Courage...
Mat could fall tremendous distances without being harmed due to his diminished size. What would normally be fatal may simply leave him with a bruise or a broken bone depending on how he landed, or simply just knock the wind out of him. However, being stuck on a box in the blazing sun of a desert wasn't the best way to live out this life. Death by turning into a tiny, shriveled up grape of a bug for the cats to find and chew up like jerky wasn't exactly a quick or pleasant way to die... He had to do something - and find some water.
He couldn't die from lack of food or dehydration, but his body was still susceptible to it. The effects were all the same... His body was far more efficient at his size though - he could get nutrients from other people's sweat even. It's how he survived so long in Tesla's boot, and Puzzle's several lives ago.
It was time... Like jumping into cold water in a lake, he just had to do it. He took a long breath out, and ran toward the edge of the crate. There was another one below it that he was going for, then the floor after that.
***Meanwhile***
Puzzle was happy. She had enough of a food store in the makeshift freezer she had put together on the lower decks that she could have a good meal for the first time in a long time. Turning down food wasn't something she did - ever... Now, with bread and the makings for a really nice sandwich, she scurried over to a crate and set her plate down. She had the other ingredients in hand; some meat product and a bit of spinach she had stolen the other day. It was going to be a great change of pace from the rationed little meals she had been eating.
She glanced away from the bread, which sat upon a small wooden plate she had made herself, to begin preparing the bits of cold meat that she had sliced up... A little speck fell from above, his blue hair trailing behind him as gravity pulled him down to safely land below - upon the bread.
Puzzle hummed happily as she looked back, not bothering to check the bread for any new foreign entities as she casually set a slice of meat upon it. Mat was still somewhat perplexed by his situation. The soft slice of bread was definitely a surprising thing to fall onto - Then, the hot sun was replaced by a chilling slice of meat. He saw the sky disappear, and caught a glimpse of Puzzle as she threw the sandwich together herself.
The weight increased as she layered more things onto the sandwich, but it wasn't tremendous. Just enough to keep him from wiggling out. At the end of her little creation she set a slice of bread atop the sandwich, and gave it a happy little pat of approval. Now, with a little cup of water already waiting for her to wash it down and properly hydrate her, it was time to feast.
Her mouth was watering already as she brought the sandwich up with both hands, unaware of the extra ingredient that had been added at the last moment. She took a deep bite of the food, her teeth cutting a little path neatly through Mat's left ankle. He gasped as he felt his entire prison move, the light instantly cut as he heard breathing around him. His foot was severed, the appendage falling from her sandwich to the floor like a crumb. As though life were in slow motion, everything began to fall apart.
He fell out of the bread prison, which slid between her molars and mixed with the saliva as she chewed. His tiny body slid to the back of her throat, but her tongue shifted to keep the 'un-chewed' bits of her food from being swallowed too quickly. He couldn't actually get to his feet as her tongue shifted below him, pushing him between her molars roughly. He fell on his back between them, his tiny legs dangling between her cheek and her teeth as he looked up to the white molars high above coated in mushed sandwich bits. His tiny head was in between the lower teeth, where one might floss.
It was all done in a few seconds, just a few happy little munches felt like a slow-motion eternity as the white bone came down roughly on his tiny body. His skull was forced between her teeth like a little popcorn kernel as his left arm reached up to no avail,His right was completely mashed. His tiny body exploded like a grape between her molars and she didn't notice anything other than a flavor change.
Strawberry? The sensation registered in her mind as she went to take another bite, unwittingly masticating the tiny human. His hair was lodged between her teeth and stained red with blood as his skull was obliterated in the mess. She slid her finger into her mouth, her fingertip lifting Mat's leg up from the pit between her teeth and cheek to rest between her molars. His chest and tiny head were stuck to the top set of molars quite nicely as she did this, preparing for another bite.
~Munch, Munch, Crunch, Squish, Squick, Munch~
She kept chewing, forcing his skull between her teeth more along with whatever remained of his body. His leg was pulverized, the remainder of his tiny organs reduced to a pile of pinkish mush. He was far from human, the spiritual makeup of his body actually gave him a strawberry-like flavoring and removed all of the metallic taste of blood. It was nearly impossible to distinguish the two. Her meal went quickly, washed down by water as she began to go about her day once more.
The only trace left of Mat's tiny body, was what remained of his tiny skull and blood-stained tuft of blue hair lodged between her molars. Three days later she it, casually picked at it with her index finger, and swallowed it too when he was finally dislodged...