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>FAMILY
"Yes, yes, of course. <span class="mu-i">Family.</span>"
A deep, shuddering breath is drawn, as one would take on the verge of jubilation, or elucidation.
"Even if the differences between you and me are as wide as the sea, we all have to come from somewhere, don't we? That is one thing in which we are all alike."
"This place, our Warren, is our bastion against all that is sadness and misery. Here we have our own homes, our own families, and our own children. Here is a safe place — safe to sleep and dream."
"Thus the family gives us everything when we are young. From food to protection to even our own names. It is the most important thing in this entire world."
There's a quick tapping of ceramic on ceramic. The smile falters for a second.
"I'm terribly sorry for forgetting. I've gotten too excited with you here."
"Please, call me <span class="mu-r">Calypso.</span>"
The clicking starts again, then goes silent.
A terrible claw emerges from the darkness, sharp with the promise of slicing wounds.
"And..."
You brace yourself...
And watch as it scratches a delicate groove into the table.
"I'd really <span class="mu-r">love</span> for you to meet my family."
>TASTE, WHAT KIND OF BLOOD
"Oh! It's very good <span class="mu-r">blood.</span>"
"Tasty, tasty <span class="mu-r">blood!</span>"
And with some trepidation to your response, "It's no one you know."
"Now go on."
You take the wooden spoon in hand with some hesitation.
After uncountable days of syringes and rotting giblets, far from your home and your homeland, a homecooked meal is now placed before you.
Something within you cracks.
You bring to the spoon to your mouth and taste-
<span class="mu-r">Blood, but thicker than blood.</span> It's almost unbearably sweet to the tongue, where the fluid sticks and leaves behind a taste as strong as red wine or the fear instinct.
Your <span class="mu-r">blood</span> quickens. Something inside of you feels like it's squirming.
"D-Do you like it?" It lets out a hiss to itself. "No, not yet."
"You need to drink all the <span class="mu-r">blood</span>."
"Please finish it all then tell me your thoughts."
[PORTIONS: 3/3]
>DRINK.
>DRINK IT ALL.
>VOMIT.
>I CAN'T EAT THIS.
>WHAT IS IN THIS?
>I AM BIOLOGICALLY INCAPABLE OF EATING THIS.
>I NEED TO LEAVE.
>
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[LIBIDO: 6/10]
[SOUP: 3/3]
[???: ?/?]
