>>2457131I have regretted that for the rest of my life. About five months later, I started noticing strange happenings inside my house. It started with a few cold puddles appearing on the floor in the middle of the summer. Then, later, I started noticing these weird ice shards sticking out behind pieces of furniture. I didn't think much of it then, passing such occurrences off as just the sun reflecting off of stuff in my house.
But then, one day, I come home to find the splattered remains of a fucking toad on my doorstep. It looked like it had been brutally eviscerated by someone. There were guts and blood everywhere, and the smell was indescribable. It almost looked like it had been... refrigerated, like someone had been keeping this dead frog for months, or even years, and only now decided to deploy it. Whoever did this had even made a little number "9" encased in a circle drawn with the blood of the frog. But even here, I was skeptical, passing this off as maybe some teenagers having a shitty prank.
Denial is a resilient thing, but it can only get you so far. For me, that was when the same exact thing happened again, but this time, it was in the middle of my god damn living room, with like, EIGHT DIFFERENT FROGS with not only that exact same 9-in-a-circle symbol drawn again with each of their bloods, but the phrase "LE MIPNIU CU DABYTSARAI" (SHE WHO CONCEALS IS THE STRONGEST) was written all across the room in giant letters. Note that in Lojban, the phrase "LE MIBNIU CU DABYTSARAI" means "I (specifically female) AM THE STRONGEST."