of the girl's legs slowly fit into it, her feet now touching the back of his tongue. He didn't really think about it much, but she tasted delightful, like a baby seal.
 
  Milan watch in horrified fascination as one of the creatures she trusted most began swallowing her. Big Blue was almost five times her size, so it wasn't a surprise that she might just slip into him, but he had never behaved this way before. A more pressing matter on her mind was how she might escape this predicament though. She didn't want to pull herself out of his mouth for three reasons. 1) He had her in to her hips, and his teeth were all very sharp. If she attempted to escape, she might rip her flesh on them and cause not only Blue, but the other four sharks to come in and rip her to pieces. 2) If she did manage to pull herself out without cutting herself, she might injure Blue, and as much as she valued her life, she valued his as well. 3) Even though she was being eaten, even though she knew that she would be digested inside him, Milan had never felt this close to a shark before. She wanted to know what it would be like to be a part of them.
 
  Big Blue was confident enough in his grasp now that he just held his mouth open, the girl slowly sliding in more and more. It was curious that she would just allow this. Everyone knows what happens in the stomach. He didn't stop to question himself though. He just enjoyed the taste of the girl as her hips entered his throat. The girl then did something very curious and placed her hands inside his mouth. Wondering if she was trying to escape, Big Blue closed his mouth out of instinct, trying to keep his prey from fleeing. He realized how silly this was, but still he did it.
 
  Milan, fascinated by the warmness of Big Blue's throat as her hips slid inside, did something against her own thoughts. Putting her hands in his mouth was stupid and impulsive, but she wanted to be inside him and thought this might get her there faster. She gasped as Blue closed his mouth. Perhaps he though she was trying to escape, that was the furthest thing on her mind. Trying to encourage him, she flattened her feet so her legs became tapered. Big Blue finally opened his mouth again, and Milan took a deep breath as her head became submerged.
 
  Big Blue felt the girl's feet flatten to a point, and this seemed to him as though she wanted to be eaten. Why anyone would want that was an oddity to him, but with her taste and her seeming willingness, he wasn't going to argue. He opened his mouth and began actively swallowing her. This brought her head underwater, but he saw her breath in deep as it happened, so he wasn�t too worried. The gulp had sent her lower torso into his throat, her upper body still in his mouth and her head outside. With one final swallow, she entered his throat completely.
 
  Milan felt a rush of muscle fly past as she entered the dark tightness of Blue's throat. It surprised her, but she didn't release her breath. The confines of this tunnel threatened her final breath as well, but she remained steadfast against the pressure. The motion began moving her down towards a far warmer prison than her current one, and her feet were already touching an opening. She slowly slid into the stomach of Big Blue, which was large enough that she was lying flat inside it when the throat closed up behind her. Although it was pitch black, she had a decent idea of where everything was, it was fairly comfortable in here too, and she breathed a sigh of relief as she found that there was air inside here. Experimentally, she probed at the sphincter of the throat.
 
  Big Blue felt her on the inside, she was feeling for something, he was sure, but he felt confident that she wouldn't get out, because he didn't want her to get out. The girl had become an easy meal for him, and he loved every minute of it. He continued swimming, breaching the surface and gulping in fresh air for his food every now and then.
 
  Milan sat cozily in Big Blue's stomach, waiting almost fearfully for digestion to begin. She would notice that about once every half-hour for six hours, the air would taste a little sweeter. After the sixth, though, she found that her comfortable spot was losing its hospitality. The soft walls had become a little harder, and the air had been getting sour quicker. She wasn't surprised to find a pool of liquid beginning to envelop her. Instead of panicking like any normal person, Milan just lay back and let Big Blue's body go to work.
 
  Big Blue hadn't eaten with the rest of his kin during feeding time, as he already had his meal. The feeders didn't seem to mind it. He was always little finicky about his meals. Blue felt his stomach begin churning, and if he could, would've smiled, knowing that the girl was finally joining his body.
 
  Milan felt like she was being assailed by the organ she was in. She even had bruises now to prove it. The liquid which filled about three quarters or the stomach had a slight sting to it, and some of it went into her nose and mouth with the motion of the rock hard walls. It tasted, to Milan, a little like concentrated lemon juice. She was ready to scream at this point from the pain surrounding her body, but knew it wouldn't do any good. This was, after all, what she had wanted, what she had allowed to happen.
 
  If she wasn't blind because of the opaqueness of the stomach, it would've mattered that her eyes were stinging. If all she heard hadn't been the beating of the stomach walls against her body, it would've mattered that her hearing was becoming dim. If all she felt wasn't a constant pounding of sledgehammers against her body, it would've mattered that the pounding was becoming less severe.
 
  To keep herself from screaming, Milan took deep, rhythmic breaths. Many times, she had gulped down a mouthful of acid with a breath, in these cases she sputtered the stuff out of her lungs and continued. She found it harder to breathe after what felt like eternity. By the time she realized this she couldn't feel or hear anything. Her body still ached, and she felt motion, but it felt like calmness had finally come to her confines.
 
  Big Blue could feel that his meal was much softer now than it was before. He had continued making a few breaches on the surface, but not many. He could still feel that he hadn't completely digested the girl, so he thought perhaps, she might have survived this long. It was a curious feeling, thinking that his meal was still alive inside him. He wondered what it must be like in there for her.
 
  The stomach was now completely filled with acid. Milan didn't notice, she was taking deep breaths still, not realizing that she was helping to digest her body from the inside. She was in a dark, silent, and painless world now. She was at ease. She never noticed that she was falling into unconsciousness.
 
  Big Blue circled the waters of his tank as his body absorbed the nutrients from the girl. He was saddened to have lost such a unique human, but he was also elated to have received her as what he thought of as a gift for living so long. Being well over a hundred years old was a feat in itself, but doing so away from the open sea seemed even more impressive to him. He knew, around daybreak, that the girl was gone forever. He suddenly found himself aroused, having taken such a large meal had reminded him of younger days, when he wasn't the biggest fish in the sea. He went after one of the females, wanting to create a new generation in this pool.
 
  That was one of the few times an audience had seen a great white mating. It was even more impressive as it was in captivity. Eleven months later, a single great white pup was born, and it was cared for and protected by Big Blue. It had curious pink markings striped across its back, and its eyes were a brilliant green, but it proved to be healthy, growing into adulthood.
 
  Big Blue was enthralled by the appearance of his descendant. She reminded him very much of the girl he had taken from the world almost a year prior, especially the soft scent. It wasn't a delicious one, just a calming, gentle smell that reminded him greatly of the kind girl. When she first spoke was a miracle to him, because it seemed, she already knew everything about the girl.
 
  No one ever discovered what happened to Milan. The police were called, but nothing was ever discovered. The position was filled, though the replacement seemed more entranced by the mammals. The sharks were the only ones, even after thirty years, to wonder what happened to their great friend.