CW: Cannibalism

[breakaleginhalf]

Oh my god Jules actually tastes like chicken.

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[rooktakesknight]

... Cooked or raw?

[breakaleginhalf]

Raw Jules or raw chicken? Because yes.

[rooktakesknight]

Interesting.

And here I thought cannibalism is frowned on in most societies.

[breakaleginhalf]

Oh dude, I am not the only cannibal here. And I'm not even sure either of us are strictly human anymore? So mostly it's just weird.

[rooktakesknight]

Good to know. Could I request no one eat me any time soon?

[breakaleginhalf]

I think it's like, Local Cannibal Etiquette to not eat other Travellers. Not when we can just make flesh. Ethically sourced long pork.

[rooktakesknight]

Praise be to the bastards in charge for giving us ways around it, then?

Just out of curiosity, can you lot actually eat other food or does it have to be human-esque meat?

[breakaleginhalf]

Can't speak for the others, but I personally can eat literally anything. My stomach is a black hole, chuck something in there and it's gone for fucking good.

[rooktakesknight]

Anything else I should know about your diet? You don't happen to have a jaw you can unhinge to swallow anything larger than what should fit in your mouth, do you?

[breakaleginhalf]

At least one time I ate someone whole. Probably multiple times? But that was some Arcadia bullshit so I'm not sure it counts.

[rooktakesknight]

Interesting... don't the bones interfere with digestion?

[breakaleginhalf]

Not really. I can digest just about anything, it's the swallowing that's the hard part.

But they cut her out of me anyway so moot point.

[rooktakesknight]

... If you don't mind my asking, what exactly are you? [Because in his experience, humans don't survive being dissected like that.]

[breakaleginhalf]

Changeling. You sound British, you've probably heard of them.

[rooktakesknight]

They're not real- well. If they are, I've never seen them in London, let alone heard of them eating people. Replacing them while the originals are whisked away to the fae lands, yes, but not eaten whole.

[breakaleginhalf]

Well first of all you're just thinking of the Gentry themselves. We're the ones that got away. And a whole lot of shit happens in Arcadia before we do.

It's like, literally impossible to describe all if it because none of it works according to rational, Euclidean laws of physics and space-time. It's all pure magic. And it's magic that lets a five and a half foot guy be able to unhinge his entire fucking face wide enough to swallow a five foot three Asian chick whole.

[rooktakesknight]

It must make you a riot at parties. Was the woman alive when they pulled her out?

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah, she was fine. You ever read Little Red Riding Hood?

[rooktakesknight]

Yes. Did you swallow a little old lady whole too and some huntsman had to come cut you open? Please tell me they didn't stuff you with rocks afterwards.

[breakaleginhalf]

I don't remember if the old lady or the rocks got involved in that one, but there was definitely vivisection involved.

...unless there was decapitation. It all sort of blurs together after a point.

[rooktakesknight]

I imagine it would. Was it painful?

[breakaleginhalf]

Probably. It's hard to tell on that side. Nothing means anything and everything is an illusion. You can barely trust your own senses and memories.

[rooktakesknight]

Much like Liminal Space, then?

[breakaleginhalf]

Like if Liminal Space OD'd on meth and its lotus machine brain melted into fifty billion pieces.

And the only way out was through this fucking nightmare hedge maze that ripped your soul to pieces.

[rooktakesknight]

And here I thought only sin and debauchery could do that to a man's soul. I take it you survived the experience, then?