Sufficiently advanced technology

You wake up shortly after. Everything hurts, your legs do not have the strength to support you, so you remain on the ground. You can see two figures in front of you, two lilliputians wearing security uniforms. They are talking but you cannot understand what they are saying.

Suddenly an immense shadow engulfs you all. You turn around to see the beautiful face of the brobdignagian princess looming over you, her seething anger barely hidden under a thin veil of serenity. She is fully dressed up again.

"Is he awake?" She asks.

"Yes, ma'am. Again, we are terribly sorry this has happened. We have found the people involved in this ugly affair and we are already taking measures to prevent something like this to happen ever again" one of the two lilliputians in uniform says.

"I understand, Mr. Ecker. Now could you leave us alone for a moment?"

"Y-yes, ma'am" he says, with a bit of hesitation. But they do obey, leaving you behind, alone, before the towering goddess.

"I was having a wonderful time, you know? I do not get a lot of me-time while I am on these boring official visits" she says, with the tone of a teenager complaining about having to do their homework. "You're one of those annoying little people that sells photos of famous people, right?"

You manage to find the strength to speak. "Y-yes."

She sighs. "Well, this sucks. Look, I really do not want to have to deal with legal crap, ok? I just want to get through this visit and go back home. So here's the deal, you destroy every photo you have taken of me and you can go, all right? Mr. Ecker said the room is shielded or something, you little people are the ones good with tech I really don't understand it, but I think he meant to say that all I need you to do is wipe the memory of your camera to get rid of the evidence, right? So do that and we can call it a day."

You gulp. How is she acting so casually after butchering so many people? How are the security guards, other lilliputians, fine with this? Even complicit!

"Ho-How could you?" You say, trying to stand on your feet, "how could you eat all of those people? Are you going to eat me too? As soon as you are sure no evidence will leave this room?"

She raises an eyebrow. "People? What are you talking ab-Oh shit, right, the cultured puppets" she says, bringing a hand to her forehead. "No, no, you got it wrong. I have not killed anyone, those were lab-grown meat bags, not real lilliputians. I'll show you!" She turns around and rushes the infamous tube, still sitting on her bed, together with the coterie of gulliverians, now dressed up and looking at you with apprehension.

The princess comes back, then opens the tube and takes a single lilliputian out. As before, he-or maybe it-flops down onto the floor, with no sign of life. You get closer, and indeed some details would suggest the brobdignagian to be correct, the most evident of all the lack of genitals: Where a penis should be, there is only a smooth surface. He is also completely without hair, and on his scalp there is a large barcode, drawn by different pigments in the skin rather than printed or applied externally.

"There, see? Just a lab-grown body, never had a conscious thought or a heartbeat, it does not even have internal organs, it is just muscles and bones."

You cannot help but be creeped out by what is essentially a life-sized doll in your own shape, especially considering the final destination of said doll. You look at her stomach, where dozens of those dolls are slowly being digested. How many real lilliputians could she eat before she felt full? Was this a regular occurrence just a few centuries ago?

For the first time in your career spent stalking giants, you truly feel minuscule.

"So really this is just some kinky fun we have, me and my friends! No harm done to anyone! In fact, it's a lilliputian company that produces these, so you are making money out of this" she says, with a wide smile. You are not certain whether she is trying to convince you or herself.

You shake your head. You do not have the luxury of thinking about morality right now. Your priority is survival, and if that costs you the scoop of a lifetime, then so be it. You are not going to risk your life for a paycheck.